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Don’t go in the water.
Monday, July 26th, 2010U.F.O.
Thursday, July 15th, 2010
These images are proof that if the internets existed when we were younger to feed and confirm our suspicions and obsessions we’d be way more weird (or at least less prone to careful readings of the Guiness Book of World Records or Ripley’s Believe it or Not!) Found these at the most excellent weestraw.com.
Book Plates
Thursday, July 8th, 2010
Happy Birthday, America.
Thursday, July 1st, 2010
We just picked up this book, America, by David Cushman Coyle, published in 1941. Beautiful design.
No Words
Thursday, May 27th, 2010
Nobody
Monday, March 22nd, 2010Nobody is whoever comes into a room and it is
still empty.
Nobody is who is in a room when everybody goes
away.
Nobody is anybody so hard to see that you can’t
see him.
Nobody is whoever goes away so fast you can’t
see him and comes back the same way.
Nobody went upstairs and who came down?
Nobody.
Nobody is yourself when you feel like a nothing,
like a naught, like a cipher, like a zero, like the letter O.
Nobodies bother nobodies.
Carl Sandburg
Poems for Children Nowhere Near Old Enough to Vote
I LEGO N.Y.
Monday, March 15th, 2010
Such beauty and simplicity! This is what we aspire to as designers. Funny as hell too. We’ve blogged on Christoph Niemann’s work in the past. Now he’s released his I LEGO N.Y. series as a board book.
We feel.
Friday, December 4th, 2009
We have a huge soft spot for We Feel Fine. It has been collecting and aggregating emotions since 2005 which equals about 12 million feelings. The results are hilarious, heartrending and poignant. It’s as if a big tender net is cast into the air and we get to see what it catches. The We Feel Fine: An Almanac of Human Emotion is a best of compilation by the site’s creators Jonathan Harris and Sep Kamvar.
Ennui
Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009
Over the holiday weekend we went to the Edward Gorey Museum on Strawberry Lane in Yarmouthport. Dashiel, our 7-year-old, was all over the macabre treasure hunt. He had to find all 26 of Gashlycrumb Tinies and their most horrible fates. We got stuck on Neville and Dashiel wanted to know what is ennui anyway? His eyes went wide with the idea you could die of boredom. For real momma? For real?
ennui [ahn-wee, ahn-wee; Fr. ahn-nwee] noun a feeling of utter weariness and discontent resulting from satiety or lack of interest; boredom.
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind.
Thursday, October 8th, 2009| The Daily Show With Jon Stewart | Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c | |||
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William Kamkwamba, the subject of a great book by our friend, Bryan Mealer, was on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart! I know! Incredible. Inspiring.
