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MAD MARCH

Thursday, January 19, 2012

Mad Men - Season premiere March 25, 2012. Do I need to say more? (click to enlarge)

COINCIDENCE

“The thing about coincidence is that when you imagine the umpteen trillions of coincidences that can happen at any given moment, the fact is, that in practice, coincidences almost never do occur. Coincidences are actually so rare that when they do occur they are, in fact memorable. This suggests to me that the universe is designed to ward of coincidence whenever possible—the universe hates coincidence—I don’t know why—it just seems to be true. So when a coincidence happens, that coincidence had to work awfully hard to escape the system. There’s a message there. What is it? Look. Look harder. Mathematicians perhaps have a theorem for this, and if they do, it might, by default be a theorem for something larger than what they think it is.”

Link: One Concidence; Two Deja Vues by Douglas Coupland
Via: André Brocatus was here...

Labels: Quotes

DESIGN LIKE NOBODY'S WATCHING

Thursday, January 05, 2012

Via: This Isn't Happiness
Link: Incidental Comics

Labels: Comics, Design

LEGO MY DEER

Thursday, December 01, 2011

Taxidermy Deer LEGO Kit by David Cole

Via: This isn't happiness

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Labels: Objects

A CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS

Screenprinted poster by Tom Whalen

Via: OMG Posters

Labels: Illustration

MANCHESTER ORCHESTRA - SIMPLE MATH

Saturday, November 12, 2011

Wish I could send this whole vid to my ffffound!, so fuckin' perfect.

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Lyrics:

Hunter eyes…
I'm lost and hardly noticed, slight goodbye
I want to rip your lips off in my mouth
Even in my greatest moment doubt
The line between deceit and right now

Simple math, it's how our bodies even got here
Sinful math, the ebb and flow to multiply
What if I was wrong and no one cared to mention?
What if it was true, and all we thought was right was wrong?
Simple math, the truth cannot be fractioned
Either way

I imply to mitigate the guilt, we could align
A perfectly constructed alibi
To hush the violent guilt that eats and never dies
In actual blame, they call me once the dark divide

Simple math, it's why our bodies even lay here
Sinful math, the truth cannot be fashioned
What if you were crazy, would we have to listen then?

What if we've been trying to get to where we’ve always been?
What if I was wrong, and started trying to fix it?
What if you believed me? Everything is brilliant

What if I’ve been trying to get to where I’ve always been?
What if we’ve been trying to get to where we’ve always been?
Simple math, believe me, all is brilliant
What if we've been trying to kill the noise and silence?

What if I was wrong and you had never questioned it?
What if it was true, that all we thought was right, was wrong?
Simple math, the truth cannot be fractioned
I imply I've got to get it back then.
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Via: CRBlog - UK Music Video Awards 2011 Winners

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Labels: Music

MEMORY TAPES - YES I KNOW

Wednesday, November 09, 2011

Via: CRBlog - UK Music Video Awards 2011 Winners

Labels: Music

DULLARDS

Sunday, October 30, 2011

“Only dullards crippled into cretinism by a fear of being thought pretentious could be so dumb as to believe that there is a distinction between design and use, between form and function, between style and substance.”

Link: Steve Jobs, by Stephen Fry
Via: DaringFireball

Labels: Design, Quotes

EAMES: THE ARCHITECT AND THE PAINTER

Saturday, October 29, 2011

Eames: The Architect and the Painter, documentary film will open at the IFC theater in NYC on November 18th, 2011 and will continue with playdates around the country. The film is narrated by James Franco.

“The husband-and-wife team of Charles and Ray Eames are widely regarded as America’s most important designers. Perhaps best remembered for their mid-century plywood and fiberglass furniture, the Eames Office also created a mind-bending variety of other products, from splints for wounded military during World War II, to photography, interiors, multi-media exhibits, graphics, games, films and toys. But their personal lives and influence on significant events in American life – from the development of modernism, to the rise of the computer age – has been less widely understood…”

Via: Daily Design Discoveries

Labels: Design, Movies

PHILOSPHY WITH HEXDIGITS

Monday, October 24, 2011

Via: and and,

Labels: Design

I NEED NOTHING, A NEARLY USELESS ODYSSEY

From Vimeo: “Repositories of stories and its enriching emotions, the covers, that accomodate the existing panoply of musical genres, are the motto for this exibition. The focus is made on album covers that often conquer our memory even when music slightly reached our ears. Major graphic disasters or deified, unduly ignored or zeitgeists, covers provide listening with a touch and an image, with the act of collection and share. From cover to cover, going thru all the stories (and histories), we wrote a new one to the sound of a song that repeats: I need nothing, I’ve everything I need.”

Via Lost At E Minor

Labels: Design, Music

THE CULT

Thursday, October 20, 2011

“The design community is practically a cult. We have our own little language that no one else remotely understands, exclusive networks, propaganda, hype-building conferences and most importantly, a shared way of viewing the world that is unique to the people inside the bubble.

Can you survive outside the cult? Absolutely. But there’s a reason it exists. We designers tend to really love what we do and are eager to interact with others who feel the same. We get excited about fonts for crying out loud, you’re not going to find that quality in anyone normal.”

Read the rest of the phenomenal article here: Surviving on a Creative Assembly Line

Via: EJ Fox

Labels: Design

M83 - MIDNIGHT CITY

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

From Vimeo: “Midnight City” is the first single of the forthcoming album of M83, “Hurry up, We're Dreaming”. The music video is directed by Fleur & Manu and it's a tribute to Village of the Damned, Close Encounters of the Third Kind and other Akiras.

Via Lost At E Minor

Labels: Music

ANIMATED HISTORY OF THE iPHONE

Monday, October 17, 2011

A CNet UK tribute to the memory of Steve Jobs.

Via: Cool Infographics

Labels: Apple, Design, Infographics

THE FUNDAMENTAL SOUL

Sunday, October 09, 2011

«In most people’s vocabularies, design means veneer. It’s interior decorating. It’s the fabric of the curtains and the sofa. But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design. Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service. »

Steven Paul Jobs

Via: Magnificent Ruin

Labels: Apple, Design, Quotes