Archive for the ‘curiosities’ Category
Here’s a note to excuse my absence
I’m sorta here and please carry on without me
It’s Monday so I’m sitting in my work chair.
But honestly, I’m sorta still sketching tombstones in the peaceful, cool graveyard. And I’m sorta still walking Dayton’s bluff above the Mississippi thinking how little control we exert over this force of nature overflowing the boundaries we set.
I’m sorta still at the party commemorating an 83-year-old’s deeply human connections and I’m sorta still cycling through Northeast Minneapolis marveling at the fancy systemic alternative to internal combustion. I’m sorta still reclining in an armchair sorting through Robert Sokolowski’s argument for how little time we’ve spent exploring the notion of absence.
So—yes—I’m here.
Just put your post-it reminder on my forehead. And when I return I’ll send you that copy you wanted yesterday.
Or was it tomorrow?
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Image credit: Kirk Livingston
Submerged: Harriet Island
You shall not pass, Mississippi.
Well, not much further, anyway.
Strolling the levee with cops and other disaster-tourists.
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Image Credit: Kirk Livingston
I dare you to watch this entire video.
Just so.
Did you do it? I did.
And life on this side of the video is…astonishing.
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Via Kottke.org
Rock The Garden
Just another conversation in Minneapolis
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Image Credit: Kirk Livingston
Neville Brody: Making Space on a Page to Think
In the advertising business, it’s not in the interest of advertisers for people to think about what they’re presented with. It’s in the interest of advertisers that people choose to think in the way the advertisers intend them to. It’s a formulaic thing, where there’s only one possible outcome in advertising. That creates a space where the “right to thought” is taken away from people.
I’ve always tried to approach my work as being open-ended and with a degree of abstraction or ambiguity. This prevents it from being a monologue, because it is a dialogue. The work is only completed when a viewer has looked at it and made his or her own decision as to the full meaning of the piece.
From Debbie Millman’s, How To Think like a Great Graphic Designer (NY: Allworth Press, 2007) 72-3
Northern Spark 2014: Don’t Freak
Go, by all means. Just don’t freak out…
…at the…
weird stuff.
Northern Spark: June 14 9:01pm – 5:26am, Minneapolis
Worth every minute.
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Image Credit: Kirk Livingston
How simply can you say it?
Use Words As Necessary
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Image Credit: Kirk Livingston
conversation is an engine 