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Damian Hirst v Cartrain
June 16, 2010 – 5:45 am
It might not sound like the crime of the century. But the theft of a box of pencils has reignited a bitter feud in the art world. The pencils in question are actually worth £500,000 and form part of a £10million Damien Hirst art installation. They were taken as a prank by a 17-year-old graffiti [...]
Chris Makes Snarky Comments Which Are Later Divorced From Their Original Context And Republished On The Very Same Media to Which They Were Originally Referring
April 20, 2010 – 7:05 pm
Just a few pointers: 1. Make sure all the text is on the scanning bed 2. Try to have the text/page parallel to the scanning bed 3. Have fun with it! — Chris Svensson, 2010 Sian Writes Words
Rokuyo stars
April 7, 2010 – 8:31 am
*Rokuyo is kind of week made up of 6 days: Sensho, Tomobiki, Sembu, Butsumetsu, Taian and Shakko. Lucky or unlucky days are fixed for each ceremony. For example, a Taian day is preferred for weddings in Japan. http://www.ritsumei.ac.jp/~akitaoka/opart-e.html
Lenna
March 7, 2010 – 7:28 pm
From Wikipedia: Lenna or Lena is the name given to a standard test image originally cropped from a Playboy magazine centerfold picture of Lena Söderberg, a Swedish model who posed nude for the November 1972 issue. The image is probably the most widely used test image for all sorts of image processing algorithms (such as compression and denoising) and related scientific publications. From [...]
hipster puppies
February 20, 2010 – 3:19 pm
margi chris tells people she does “graphic design” for a living, but in reality does “nothing” hipster puppies is way better than that tumblr with the photos of hipster ennui from dwell magazine. Not quite as good as my dog blog, though…
Six minutes to midnight
February 2, 2010 – 8:27 pm
This morning, the Board of Directors and the Board of Sponsors of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists announced that the minute hand of the Doomsday Clock would be moved one minute back from five to six minutes to midnight. The group, which contains 18 Nobel laureates, cited “a more hopeful state of world affairs” [...]
Quicksilver
January 25, 2010 – 12:07 am
I’m Dean Morris, the designer of the typeface “Quicksilver” that came out in 1976 as part of Letraset’s Letragraphica range of rub-down fonts, the stylishly aggeressive ones in the yellow pages of the catalog. I named the typeface “Quicksliver” because it looked like bent thermometers — quicksilver being a nickname for mercury (I never meant [...]
Letterheads
January 24, 2010 – 8:31 pm
(Ricardo “Richard” Leyva Múñoz Ramírez) (Roy Lichtenstein) Letterheady