Democracy in America: Brian Holmes from Creative Time on Vimeo..
I’ve been waiting for someone from my activist past to say something about all this. Thanks Brian… via Memefest. Full text available here.
Slovenian hillside (near Koper)
Cat and I are currently across the pond on a much needed 3 week vacation! We’ve already hit Paris and London very briefly and are currently enjoying some downtime with Oliver and Vida in beautiful Ljubljana.
Some photos from Paris and London. More from Ljubljana, Venice and Vienna to come…
= something actually interesting in design discourse
LOKi design/Four Minutes to Midnight/me have been featured in issue #3 of Snap Magazine, which was launched last night. Snap is a free Montreal lifestyle/culture mag that showcases creative, eclectic, local content. My friend Erica Ruth Kelly conducted the interview, in which we talk briefly about design and the genesis of FMTM. The interview features a nice selection of my work, and a “portrait” photo shot by Xavier Tolentino at the Cossette offices is tucked away on page 53. All around good stuff…
You can pick up a copy at cafés and stores around town or check out the issue online here. Many thanks to Erica and the girls at Snap for the feature!
“We’ve been choosing more and more and creating less and less for some time now, but I am just catching on that in becoming a society of choosers rather than of creators, we a rebecoming a society of people who take the passive role: the traditionally female role. Increasingly, we’re leaving the driving to others. We are leaving the fine, feathered display, the “choose me to be your mate” role, the traditionally male role, to the corporations that purvey products. It’s like the old sex dance of penguins or cockatoos, and we are the quiet one, the silent one, the female one, and the producer is the showy one, the one who offers, the male one. What will happen as we—both men and women—shift from expressing ourselves individually by making things into expressing ourselves only by choosing? What will happen to us as a culture when we have been completely conditioned only to choose between options, rather than come up with solutions?”
I just stumbled upon Wordle, a java-based word cloud generator. Though the interface/visual design could use some tweaking, and the typeface selection is a little restrictive (dare I say, cheesy…), it still produces some interesting, and at times beautiful, results. More importantly, it’s a lot of fun to play with and an addictive little time-waster for the typographically-inclined.
