our faces split the coast in half

"Honestly, that should be illegal"

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 22:57:56 -0500

“Honestly, that should be illegal”

- Christina, on me being in class the night before Thanksgiving

I know everyone’s been posting a little bit of Florence...

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:20:16 -0500

I know everyone’s been posting a little bit of Florence these days and The Xx remix has been all over the place, but I really love this song.

“Sometimes I feel like saying ‘Lord I just don’t care’
But you’ve got the love I need To see me through”

I couldn’t help myself :DI JUST WANT TO DANCE (like her).

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:54:05 -0500

I couldn’t help myself :D
I JUST WANT TO DANCE (like her).

soo, despite not being able to understand about 99.8% of this...

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:48:53 -0500

soo, despite not being able to understand about 99.8% of this song, I’m posting to give 2ne1 a shout-out for being a fucking fantastic guilty pleasure.

inothernews: Phillipine president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo came...

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 02:58:57 -0500

inothernews:

Phillipine president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo came thisclose to a great photo op with president Obama, eh?

(Photo of Asian leaders with U.S. President Barack Obama at the Association of South-East Asian Nations [ASEAN] summit in Singapore by Mandel Ngan - AFP-Getty via the Times of London)

j-p-g: Welcome to Suburbia (via stephanie.keating)

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 02:19:19 -0500

j-p-g:

Welcome to Suburbia (via stephanie.keating)

The average person tells 4 lies a day, that's 1460 a year. A total of 88,000 by the age of 6. And the most common is "I'm fine."

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 04:19:00 -0500

Helvetica in movie posters

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 20:26:00 -0500

Helvetica in movie posters:

youmightfindyourself:

Used mostly for signage and advertising since it’s creation in 1957, Helvetica was rarely used on movie posters in the past (though I welcome exceptions to that rule) because it just wasn’t seen as expressive enough. As Dutch graphic designer Wim Crouwel says in Gary Hustwit’s excellent 2007 documentary on the subject: “We were impressed by [Helvetica] because it was more neutral, and neutralism was a word that we loved. It should be neutral. It shouldn’t have a meaning in itself. The meaning is in the content of the text and not in the typeface.” Movie poster titles on the other hand are usually trying to convey an awful lot of information through lettering.

in the ’00s, and just in time for its 50th anniversary, the straight man of typography has seen a huge resurgence in popularity and hipness. The use—if not overuse—of Helvetica in movie posters in recent years can perhaps be traced back to the posters for Hard Candy (2005) and Little Miss Sunshine (2006). A horror movie and a quirky comedy: two genres usually delineated by very specific styles of title treatment: something distressed and ominous for horror, something wacky and jaunty for comedy. That these two posters matched their striking visuals with something as undemonstrative as Helvetica is a testament not just to their designers’ faith in the strength of their images but also to the fact that they were saying that these films aren’t your usual family comedy, not your mother’s horror movie. Helvetica was a quirky choice by virtue of being not at all quirky.

Two of my favorite posters of recent years, those for Margot at the Wedding (2007) and Funny Games U.S. (2008) both used versions of Helvetica to great effect. Margot used a stylish Neue Helvetica Thin in pink, with the actors’ names in the same size and type as the title, while Funny Games uses an unusually small point size for a movie poster title to great effect.

This year more than ever I feel as if I’ve been seeing Helvetica on movie posters wherever I turn: on Zac Efron and Typer Perry comedies, where it doesn’t really serve any particular purpose:

…on biographical documentaries where it seems to be being ironically unexpressive about it’s subject (after all, wouldn’t you expect at least the name “Valentino” to be written with lovely dramatic flourishes?):

…used in enormous point size to declaim the five-letter name titles of two of the most memorable (and not at all low-key) characters of the year:

…and used beautifully on two of the most striking designs of the year:

I swear Helvetica & Helvetica Neue were what began my love affair with typography. Clean, sophisticated and simple. What more could you ask for in a typeface?

Has anyone else seen these? I can’t wait til I can snag...

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:10:00 -0500

Has anyone else seen these? I can’t wait til I can snag myself a pair of these babies. Thank you TOMS, for making anything possible!

Peace before everythingGod before anythingLove before...

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 04:42:46 -0500

Peace before everything
God before anything
Love before anything
Real before everything
Home before anyplace
Shoot before anything
Style and state radiate
Love power slay the hate

Mighty, mighty Mos!

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 04:40:12 -0500

Mighty, mighty Mos!

Jlew & ZooeyD, I can’t think of a better pair!

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 01:04:49 -0500

Jlew & ZooeyD, I can’t think of a better pair!

Lauryn Hill- Selah seriously, Ms. Hill always speaks to the soul

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 01:54:23 -0500

Lauryn Hill- Selah

seriously, Ms. Hill always speaks to the soul

Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:52:12 -0500

Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco

Polaroid film is coming back

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:48:00 -0500

Polaroid film is coming back:

Eighteen months after Polaroid Corp. said it was halting sales of its instant film, one of Massachusetts’ most famous products may be coming back to life.

absolutely delightful!

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:02:51 -0500

absolutely delightful!

animinimalism: lynrei: gorgeous! OMG, YES! I love this!

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 05:53:12 -0500

animinimalism:

lynrei:

gorgeous!

OMG, YES!

I love this!

lynrei: animinimalism: Exclusive First Listen: Norah...

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 02:49:58 -0500

lynrei:

animinimalism:

Exclusive First Listen: Norah Jones : NPR

November 2, 2009 from WXPN - It’s best to disregard much of the pre-release attention surrounding Norah Jones’ new album, The Fall.

Yes, the album was recorded with a new band of well-known session musicians. Drummer Joey Waronker has worked with Beck and R.E.M. Guitarists Marc Ribot and Smokey Hormel have performed on records by Tom Waits, Elvis Costello, Johnny Cash and Joe Strummer. Keyboardist James Poyser has contributed to records by Erykah Badu, Al Green and Common, and is a member of The Roots’ house band on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon. Legendary R&B drummer James Gadson — who’s performed on studio sessions with Bill Withers, Quincy Jones and Herbie Hancock — lends additional work.

Read the full story here.

lynrei: animinimalism: I like all the elevated bed and all...

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 02:49:29 -0500

lynrei:

animinimalism:

I like all the elevated bed and all those mirrors.

i find this all to be very romantic.

"I’m not an atheist. I don’t think I can call myself a pantheist. The problem involved is..."

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 22:10:30 -0500

“I’m not an atheist. I don’t think I can call myself a pantheist. The problem involved is too vast for our limited minds. We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many languages. The child knows someone must have written those books. It does not know how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. The child dimly suspects a mysterious order in the arrangement of the books but doesn’t know what it is. That, it seems to me, is the attitude of even the most intelligent human being toward God. We see the universe marvelously arranged and obeying certain laws but only dimly understand these laws.”

- Albert Einstein