Story time! Once, while in the New Museum, Jack and I were staring out a side window that was part of a small hallway. The view itself was pretty crappy, just the side of another building (which is a very common thing in this city). We must have looked like we were really studying it. A woman, who was part of a tour group, came right over, looked out and went, “Beautiful!” and walked away. We looked at each other, then at her as she walked off, and Jack, questioned her, “What?” We laughed for a good 5 minutes straight about it and bring it up every now and again for a smile.
Klara.be (belgium art radio/channel) did an experiment with Belgian painter Luc Tuymans (who’s paintings go for million usd). What if you take art out of its usual context and expose it in the street? Would people even notice it?
This is fantastically amazing to me! I’ve always thought that a lot of people only think its art if it’s in a museum. They can’t seem to appreciate that “art” is anywhere and everywhere. It’s not defined by it’s space.
Found via Boing Boing
If you’re not familiar with Rockabye Baby, they cover well-known rock bands in lullaby versions. It’s quite an interesting twist. They currently have 23 albums released (plus Pixies album on the way), with everything from AC/DC to Coldplay to Bob Marley to Tool. I only have Radiohead and it’s great. (I might need to pick up Bjork soon!)
Rockabye Baby! transforms timeless rock songs into beautiful instrumental lullabies. The delicate sounds of the glockenspiel, vibraphone, and other instruments will lull your little one into a sweet slumber.
These versions of Radiohead are sophisticated enough for people of all ages, but sweet enough to introduce your child to rock’s smartest band. Their album Kid A imagines the scope and power of music created by a newborn child. What will your baby dream about while drifting off to these serene interpretations of Radiohead’s best-loved songs?
I am aware this is quite a random thing to pick, but I’m a Radiohead nut… It’s a great album to work to, I can drift off day-dreaming, or I can sing along.
Find their full library of “lullabied” rock songs on their official site
I probably freaked out my coworkers by how loud I was laughing at these. I think I just might be one of them! I’ve picked out a few of may favorites from each.
2. You get pissed when a free Photoshop brush you download is less than 1000px in size.
7. You’ve learned your lesson and stopped using the word “final” in any file name when saving.
10. You see CMYK and RGB like Neo sees the Matrix.
12. When you heard that Adobe was acquiring Macromedia, you had a Design Orgasm.
16. You’ve totally slaughtered a great design concept because the client thinks he/she knows best. (everyone thinks they are a designer)
23. You can’t go to a restaurant without secretly critiquing the menu design.
24. You have an amazingly huge font collection, and an amazingly short temper.
25. If you had a penny for every mouse click, you would have been a trillionaire 3 years ago.
4.You’ve requested a vector logo from a client, and instead, they email you a 72 dpi image they grabbed from a website.
6. You don’t have a favorite font because you love “Typography.” Not Fonts. Choosing a favorite font would be like choosing a favorite child, it’s just wrong.
7. You collect as many free stuffs from the interwebs as you can on your hard drive, hoping that one day, that cool project will come along that you can actually use some cool shit on.
11. You’ve had a client that insists on “filling up the space.”
12. You’ve learned to over-price web design projects because most clients are more picky about their websites than a high school girl picking out a prom dress.
14. You know keyboard shortcuts that require 4 fingers.
18. The only thing that would make you happier than the demise of IE6 is world peace.
23. You get phone calls from friends and family members on a regular, sometimes annoyingly-frequent basis, wanting your services for free or extremely cheap. (and the “portfolio” line makes you want to throw something across the room)
I knew that the beautiful weather we had been enjoying, pretty much all month, couldn’t last forever… and yesterday the rain came. Actually, most of Sunday was just kind of nasty, cold, and overcast. Today it’s been pouring. After the last few weeks, where we had blue skies and temperatures upwards towards the 80’s, all the gray and it plummeting back down into the 50’s, was a tad upsetting.
Yesterday, despite the less-than-great weather, we took a trip all the way down to the Financial District. For those of you who don’t know, this area pretty much shuts down after business hours and on the weekends (except for right around Ground Zero, for the tourists), so traveling so far on a trip mainly for food probably wasn’t the best of ideas. We made the best of it, finding a cute Mexican restaurant, poking around the maze of clothing that is Century 21, and grabbing some coffee at South Street Seaport / Pier 17.
We first found these videos on Boing Boing a few months ago, and I’m a little saddened to find that it’s only 10 videos. I want more!
So who is responsible for the success of the 10-part serial? The series features a hapless, angry, cuckolded, mad-Photoshop-skillz-enabled narrator named Donnie Hoyle and does three things amazingly well: it gives a terrific overview of some key Photoshop techniques; it has an oddly compelling narrative; and it’s wildly funny. It started in December 2007 and ended earlier this month when Donnie suddenly disappeared. Some eight million page views and two Webby Award 2008 nominations (Best Comedy and Best How-To Series) after it launched, a mystery remains: Who is Donnie Hoyle?
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Ready? Troy Hitch, 37, and Matt Bledsoe, 39 — the guys responsible for YSAP and its sequel — met a few years ago while producing a radio ad in Cincinnati, which is 10 minutes from Covington. Bledsoe was the ad’s creative director and Hitch, a polymath, was doing the voice-over (he’s also the voice of Donnie and a real Photoshop expert). They quickly became buddies, started writing funny bits together, and partnered up at a creative agency Hitch later started, Big Fat Institute.
Now when it comes to building and construction, I am not the person to come to. Rarely do I and the 3rd dimension agree of things. But I do, from time to time look the way in which some of the things were put together in our apartment and go, “What were they thinking?”.
Thing ongoing series, at the This Old House website, really made my chuckle. Even though we might not have had the brightest bulbs renovate this apartment, it’s no where near as scary as some of the pictures you will see here! Home Inspection Nightmares X
I had an impulse to one more for my watercolor bird series and I wanted something pink this time! I had to do a little rearranging, but they fit together quite nicely now.
Just a heads up that the site is going through a little sprucing up, and I may have to leave it as is until Sunday, since we are partaking in Shutdown Day tomorrow. I don’t like to leave things up in the air like this, but the real world beckons!
*EDIT* Well, shows how much I looked at a calendar today… I got my weeks mixed up and just now realized Shutdown is next week. There are still some code tweeks to do for the site and I may or may not get to them tomorrow. I’ve already made some plans to be out and about this grand city. I just might make tomorrow a prequel to Shutdown day and turn it off anyway!
