Friday, January 28, 2011

FIRECRACKER



I just heard this song and had to listen to it like, 6 times. Here is the studio version with full accompaniment up top, and an intimate solo take below.

Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Monday, January 24, 2011

JUDITH KERR

Print interview here with the lovely Judith Kerr, and video below of her process. Interesting to see that it doesn't seem to have gotten any less elusive a thing, to create. I'm going to take that as reassuring, I think.
          Judith's books.

Friday, January 21, 2011

JOGGER POSTER

Here's a poster for a not-actual show featuring L.A.'s actual Jogger (click image to enlargenate). Feast your earballs on the following:
UPDATE!! Brand new video HERE FTW

Saturday, January 15, 2011

TYPICAL

A couple of ads by a Finnish agency. F**k these guys.

Wednesday, January 5, 2011

MARTELLO TOWER

I'm a huge fan of Irish author James Joyce. In 1904 he spent a week living with his friend, medical student Oliver St John Gogarty in Sandycove, a couple hours Northwest of Dublin. Rather than a house, Gogarty was leasing a Martello tower from the British War Office. Martello towers were built in several countries of the British Empire during the 19th century, from the time of the Napoleonic Wars onwards, basically to repel foreign attackers with cannon fire. Joyce left after Gogarty fired a gun in Joyce's general direction. It is now a museum to Joyce.
    the tower at Sandycove
A dozen years later Joyce wrote Ulysses, in which characters Stephen Dedalus (based on Joyce) and Buck Mulligan (based on Gogarty) share rent in a Martello tower, appearing mostly in the first chapter.

So I was pretty excited to read that Duncan Jackson, founder and co-director of Billings Jackson Design, bought a Martello Tower in Suffolk County, England to build a house for his family. Piercy Conner Architects hooked him up, winning a Royal Institute of British Architects award in the process.  How gangsta is your crib?
click to enlarge.
Check out articles and more photos here, here and here.

Tuesday, January 4, 2011

ORPHAN

This is an idea I had (the execution as much as the concept), without a use. I just comp'ed in some text. The font is too hand-crafty - if anyone has a font recommendation (or a title, maybe an existing book, movie or song title) let me know.

Saturday, January 1, 2011

SPEED DEMON

Something for Saskatoon's finest purveyors of Rockabilly.
Click for super enlargement.