A whole new year of disappointments awaits us.
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Some presidents are better than others. Theodore Roosevelt riding a moose.
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“I came here in the early ’60s,” recalls Roger Porter, food critic and professor of English. “I asked someone what Portland was like, and he said, ‘It’s the kind of town where if you ask for a bottle of wine by name, they think you’re a homo.’ “
The Internet as seen from the Post Office Research Station in 1969
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Our car was broken into this morning. A suitcase containing 95% of my zine collection along with my button maker, one inch die cutter, a bunch of OKBB merchandise, a ton of art supplies for zine making and my incredible rubber band ball were stolen. I am sure the thief is super bummed out by this score. I am super bummed out too because I shouldn’t have left a full suitcase in the back of our car. We never leave stuff in our vehicle, but I got lazy. I was tired after packing up my stuff at the studio and I was too lazy to haul the 50 pound suitcase up our stairs. I still had to do laundry and pack for my trip to Chicago the next morning. The suitcase would be fine. Right? WRONG.
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Scania Family Organized Neatly
ed: I’ve been drafted to contribute to another great Tumblr, JustTrucks.
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For my son.
“People think focus means saying yes to the thing you’ve got to focus on. But that’s not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully. I’m actually as proud of the things we haven’t done as the things I have done. Innovation is saying no to 1,000 things.”
—Steve Jobs
Cartoon by Saul Steinberg.
Simone Weil
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Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
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If there’s anything I never learned in art school that I think is really important it’s the importance of having “alien eyeballs.” You really have to look at everything with a, like almost inhuman eyes. You have to give it the coldest, harshest, unforgiving scrutiny you can possibly muster up and not allow yourself to come away with any opinion at all, other than what you’re honestly responding to.
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Our relationship to the machines of our trade can be surprisingly emotional. That was one of the take-aways from Linotype: The Film which was screened at Portland’s Kennedy School theater last night. The feature-length documentary, by designer and filmmaker, Doug Wilson, takes us into the world of mechanized typesetting enthusiasts and the object of their devotion: the Linotype machine.
A documentary about typesetting history could have been a dull assembly of process and mechanics. But this was not dull (it did provide tremendous clarity to my fuzzy understanding of how Linotypes worked though) in fact, it had us laughing throughout. The filmmakers captured the stories of the Linotype operators, the passion, and the relationships with their now obsolete machines. For 70 years, Linotype operators were highly skilled craftsmen, essential to the production of busy printing operations. But, by the late 1970’s the machines were rendered obsolete by new technologies and most of the machines ended up in scrap yards. That sense of loss is transmitted fully through this film along with the joy and pride the operators feel about their machines. The ability to create an environment that allows us to feel what the Linotype operators feel about those machines is Linotype: The Film’s real achievement.
Julie Lasky
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The designer who creates strategies and systems rather than products — as more and more designers do — is working in a medium of pure intelligence.
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Robert Hughes, The Shock of the New
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‘The basic project of art is always to make the world whole and comprehensible, to restore it to us in all its glory and its occasional nastiness, not through argument but through feeling, and then to close the gap between you and everything that is not you, and in this way pass from feeling to meaning. It’s not something that committees can do. It’s not a task achieved by groups or by movements. It’s done by individuals, each person mediating in some way between a sense of history and an experience of the world.’
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