January 2009
34 posts
WatchAimee Mullins: Running on high-tech legs [ted]
My first flash
There’s a sweet thing about backups, we see how much useless trash we gather and we see we are getting old by looking at the date of the projects. This was my first lowsy atempt to do a flash animation back in 1999 for my first job at CCG. So this has something like 10 years, which is frightening.
Of course, It took me something like a few months to realise flash was not my thing and...
WatchPaula Scher: Great design is serious (not solemn)
The R disease - Type sickness#1
It was about time for me to reveal it to the world, the glyph I most hate in the world is the “R” from Arial. Nothing special about this, I guess he also hate me as much, but when I see excelent fonts like my old time favourite FF Kievit using the same flavour, I always have the tendency to make a new one on Fontlab. There, There, everything will be just fine.
“Intoxicação Gráfica”
– A intoxicação gráfica consiste em uma série de efeitos sintomáticos produzidos quando qualquer sob a influência de qualquer manifestação de design gráfico (imagem, tipografia ou website) causando vómitos e/ou enjôos. Normalmente é associada a designers que atingem a saturação e começam a ver a pesca...
CNET best of CES 2009 Awards
Check the 2009 CES awards from CNET. CES 2009: Palm Pre The Sony P-series Lifestyle PC Sony DSC-G3 camera The Wand: Nyko announces a high-tech Wii remote alternative TomTom reveals its first connected GPS HT-BD7200: 2.1 Blu-ray home theater from Samsung EchoStar SlingLoaded HD DVR 922 THX, Internet content grace Panasonic plasmas Samsung unveils P3 touch-screen MP3 player
WatchZu deserves your time. Italian free jazz, avant-garde, experimental stuff.
“….years pass. Etc.”
– Life Explained.
El Kyuss Paramo
El Paramo are a Spanish instrumental band that loves Kyuss even more that me. It’s mandatory for all the fans that are waiting for Kyuss reunion that will never happen, I guess this even better than a new kyuss album, just because it’s another band and we don’t have the tendency to compare, just enjoy. Really nice for all the stoner rock fans, nothing new, but bloody amazing. ...
DaveBeans.com - Loss and Recovery (FREE) E.P. →
David Beans is a twenty-four year old writer, composer and producer of music. Influenced by various acts including Sigur Ros, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, The Album Leaf, The Notwist among others, and composers such as Max Richter, Clint Mansell and Philip Glass, his music attempts to combine the emotion of ambience with classical structures allowed with modern technology. Download the full EP...
Music, Books & Podcasts 2008
Here’s my selection of what made me company during the past year. Alex
Music . Antony and the Johnsons - Antony and the Johnsons, The Lake (ep), I Am a Bird Now . Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles, Remixed Rewired . Fuck Buttons - Street Horrrsing . Max Richter - 24 Postcards In Full Colour, Memory House . Michael Nyman - Facing Goya, The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat . Philip Glass -...
“experience is what you get when you don’t get what you want”
“Music is life, and, like life, inextinguishable.”
– Carl Nielsen
Music Highlights '08
2008 was a strange year for my obsessions, design & type became work rather than joy and music shifted again as the fundamental fluid on my mind. I’ve decided to pick up 15 albuns that came out in 08 that i really enjoyed and revisted frequently. Soon I realized that I had to break them apart into 3 main style/genre so that I could get some order and coherence on it.
Besides metal,...