Monday, July 7
Summer
The days of summer are here, however brief they may be. These days are perfect for dog watching at the park
or sipping a Pimm's and ginger. How is your summer?
Prompted by finding a song I've been searching for after watching a Kenneth Anger Film a good six years ago, here is some link action.
First off, the song from Kenneth Anger's film Rabit's Moon, "It came in the night", by Andy Arthur.
Next up is a link to a long standing favorite Kitsune Noir. After you've checked those out, head on over to the internet archive where you will find some great
animal collective live shows as well as days of other great material. Finally, the film that started the search for today's posted song:
The days of summer are here, however brief they may be. These days are perfect for dog watching at the park
or sipping a Pimm's and ginger. How is your summer?
This spring I am using one typeface. Univers. One thing I have begun to notice is that typography is a lot like fashion, how you dress counts. And in this case, the knot of your tie, the shine of your shoes, the amount of shirt tuck or placement of pant crease can indicate your mastery or complete incompetence. It is a never- ending learning process, but it feels very nice to get it just right. Now, don't peg me on the type on my blog just yet, it's a different beast and I'm glad to just be putting something up once a month here. Look forward to a new podcast soon!
Respect is not fear and awe; it denotes, in accordance with the root of the word (respicere = to look at), the ability to see a person as he is, to be aware of his unique individuality. Respect, thus, implies the absence of exploitation. I want the loved person to grow and unfold for his own sake, and in his own ways, and not for the purpose of serving me. —Erich Fromm
Really Rosie, PBS. This is the reason I have an embedded twee sensiblity towards music, however guilty at times I might feel about it. Listening to Carole King, I continue to realize it is her that links so many pop groups that I instantly love from Belle and Sebastian to Jens Lekman. It might even be there a little bit in Daft Punk. It's the production, the timing, and the really thick am Gold senibility. I used to think of B&S as a cross between her and Velvet Underground, but usually described them as Simon&Garfunkel/VU to save the hopelessly questioning looks. A much more talented and worthy artist that sort of parallels is Scott Walker(ok music lovers, don't shoot me). I'm still wondering when AM Gold will make it's comeback. Maybe after Nu Rave gets tired?
Being in design school means not only lots of making, but also lots of looking. Instructors haven't been shy in espousing the garbage in/garbage out metaphor, either. So, I've found myself really forced to confront exactly why I like something, eschewing style and taste at times for more formal judgements. I thought I'd share some of what I find along the way, whether it's old or new, maybe it can work to generate a dialogue rather than simply being a show and tell.
Today I'd like to share the work of Rick Bell
In response to Roddy's excellent entry, I present this response.
"Envy, jealousy, ambition, any kind of greed are passions; love is an action, the practice of human power, which can be practiced only in freedom and never as a result of compulsion.
Love is an activity, not a passive affect; it is a "standing in," not a "falling for." In the most general way, the active character of love can be described by stating that love is primarily giving, not receiving.
Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you."
â€â€Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving
check the 2:40 mark.
"I think people who are not artists often feel that artists are
inspired. But if you work at your art, you don't have to be
inspired. Out of the work, comes the work."  John Cage
Tonight at dinner I overheard someone complaining about an unreliable friend. My moment of empathy was abruptly halted when he explained,"we explicitly made tentative plans". I think this really sums up the Bay Area, or at least the down side of the Bay Area. I think of California as a place people go to, like a Sunday Morning version of New York. For the past month and a half I've been immersed in grad school where I am one of the very small group of people that are from america(small caps intentional here) and even smaller groupthat have lived here more than a few months. I think what is vital to a city is movement, and this is the first time I am really seeing it here.Different ideas are what make a place interesting. In tht sense it has helped me see this city in a new way, still lacking the final deliverable though. It reminds me of something David Byrne said in True Stories. He said,"I really enjoy forgetting. When I first come to a place, I notice all the little details. I notice the way the sky looks. The color of white paper. The way people walk. Doorknobs. Everything. Then I get used to the place and I don't notice those things anymore. So only by forgetting can I see the place again as it really is."
Ah, my first semester of Grad School for Graphic Design. I've been working non stop since day one with only a (nice) half day break for my birthday. Every week the workload seems even more unfathomable. Except for today. I had a great break and went to the book store to find old typography books and spent over an hour looking through the old volumes on type. I've sort of limited my blog reading and e-mail checking, among many other things. I'm really excited about the work we are doing at school and am feeling really strange in those few hours of recent "break time" not working on anything. Although, my mind keeps bringing it back to design no matter what I am looking at. I think it's a sign... no, no, I think it's an icon.
Created by the design team Wabisabi
for
Shift Mag's Mobile Art Watch project.
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Here is a shot for the recent album package I designed for Roddy Schrock's Japan tour. Tessa Rannish O'Donnell designed and hand printed the pattern on the disc. david(at)instantcontemporary(dot)org
Hello there! I have been quite busy putting together some old and
new projects which I am very excited about. For now let me just point
you to Roddy Schrock's
fantastic blog. I have added an RSS feed so you can add this page to your favorite
aggregator(see the right hand column).You will be seing more exciting content and an
improved interface here soon. Go enjoy the nice weather!
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Back from a lovely first trip to some fantastic places. A general impression of differences are experiencing an
historical sense of self rather than an indivudualistic one.
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If you are or will be in Milan or Paris, drop me a line. Vegetarian restaurant,record shop,cafe, or any other special suggestions welcome. david(at)instantcontemporary(dot)org
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I have been trying to figure out how to set up comments on this blog using PHP (and MySQL?). I'm stuck as to how the process works, how to recieve and post comments, and what documents need to be written to do so. I haven't been able to find any documentation on the web for creating a comment form/section. Any Ideas? Drop me a line. david(at)instantcontemporary (dot) org
somehow switching the encoding added a non-visible space between each letter on the document, hence a retype of the whole xhtml file. Well, almost whole retype. Lets see if this works....
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