I went to see some of David Foster Wallace’s early manuscripts that were just donated to the University of Texas, including a handwritten poem about Vikings he wrote when he was six.
4 hours ago.Once his concept was selected, Ota worked with the Japanese fire safety commission and the government to fine-tune the design. He remembers presenting 58 variations of the running man, tweaking the angle of the legs after a member of the committee objected to a figure that looked like he was sprinting out the door. The goal, Ota recalls, was to suggest that people should “run slowly.
— The big red word, the little green man, and the international war over exit signs. 3 days ago.
I’ve read 26 of these. 74 to go.
3 days ago.
‘Clean City’: São Paulo Scrubbed of Outdoor Ads
In September of 2007, the world’s fourth-largest metropolis was scrubbed of almost every type of outdoor advertising – even pamphlets. It’s all part of mayor Gilberto Kassab’s quest to eliminate visual clutter, making the city itself the focal point rather than colorful, increasingly desperate marketing campaigns.
4 days ago.I want this to be my job.
1 week ago.This is neat.
brit:
I don’t watch a ton of music videos these days (thanks to MTV rarely playing them anymore), but this little gem from OK Go is one of the best I’ve seen in a long time. Maybe even since their infamous treadmill video, which is now up to nearly 50 million views on YouTube.
I’m definitely going to have to watch the “Making of the Video” for this one - must have been a physics geek’s dream.
I could try and get more legitimate mural work, but scaling a drainpipe is still probably a lot easier than getting an original idea past a committee.
— Banksy (via dpstyles) 1 week ago.
I completely missed Black History Month.
1 week ago.‘This is a movie of a super-cool “painting” hanging in the basement of the British Library, in London. The author has done many such paintings, but this is the best (and all the others are very similar). It’s called “Paradoxymoron”, by Patrick Hughes’ (via Flickr)
1 week ago.
