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Jul 26
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Roger, we’re a couple of kids from the Midwest. We don’t belong here.
Gene Siskel to Roger Ebert in the Tonight Show dressing room
Jul 25
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Rush Playing “Tom Sawyer” on Rock Band (via)

Rock Band costs $200 — the same amount of money it cost to buy my first crap guitar and amp.

Jul 24
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some serious studio porn of grizzly bear recording (via)
some serious studio porn of grizzly bear recording (via)
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Amazon.com: Live In Santa Monica ‘72:  David Bowie

This set is simply amazing. I’ve been listening to it all week.  

BONUS: This is the show that the excellent VU “I’m Waiting For The Man” cover on the Almost Famous soundtrack comes from…

Amazon.com: Live In Santa Monica ‘72: David Bowie

This set is simply amazing. I’ve been listening to it all week.

BONUS: This is the show that the excellent VU “I’m Waiting For The Man” cover on the Almost Famous soundtrack comes from…

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“Marks and Meaning is a work in progress; an evolving exploration of visual language, visual thinking and visual work practices by the founder and Chairman of XPLANE, the visual thinking company. An unfinished work, it’s a hybrid: part sketchbook, part textbook, part workbook, and continuously updated by the author, based on feedback and conversations with readers. This is version zero: the first version available to the public.”

$25 on Lulu. I dig the idea of making the rough draft of a book available before it’s finished. 

Great cover, too.

“Marks and Meaning is a work in progress; an evolving exploration of visual language, visual thinking and visual work practices by the founder and Chairman of XPLANE, the visual thinking company. An unfinished work, it’s a hybrid: part sketchbook, part textbook, part workbook, and continuously updated by the author, based on feedback and conversations with readers. This is version zero: the first version available to the public.”

$25 on Lulu. I dig the idea of making the rough draft of a book available before it’s finished.

Great cover, too.

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Book By Its Cover » Traditional Jewish Papercuts

“The patterns alone are really amazing and intricate but the animals integrated into them are my favorite part. Sometimes they are really naively drawn- almost like blobs with legs or children’s drawings. I was reading in this book that a lot of the paper cutters were not good at drawing so they would make tracings from books and make cardboard cut outs from those and the more they transfered the drawing, the more distorted they got….”

Book By Its Cover » Traditional Jewish Papercuts

“The patterns alone are really amazing and intricate but the animals integrated into them are my favorite part. Sometimes they are really naively drawn- almost like blobs with legs or children’s drawings. I was reading in this book that a lot of the paper cutters were not good at drawing so they would make tracings from books and make cardboard cut outs from those and the more they transfered the drawing, the more distorted they got….”

Jul 22
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“How To Draw Marlys” by Lynda Barry
“How To Draw Marlys” by Lynda Barry
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A picture used to be a sum of additions. In my case a picture is a sum of destructions.
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Jaime Hernandez talks about his comic book series “Love & Rockets.” (via)
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Jul 21
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the project continues. this one was harder than the previous two…

deathtogutenberg.muxtape.com

the project continues. this one was harder than the previous two…

deathtogutenberg.muxtape.com