Hey to the one or two people who might read this: sorry for the long absence. Patrick kicked me some traffic after linking a German forklift training video I had sent him.
Otherwise, the last couple months have been composed of classes, work, and lots of panic over my fate post-iSchool. I’ve been looking at [...]
Most people in my life have heard me go on about how great the typographical exclamation point/question mark combo would be (I know you can just do this: ?!, but doesn’t a rhetorical question/statement deserve so much more ?!) . Years ago, I had done a little hunting around, and discovered that this ingenious mark [...]
On the mend from being ill for a few days. If you ever make a strong association between a medicine you’re taking and poison, trust your instincts, you might be having an allergic reaction.
I’m hanging at Spiderhouse for a bit, waiting for the noon tour of the Museum of Ephemerata. I’ve been wanting [...]
I happened across this site a couple years ago, and thought of it again today when I was painfully bored of everything else: Dark Passage. I highly recommend “hospital hopscotch” and reading all the way through “The Hospital of Seven Teeth” for a truly creepy experience.
When you get to the end, learn more about [...]
When discussing the movie Fahrenheit 9/11 with my sister today, debating the term “documentary” (I get the impression that this is happening a lot right now, although with my lack of television I’ve been out of the loop), my sister mentioned that she had recently read a list of suspicious elements in the Nick Berg [...]
My friend Lisa is better at keeping up with her blog, of which I am sometimes a part.
As she mentioned, we went to the Ray Johnson documentary “How to Draw a Bunny” at the Alamo downtown. Favorite moments left out of her list are the difficulties in purchasing a work from Johnson. RJ encouraged [...]
I went downtown to the Austin Museum of Art to check out the Lance Letscher exhibition. I have always appreciated collage work, I love the depth achieved by layering different elements. Letscher’s work is really striking: delicately beautiful and also brightly rhythmic.
As others have commented, Letscher’s use of old printed materials provide a kind [...]
