January 2009
79 posts
now is the best time to travel
when I started saving for my travels the economy was booming, job offers were abundant, and everyone was in generous spirits. now obviously everything is different, but for me at least (since I have a savings now), it couldn’t be a better time to take off.
Here’s why:
cheap airfare. you can fly to thailand or australia for under $900. that’s almost unheard of!
the recession is...
NEON GRAY →
“[Industry heavyweight Ian Cochrane is recommending design students to ‘get out’...”
– GraphicHug™ » Avoid design if possible
people that are really passionate about design will do it no matter what. but maybe the tough economy will force more casually interested kids to think twice about their career choice.
'The Places We Live' by Jonas Bendiksen →
A really interesting photo storytelling project to view after watching Slumdog Millionaire-which was an amazing, if depressing, movie.
Only In San Francisco... →
“The holograms you find on credit cards and banknotes are etched on...”
– Our world may be a giant hologram by Marcus Chown
Watchbeautiful typographic motion graphics set to a classic and wonderful song
increase your signal to noise ratio.
in protest of hyper-speed culture and media:
how much of what you say is important? how much of what you are doing right now will matter in 1 year, in 5 years, or in 50 years? what about 100 years? what does your work-what you do with your time- convey, and does it really matter to anyone outside of your immediate sphere?
cut out the noise, the superfluous, the vacuous cultural output. take...
'We're All Gonna Die - 100 meters of existence' →
the longest photo composite ever?
The Impossible Project →
pleasure principle clothing →
“Researchers at Duke University, who developed a material that can...”
– Science closing in on cloak of invisibility
Tim Walker's Pastel Cats →
Twenty Thousand Dollars Worth of Sneakers: Golden →
last saturday angelina and I went on a golden adventure to the beach
Phoebe Washer Journal →
excerpts from the deceased young petaluma artist’s paper journals
WatchIf I Had A Heart by Fever Ray
Fever Ray is one half of The Knife. This is the debut video and it completely rules my world.
t-minus 10 weeks 'til liftoff
Travel planning needs to get serious. For starters, I need to decide on which continents to visit. Camping for a month in South Africa with Jaqs? Will I make it to Australia and New Zealand? How long in South East Asia? Tough choices.
