Typorgrapher.org dishes it out to NTT DoCoMo like NTT DoCoMo’s blocking the way to the tacqueria:
So, it appears our brand specialist has been drinking one too many Châteauneuf-du-Pape and has gone into a drunken overdrive during a meeting with DoCoMo… oh, sorry, I meant docomo:
“The new logo’s color is red, which symbolizes the company’s energy [...]
Category Archives: cool
In which the typographic business is given, good and hard
May 14, 2008 – 9:59 am
Partisan songs
April 20, 2008 – 5:18 pm
To Repel Ghosts:
These songs are the record of our speculative forays into the dreamspace which has grown up in the cracks between the social myth of the Heroic partisans and the ugly reality of the war; in mapping that territory, it was not our intention to pursue any specific political agenda or champion any particular [...]
I could never figure it out, either
March 20, 2008 – 11:20 pm
Completely out of the blue, the QM writes:
I’d long known that The Verve lost all their Bittersweet Symphony royalties due to allegedly ripping off the Rolling Stones’s Last Time. But I could never figure it out, since I don’t think there’s anything in LT that sounds like BS.
Then I finally found out that the [...]
Aquatic Art
February 18, 2008 – 4:37 pm
I did not know that there were international fish tank layout contests. Apparently its a no-no to use opening treasure chests and bubbling deep sea divers in your layout.
In spite of that, the designs are amazing. More here and here.
One sign a book is going to be good.
February 4, 2008 – 3:16 pm
I’ve been reading quite a bit in the last few weeks - making sure I’m getting my moneys worth from Amazon Prime.
I ordered “The Boy, Me, and the Cat” by Henry Plummer. Mr. Plummer, his son and Scotty the cat sailed from Buzzard’s Bay down to Florida and back, almost 3,000 miles, on a [...]
Indomitable?
February 1, 2008 – 3:25 pm
With the loose change found under the couch cushions of a third-tier Hollywood producer, France has launched its most expensive movie - sorry, “film” - ever: Asterix at the Olympic Games. TIME magazine tells us:
A Gallic national treasure, Asterix is revered and adored by the French far more than even Mickey Mouse is by Americans. [...]
Keep your spandex fetish away from my Hergé, please
February 1, 2008 – 3:13 pm
WTF is THIS? He-Man, Master of the Belgianverse?
“The thinking person’s heartthrob”
January 22, 2008 – 6:15 pm
Slipping mad props for one of your favorite artists into an only semi-related product review! Well done, anonymous Boston Globe Business writer, well done!
Janek Schaefer performances
December 27, 2007 – 6:50 pm
English sound artist / composer Janek Schaefer offers downloadable MP3s of two of his performances for sale: the recent The Sporting Guide to The Speed of Sound and the slightly older Recital in the old library. I’m not much for writing music reviews, but this guy got to attend the performance of TSGTTSOS and had [...]
Sim unclear on meaning of ‘retired’
December 27, 2007 – 6:49 pm
Glamourpuss. What’s it all about? Dunno, but it’s
The Haute Couture Magazine parody that’s so six months ago.
and it’s
An homage to the classic photorealism black and white “beyond noir” strips of the 1940s and 50s (Alex Raymond, Stan Drake, John Prentice, Al Williamson)
and it’s
The strangest superheroine comic of all time (”Do I have an origin? Certainly [...]
Balinese Gamelan
December 17, 2007 – 12:41 am
Cool:
A gamelan is a kind of musical ensemble of Indonesia typically featuring a variety of instruments such as metallophones, xylophones, drums, and gongs; bamboo flutes, bowed and plucked strings, and vocalists may also be included. The term refers more to the set of instruments than the players of those instruments. A gamelan as a set [...]
52,000 lessons in composition
December 10, 2007 – 6:57 pm
1000 Frames of Hitchcock: 52 movies storyboarded by screencap. Awesome!
More Frazetta
December 10, 2007 – 3:14 pm
Golden Age Comic Book Stories has some great Frazetta art, here, here and here.
Amazing stuff.
Nouvelle Vague
October 5, 2007 – 12:32 am
So, I was in the comic store picking up what turned out to be just one comic from my sub folder, when I noticed that Tony was playing a CD of some sultry-voiced French singers covering a PiL song. While we chatted a bit, more covers played: XTC’s Making Plans for Nigel, the DKs Too [...]
Inky comic goodness
September 19, 2007 – 5:06 pm
Thoughts on some comics:
I noticed Becky Cloonan’s work a while back, while trawling around on DeviantArt. It took some hunting, but I eventually found myself a copy of East Coast Rising - her story about pirates off the Jersey shore after the sea level has risen enough to drown most of what is currently coastal [...]
Ramon, could I trouble you for the name of your chemist?
September 19, 2007 – 11:19 am
Recommended: Kukuburi. Bright colors, bold outlines, cartoony… totally not my thing, and yet, I’m really liking it. Nice, Ramon!
A man after my own heart
September 12, 2007 – 12:12 am
Journalista’s Dirk Deppy interviewed:
What really makes me want to die? The way industry true-believers assume that comics not featuring capes and tights are seen as diversions that “hurt comics,” and that different and conflicting senses of aesthetics are some sort of personal attack. I realize that this contradicts the nonchalance that I affected in the [...]