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Archive for May, 2008
Bookmarks for May 30th
- The Astonishing Li Wei | PhotoShelter blog
amazing, beautiful, astonishing. all will do for this chinese photographer's work. go now. - Ex-Press Aide Writes That Bush Misled U.S. on Iraq - washingtonpost.com
Scott McClellan, the carrying water boy for GeeDub writes a scathing, finger pointing tell-all about how Bush mislead America and the world. i wish this shit were funny. - Big Trouble? McCain's top economic advisor is lobbyist and Vice Chairman for UBS Bank.
The story goes like this: former Sen. Phil Gramm advises McCain on economics and things like the subprime mortgage bailout policy. UBS was hit very badly by the current global credit crisis. UBS will go down unless the bailout goes through. Gramm is telling all UBS execs to stay out of the US for fear of persecution. This story is huge. - mediabistro.com: FishbowlNY
The New York Times is developing an api. don't sleep. this is huge. will the NYT be the first newspaper to jump into the online fray?
Found + Lost
“We must be the change we want to see” b/w “Fuck whoever wrote that”
The first quote (a bit mangled) from Mahatma Ghandi. I can’t quite figure out where the second quote is from, but i think i’ve heard it somewhere before.
Bookmarks for May 29th
- Shipping Container house Wellington NZ - a set on Flickr
flickr set of a shipping container house architected by Inhabitat, built in to the side of a hill in New Zealand. one of the first container houses I've liked. I especially like how the house hugs the rock and makes part of the house. rain and mud must be hell for the engineering side of it. - DestructoPorn: Chrysler Destroyed, Matthew Barney-Style
Matthew barney goes ape-shit on a Chrysler Imperial and some lukcy flickr user gets it all on flash card. The LA Times art critic hates it. - Meaningless Wench Liza Trotta Wishes for Obama Assassination…
just another example of how jacked the empire is, whose sun is surely/finally setting.
Bookmarks for May 27th
- SurfWatch | news from Second Life
you thought you had it dialed in on the surf blog scene, this guy has it dialed in for the burgeoning surf scene in Second Life, the massive multi-player online game. pretty interesting. - A Wedding/Earthquake in Sichuan
eery photos of a wedding in Sichuan just before and after the horrible earthquake that hit China last week. click through to the xanga profile to see more photos. - Feisty Stevens
pretty interesting Feist and Sufjan Stevens mashup track - YouTube - Ted Kennedy on Republicans and Minimum wage
in case you don't know. it's funny (and tragic), I have no idea why most poor white americans still insist on shoving their own heads up their collective asses by still voting for republicans. - The Cleanest Line: Video Highlights from the T-Shirt Art Show
great video mini-interviews with some of the artists who do art and tshirt designs for Patagonia. nice video
Field Notes
Stevey, the boys and cold cervezas. What was once dense semi-arid jungle is now the glorious mass of condominiums of poonta mita in the background.
I’m ink free, but I’ve been seriously considering a mexi ’stache tattoo as demo’d by the Tiger Distro Crew (examples: 1 + 2). Thanks for the linkage boys, keep the spirit alive.
We’re headed to LA on Wednesday. On the agenda is picking up a new tabla. I’m currently waffling on bunch of different shapes and sizes. but definitely looking for something to fill out the space in the quiver between the 6′0″ ATL shorty and 9′0″ San Miguel noserider. Something that works nice in 2-3 foot mush but can also perform at 6′ and higher. Anyone got any suggestions, please don’t hesitate to drop a comment or email. I’m digitally oogling the Junod pumpkin seeds and single fins, Mandala’s wingless quad and 2+1 stubbie, that Klaus Jones Hull and Andreini’s Vaquero. I’m 6′2″ at 180lbs and I usually like ‘em shorter. I’m also all about used boards so if anyone has any really nice ones in stock, I’m all ears, i’m casing Craigslist for anything good. I spy a 9′1″ Junod noserider, good price.
Speaking of, I stumbled across a photoset by Flickr user Eliel of Michel Junod in the shaping bay. nice glimpse.
