Inhabitants Of Velvet Delusion

Gonna Tell Me Where The Light Is

This Pose

For The Last Time

Carnaval 2008

Cheers, John Lester

Here's a guy who's accomplished an awful lot, at 24, as both a human being as well as a pitcher. More importantly, he's touched a lot of hearts with his courage and perseverance. And it couldn't have happened to a nicer, more genuine kid, which, in today's era, is beyond refreshing.

Rust Away

Seen It All Before

Fool To Cry

Effortless Abandon

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The Impermanence Of It All

David Sedaris' take on smoking in last week's New Yorker.
Photographer Armando Estrada.
A cool Sci-Fi Channel reel.
A brilliantly bizarre site dedicated to ginger beards.
Incredible typographic work by Yale MFA student.
An interesting photo blog.
The Godfather of American avant-garde cinema.

We Dance All Night

I've never seen a film better capture the magic of the artistic process than The Mother Project, a documentary on photographer Tierney Gearon. Much of this moving and intricate portrait centers on her schizophrenic mother and her children, the unconventional subjects of her beautiful photos, which stirred controversy and made headlines in 2001 with her exhibition "I Am a Camera" at the Saatchi Gallery in London.

A Place Away From The Snakes

I love the color scheme and layout of the Cannes Lions site. Louis Vuitton Journeys utilizes some of the best flash video integration I've seen. (Check out the Keith Richards profile and the beautiful photo of him by Annie Leibovitz!) And filmmaker Mike Mills' collection of short videos, design posters, and favorite links is sure to keep the graphic enthusiast stimulated for hours at a time.

Holy Fuck - "Lovely Allen"

Not only is "Holy Fuck" an epic band name, but their decidely lo-fi approach to indie/electonica is one of the most refreshing things I've heard in a long time.

They Gone

Resisting Cooperation With The Mundane Gloom

Notes For a Film Noir Script I Will Never Get Around To Writing

To Take The Black Out Of The Storm Clouds

Between 1997-2001 Radiohead's "OK Computer" was literally the soundtrack to my life. Every story I wrote and every image I created was influenced by this classic. The artwork for "OK Computer," by Stanley Donwood, was also my initial foray into graphic design, and perhaps the single biggest reason why I enrolled in art school when contemplating a post-graduate degree. Of course nothing remains sacred forever, and for the past several years I've ventured far beyond the band's influence, to the point where it's been ages since I dusted it off for a listen. (Even when I saw Radiohead two summers ago in Berkeley the luster was gone.) However, re-discovering the graphic elements of this seminal album a few hours ago was quite thrilling, particularly seeing it all in one place: the front and back cover, the inside sleeves, singles, various outtakes, and the DVD packaging for "Meeting People is Easy." The use of old transportation safety manuals and aggregate marketing charts from the 1950's - 1970's, the lo-fi type treatments that seem right out of David Carson's "The End of Print," the sociological critique that was the foundation of Chuck Palahniuk's brilliant novel "Choke" all are right there for the taking. From a design perspective, there's nothing better than when concept is matched by execution. During a period when the CD is being phased out as a medium, when brand collateral refers to official myspace pages, I would argue that this packaging treatment - which parallels or perhaps even exceeds the alienation of the 11 bittersweet songs - is the pinnacle of album cover art, something we may never see again.

And Away We Go

Malediction