the most amazing graph I ever saw

I'm not an information designer. Don't have the stamina for it. But when I see this gorgeous image it makes me want to display all sorts of gibberish ridiculous and obscene information in beautiful graphs like these. CLICK!

rip off?

This beautiful though bitter poster campaign for amnesty looks familiar... I just found it here. These people make good work. The Red Cross campaign is identical though better I think. Don't know who was first. I like them both. Very Jeff Wall-ish. Very trendy. Don't know if the impact is as big as the agencies are pretending with their environmental semi 3d solutions. It's nice for their portfolio though and it does make one wonder I guess.

Battersea Power Station

Battersea Powerstation is the factory used for the cover of Pink Floyd's album ANIMALS. Beautiful intimidating building. Stalin would be proud. Looks like a 19th century castle.

what do we call ourselves now

Interesting article by Steven Heller in eye magazine about the title graphic designer.

It seems designers use this title less and less. And there's definitely no consensus on an alternative.

nice quote

The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs.

There's also a negative side.

Hunter S. Thompson

curious piece of writing here... good though. The doctor would be proud.

Devil Ascends to Heaven to Battle the Almighty

Hunter S. Thompson, the so-called 'gonzo journalist' known for his immoral advocacy of drugs, wild uninhibited sex and gunplay, has used his dupes in the amoral, secular humanist liberal Hollywood to blast his way to heaven to fight God to the death.



His Hollywood moral relativists built a huge Tower of Babel on Thompson's ranch, topped with Thompson's favoured false idol of evil: the double-thumbed red hand, pictured below.



Built by Johnny Depp, a famous actor known for his portrayal of characters unable to prevent their own excesses and moral decay, the tower of hate blew Thompson's remains into the sky from a 150 ft vantage point.



"He'll never make it," predicted brother Iguana, an expert on liberal entertainment cults. "Heaven is infinite, and these evil cult instruments from science can't ever project him far enough to reach the blinding light of infinite truth. Dust in the wind. All he is is dust in the wind."



"People downwind will need to be exorcised," he added. "That's costly, but my ministry can help."



But what if he did make it to the Almighty?



"My money is on God", says Iguana. "He's got the most righteous uppercut of them all, and you never know where he's coming from. One moment he's jabbing right, and the next, he's a southpaw. God can do that, you know. He's all powerful. And he knows kung fu."



Yes, Thompson, for all his highly concentrated evil, is expected to lose, joining the ranks of other failed would-be usurpers of all-that-is-right-and-good such as Elvis Presley, John Lennon and Peter Jennings.



Jud McCloud is The Wingnuterer's writer-at-large.

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beautiful mathematical patterns

Ravensburg Madonna of Mercy

Michaël Erhart

1480's

Painted limewood, height 135 cm

Staatliche Museen, Berlin

http://www.interestingideas.com/roadside/roadside.htm

http://www.luckymojo.com/stonehenge.html

http://www.eccentricamerica.com/links.htm

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the paranoia of Hunter Thompson?

http://www.indybay.org/olduploads/hunter_thompson_aug29_2002.mp3

chris ware animation

A preview of a segment from Showtime's upcoming This American Life show, animated by Chris Ware!

cool

Second Life Gemeente Zoetermeer

Plato's Cave

great writer, great interview, great magazine, great site.....

http://www.believermag.com/issues/200510/?read=interview_moore

and a new wilco album!

http://www.wilcoworld.net



It's name: Sky Blue Sky.



I'll share my opinion after the concert. May 31 st in paradiso, Amsterdam.

and a new novel aswell!

Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey Out May 1st, 2007

Official description from RandomHouse:

Rant

takes the form of a (fictional) oral history of Buster "Rant" Casey, in which an assortment of friends, enemies, admirers, detractors, and relations have their say on this evil character, who may or may not be the most efficient serial killer of our time.

Buster Casey

was every small kid born in a small town, searching for real thrills in a world of video games and action/adventure movies. The high school rebel who always wins (and a childhood murderer?), Rant Casey escapes from his hometown of Middleton for the big city and becomes the leader of an urban demolition derby called Party Crashing, where on designated nights, the participants recognize each other by dressing their cars with tin-can tails, "Just Married" toothpaste graffiti, and other refuse, then look for designated markings in order to stalk and crash into each other. It's in this violent, late-night hunting game that Casey meets three friends. And after his spectacular death, these friends gather the testimony needed to build an oral history of his short life. Their collected anecdotes explore the charges that his saliva infected hundreds and caused a silent, urban plague of rabies....

Expect

hilarity and horror, and blazing insight into the desperate and surreal contemporary human condition as only Chuck Palahniuk can deliver it. He's the postmillennial Jonathan Swift, the visionary to watch to learn what's —uh-oh—coming next. http://www.chuckpalahniuk.net/books/rant/

Another Chuck Palahniuk novel "filmographed"

Palahniuk Films In Development

Invisible Monsters

Chuck’s third novel, and a favorite among many of his diehard fans, is Invisible Monsters, the story of Shannon, a disfigured ex-fashion model traveling in a car with Brand Alexander, a transgendered exhibitionist one surgery away from becoming a “real” woman. Despite this unorthodox storyline, Invisible Monsters very quickly entered some sort of production phase in 2001 when it was optioned by young filmmaker Jesse Peyronel. Turning over a scripted draft that both Chuck and his agent, Edward Hibbert, were very pleased with, Jesse very quickly got to work trying to find funding for the film via Miramax Films. Parker Posey was tentatively on board to play Shannon, and things were moving. Then the inevitable drop in news happened.

In 2002, Jesse resurfaced on our radar again and re-optioned the script to give funding another go. But again, nothing seemed to come of it and the closest story we had to go off for any production future for Invisible Monsters was a UK based company that was interested in doing a live animated featured of the film.

Most recently, the word around the campfire is that the film is on the move again with rising star Jessica Biel being touted for the female lead, and such names as Val Kilmer and Bill Crudup being mentioned for male leading and supporting roles.

No confirmation if the person behind this latest effort on Invisible Monsters is indeed, still Jesse Peyronel. So until we hear more, catch up on the production’s history with the below links.

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william Kennedy - Ironweed

Truman Capote - In Cold Blood