November 2007
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“I love women. I have all their albums.”
– David Duchovny as Hank Moody in season one, episode five of Showtime’s Californication.
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The Dark Genius of Kyle Cooper →
The creative force behind the beautiful title sequences for Se7en, Donnie Brasco and more than 150 other features.
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“We’re not even worried, since the Internet is too big for morally upset...”
– The Pirate Bay’s Peter Sunde on Prince’s recent legal manoeuvres. (via Thomas Scovell)
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Sleevage →
Album cover art blog. (via Dan Cederholm)
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“When I buy a book on Amazon, when you buy a book, we change the way the site...”
– Joshua Porter responds to Armin Vit’s short piece about landmark web designs.
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Squidfingers →
Free, repeating, pixel-drawn background images.
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“Let me take the disadvantages of the real world and apply them to my computer,...”
– John Siracusa on reflections in the Leopard dock, from MacBreak Weekly episode 64.
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Audrey Kawasaki →
Manga meets Art Nouveau. (via D. Keith Robinson)
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“The famous ‘unease’ of New Zealand cinema comes as much from how our films look...”
– Dan Salmon on Duncan Petrie’s new book Shot in New Zealand: The art and craft of the Kiwi cinematographer (Random House, 2007).
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Typographica →
A journal of news, observations and open commentary on fonts and typographic design. Edited by the criminally knowledgeable Stephen Coles.
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mo·nop·so·ny
noun, a market situation in which there is only one buyer. (via Wired)
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“The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.”
– T.S. Eliot
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Eagle vs Shark (2007)
Man on phone: D’you want to leave a message?
Jarrod: Tell him that justice is waiting for him.
Man on phone: [Repeats as he writes:] ...is waiting for you. Okay Justin. Thank you. Bye bye. [Hangs up.]
Jarrod: No, justice. Justice.
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“Firefighters knew that building, dreaded it, because it sat there like a...”
– From Sean Flynn’s National Magazine Award-winning article for Esquire, The Perfect Fire, in which he describes the lead up to and aftermath of a fire that swept through the Worcester Cold Storage and Warehouse Company in Massachusetts, December 1999.
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“Cinema is a matter of what’s in the frame and what’s out.”
– Martin Scorsese
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“Jacques Villeneuve crosses the finish line and takes the checkered flag – 3...”
– From Todd Lappin’s story for Wired on the Ultimate Man-Machine Interface, October 1995.
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“If monospaced type is absolutely required — itself in dispute — you can do way...”
– Joe Clark in discussion on the WGA strike.
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The Talk Show →
With your hosts John Gruber and Dan Benjamin.
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“The Drinker” by The Phoenix...
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