Fall Courses
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Archived entries for work
Super-Incredible Activity Book for Creatives
Font and image resource Veer offers up the 180-page Super-Incredible Activity Book for Creatives, available in PDF or online/interactive formats. Every creative needs a little Zoooom! Smash! Kapow! once in awhile.
Eight Diagrams of the Future
Lebbeus Woods EIGHT DIAGRAMS OF THE FUTURE
I am putting forward eight diagrams—the very best, most accurately constructed diagrams of the future I am capable of devising—in order to help us know what it might be. Such knowledge may serve us well. Or it may not. Knowledge always cuts both ways.
To some of you, this might seem a variation on the Rorschach test, that is, an essentially psychological exercise. To others, it might seem like the mystical reading of tea leaves, or the entrails of a ritually sacrificed goat. Fair enough, but I should note that in both of those situations, the material is created accidentally, or—if you prefer—randomly. The eight diagrams are the products of conscious design.
Another reference comes to mind, though it, too, may be only distantly related to the eight diagrams: The Glass Bead Game devised by writer Hermann Hesse. In Hesse’s novel, “the exact nature of the game (quoting Wikipedia) remains elusive and (its) devotees occupy a special school…. The rules of the game are only alluded to, and are so sophisticated that they are not easy to imagine. Playing the game well requires years of hard study of music, mathematics, and cultural history. Essentially the game is an abstract synthesis of all arts and scholarship. It proceeds by players making deep connections between seemingly unrelated topics.”
Diagram 3:
KEXP Album Review Archive
KEXP’s Review Revue is scanning and posting the little sticker-based LP reviews that their DJs taped to albums added to the station’s collection. Ranging from Paul Simon’s Graceland to Sonic Youth’s Goo and more. The brevity and small size of the notes makes them amenable to hosting conversations among DJs posted in series, an antecedent to weblog comment communities. Above is the nearly filled cover of Lou Reed’s New York, which split the community a little:
“This doesn’t deserve H. It’s not lighting up my phones. I’d much rather play ‘This Gift’ than this 2nd rate MTV trend scooter music. So there.”
“Oh Phil, you are such a rock historian. Slip on an Aerosmith disc, maybe ‘Rocks’ or ‘Toys in the Attic’ next you’re spazzin’ over the ‘latest guitar thang.”
“Take a listen! ‘Endless Cycle’ is great! Lou & his many hats (+ cigarettes)!”
“The listeners on NNTNBT loved this disc.”
“Besto!!”
“Contrived anger for the masses.”
[Via metafilter.com]
Choosing Type: A Flowchart
Julian Hansen’s So You Need a Typeface (a small portion of which is shown above) simultaneous ironic/sensible flowchart, as you might suspect, helps you choose type based on the kind of project you’re working on.
[via Cool Hunting]
