Photo courtesy of OnStartups.com.
Category: Uncategorized
Photo by McDowell Crook.
Being 41 years of age, I am allowed to lose a couple of hipster points by not knowing what the rope is for. A little B&D kink, perhaps?
I really like the abstract works that designers like Saul Bass created in the 1960s. Here’s an example of Bass’ work – his poster for the Hitchcock movie Vertigo:
Someone who goes by the nom de plume of “Spacesick” likes ‘60s abstract graphic art as much as I do and has created I Can Read Movies, a series of covers for novelizations of popular movies done in that style. I show some of Spacesick’s creations below.
(If you’re a book publisher, you might want to drop Spacesick a line. His/her stuff is really good!)
Here’s the cover for the novelization of Caddyshack. It’s only missing one thing: the gopher!
Here’s the cover for the hypothetical book version of Sixteen Candles, one of the quintessential ‘80s teen movies:
The cover for Highlander captures the spirit of the movie while remaining refreshingly minimalist:
Here’s the Face/Off cover. Someone should let Spacesick know that “forward” is a direction and “foreword” is an introductory note in a book.
Here’s the cover to the “burning novelization” of Mean Girls:
Here’s Shaun of the Dead:
And finally, my favourite: a Japanese novelization titled Wonka-san! Just Punisher of Coddled Children:
You can see Spacesick’s other novelization covers in this entry in his/her blog as well as in this Flickr photoset.
Categories
Recycle THIS!
This article also appears on Global Nerdy.
TechCrunch points to a news report from San Francisco-based TV station KRON that dates all the way back to 1981, when home computers were 8-bit wonders like the era of the Apple ///, TRS-80 and Atari 400 and 800. The piece on how some people are reading their newspapers by logging into Compuserve, and how someday, we’ll all be reading our newspapers and magazines on our computers:
Back then, a computer in the home was very unusual, hence their underscoring of this interviewee’s name with “owns home computer”. It seems quaint now, but back then, that was pretty 1337:
The TechCrunch article points out a couple of lines in the piece that stand out given our 2009 persepctive. The first is from the San Francisco Examiner’s David Cole:
This is an experiment. We’re trying to figure out what it’s going to mean to us, as editors and reporters and what it means to the home user. And we’re not in it to make money, we’re probably not going to lose a lot but we aren’t going to make much either.
The other memorable line is from the reporter:
This is only the first step in newspapers by computers. Engineers now predict the day will come when we get all our newspapers and magazines by home computer, but that’s a few years off.
This is Joey deVilla, signing off from one of those Dynabook-style computers.
In case you were wondering, the creature beside the kitten is a giant isopod.
Categories
Bacon Explosion!
The New York Times has a story on a tasty-looking dish called the Bacon Explosion, which is made by weaving strips of raw bacon into a mat, covering the bacon mat with a layer of sausage and then a crunchy layer of cooked bacon, then rolling it up.