Quickies: Thursday

The Fall looks awesome.
Shepard Fairey does covers for 1984 and Animal Farm.
ColorToy is an online color-scheming tool.
Download Richard Serra’s Prisoner’s Dilemma (1974).

The Animation Show:
The Animation Show was started as an annual feature-length theatrical compilation of short films from around the world, exclusively curated by Mike Judge (Office Space, “Beavis and Butt-Head,” “King of the Hill”) [...]

Filed under: Art, Books, Film+Video

Saturday. Buried in Snow.

Film+Video
Future Shorts is a World-wide short film label.
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Music
The Microsound Scene: An Interview with Kim Cascone. Husker Du poster archive. Download: Tortoise Live 07-10-1998. John Ries’ new band, The Night Watchers: Who’s Lady R U? [...]

Filed under: Art, Books, Film+Video, Music

The Pirate’s Dilemma

The Pirate’s Dilemma looks quite awesome. Absolutely next up on the reading list.
The Pirate’s Dilemma tells the story of how youth culture drives innovation and is changing the way the world works. It offers understanding and insight for a time when piracy is just another business model, the remix is our most powerful marketing tool [...]

Filed under: Books, Ideas

Julius Shulman: Modernism Rediscovered

Near the top of my “favorite photographers” list is Julius Shulman, whose body of work is probably the preeminent documentation of Modernism in Architecture. I don’t know how I missed it, but Taschen released a three-volume retrospective of Shulman’s work in October 2007. Julius Shulman, Modernism Rediscovered is personally curated by Benedikt Taschen and has [...]

Filed under: Books, Design, Photography

New Books+Podcasts

A couple excellent new book discussions at Russ Robert’s Econtalk podcast.
First, David Weinberger, author of Everything is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder, discusses the central theme of his book—the differences in how we “order” the Physical vs. Digital worlds, and the advantages of “everything digital”.

Dan Pink, former Gore speechwriter and author of [...]

Filed under: Books, Ideas, Podcast

No one belongs here more than you.

Stories by Miranda July.

Filed under: Books, New Media