I’m in the process of working on a small ‘zine with about 10 of my close artist type friends. I just started piecing it together and spent about 2 hours back and forth between my scanner, laser printer, keyboard, paper, pen, pencil, and back again. The finished product will be a hand bound treat full of oodles of delicious hand styles, photos, words, and humor ready sometime in the next few weeks.
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Craig Oldham has a great write-up on his site about the way many modern designers/design publications have been presenting their work. The majority of the site has a great amount of content - he takes the time to craft words and sentences that actually communicate. One of my favorites lines is, “*Now, when I say studio I mean, well, a room really.” Pure Gold.
In my opinion, this ’style’ of presentation is great for showing the work in context, giving the viewer a sense of scale, or simply showing that your work was actually printed. There is no doubt that showing something off screen is certainly more gratifying than simply showing a screenshot.
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South Boston has more than its share of craziness and this sits high atop the long list along with the meth addicts and ridiculous “Boston Accent.” Everytime it snows, people save their parking spaces with anything you can imagine. I’ve seen all kinds of things - detergent bottles, cardboard boxes, parking cones are a favorite, recycling bins, garbage cans, kitchen stools & chairs. Today, I even saw a plugin vertical space heater out in the snow trying desperately to save a space for some poor soul. I documented the entire block that circles the park by my house and archived it as a new set - Welcome to Southie.
I made the mistake of moving one of these items to park late one night, around 2am. I awoke to find my brand new car with a punched out drivers side window. The sad part is that this all takes place on a public street. That’s Southie for you, I guess I’ve been “beat in” to the gang.
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Anna and I spent last weekend in and around NYC. We visited Robb and spent the night in Red Hook, the part of Broklyn he recently moved to. We spent most of our time wandering around on the hunt for the many delicious Vegan eateries strewn about the city. We also checked out The New Museum, visited the village, and hit up Broadway and Times square.
On a side note: I’ve been working at LocaModa for the past few months and we recently launched Jumbli, a word game you can play using your mobile phone. You can see it live on the JumboTron near the W hotel 24/7 . Play online at jumbli.tv or in location in Times Square. What you see online, is what they see in Times Square. This is the start of some big things, and really raises the bar on interactive development.
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The most recent of Boston > Portland, OR transplants, Tom of Cars&Trains just launched his new studio site, papersccissors&glue. Over the years, Tom and I worked on a handful of projects together for different clients and agencies alike. He’s a great guy and has a number of projects you should check out. The CMS for artists and musicians is great.
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