The One That Got Away

Heart­break­ingly beau­ti­ful pho­tos and sto­ries. The pre­vi­ous show­case, Local Fla­vor, is also *very* good. Just make sure lunch or din­ner is a few min­utes away, or else…

I Love Typography’s Google before you Tweet print. How long until some­one makes a t-​​shirt out of this?

Rin­con, Jan­u­ary 16^th, 2010, by Joe Curren.

69 Love Songs, Illustrated

A bunch of Brit illus­tra­tors, writ­ers and comic artists are doing what they do best, inspired by the lyrics of Mag­netic Fields’ 69 Love Songs.

File under: I’m def­i­nitely buy­ing this (if it gets approved, which I’m think­ing it will.)

Once you play James Bond, you can’t do musi­cals! Sean Con­nery would never do a musi­cal! [sings, in Con­nery voice:] ‘The hills are alive … with the sound of PUNCHING …’

~ Craig Fer­gu­son, on Pierce Brosnan’s star­ring in Mamma Mia!

Nah Right » Video: The Avon Barks­dale Story

Trailer for a new doc­u­men­tary on the real Avon Barks­dale. I’m curi­ous about this, since I’m just done with the sec­ond sea­son of The Wire. Should be good.

Fan­boy Super­cuts, Obses­sive Video Montages

At Waxy. Some are mes­mer­iz­ing (every “what?” from the LOST series), some are down­right funny (Sawyer’s nick­names, the one from Scrubs, LOST’s Hurley’s “dude”).

Shirt.Woot : The Binge. Ha. Might have to get it.

I’d feel frus­trated if we couldn’t release CDs as a band, but then, it only costs us a slight shav­ing of sound qual­ity to get to the con­ve­nience of the MP3. It’s like putting up with tape hiss on a cas­sette. I was happy using cas­settes when I was fif­teen, but I’m sure they were sneered at in their day by audio­philes. If I’m on a train, with head­phones, MP3s are great. At home, I pre­fer CD or vinyl, partly because they sound a lit­tle bet­ter in a quiet room and partly because they’re finite in length and sep­a­rate things, unlike the end­less days and days of music stored on my laptop.

I find this sound qual­ity stuff both fas­ci­nat­ing and ridicu­lous. It’s like the pixel res­o­lu­tion of dig­i­tal cam­eras: higher num­bers are bet­ter, but that dis­cus­sion always pushes the actual pho­tog­ra­phy to one side, somehow.

Radiohead’s Jonny Green­wwod, quoted on an inter­view by Sasha Frere-​​Jones on New York Times (via sub​trac​tion​.com.)