I’ve been doubling down, in the qp lab, trying to push through the photo editing process. working on mystery project. anyone have any experience with professional photo book printing? like say china or italy? (not one-off services like blurb, etc…)
Surfline/stormsurf/wavewatch/wetsand et all, say that there is no surf. but i’ve been hearing whispers of head-high groundswell in both San Pancho and Quimixto. why am i still glued to this chair, however nice and bent plywoody it may be?
Ok, back to the lab….
Oh and anyone have any good info on Los Angeles area art galleries, shows, museums etc… happening over the next week or so? hit me up!
Maggie Marsek @ Shelter
Gentle reminder: all you SB/LA/OC/SD headz, Maggie Marsek’s show Deserts and Saltwater, Birds and Flowers, Sunsets and Silhouettes opens this coming weekend (with a party on Saturday the 31st) at Shelter Surf Shop in Long Beach Ca. Marcia and I will most certainly be there on Saturday, so tap me on the shoulder and say ‘hi’.
Maggie’s photography is definitely inspirational to me. I hope we see a lot more work from this talented lens(wo)men in the near future. Surf mag photo editors: I’m nodding in your direction. I’m calling it now: Maggie Marsek pwns baja.
Stevey + friends
Montreal soul brother Stevey B. and his crew of surf derelicts blessed us Nayaritenses* with their presence for two weeks in May. Staying up in a fatty old hacienda in the colinas above Sayulita, I caught up with the mosse for several sliding sessions. A big swell blew through town right before they arrived and I think they caught a session or two, but unfortunately for the rest of their stay, it just got redinkulously small. No worries, the boys rented longboards for the remainder of their trip and we had a nice Sayulita one-footer sesh on their last day. The style council was definitely in full effect.
The above pics are from a series of shots taken over two days at the same spot. the mythical spot. 30 shots in all, meander on over to my flickr stream to peep the goodness.
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* person from the Mexican state of Nayarit
We Gots News
Marcia + Edmundo are preggers. We found out 2 days ago, just finished notifying the fam. We’re one month in and d-day will be sometime around Jan22nd. Aquarius, I can feel that. We’re so super happy and nervous and happy and nervous and happy. The abuelitas* are both in constant states of transcendental ecstasy.
Classic mexican custom dictates that you tie a piece of string to a needle and dangle it over the belly, to determine the sex. This can be done at any point in the term and it’s always right. If the needle moves in a line from head to toe, it’s a boy. If the needle moves in a circle, it’s a girl. We did this the other night, twice. One reading said boy, the other said girl. I’m thinking, despite the near statistical improbability, that it’s twins. Or it could just be that my elbow was positioned wrong, very technical procedure you see.
Very exciting times.
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* grandmas
Bookmarks for May 20th
- Threadless: "the customer is the company"
Threadless makes $30 million in sales a year with 30% profit margin. You know a ton of great illustrators and designers, how come none of them submit their stuff to Threadless? is $2000 a good price for a design? i don’t know, but 30% profit margin seems a bit high for people who make their money selling other people’s submitted designs. again, i could be wrong, i’m just trying to work this out in my noggin. - Digital Edition - Foammagazine.com
why does Foam's new digital issue have the same user-interface design, color and graphics as Surfline's interactive features? (rhetorical question) - Spectra Visual Newsreader | msnbc.com
MSNBC launches a pretty interesting new webapp for news headline reading. very beautiful design style and very News 2.0, but has some major usability bugs and i can't see anyone using this on a regular basis unless they have a second monitor to waste. but a new experiment none-the-less. kudos to whoever designed/programmed it and kuods to whoever sold MSNBC on doing it. - The REAL John McCain: Less Jobs, More Wars.
user generated content makes for a new kind of political relations nightmare. - KN | Photos from Geoff McFetridge’s Bury Me in the Sand
more photos from Geoff's show at Mollusk SF, taken by his partner at Solitary Arts. these are great and heavy on the pieces’ details and process of hanging the show. - FWA Theater
a new flash based video site. huge, gorgeous flash videos served up blazingly fast by akamai. you tube better get their shit together before sites like this one start stealing marquee market share.
Prohibido
This is a return to ‘form’ of sorts. Photography-wise, I’ve been experimenting with knocking the contrast and saturation down, intentionally making the images more flat. I’m tired ‘a that. Also, these are two images from a larger forthcoming series on losing local breaks to unchecked real estate development here in Nayarit.
