I'm relatively new to the world of Jesse Thorn. It wasn't until recently that I really started listening to Bullseye but I count myself as a fan. He is a great interviewer that obviously cares about his guests.. a mentality that applies to just about anything he speaks of. So, when I ran into his 12 Point Program for Absolutely, Positively 1000% No-Fail Guaranteed Success I was quite curious and, ultimately, very pleased with the results. It's a lengthy read in terms of Things You Encounter On The Internet And Will Spend Time With but it's worth it as it leaves you rather pumped to fully engage yourself with whatever project you may have at hand. Or, even more-so, whatever project you've been wanting to dive into but haven't found the motivation to do so yet.

At the very least, please add it to your Instapaper and read it when it's convenient for you. Optimally, you'll stop whatever you're doing now and consume it entirely.

I'm loving this immense set of One Hour Drawings from Dustin Harbin. Brilliantly, he undertakes this task as part of this offer - you pay him $40, make a suggestion for the subject and he goes at it for the next 60 minutes.. posting the results here. Some are sweet, some are amusingly strange, some delightful (okay, they're all delightful), some recognizable and quite a handful seem to involve familiar faces. It seems like the sort of thing I hope all of my talented illustrated friends would take on - a great exercise in creativity, honing your skills and treating the world with your results. Win Win all around!

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The New York Times has a repository of photographs dating back to 1896, millions upon millions of images documenting just about anything imaginable. They've started The Lively Morgue to share a portion of that immense library. The background info is pretty fascinating but the photos are, of course, the real draw. If you're a Tumblr user, add them to you Following list. If not, bookmark immediately.

Good lord! Frank Chimero relaunched his site and it is absolutely gorgeous. The homepage is a call to action for the betterment of all told through some well executed vertical parallax scrolling. The inner sections - Writing, Blog, Library and the About pages are all inspiring in their cleanliness, simplicity. I look forward to that Projects page officially launching.. I've no doubt it will be astounding.

• Responsive Navigation Patterns - pretty insightful writeup on the number of different ways people are handling navigation solutions in terms of responsive design hurdles. I'm partial to the Left Nav Flyout but can't disagree with the cons listed. Lots to think about. via Mr. Jardine.
• Web Font Plug-in - pretty brilliant little plugin to give you access to WebINK and Google Fonts right inside Photoshop. It's not like you couldn't just download and install the fonts as well but this certainly makes it a lot easier and dynamic to new additions to each repository. Neat! via Daniel.

I've got a crazy workload this week and, thus, I'm going to cut the blogging down a bit today in order to keep my head above water. This is unfortunate in terms of quantity for you but the quality should make up for it. Example: This new video from Islands is phenomenal in every way. Couple this along with that new Shins video and it's official - music videos are totally awesome again (okay, they never really fell off but that's neither here nor there).

Practice and Space is a new web series profiling crafts people - those that toil over the difficult tasks. There are only two episodes thus far but the second focuses on Jay Ryan of The Bird Machine. The footage is great - lots of interesting shots of the studio space, the process of the actual creation of the prints and insightful interview footage. There's a great quote in there about exploring bad ideas and holding off on your evaluation of something being bad or good before the body of work is complete. It's pleasant to hear from someone as seemingly Can't Miss as Bird Machine... Go watch the whole thing and keep an ear out for it.

Over the weekend, WAXY tweeted about the new Distractionware game - Hexagon. It seems incredibly simple at first - navigate your arrow shape through the gaps - but becomes incredibly oppressive rather quickly... in the good way. It actually reminds me of the old TRON arcade games; in visual aesthetic, sound design and it's Deceptively Simple Looking Yet Quite Challenging Gameplay. Long story short, get ready to waste a good 30 minutes trying to top your high score.

Not only is the message behind the New Web Design Guidelines super solid but the presentation is phenomenal. It's clean, simple and perfectly animated. Even if you're not a web designer or developer looking for some inspiration, please check it out.. it's good for everyone.

It's been awhile since I mentioned the work of Stefan Glerum but, thankfully, Chad recently pointed me towards this compilation of new works. The style remains as compelling as ever and well worth a revisit. Get to it.

Greetings web traveler! You want the playlist for this week? Well, there it is! Here's the breakdown:

• The Shins - Simple Song - the director duo DANIELS did this amazingly epic video for the new Shins track off their forthcoming Port of Morrow. Even if you don't love the music I bet you can't deny an abundance of appreciation for Richard Swift's curly mop of hair.
• Stan Freberg's Banquet Frozen Dinners - Paul said it best in regards to this commercial... "ACTING!"
• Meow! Sad Toy Cats - I feel like I've seen this before but how could I forget about something so absurdly insane? Whatever the case may be - it's timeless in a way that can't be described.
• Blake Anderson's Impression of a Nice Guy - you know what's coming but you will still enjoy it.
• Key & Peele: Dungeons & Dragons - I'll be honest, I fully expected not to enjoy new sketch show Key & Peele but just about everything I've seen so far has been amusing. This sketch in particular. Mildly NSFW language but whatever; too good.
• Le Voyage dans la Lune - have you seen the fully restored / colorized version of Le Voyage dans la Lune set to original music from AIR? It is such a weird piece of work. If you're interested, watch it in its entirety.
• Winnie the Pooh GTA - I can't explain why I find this so hilarious but I think it has a lot to do with the running style of ole Pooh himself.

