Urban Honking

Unearthed outside of the city of Sano in Tochigi-ken, this portrait photography series documents Japan as it engaged with modernization and commercial photography in the Meiji and Taishō Periods. This post marks the Tokyo opening of the Meeting Modernity Exhibition.Details: MEETING MODERNITYOPENING: A Night of NéojaponismeA night of presentations, discourse, music, and booze.DATE: 31st of […]

Today I am here to talk to you about germs. What are germs? Where do they come from? Where do they go when you wipe them away with disinfectant and/or bleach? The answer is hard to discover, so we must turn to Science. Science says that germs are tiny bugs that you can’t see, and […]

Here’s ADR Podcast #7 for download, some space disco re-edits that get kraut punked. mp3 Subscribe via iTunes Space Pirates Across A Scarlet Night: Mix by E*Rock 00:00 – Harry Nilsson “Gotta Get Up (E*Rock Edit)” 03:30 – Carly Simon “Why” 06:00 – Os Mutantes “A Minha Menina (E*Rock Edit)” 11:30 – Higamos Higomos “Infinity […]

But this Times mag joint is as profound an objective yet intimate piece as I’ve read in mainstream media about being a woman in the workplace: “The Place of Women on the Court.” Q&A with Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Supreme Court Justice.

During the first spring of her stay at SeaWorld, J. J. was always found floating off to one side of her pool, and caretakers feared that she was perhaps suffering from boredom and depression. It soon dawned on them, however, that she was facing north, the direction of the gray’s spring migration. Subsequent necropsies on […]

Cooper Black Swash Italic, now available on MyFonts. — plazm blog has moved to http://blog.plazm.com — — plazm design studio: www.plazm.com — — plazm magazine & blog are now published by new oregon arts & letters: www.neworegon.org —

InCUBATE lists a weekly soup delivery program in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Saturday Soup as one of their inspirations. It’s somewhat humorous to me that the final post on the Saturday Soup program talks about the demise of this project. On the other hand, I think that having access to information about Sara’s soup challenges is […]

Here are scans of the Sunday Soup User Guide created for InCUBATE by Hideous Beast.It’s meant to be printed double sided and then quarter folded.Charlie of HB says that printable PDF format images can be found at:issuu.com/chillrock/docs/sunday_soup Labels: FieldTest, STOCK

I have been thinking about Hideous Beast’s project Field Test, a project wherein Josh and Charlie attempt to re-create other artists’ projects and then make public the documentation of their results. It reminds me of the work I did as an Americorps Volunteer at Caldera – trying to develop and document systems for use by […]

Pedestal time… . Sometimes we need to call out the folks practicing around us that do lame shit. Problem #1: Punctuation and grammar. Why doesn’t “the establishment” take graphic design seriously? Because graphic designers have no sense of the mechanics of language. One cannot poke fun at another if one cannot use punctuation properly.  *Note: […]