Hitler Is Alive In Burma Redux
Isaiah Seret’s Hitler Is Alive in Burma psa starring Ellen Page, finally hits the inter-tubes. Great narrative and style with Sufjan Stevens on the soundtrack, super tight. Again, do yourself a favor and go check out the high quality version over on You Tube (the link is a javascript under the video player in the rate/views box).
Relatedly, if you feel like supporting the cause, drop by the Burma: It Can’t Wait website and sign up as a voice for Burma. With the recent cyclone devastation and subsequent refusal of international aid by the military junta, Burma’s situation went from worse to extremely worse. Most people think money is the only way to help a cause such as Burma’s, but that’s not true. Knowledge, international pressure and some serious publicity are the tools of undoing brutal dictatorships in this interconnected day and age. Your money is valuable, no doubt, but so is your voice. So please add it to the Burma: It Can’t Wait campaign and help draw attention to a brutal dictatorship that continues to slide under the radar.
Droog79
various pieces from Droog79
Droog79 is a Bristol UK based surfer/skater/artist with some wicked surf and skate culture inspired illustrations, paintings, board art and the occasional photo. Amazing stuff, peep his collection of old school skates or some recent ‘board graphics. Dude is killin’ it, Hello Mollusk!
For more good fun, check out his flickrstream.
Triumphant Return
Los(t) Angeles peoples: we’re currently planning a triumphant return to the city of broken dreams, most likely in the first weeks of June. If there’s gonna be any swell, maybe some of you might wanna hook up for some wave sliding action. Despite having lived in the belly of the beast for 10 odd years (Valencia - 4 years / W.Hollywood - 3 years / Highland + Franklin - 3 years) I have never been surfing in Los(t) Angeles, ‘cept that one time uber-homie Supa Dave took me down to Manhattan Beach for some one foot closeouts.
I come equipped with a shorty but thinking on hooking myself up with a Junod or Mandala, or similar alternative stylee wave riding vehicle, while i’m there (Mollusk ahoy). Anyone wanna show a brother their favorite spots or maybe just hook up for some cerveza and chips?
Bookmarks for May 18th
- California Ruling on Same-Sex Marriage Fuels a Battle, Rather Than Ending It - New York Times
the 2nd paragraph in this article really soured me. why is some douchenozzle from florida funding a “let’s discriminate against the gays” act in California? if you wanna argue for states’ rights, fine, let’s have states’ rights. there ought to be a law that says that out-of-state groups can’t create or fund ballot initiatives that seek to monkey with a state’s constitution - California Supreme Court overturns gay marriage ban
waxy has a point: "systemic discrimination of same-sex couples is unconstitutional, period" - Things younger than Republican Presidential candidate (oh, and did I forget to mention war hero?) John McCain
"AM I BEING ?AGE-IST?? MAYBE. BUT MAYBE NOT. THE WORLD IS A PRETTY COMPLICATED PLACE RIGHT NOW AND I?M THINKING THAT IT?S NOT SUCH A GREAT TIME TO ELECT OUR OLDEST PRESIDENT EVER. SO SUE ME." - Robert Rauschenberg on process, change, boredom, and more
great post on recently deceased master artist Robert Rauschenberg. with a destinctively 37 signals slant. - NYPH08 | New York Photo Awards winners
Amy Stein wins for Best Photography Book. woo hoo. go Amy! - Lux: multi-touch for OS X
interesting interface giving macs similar functionality as the iphone ipod touch. although on a vertical wall, i think my arms might get tired. but it does give you a good idea of where we might be in 5-10 years computer wise. - Daring Fireball | Political Capital
"Saudi Arabia Friday rebuffed President Bush?s request to immediately pump more oil to lower record prices, saying it does not see enough demand to increase production." check out the post for the kicker. GeeDub is such a putz. - Breaking: Spakovsky Withdraws as FEC Nominee
boo *fucking* hoo. this guy is literally a flesh and blood ventriloquist dummy, with Karl Rove's hand stuck up his backside.
