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Bookmarks for August 27th

By Ed Fladung | August 27, 2009
  • IKEA goes with Verdana | Typophile
    the space-time continuum folds in on itself as IKEA switches from everyone's favorite typeface Futura to the ridiculously ugly made-for-small-text-on-monitors Verdana, in the name of style consistency across all countries including asia. Big mistake. This is like IKEA's version of "New Coke". stunningly dumb.
  • three frames
    my new favorite site [via @bigspaceship]
  • Art & Copy Film
    A documentary film about the truth in advertising. A film by Doug Pray, the Director of Surf Wise, Scratch and Hype!
  • YouTube – Tarantino's Top 20 Movies Since 1992
    interesting choices with explanation. Wong Kar- Wai's "In The Mood for Love" is not on the list. major oversight. I really like that "Unbreakable" is on it. I loved that movie and still do. incidentally, is it me or is Tarantino looking a bit like a hot tranny mess?
  • Good Hair ft. Chris Rock- Official Trailer
    now this is.a film i can get behind, hilarious.
  • Giant Waterslide Jump
    I know this is ridiculously old. my links are a bit stale from my trip up north yonder. but… reason 1023 for why the internet is better than tv: so that i can watch beautiful, priceless short clips like this without having to sit the drudgery of an hour long dumb home movie video show hosted by an unfunny stand-up comic and packed with commercials for environmentally insensitive products i don't need. watch the clip. hilarious, yet stunning in its accuracy.
  • Core CMS
    super easy to use content management system for photographers and designers "Core is a Content Management System (CMS) made with the designer in mind, someone who want to show off all their work with an easy updateable and customizable website without having to deal with databases, scripting and extensive php."
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Bookmarks for July 28th

By Ed Fladung | July 28, 2009
  • David Byrne: I Have Seen the Future and It Is Broken
    Byrne talks about one of my favorite design subjects that no one seems to talk about, that form and function are interdependent. and when they don't follow each other it's not design, it's something else.
  • Claim Chowder
    this made me laugh just a wee bit, when I read it today: Lewis Samuels from 6 days ago: "Do you believe in South Swells? I don't. In norcal we spot bigfoot cookin meth more often than a South that lives up to the hype."
  • Steven Frank / Internet Garage Sale
    Steven Frank (co-founder of Panic) has created a minimal trust-based online auction system for your no-longer-needed tech gadgets. awesome idea. i'm gonna sell my current mac book pro on this thing in a few weeks' time.
  • Comic Con footage of Tron Legacy
    turn the geek meter up to 11. Can't wait to see this in 3D. and Daft Punk are doing the soundtrack. instant cool points.
  • Daring Fireball: Pay Walls
    "The primary problem with newspaper companies isn’t their revenue. It’s the size and scope of their operations. Again I say: mammals and dinosaurs. Simon, along with everyone else who thinks online subscription fees can save the newspaper industry, is effectively arguing that the world will change to support newspapers. The truth is that newspapers must change to adapt to the world. Just because the extinction of newspapers would be a tragic loss doesn’t mean it won’t happen."
  • swissmiss | Step-By-Step Guide To Getting Shot By The Sartorialist
    Hilarious! I love the Sartorialist. this is spot on. great graphic design as well.
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Bookmarks for June 23rd

By Ed Fladung | June 23, 2009
  • SHANE LAVALETTE / JOURNAL
    Lavalette is a wicked photographer and independent publisher of a fine-art photography zine called Lay Flat. His blog is mostly about photography, fine art and self-publishing. a great resource and seriously inspirational.
  • YouTube – BooneOakley.com – Home Page
    BooneOakley, a relatively small new ad agency, doesn't have a website. they put their whole site on YouTube. the whole site is in video, scribbled with a dry, hilarious, well-written voice-over. awesome!
  • mañanarama: luz del mundo
    awesome post on the atrocious church architecture of scientology-esque Mexican corporatocratic religion called "Luz del Mundo" or "Light of the World".
  • Urban Outfitters LSTN
    Urban Outfitters has a pretty cool music download thingy happening on their site. it's called "LSTN" and each volume has over 20 free tracks packaged individually (versus dl'ing as a mix). Tons of great artists and there are 5 volumes already. time to find some new music…. Incidentally, why iz everyone hatin' on vowels?
  • beck :: "sunday morning" (velvet underground & nico cover)
    Beck is insane! He has a new feature on his site called "Record Club". Where he and musician friends of his including Devendra Barnhart record covers of classic songs. The records are to be very minimal in production and done in under a day from start to finish with little to no rehearsal. Awesome idea! The first song to come out of Record Club is Beck's cover of "Sunday Morning (Velvet Underground & Nico). and I gotta say it's probably my most favorite VU cover ever. Beck kills it.
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Bookmarks for March 18th

By Ed Fladung | March 18, 2009
  • ad agency shop "Modernista" just launched their blog!
    i really dig Modernista's work. and their blog looks great and random and sprinkled with a cuss word or two. I have a soft spot for curmudgeonry.
  • Nathan Kensinger Photography: Coney Island – Under the Boardwalk
    gorgeous photos taken underneath the boardwalk at coney island. I especially dig the abandoned entrance and storefront ones.
  • Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable « Clay Shirky
    "The problem newspapers face isn’t that they didn’t see the internet coming. They not only saw it miles off, they figured out early on that they needed a plan to deal with it, and during the early 90s they came up with not just one plan but several."
  • doubleTwist
    "All your stuff, on all your devices, with
    all your friends — in seconds" – nice lifestream app. watch the demo.
  • TPM Photo Features | Talking Points Memo | Just Say No Yes to Earmarks
    "When the 2009 spending bill passed last week, Republicans on the Hill– and the stray Dem — were united in a chorus of earmark-bashing. In the words of Sen. Jim Bunning (R-KY): "Cut 'em all out." But it turns out that while the senator from Kentucky voted against the bill, he had $10.6 million in earmarks — 13 separate earmarks, to be exact — in the bill. And he is by no means alone. Several members touted their opposition to the bill and then voted against it, even as they tucked in earmarks for their own districts (thanks to Taxpayers for Common Sense). Oh the shame." – I guess it's useless to question why we're getting stuff like this from TPM and not CNN or NBC?
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Sony: Big Oops

By Ed Fladung | November 20, 2007

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Sony: When timing is everything. commercial photography rule #2031: please use photos taken with your own equipment in ads for your products. In this case, Sony uses an analog photo from 1965, most certainly taken with a Nikon, to promote its DSLR line. big oops. [via the excellent link dumps of A Photo Editor]

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Lightbox Spamvertising

By Ed Fladung | September 30, 2007

Hold on to your hats folks, some people are starting to use a Lightbox rip-off to deliver ads, and there’s no pop-up blocker that works for it (yet). what a way to misappropriate an interesting piece of code.

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