As we moved out of the farmlands into the grid, the plan of a city was all that you saw

Awesome site overhaul of Touching Harms The Art. It looked great before, and now it looks even better. The NYT/New Yorker convergence post is nice — here is my THTA grids ‘n’ edges reply.

Title credit: Liz Phair, Stratford-On-Guy

And it’s also true that I lost the map

Literary City Map via Strange Maps

Strange Maps keeps earning it’s 12 million hits. Great great things.

Title credit: Liz Phair, Divorce Song

Wait at the laundromat and read a magazine…

Back to school means metaphorical closet cleaning… Here are some links

This is helpful for an overall digital system reorganization- the numbering seems a little hard to find things by keyword… but otherwise nice and clean – yay Chris Griffin!

GD Forum has a few ideas. For project-based physical notes/ephemera I use clear letter-sized poly envelopes, and the transfer them to a client’s file folder when the project is finished. Still trying to figure out structures for digital filing.

Right now I use

_Local Design Work

and each client gets their own subfolder

_LocalDesignWork/local.client/

and then projects

_LocalDesignWork/local.client/projectA/

And you can see how this gets unwieldy. Quickly.

Anyone have any tips they want to share?

Title credit: Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, White Corolla

I want my MTV

Canadiana for one of my favourite Americanos…

Happy Birthday Hungry Detective! 25 Years ago today, Muchmusic (huh?) went on the air. You were 13. And if you had been further north, this would have been a very exciting way to spend your birthday (24 hours of music! CanCon! Veejays who say Eh!)…

See that sign behind them?

It’s gone now, despite the outcries of 8000+ fbook fans:

Title credit: Dire Straits, Money for Nothing (the sweatband CG will blow your mind!)

I seen pretty people disappear like smoke. Friends will arrive, friends will disappear…

I have been posting in an awfully negative way, lately. Time to reread Franny & Zooey and humble myself, again, again.

Some positivisms, to get me through my distraction spell:

-I found my thesis starting point on Sunday and photographed the hell out of it. Probably won’t use those images (abandoned buildings… so so done) but seeing that font, that Labelon sign above the door, made me chest skip a few. I’m a scavenger at heart.

- a friend of mine recently sold a book of his to the Library of Congress — pretty cool and a way bigger deal than he and his brilliant wife (who is also making her mark all over the map) are makin it out to be…oh, modesty. Will post links and stuff once it is official, or at least announced on his online message board.

- the Monroe branch of the library has Dexter AND Mad Men on dvd! AND 32 Short Films About Glenn Gould… bring on the summertime lazy movie watchin…

- afterimage 37.1 is *almost* done. And I’m sneaking in some new design stuff… we’ll see if it lasts the proofing stage…

See? I don’t have to stomp all over everything I find.

‘If you want me, honey baby,
I’ll be here.’

(been stuck in my head since Sunday)

Title credit: Bob Dylan, Buckets of Rain

We would sooner be kicked than go unnoticed

I’m glad that the Globe & Mail online readers don’t just flame out message boards with “great points!” “I agree completely” and “no wayz, ur a toool!”…but I’m kind of sad that the Globe & Mail ‘writers’ can get away with such things.

I only made it to the 1/4 point scroll-down on this board, and I’m happy to report that the conversations are, for the most part, well-formed, smart, and contrary, thankfully not just for the sake of being contrarian.

The responses were to Richard Florida’s (yes, the Rise of the Creative Class one trick-pony guy) blanket statements on the mosaic of Toronto, or rather, his 80% reblogging of this post by Will Wilkinson (which took me almost 7 minutes to find – and I can usually locate references in under 45 seconds) and his head-nodding agreement with Wilkinson.

Did Florida neglect to permalink the post on purpose? Afraid we might figure out that he only wrote 141 words of his front page article?

Oh wait… there *was* a citation:

“To read the whole text, please go to www.theweek.com.”

Thanks, Mr. Florida.

Last Monday, my friend lectured on the fall of print publications and the importance of online creative content and the new methods of gathering this material. Hopefully we don’t take any kind of cues from stodgy old School of Management directors and just rip off what we read. Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V are not creative tools.

Title credit: Glenn Gould, The Idea of North (1967) <— see? It’s not that hard.

And the sky was a woman’s arms

Whoa:
The street as platform – by Dan Hill

My head is buzzing…along with my street. More on that later.

Title credit: The Handsome Family, Giant of Illinois

At the Department of Forgotten Songs…

Since I missed Record Store Day…Here’s a post for Pinhole Day – April 26th

Making a pinhole Polaroid camera – via Photojojo

Title Credit: Jens Lekman, Department of Forgotten Songs

‘Cause I heard some song I used to hear back then

Screenshot from http://www.typographicposters.com/fabien-barral/

Just fell in love with this designer’s typo/graphic posters and clicked to see how much & where they are sold… and was sent here: http://www.harmonie-interieure.com/

which I blogged about in August, in the days leading up to the Polaroid show.

Small world. Interworld.

Title Credit: Peter, Bjorn and John, Objects of My Affection

It’s making me blue…

…Pantone 292

Why does this feel like a deja vu post? Have I dreamt about posting something like this? Oh god. Have I dreamt about blogging?

Title Credit: The Magnetic Fields, Reno Dakota