Sayulita Fish Taco
If you’ve been to Sayulita, chances are you know what delicious goodness lies in wait, in the big haphazardly-built, blazing yellow building, fortified with wrought-iron signs, just off the square. Chairs, tables and old surf mags crammed into every single nook possible. In a town whose restaurants and businesses ebb and flow with the tides of the high and low tourist seasons, Sayulita Fish Taco is an integral part of Sayulita’s gilded prana. That is to say, Sayulita would not be the same without it.
Albert is the proprietor behind the famous yellow building and the delicious, distinctly traditional mexican fare. Always a smile and a good word, I’ve encountered him enumerable times out in the line-up, at ‘Rubber Dingies’ and ‘Enchiladas’, trimming his brains out with the ‘alma’ of an overgrown kid.
With a nice, twisted, sun-burnt sense of humor, Albert is the kinda guy with the ingenuity to rig up a user-controllable webcam so you can check out the front of his restaurant, never mind the ‘Mexican Waikiki’ otherwise known as Sayulita beach, just three blocks away, who’d want a webcam to check that out? He winks and says (and I’m paraphrasing, here) “Aw Yeah, it’s great. You can control the webcam and sometimes I move it to the other side of the pole, so you can see the big fiestas they throw in the town square”. The irony isn’t lost on Albert, that’s just the kinda guy he is.
Long after the snowbirds have all flown home, during the heart of the humidity riddled rainy season, you can still see Albert slogging in today’s catch as he sets his shop up for another day of fish tacos and cerveza. Albert has gone native.
The Golden Hour
I’m currently perfecting my technique of launching the 9-oh into the 3 foot shore dump, direct to the nose for a split second of crouched bliss and then punch through the tiny lip into 2 feet of water rushing up the steep beach.
Micro-seconds of trim can be stretched out into hours of joy.
Joe Doggett and the Mexican Malibu
A few weeks back, I was out scavenging the northern Bahia de Banderas coast for anything that looked like ridable waves. My tour of the local breaks brought me to Punta Mita, where I caught a few good ankle biters and then managed to snap off a few good shots.
As I was shooting the bevy of longboarders from the tip of a breakwater jetty, I caught the attention of a group of visiting “old dude” surfers throwing shakas my way (through my 100-400mm lens) as they were hanging out in the shade, on the beach. As I finished up and made my way over to the group, I was greeted by a guy by the name of Joe Doggett. It turns out Joe and his buddies return year after year, to Punta Mita, the ‘Mexican Malibu’ as he called it. We exchanged local surf break information and traded horror stories of how the area is rapidly changing due to spiralling out-of-control development. Joe mentioned that he had been a writer for the Houston Chronicle.
We eventually came around to the history of surfing in the area and how Punta Mita was discovered. Joe related parts of a September 1965 Surfer Magazine article, written by Bill Cleary, about his feral surf expedition on the hunt for “Mexico’s Malibu” as discovered by a screenwriter named Peter Viertel who found the fabled break while daytripping through the bay’s several breaks while his wife, actress Deborah Kerr, filmed her scenes in Night of the Iguana (the movie that literally put Vallarta on the map).
Joe Doggett’s stories and impressive knowledge of surf history, had me kicking my own teeth in, after I said goodbye to Joe and the crew without asking for his contact info or email address. A few days after I posted the photos from that day, flickr user Rex Enigma commented on Joe’s photo above, asking if it was indeed thee “Joe Doggett” and today Rex hipped me to a recent article in The Houston Chronicle, where Joe goes briefly in to Cleary’s 1965 Surfer Mag article and than continues on with his own long and varied history of visiting Mazatlan and Vallarta in search of surf breaks and the “Mexican Malibu”:
‘Mexican Malibu’ offers surfers a secret paradise - By Joe Doggett for The Houston Chronicle
Other spots were excellent, but the Mexican Malibu was a no-show not enough swell, wrong angle, wrong tide, wrong week, wrong season, on and on over dispirited bottles of Pacifico beer at the cantina overlooking the beach.
