June 2011
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Illustration by Joon Mo Kang (Source: Stanford Literary Lab)
This article in the New York Times is interesting. The writer is a total pompous ass, but the guy trying to make literary language and plots mathematically quantifiable is perty cool.
It seems like people “feel funny” about the idea of approaching literature mathematically. To them, it’s a precious emotional zone of...
The Tangential: END BAD DESIGN: This Week - Mike... →
I’ve been doing a design column on The Tangential. Check it out.
thetangential:
Mike Davis, Burlesque of North America
Tell us a bit about who you are and the work you do:
I’m a graphic artist living in Minneapolis, MN. Along with my creative partner Wes Winship, I help run Burlesque of North America, a design and screenprinting studio. We design and print…
Why Aren't More Brands on Tumblr?
Note: I originally wrote this on the Zeus Jones blog.
I’m going to take a leap and say that Tumblr is “the next Facebook.” A blogging platform with a social element built in, Tumblr’s growth has been exponential. Last year, they were getting about 250 million pageviews a month. Now they get that many in a day. When looking at their activity on a chart, you can see they’re almost to the...
this is kinda how i got a job
For internets people who might not know me, i work as a creative/copywriter at a suh-weet marketing firm called Zeus Jones. When we hire people, we make them do a homework presentation. I did mine last summer, and I’ve been meaning to put it on Tumblr for almost a year. These are the least embarrassing slides.
“The best sort of delivery device “isn’t cognitively loading at all,” he says. “It uses colors, patterns, angles, speed—visual cues that don’t distract us but remind us.” This creates what Rose calls “enchantment.” Enchanted objects, he says, don’t register as gadgets or even as technology at all, but rather as friendly tools that beguile us into action. In short, they’re magical.
This...
Interesting Things I'm "Listed Under" on Twitter
funny-ass-bitches
relevancy (by cooldadbro, nonetheless)
the-pale-king-readers (nope)
irl
writerly-bookish
creativestrategy
people-whose-faces-ive-seen-and-or-touched
collected animals (for people who tweet about animal collective, i guess)
humans
beauty interview: janelle zara
read Kara Nesvig’s interview with super cutie pie Janelle Zara. I miss her.
myfakeyelashes:
Janelle Zara is living the dream life out in NYC. She writes for a bunch of publications, sometimes gets free YSL lipstick and hung out with Vera Wang. I’m jealous. Janelle is also one of the coolest, most wonderful and amazing chicks I know and I have been leaning on her petite (but super...
Best tweets of May
jaygabler:
“‘i hope you feel better. those holes are just creepy.’ - my dad at the art crawl after asking an artist about why her work is ‘so sad.’” (@leckybang, May 1)
“i skipped obama’s speech to go to the gas station & get celebratory nachos. #theamericanway” (@marieshea, May 1)
“Reading the mediocre poetry of others is like putting a friend’s smelly sweater when it’s cold. Comforting,...