That's it! Wish I had more for ya but my weeks have been crazy lately. Be sure to snag that new Uncle Skeleton and have a great weekend!

Imogene+Willie has a nice article up on Nashville photographer Garland Gallaspy; specifically focused on his new collection of Polaroids tender moments. The slice of life photos document a lifestyle that would likely have long been forgotten had it not been captured in photos - debauchery abound tends to make the previous night hazy. The antics involved may have initially stemmed from a party lifestyle but there is something sweet about them - somehow you can tell that those featured in the images are close friends having a great time; not just strangers trying to one up each other. Maybe I'm projecting but it's a documentation of a freestyle life that, while intimidating, is also alluring. You can see more of the works here, preview the book here or just outright purchase it here.

Joystiq has a great article on making a game out of The Hunger Games with Adam Saltsman (creator of Canabalt, among many others). Even if you have zero interest in the Suzanne Collins trio of novels, or the forthcoming movie, you gotta enjoy the 16-bit style graphic style. I look forward to the games actual release. Hopefully it's sooner rather than later.

I assume you've seen this comic from The Oatmeal entitled I tried to watch Game of Thrones and this is what happened. It's been making the rounds this week and has likely been featured on plenty of the sites you read every day. However, if you have not read it please do so now because it perfectly captures the mentality and rationale involved with pirating TV shows and movies. Stealing is stealing but at least there is usually a reasoning behind it... however loose.

Even more fascinating than the comic is the follow-up discussions regarding the issue - such as. Heavy Hangs The Bandwidth That Torrents The Crown from Andy Ihnatko. He eloquently nails two substantial thoughts from the comic - 1) torrentors are largely impatient and feel some sense of being owed instant gratification for their desires and 2) Content providers are missing a huge opportunity by not having media available in a more timely fashion (look to the way the UK puts out DVD's for a better idea of this).

Anyway, this is a whole lot of text for a silly comic strip but it's a subject worth the time to think about. You'll never defeat piracy entirely but it could be substantially curbed if the old model of content delivery was rethought and made more immediate. Right?

If you told me Michael Stipe kept a blog, I wouldn't be surprised. However, if you told me it was a very regularly updated onslaught of vintage design, compelling photography, animated gifs, art exhibitions, weird fashion, various videos, a bit of NSFW imagery and photos of himself from the dentist chair.. well, then you'd have me caught off guard. Fortunately, all of that is true and doesn't even properly cover everything. His blog truly is a reflection of all his interests.. read it.

The Design Office has released their icon font Modern Pictograms into the wild via FontSquirrel. It's free and open to use in your work and, frankly, looks simple and clean. No real surprises within but I like the forms a bit better than my current go to. via JXNBLK. The Developers Friend is a set of 400 icons output as both regular iPhone and Retina Display sizes. You can see every icon in the eight groups right here. It's a solid variety and seems worth the $25 price tag.

I'll be honest, I had no prior knowledge of the Visual Supply Co. or their software that enables Adobe Lightroom to emulate various styles of film. With that in mind, it also stands to reason that I was unaware that they were launching a photo site ala Flickr and have an iPhone app in the works.

All this information was gained from one tweet and this video. Which should, in my opinion, get you as fired up about their offerings as I am.

Many many thanks to Kate for the heads up on the work of Paulo Ventura. His work consists of some deeply detailed, slightly haunting and absolutely fascinating dioramas. This gallery is a great example of his work from "The Automaton" collection but there's plenty more to see. I'd love to get an idea of the sense of scale of it all but, for now, I'm satisfied knowing someone spends so much time distressing a miniature walking bridge for the sake of art.

The fine folks at Hype Machine took it upon themselves to create a new way to, randomly, browse through the projects at Kickstarter. The resulting site, Kickstumbler, is exactly what it sounds like - a StumbleUpon restricted to one site. They also decided to create a continuous video channel that compiles and plays back all the pitch videos for particular projects.

Aside from exposing you to potential worthwhile spots to pitch in a few dollars it also tends to reveal projects you would have never heard of - often already far exceeding their goals. It's kind of a good feeling to know that so many people have a supportive community behind them.

Google is such a fascinating company. Sure, they occasionally breach privacy concerns but they also spend a great deal of time developing a driverless car. So, it's both surprising and a bit of a given to hear that they plan on releasing Heads-Up Display Glasses by year's end. Apparently the Android powered device will look roughly like this and you can assume they'll be heavily locked in to your GPS location. Hell, they may even be recording everything you see regardless of your desire for them to do so! Personally, I can't see myself wearing such a thing but, as Gruber points out, something has to follow the UI/UX experience that we're all accustomed to currently.. maybe it will be head clicking.