I’ve been planning to make a site called As Themselves which would catalog actors who have played themselves in movies. But alas, I just don’t have time to do this. I only got as far as: Bill Murray as Bill Murray in Zombieland. This would be a great summer job for an intern.
I’ve been planning to make a site called As Themselves which would catalog actors who have played themselves in movies. But alas, I just don’t have time to do this. I only got as far as: Bill Murray as Bill Murray in Zombieland. This would be a great summer job for an intern.

I’ve been planning to make a site called As Themselves which would catalog actors who have played themselves in movies. But alas, I just don’t have time to do this. I only got as far as: Bill Murray as Bill Murray in Zombieland. This would be a great summer job for an intern.

Discover America Van Dyke Parks Van Dyke Parks is one of a handful of artists possessing a purity of vision that graces every project he is involved with. Very few could pull off an album titled Discover America - with all the themes and motifs befitting such a moniker done entirely in the style of the Caribbean, most specifically Trinidad circa the 1940… Listen here
Discover America Van Dyke Parks Van Dyke Parks is one of a handful of artists possessing a purity of vision that graces every project he is involved with. Very few could pull off an album titled Discover America - with all the themes and motifs befitting such a moniker done entirely in the style of the Caribbean, most specifically Trinidad circa the 1940… Listen here

Discover America Van Dyke Parks

Van Dyke Parks is one of a handful of artists possessing a purity of vision that graces every project he is involved with. Very few could pull off an album titled Discover America - with all the themes and motifs befitting such a moniker done entirely in the style of the Caribbean, most specifically Trinidad circa the 1940… Listen here

This is how a taxi driver at the airport in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, wrote my name.
This is how a taxi driver at the airport in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, wrote my name.

This is how a taxi driver at the airport in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, wrote my name.

Getting the ZTE USB Modem Working On a Mac Running Lion

ZTE USB Modem Mac Lion configuration

I went to the Dominican Republic recently and the house I stayed at had a usb modem from Claro, the local provider there. I’m thinking everything is gravy until I plugin it in and find that Mac OS X Lion is missing a driver. Claro doesn’t provide any driver downloads :(. A google search for the usb modem manufacturer “ZTE USB Lion mac” yields this post.

In short, you have to download a driver package from Vodafone, a provider in Brazil, install it, then use the network settings in system preferences to connect. I left the configuration at “Default” and set the telephone number to: *99#, and just leave ‘account name’ and password blank.

In case the the driver package on Vodafone no longer exists, download it here: Vodafone_Mobile_Broadband_4_07_03_00.dmg.

SOPA

If I describe the scene from the Goonies where they’re in the well-cavern, and Samwise Gamgee says, “The next time you see sky, it’ll be over another town…down here it’s our time..”, and my description is so good that it paints the picture perfectly in your mind, the drips of the water, the golden light of the cavern. Will the fed shut your brain down?

I’m just making a note of SOPA here so that when I look back at this in the years to come, I can just laugh at how silly we were back then.

Truffle Shuffle

Westerner

Westerner

Mid-Westerner

Mid-Westerner

Design Delicious Websites

Designing websites is more like the culinary arts than the visual.

Thinking about your designs for the web as these permanent artifacts that will be discovered and referenced in the future is probably not a realistic venture.

I think it better to think of our designs as a piece that we toil over then hand to the user to experience and enjoy. And when they’re done, figuratively, that’s it. As the designer you then create that dish again for a new client or product.

Printed works on archival paper, crafted prints and paintings in frames displayed on walls. These are how we experience tactile visuals. Even the discipline of print design has a reprise where the design can be experienced outside it’s given context. For example, hanging adverts from the 50s on your wall as art. This will never happen with design on the web. We have yet to look back at web designs from yesteryear and appreciate them in that same vain. I don’t think this will ever happen.

“We used the illustrations to lengthen or shorten each of the books for the new collection,” he explains. “There are spreads, full pages, square spots and ‘filler’ drawings—these were unusually sized drawings that filled odd gaps that would develop in the normal course of flowing text into our grid. These allowed for control of where text ended and started and helped us avoid widows and orphans and other such awkward typographic moments. Once we assigned specific sketches to certain formats and chapters of the books, Brian ended up having to do new drawings to fill gaps in the layout.” For “Malcolm Gladwell: Collected,” designer Paul Sahre and illustrator Brian Rea created a consistent graphic language for the author’s best-selling books.
“We used the illustrations to lengthen or shorten each of the books for the new collection,” he explains. “There are spreads, full pages, square spots and ‘filler’ drawings—these were unusually sized drawings that filled odd gaps that would develop in the normal course of flowing text into our grid. These allowed for control of where text ended and started and helped us avoid widows and orphans and other such awkward typographic moments. Once we assigned specific sketches to certain formats and chapters of the books, Brian ended up having to do new drawings to fill gaps in the layout.” For “Malcolm Gladwell: Collected,” designer Paul Sahre and illustrator Brian Rea created a consistent graphic language for the author’s best-selling books.

“We used the illustrations to lengthen or shorten each of the books for the new collection,” he explains. “There are spreads, full pages, square spots and ‘filler’ drawings—these were unusually sized drawings that filled odd gaps that would develop in the normal course of flowing text into our grid. These allowed for control of where text ended and started and helped us avoid widows and orphans and other such awkward typographic moments. Once we assigned specific sketches to certain formats and chapters of the books, Brian ended up having to do new drawings to fill gaps in the layout.”

For “Malcolm Gladwell: Collected,” designer Paul Sahre and illustrator Brian Rea created a consistent graphic language for the author’s best-selling books.