- Stealing from Bookstores – The underground economy of shoplifted books
- Andrei Tarkovsky: Film and Painting
- Hulu Household: Why I Got Rid of Cable [Voices]
- Bershon -Â That certain look you always gave the camera when you were a teenager
- Stand by Yourself
- A Boy Named Sue, and a Theory of Names
- My Other Car is a Bright Green City – What if the solution to the problems cars create has more to do with where we live than what we drive?
Monthly Archives: March 2008
Recommended: Morvern Callar
I recently discovered (through The Onion AV Club’s New Cult Canon series) Lynne Ramsay’s film Morvern Callar. Samantha Morton plays the title character, a young Scottish woman whose humdrum life is overturned by her boyfriend’s suicide. Following her initial paralysis and avoidance, Callar places her name on his unpublished manuscript and sends it off to a publisher. Collecting his assets, she sets out on an impromptu holiday to Spain. The film’s soundtrack—featuring music by Aphex Twin, Boards of Canada, Broadcast, Ween, Can, Stereolab and the Velvet Underground—punctuates her existential journey of clubbing, random impulsiveness and quiet confusion. By the end, Callar seems to find solace from her soul-searching and inherited success.
links for 2008-03-12
- Video: Korg Turns Your DS Into a Music Machine – Japan only, alas
- Paul Barsch: What’s Next for Marketing? Reality Mining
- Newzald: From Moleskine to Market – Process of creating a new typeface
- Michael Lopp on how Apple thinks different in design – Pixel perfect mockups, 10 to 3 to 1, Paired Design Meetings, Pony meetings
- Pulp Fiction Cover Art With Girls
- The Future of Creativity and Design – Communications design is morphing into the design of experiences, conversations and ultimately relationships
links for 2008-03-11
Portishead: Third
Third, Portishead’s first new music in more than ten years, is being released on April 28, 2008. If you’re industrious, you can preview an advance copy that’s floating around. Portishead cornucopia: Homepage, MySpace, Wikipedia, iTunes, Amazon MP3.