By andrew | Published:
September 16, 2009
While garage sale shopping this weekend I came across this wonderful gem of a book from the 1980s. Apparently someone had the brilliant idea of making Nancy Reagan a role-model for youngsters through the novel paper cut-out format. I can only imagine the conservative Republican mother buying this for her hopefully conservative daughter… never realizing [...]
By andrew | Published:
July 24, 2009
I’ve recently returned from Montreal with a small mountain of new images and resources. Ah… inspiration is a refreshing change of pace. All people who travel devour their destinations by acquiring different material goods as evidence of the attempts to understand the place to which they have traveled. Some people acquire shotglasses. Others postcards. I [...]
By andrew | Published:
June 29, 2009
After 5 years of being a dedicated Moleskine user, I’ve finally been tempted by the fruit of another. The Leuchturm reporter style pad is incredibly comfortable, features a “date/datum” field and a table of contents. A perfect fit for a classic OCD type such as myself. The image above is from a FLICKR photostream devoted [...]
By andrew | Published:
June 4, 2009
Just to make the morning I’m having a bit better… my friendly librarian, Steve Liska, has sent me a link to one of his blog projects. Steve meticulously catalogs the objects/images/things he finds inside of library books. Its beautiful. Fiendish even. I can’t seem to get enough of this blog… and… it just made me [...]
By andrew | Published:
May 13, 2009
Two great quotes from Baudrillard’s “The Conspiracy of Art”:
In a way, it {art} is worse than nothing, because it means nothing and nonetheless exists, providing itself with all the right reasons to exist.
Montesquieu once said that “the people can become so enlightened that they are no longer indifferent to anything.” Well, it seems that the [...]
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By andrew | Published:
April 8, 2009
I’ve been reading through Alain de Botton’s Status Anxiety. It is truly a great book that accurately describes the pressures of being an individual alive in our current historical period. It’s true: we are infinitely wealthier than those who lived before us… but the accumulation of wealth and comfort in no way has translated into [...]
By andrew | Published:
February 15, 2009
I’m taking a break from packing to digest my oat pancakes… I’m amazed at how many great books and magazines I’ve acquired recently. Here are a few highlights that I definitely recommend you add to your library.
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By andrew | Published:
January 28, 2009
Darius Himes wrote a great essay entitled “Who Cares About Books?” over at Words Without Pictures…. which has, ironically, closed shop for awhile to publish a book. Download the PDF and enjoy.
http://wordswithoutpictures.org/main.html?id=%20343,349
By andrew | Published:
December 24, 2008
I’m beginning a new digital project for y’all. Its called Sympathetic Objects. Basically, I’m interested in the objects that are passing through life with me. I’ve started a new collection for this project – everything that came into being May 1982.
Object #1:
(A bit of a given… but…)
National Geographic Magazine from May 1982
By andrew | Published:
December 16, 2008
It’s been a couple of days since I’ve made a post of any consequence. I have had a number of not so pleasant things on my plate and am now just starting to lean back in and write about ideas. I’m finally getting around to changing my web-presence, portfolio site, and print identity. Whew.
Rest assured [...]