Nirvana, at last
Then, as if in a dream, it was there. Last year, we pulled the board-racked vehicle to a stop and watched in disbelief as ruler-edged powder-green walls brushed by straight offshore wind peeled into the cove. We caught the Mexican Malibu for six consecutive days, with the swell peaking at 2 to 3 feet overhead. This spring, our trip was highlighted by three days of Mexican Malibu, with shoulder- to head-high sets each session. This literal groundswell of riches only can support the virtues of patience and confidence.
It’s an amazing story and a great read. I flipped out, as I read it and thought back to my conversation with Joe. Understanding the history behind this place I live in and how it fits in to the larger surf cannon never really even occurred to me, until my talk with Joe and his boys. I’d like to send a big, cosmic, shaka bra thank you, out there to Joe for unfolding a lesson and sparking a light in a new corner of my consciousness. I’m in his debt.
Incidentally, if there are any surf-memorabilia pack rats out there, that might just have the Sept ‘65 Surfer Mag squirreled away somewhere, I’d give my first born for a scanned pdf of the Cleary ‘Mexican Malibu’ article. My first born or some newly minted gold bullion. your choice.
Bookmarks for May 16th
- The day there was no news
this is brilliant and subtle - Today's Most Influential Design - The Design 100 - TIME
"Great design is no longer reserved solely for museum-worthy products, as multitasking designers turn their attention to everything from books to artisanal food, and from lighting to transportation" - Too Hard a Ball
Right-Wing Radio yakker crashes and burns like the Hindenburg while trying to talk about appeasement … Holy Crap! keep diggin', jerk face. - PSDtuts | Create a 60?s Psychedelic Style Concert Poster
great tutorial. these guys are killing it with the awesome photoshop tutorials. not as funny as "you suck at photoshop" but amazing in their own right. - Video: Rubies, "I Feel Electric"
awesome song and video from Rubies, sonic sisters in the circle of awesomenss with Leslie Feist and Danielle Rubi. don't sleep! - TED | Talks | Mark Bittman: What's wrong with what we eat (video)
awesome talk about how the western diet is totally unsustainable and dangerous to the planet. 10,000,000 cows, chickens, lambs and pigs born, raised, and killed every year. the take away? start eating more vegetables. - Sergey Danyushevskiy :: Travel & Photography
wickedly good travel photography. really gorgeous stuff. [via cpluv]
We All Have A Voice
I posted about Isaiah Seret’s Hitler is Alive in Burma spot (starring Ellen Page) a few days ago, from the Burma Can’t Wait campaign. Now check out another spot of his entitled Voices (do yourself a favor and go watch it on YouTube and click on the High Quality version, unfortunately there’s no hard-link to the HQ). This spot goes completely in the opposite direction of the Hitler piece. I love it.
The music is by Vetiver - “You May Be Blue (Neighbors Remix)”
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I did the type cards on this one. nothing fancy. minimal, to the point.
Bookmarks for May 14th
- Brooks: Neural Buddhists - International Herald Tribune
Brooks is a bit of a wanker, but he has some pretty good points, chiefly that we are in the middle of a scientific revolution that’s going to have big cultural effects. this is an understatement of dramatic proportion. We are essentially headed for a new paradigm. and it’s going to happen faster than you and I think. - Sexy, Bold And Experimental Typography | Monday Inspiration | Smashing Magazine
great modern typography series. lots of good ideas here. via kottke (of course) - ::WiLDCOAST:: - Surf Access Denied at Baja’s Salsipuedes
another well known mexican surf break is gone. this is unconscionable. - The Downfall Meme video | Hillary's Downfall
sorry for all the video links, but this one is too good to pass up. very clever. - Blu's Latest Wall Animation - MUTO
absolutely brilliant graffiti stop-motion animation done over the course of a few months. i'd love to see this in process.
