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HEATH ROBINSON IN WONDERLAND

Tuesday, July 13, 2010

BTW: This might as well be the funniest Rube Goldbergian children’s book of all times.

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DIGITAL ARCHAEOLOGY

Wednesday, June 9, 2010

While reading about Web visuals I came across this article from designer and critic Max Bruinsma, for Eye magazine, about The 1st International Browserday, a design student competition which took place in 1998, in Amsterdam, based on the concept of reinventing Netscape’s browser, from its roots to visuals.
The article features some of the 38 designs [...]

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FOR THE RECORD

Monday, April 5, 2010

Joshua Homme is this year’s Ambassador of Record Store Day (April 17); and he wants you to “discover your own theme music”… Cheers!

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Writing is fun

Sunday, March 21, 2010

Axe Cop is written by five year old Malachai and drawn by his adult bother Ethan. It is about cops and fruit and guns and babies and unicorns and the transfigurative power of biting.
Here.

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THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Again, it is Apple Macintosh that put goosebumps into my skin today. Because after having thought about the iPad not more then an hour or two, these guys made me do it again. The once punk-rock-on-silicium dream of being different whilst also knowing it turns out to lead into a blind alley of thoughts like I’m-nothing-without-a-soon-achieved-world-supremacy or [...]

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TATI x CHOMET

Saturday, February 27, 2010

The Illusionist is the latest animation from Sylvain Chomet, the man who directed The Triplets of Belleville. It premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival last week.
Some notes:
1. It is based on a screenplay that Jacques Tati wrote 54 years ago. The screenplay is believed to have been written as a message to the daughter [...]

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THE SOUND OF 2009

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

I have a nice ritual with some friends to compile your personal best-of CD at the end of the year. Not only does it assure you to have a great mix CD (remember those tapes, back in the days?), but it’s also a nice way of looking back. So here are some of the albums [...]

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PORN WORLD VS. REAL WORLD

Friday, January 15, 2010

Although TED might be known amongst most mono.blog participants, this is definitely worth another if not first visit.
Cindy Gallop (!) gives a lecture not only about porn vs. this thing called love but also introduces to her new web project Make Love Not Porn. It’s not that heard-a-thousand-times-and-999-times-even-better stuff but funny, plain and really real.
So, [...]

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A PICTURE NEEDS MEMORIES TO BE AN IMAGE

Saturday, January 9, 2010

While waiting in anticipation for the arrival of your 2010 mono.kalendar you might be tempted to have a look at the 2010 limited edition calendars at www.found-photographs.com. These calendars are made up of photographs that were either lost, forgotten or thrown away. The images are now nameless, without connection to the people that they show [...]

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BOOKS ON LINE

Friday, January 8, 2010

‘What is the future of the photo book?’ It’s a question everyone is asking in these dark days for print. Should they exist as luxury objects, beautiful behemoths to look at but not touch? Or cheap broadsheets, more The New York Times than The Americans? Or should they even be physical objects anymore – why [...]

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