gotta have em. by COBE

Yes Pls

love this custom study of b/w Raiders

Many thanks to Bryan for the heads up on Hollow & Akimbo, the latest undertaking from Jonathan Visger - previously of Absofacto and Mason Proper.

The folks at This American Life have started their first offshoot series. Serial will be an ongoing series, much like TAL, but instead of new stories every week they will focus on one story per season and follow the characters and plot developments throughout. You know, kinda like TV. This provides a huge opportunity to hear a lot more from the people involved in any particular saga and it sounds promising to me. Hopefully they even take a little hint from Love + Radio and just let those involved speak for awhile, uninterrupted.

Whatever it ends up being, I'm happy to see such an institution like TAL finally embracing a bit of technology.

a double vinyl, mostly instrumental, album actually sounds amazing

rather looking forward to this EP of covers

Over the weekend I poured over this piece from Linda Tirado. The 32-year old wrote a long forum post about Why People In Poverty Make Terrible Decisions - like eating fast food or consistently smoking, despite knowing the dangers. It is a long piece that covers a lot of ground but it never strays into a tone of animosity or chiding - it's merely explanatory as to just how hard it is to be in poverty.

The general assumption of the poor is that they're lazy or intentionally not working too hard to get themselves out of their situation but, truth be told, you can work incredibly hard and make no movement upward. Tirado's piece is fantastic top to bottom. It gives perspective that you probably thought you had but never had the specifics to go along with it.

This great Terry Gilliam interview covers a lot of ground - from his departure from the Hollywood system, to his influence in new filmmakers, his Just Ahead of the Curve "flops", his plans for the failed Don Quixote movie and plenty of insight on his new film The Zero Theorem (the final film in his "Orwellian triptych").

I've always really enjoyed Gilliam's very articulate ability to express his opinion on things, even if they aren't always the most optimistic and this article is full of truths about himself and his view on the movie world.

If you haven't been following David McLeod's typography undertakings, go ahead and correct that issue now. His type form manipulations are fantastic - particularly when they're animated - but I'm also really drawn to his more abstract work. AND, beyond all the visual goodness that he serves up to the world, he also has a few free typefaces to work into your own creations.

"All your crowdfunding in one place." Is this really a problem that needed solving?

oscopelabs

I'm told this is a fascinating presentation on decision making for web products. Ima dive in.

beautiful writeup on Internet fame through the lens of Jason Kottke and Phil Fish

great rundown of the disconnect from big players to how tech works

full album stream. curious.

According to this tweet we're heavily into Fall weather here in NYC. The city seems to have abandoned Summer at the drop of a hat and it's full force Fall now. So that's the weather report here in New York City. Here's some videos.

• Pretending to Be Humans of New York - I'm sure it's meant in wholesome fun but this joke does not get old for me - especially when he starts taking actual photos. Gold.
• Majka dance - I thought about looking up the context of this bizarre clip but decided I liked it more just existing on its own.
• Cat Lover Spends 15 Years Customizing House for Feline Friends - this guy is adorable and his home is fantastic.
• George Mason University - RATM - turns out Rage Against the Machine with a full marching band woulda been pretty awesome.
• ELO 2013 - If you can't see this ELO performance, do yourself a favor and watch this one from 2013. I really hope Jeff Lynne takes it upon himself to do a mini tour with this full new band.
• PRISM'S DAY OFF - This is really really weird.
• How Things Are Made - CDs - fascinatingly scientific look at how Compact Discs were made. What a crazy process.
• The Walking Dead Theme - 10 Hour Version - Endurance Challenge: how long can you listen to this? I think I made it 3, 4 minutes? I dare someone to go a full half hour.

If you need more - check out this doggie or google "The Beautiful Pizza" just for fun.

Have a great weekend.

Occasionally I hit up Brooklyn Brainery for a class or two on something interesting (Cults 101, Personal Rights vs Police) and am always intrigued by the beautiful, vintage, data visualizations they have adorning their walls. A few years ago they launched a digital repository of the Census Bureau creations but now they've gone one step further and made them available for purchase over at Vintage Visualizations. If you know a data nerd, or a history nerd, or (ideally) both - there is no better gift.

I'm really smitten with configurations like the Most Populous City Ranking and the Occupations by Race and Nationality charts.

Given that the iPhone 6 is officially released today it just seems appropriate to steer your eye towards this iOS8 Vector UI collection - an illustrator file of interface elements to help make mocking up apps feel accurate and natural. I'm sure there are better / more efficient tools out there for this sort of thing than just dragging out of an Illustrator file but it gets the job done and has a low barrier for entry. There's also a nice bit of insight to go along with the vector tools. Times are changing when it comes to screen resolutions but you gotta learn to roll with it.

Semi-related: here's a

615 To Fame Release

posted September 18, 2014 #