Your Mom’s In My Business
CalArts homie Kevin Lyons has a new show Your Mom’s In My Business at the HVW8 Art+Design Gallery in Los Angeles, if you’re in the area and dig on hand-made design, go check out the show. Kevin is a heavyweight:
Printed Ephemera and New Works by Kevin Lyons
Opening Friday, May 9th, 6 - 10 pm, Show runs May 10th - June 15th
HVW8 Art+Design Gallery
661 N. Spaulding Ave
Los Angeles, CA 90036
Gallery open: Wed - Sat, 1- 5pm
Or by appointment:
323 655 4898Kevin Lyons is a 1992 graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design where he received a degree in film. After working for Nickelodeon / MTV as an Associate Producer, he co-founded the NYC based design firm, stereo-type which for two years was responsible for much of the graphic look of the New York City underground Hip-Hop and Acid Jazz scene. This included the logo design for the long standing NYC based club, GIANT STEP. Stereo-type’s client list also included Soul Kitchen, 555 Soul and the LA-based, Brass Recordings. After receiving his masters degree from CalArts in 1998, Lyons has gone on to work for Nike, both in and out of house, was the former Art Director of Urban Outfitters on two separate occasions, and has been Art Director for filmmaker Spike Jonze’s Girl Skateboard Company. He was also the original US Art Director for TOKION Magazine and maintains long-standing freelance relationships with Nike, Jordan Brand, Adidas, Stussy and Stussy Japan, Beams Japan, HUF, Nieves Books, Stones Throw Records, Commonwealth Stacks, and long-time friend and collaborator NYC artist, SSUR.
[via Juxtapoz]
Bookmarks for May 11th
- FontStruct | Build, Share, Download Fonts
Holy crapola! FontStruct is absolutely amazing! not only can you share and download fonts for free, but you can build your own with their fancy web app. pretty f'ing cool. now why isn't there a desktop app that makes the process of designing fonts this simple, effective and FUN. Mac OS X programmers: i’m looking in your direction - Schitz Popinov
2008 award for best name for a music blog. I gotta get that on a tshirt. - Second McCain aide quits over ties to Burmese Junta lobbying
We're talking about lobbying on behalf of mass murdering war criminals here. The real question media outlets should be asking is when did McCain find out and how long has his campaign known about this. These are people that could have gone on to run our government (as the case with the 2nd guy - aides usually end up in the administration). - Video: Gnarls Barkley - Going On
the video for Gnarls Barkley's Going On is bananasly good. and random as hell. - Peggy Noonan's article from WSJ on Obama's missing 2nd act
actually a pretty good read. she says a lot of interesting things. the Obama 2nd act thing is *very* dead-on. He does need it. but then she brings up the whole Obama is an elitist thing, which is classic wingnut talking points. - More Obama: Obama Campaign Launches "Vote For Change" Voter Registration Drive
Uber-wingnut Peggy Noonan declared that Obama would need a "second act" to keep his story going. Well, never one to disappoint, Obama unveils his second act. and this one is gonna be *huge*. I can hear Rove and Spakovsky drafting up their talking points. - surfblog1000: Hot Photo #1
amazing longboard photo by surf photog master Grannis. now this is the kind of photo that keeps me inspired. i love surf blogs for this very idea, showing the awesome. - YouTube - Apple Mac Music Video
mac nerd rejoice. this is the single best music video i've seen all year. toad awesomers. - YouTube - Sad Kermit - Needle in the Hay
Kermit the Frog doing Elliott Smith's Needle in the Hay. amazing.
Quincy Dein | Shutter Butter
I stumbled across Seshn.com’s relatively new Shutter Butter featured photography gallery. I peeped Quincy Dein’s surf culture related photography.
The thing that I really like about Shutter Butter is that the photographer is given audio space to put context to the images. You’re not only seeing gorgeous imagery, you’re getting to know the photographer that captured the image.
I do believe that audio can be distracting and can unnecessarily “color” the images. Non-narrated slideshows, gallery shows, monographs etc… all have their proper space. But once in a while it’s nice to get behind the imagery to understand the process.
And great work by Dein.
Hitler is alive in Burma
Trying to Put a Name to a Face of Evil in Myanmar - New York Times
My homie Isaiah Seret gets a super-huge write-up in the New York Times for his work directing Ellen Page in a spot for the Burma Can’t Wait Campaign:
The spot is one of 30 produced for U.S. Campaign for Burma, starring celebrities like Will Ferrell and Jennifer Aniston. They will be distributed on Fanista.com, a social-networking and entertainment retail site, then passed along to sites like YouTube and Google Video every day for the next month. The goal of the campaign is to thrust the cause of human rights in Burma — now known as Myanmar — into the orbit of A-list activist causes, along with Tibet and Darfur, and to encourage international pressure on a government that activists say is one of the world’s most oppressive.
