December 2009
66 posts
“We’re so young in the city,
our bodies are young and pretty
And the...”
– We’re never coming home
“A lot of the people who read a bestselling novel, for example, do not read much...”
– The Economist - A world of hits (via tumbledore) (via syntheticpubes)
James Pants Curry King
“The dead guys won’t write more symphonies.”
– David Byrne: Art Funding or Arts Funding
FUCK YEAH VEGAN ARTISTS →
New project, complete with #veganpowercouple tags
Internet Archaeology Unearths Ancient Adult... →
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Gin, Television, and Social Surplus →
syntheticpubes:
I re-read this every few months and it always cheers me up. Perhaps social media isn’t to blame for a lack of productivity—it’s just doing an effective job of soaking up our increasing number of idle hours. Those idle hours are probably a symptom of broader economic missteps in the face of globalization and its inherent upsets.
(I still like that 4chan hyperbole though.)
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Re: Tracy Flick
syntheticpubes:
mkhall:
There is certainly a problem with a glut of available creative material, and the overall quality may have even dropped somewhat. But I’d argue that those “old systems” have become so badly broken by the blockbuster mentality as to make it almost impossible for anything really interesting to come out of the machine. Based purely on “the system,” artists should all be...
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“Do what you will supposed outsiders of my soul
But don’t be so sure just...”
Client: “I would like you to incorporate my cats into the logo.”
Me: “Ok, I can add a cat illustration to the logo.”
Client: “No, I don’t want the cats illustrated.”
Me: “Should I set up a session with a professional photographer then?”
Client: “You can’t do that- they are both died ten years ago. I’ll send over some snapshots I took of them- just make them glow, sort of...
The client looked at the storyboard and said to the bearded copywriter, “seems to work fairly ok, but I’m not sure anyone in my commercial should have a beard. Normal people simply don’t have beards.”
“I’m mad… and that’s a fact
I found out… animals don’t help
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