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Category Archives: things that I want
The Essential Cartography of the United States of America
According to independent cartographers I spoke with, the big mapmaking corporations of the world employ type-positioning software, placing their map labels (names of cities, rivers, etc.) according to an algorithm. For example, preferred placement for city labels is generally to … Continue reading
Taking assholes to task
Via A Continuous Lean.
Posted in lol, so pitted, sports, things that I want, win
Tagged assholes, Cleveland Browns, football, lawyers
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Plaque Découpée Universelle
Stencil capable of drawing every letter of the alphabet: uppercase, lowercase, numbers, and punctuation. Based on a stencil invented by Joseph A. David in 1876. Created by Dries Wiewauters and James Goggin. Seen here helping a pantograph to scale infinity … Continue reading
Posted in design, graphic design, pitted, things that I want
Tagged Dries Wiewauters, James Goggin, pantograph, stencil, type design, Werkplaats Typografie
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On Self Respect
by Joan Didion Once, in a dry season, I wrote in large letters across two pages of a notebook that innocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself. Although now, some years later, I marvel … Continue reading
Posted in adjectives, education, literature, things that I want, writing
Tagged Joan Didion, On Self Respect
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David Shrigley
Untitled, 2009
Irma Boom
Irma Boom: Biography in Books
Pimp my studio
From João Ribas
Posted in art, graphic design, rofl, technology, things that I want
Tagged art, Pimp My Ride, post-studio, studio, XZIBIT
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Gee’s Bend
Sally Bennett Jones, 1944–1988. Center medallion of triangles, surrounded by multiple borders, 1966, cotton, 86 x 77″ Linda Pettway, born 1929. “Logcabin” — single-block variation, tied with yarn, ca. 1975, corduroy, 88 x 78″ Mary Elizabeth Kennedy, 1911–1991. “Housetop” — … Continue reading
Posted in art, craft, design, so pitted, things that I want
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Timeline of the burrito
The timeline of the burrito documents the use of the burrito, a food made with tortillas and filling found in Mexico and the United States. Hand-held take-out foods like the burrito have a long history. Before the Spanish colonization of … Continue reading
Fall T-shirt of the Month
Posted in graphic design, music, rofl, so pitted, the fall, things that I want
Tagged Joy Division, the fall
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Xiu Xiu
Can’t wait for the new Xiu Xiu album. Video maybe NSFW…
A Day in the Life of a Handmade Skateboard
Solitary Times’ tour of ABC Board Supply skateboard factory in Costa Mesa, CA
Mixed up/not mixed up
Betty Lee
Polpress Zappa Flexi-Disc Postcards
Apparently, the Polish Polpress label, at some point in history, made several sets of “flexi-disc postcards” – postcards that you could play on your record-player – with material from a wide range of Zappa albums. The German underground Zappa reference … Continue reading
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Tagged Frank Zappa, postcard, vinyl
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