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A story that is going to hold people’s interest also needs a villain. While General Shwe is a natural in the role, said Isaiah Seret, a 30-year-old music video director who was enlisted to write and direct the Ellen Page spot, the general also came with built-in drawbacks — his name lacked impact, his face was forgettable. The general, Mr. Seret said, lacked what is known in marketing vernacular as a “unique selling point” — like Hitler’s mustache. So the director attempted to turn the general’s blandness into a joke. In the spot, Ms. Page scribbles a Hitler mustache on a large photo of the general and declares, “Make no mistake about it, he is a professional dictator.”
Isaiah conceptualized, wrote and directed the Ellen Page piece (which debuts in the next few days - i think), as well as seven or eight others that will be released one-a-day for each of the 30 days of the campaign. I’m super excited to see Isaiah’s name up in print. I think he hit a home-run with this spot. Sometimes stars align and this is one of those times. He’s been working like mad on this campaign and it completely dove-tails with his personal voice. This guy is definitely an artist to watch. Each time I see new work of his, I’m amazed at his progression in style and form, without losing his personal voice. I’m callin’ it now: Dude is gonna be famous.
- Burma Can’t Wait.org
- All the clips listed on You Tube
- Isaiah Seret.com
Bookmarks for May 10th
- Elizabeth Warren | The Coming Collapse of the Middle Class
Harvard Law School professor Elizabeth Warren speaks at UC Berkeley. America's crashing credit economy is directly responsible for the continued rise in bankruptcy among the middle-class. Reality: You probably know more people who will file for bankruptcy than for divorce (although they may not tell you they are/have filed for bankruptcy). Big picture? We’re basically talking about the end of capitalism here. no joke. - Vote for Change | National Voter Registration & Mobilization Drive
Obama is launching a gigantic voter registration drive to protect low income and black voters from White House designed voter suppression laws masquerading as a Voter Rights Bill. Go Obama! - Banksy Unmasked? | Gawker
great article claiming Banksy is really UK stencil artist Nick Walker. I don't know if it's true, but a good read. - Under Construction Redux | All Forces
Instead of throwing up some dumb "we'll be right back" message, when you're updating your site, Melvin has designed a very user-friendly version with social networking links, flickr photos, latest tweets and last.fm covers. - Kottke's "When Obama wins,"
awesome twitter mashup. my personal favorite: "When Obama wins, God will literally bless America" - Chile's Dirty, Beautiful Thunderstorm.
Chile's Chaitén volcano erupting into a thunderstorm. amazing. best pictures of thunderstorms *ever*.
Bookmarks for May 8th
- Mexico?s Disgusting Response to Shark Attack
San Fran native Adrian ruiz was killed by a shark, surfing Troncones last week and in response the Mexican Navy has been trawling for sharks, killing anything that gets in their way. Horrible news. - Wild Coast / Costa Salvaje
WiLDCOAST protects and preserves coastal ecosystems and wildlife in the Californias and Latin America by building grassroots support, conducting media campaigns and establishing protected areas. - Mårten Lange | The Sea
Raul Gutierrez points us to the hypnotic horizontal sea photos of Mårten Lange. This series has more than a passing resemblance to my latest surfing-themed photos. amazing series, i’d love to see these huge. - Farewell Books
awesome cheaply constructed photography books. very cool idea. - Sam Flores doing a piece in La Condesa, Mexico City
great photos of Sam Flores mural in process. amazing. taken yesterday. - Neutra-Designed Strathmore Apartment condo for sale
LA peoples, listen up, one of the legendary Nuetra Strathmore Apertments is for sale. $795,000. hefty price tag, but come on, it’s a Nuetra! Architecturally significant houses aren’t recession proof, but when the market goes up, it’ll go up more. good investment.
Michael Dweck
image from Michael Dweck’s Montauk series
Michael Dweck has some gorgeous photography, especially his Montauk series of 50s era surf-culture / americana inspired shots, his book looks amazing.
[via The Year in Pictures]
