Category: words

  • darksilenceinsuburbia: Ian Coyle Via http://www.mymodernmet.com/ Back in the summer of 2009, Portland, Oregon-based designer and creative director Ian Coyle decided that he would print a daily thought for 73 days straight. Using his 1950’s letterpress, he printed and inked by hand these messages that seem to take on new meaning as we begin this new…

  • http://vimeo.com/34729381 We are hosting a node of the Global Game Jam. We are very excited! (Source: http://vimeo.com/)

  • Antielitism Left and Right

    lareviewofbooks: Image © Paul Bausch onfocus.com One of the most intriguing and valuable books I’ve read in 2011 was Catherine Liu’s American Idyll: Academic Antielitism as Cultural Critique (University of Iowa Press). We have billionaire antielitists, tenured antielitists, rightwing nutjob antielitists, leftwing wacko antielitists, famous artist antielitists, multi-platinum antielitists, and Congressional antielitists, and Liu wants…

  • The man who says it can’t be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it. Elbert Hubbard (via sevensheaven)

  • Something that is often overlooked with creatives is time management and getting shit done. You can be the most talented designer in the world but if you don’t follow through and get stuff out there, it doesn’t matter… ‘Done is better than perfect.’ That doesn’t mean making crap – I believe you should always strive…

  • You come to grips with the fact that writing something that sucks is better than writing nothing at all. If you write something and it sucks, then good for you. Not all explorers discovered lost golden cities and trade routes to the mysterious East. Some of them died in a ditch. A lot of them…

  • The students who come out of school without jobs aren’t, for the most part, starry-eyed liberal arts majors but rather people who thought a degree in business, graphic design or nursing was a practical, job-oriented credential. How Art History Majors Power the U.S. Economy: Virginia Postrel – Bloomberg via Tower of Sleep

  • nevver: Type club

  • I am not a policy maker and have no desire to be one. I am not running for office and would never be elected were I to. I have no designs on becoming a lobbyist. I am a father, a ‘husband’, an actor and a citizen of this country and planet who flippantly expressed on…