Update via Needles and Pens:
Feb. 13, 2008
The great hive of the internet is buzzing about over the Xerox on the Insides of Your Eyelids show, look onward: GSD’s blog over at Altamont, Roger Bridges’ Strange Beautiful, Bernie McGinn’s Of Skateboards + Copy Machines, Andy Jenkins’ Bend Press, and Epicly Trife
I touched on my love for the fading cassette format in an earlier post. Seems like Suck.UK shares that love and is doing something about it. Enter Mixtape USB:
Compilation tape USB drive - for home taping.
Remember back in the days before digital music players and MP3s?
If you do, then you probably made compilations of all your favourite music, to share with your friends and loved ones, on good old fashioned blank cassette tapes.
If you miss making mix tapes this product will inspire you again!
Home taping never killed music! —Suck UK
Though this repackaging of the USB zip drive doesn’t allow for audial manipulation, with it’s nostalgic TDK C-90 style, it certainly looks like it could feel kind of mixtape-ish . We’ll see how heavily customizable that jcard ends up being.
Gary Hustwit’s brilliant documentary tracing the origin, history and controversy surrounding the world’s most ubiquitous typeface is now available for pre-order.
I caught Helvetica’s first Portland screening at the PDX Film Fest back in April, and have been waiting for news of it’s DVD release ever since. If you haven’t had the chance to see Helvetica, I highly recommend keeping an eye out for future screenings and doing so before it leaves the screen.
In the event you miss it, the extras-heavy DVD release promises to be an engrossing experience of it’s own — especially the Deluxe edition which includes: the retail DVD, three letterpressed mini-posters, a color C-print of a still from the film (one of ten different stills) signed by director, two love/hate Helvetica buttons, and a letter of actual Helvetica metal type!
Limited to an edition of 1,000 copies. 999 actually, excluding my own…
Better get on it!
Helvetica: stills, video, blog, shop
Helvetica reviewed: Metropolis / Chicago Tribune / Design Observer
I deleted my JPG account due to the unethical treatment of it’s founders, Derek and Heather Powazek.
First-hand accounts from Derek and Heather
Flickr Group: I deleted my JPG Magazine
Digging for a link to the Ekstroem glacier audio in the previous post serendipidously landed me on the ABC.au home page where i found breaking news that a giant squid, measuring about six meters long, had just washed up on the west coast of Tasmania.
Full article: Giant squid washed up in Tasmania
It was only months ago that I stumbled upon a documentary about researchers eagerly tracking down mere footage of one in the depths of the North Pacific —cheering when they’d captured video of a blurred tentacle swiping at their surveilled bait.
And I thought the synchronicity of arriving at work the next day to find posts about this squid being found was weird…
Oh, and serendipidously really should be a word.
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