random things I find interesting
From the monthly archives:
Funny that the Advertising Executive was #1 in the Top 50 Bulls**t Jobs over here. I had a past as an “Ad Exectutive” before I started Blacksuits Creative, so of course I have a few things to add to this. Ad Execs are really just dressed up Baby Sitters, Advertising Nanny’s. They [...]
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Interview with Laith Bahrani via Freelanceswitch.
Laith Bahrani is author of the popular Low Morale series, a talented and Hercules-esque freelancer. FreelanceSwitch had a chat with him about what it’s like to have Sony and MTV knocking at your door, and the perks and pitfalls of freelancing…full interview
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A painting by Banksy has sold for £288,000 at auction . Space Girl and Bird, which sold for 20 times its estimate, was commissioned by the band Blur for their Think Tank album cover. Full story at BBC
Relevant to this, there is this essay on the trend of underground art, collecting, and buying [...]
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Helvetica is a full-length documentary that investigates the deeper and subtle ways in which type affects our daily lives. The Helvetica font is the theme and it explores urban spaces with regards to the fonts that inhabit them, and also engages in discussions with world renowned designers about the aesthetics and rationale behind [...]
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Prison Uniforms, 2007
11×23 feet in six vertical panels
Depicts 2.3 million folded prison uniforms, equal to the number of Americans incarcerated in 2005.
Running The Numbers An American Self Portrait by Chris Jordan, is an impressive exhibit that uses images to illustrate statistics in American Society. Statistics can be boring, cold and the meaning can [...]
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