- Hell Green
Japan photography trip blog from Shortstraw cohort Elle. I kinda wish I was in Japan, right about now. with the Greenroom Festival coming up. - 100 Abandoned Houses
haunting and beautiful collection of abandoned houses in the Detroit area. from the "about" page: "For years the area had signs advertising the redevelopment that was about to take place. It finally began to happen, with the construction of the new ballpark for the Tigers, and Ford Field for the Lions. New condos, and town homes began to appear amidst the rubble of burned out mansions turned apartments. Some of the houses were so large they became “loft condos”. As the entertainment district flourished, and Brush Park began to transform into something new, I realized the other approximately 135 square miles of Detroit was largely ignored. The excitement about Detroit’s “rebirth” took center stage, while much of the rest of the city was becoming largely abandoned" [via Good] - Introducing Typekit « The Typekit Blog
all browsers will soon support a wide range of fonts. but using fonts on the web (in most cases) is a direct violation of the font's copyright, as linking to a font gives the viewer a direct way to download the font . It's like using a font to print a book and then including the font with the printed book. Enter TypeKit, a web app that designers and developers subscribe to. The service has a collection of typefaces that the dev can link to in their jscript and TypeKit handles all the background witch's brew of delivering the font to the end user's screen, without that iser being able to download the font package. Interesting idea! I wonder what the tech looks like behind the service and the susbcription fees. - secret forts: Domestic Furniture/Domestic Architecture: Roy McMakin.
fine art, architecture and furniture all clash here. great work! that green staircase? i'll have one, please. - greg.org: Obamas slowly replacing staid art in the White House with modern art
How cool is this?: "According to the very slowly reported story [1] in the Wall Street Journal, the Obamas have been selecting modern and contemporary art for the White House from among pieces in national and museum collections. The artists they requested includes several African American artists, including the wonderful DC abstractionist Alma Thomas, whose paintings from the Hirshhorn are already installed in the White House's private quarters. But they've also chosen plenty of white contemporary artists, too, though the Journal obviously doesn't identify them as such: works by Ed Ruscha, Richard Diebenkorn, Robert Rauschenberg, Louise Nevelson and Jasper Johns all came from the National Gallery, for example." – cue the old white guy rage - Guggenheim Guadalajara: Not a Dead Deal? – CultureGrrl
The Guggenheim Foundation has been planning to build a new museum in Guadalajara for the past 7 years or so. A museum to rival Bilbao's. but apparently it's dead in the water, or close to it. sucks, the arch drawing is beautiful. and it would have been awesome to have modern art museum within 2000 miles of where i live.
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Hi, my name is Ed. I’m a graphic designer who lived in L.A. I quit my job, sold my car, rented out my house and moved to Mexico. Along the way, I learned how to surf and fell in love. This blog is my story. In these pages I write about and photograph my daily experience. I also post about things I find interesting: art, design, photography, music, tech, etc...