a visual collective outlet of inspiration 
by pp.
Year: 2011
QUOTE OF THE DAY
“understood in its metaphysical sense, beauty is one of the manifestations of the absolute being. emanating from the harmonious rays of the divine plan, it crosses the intellectual plane to shine once again across the natural plane, where it darkens into matter.”
—jean delville
wagon wheel – old crow medicine show
my favorite song this week. the actual ‘official video’ for the produced version of this song is absolutely horrendous, it almost ruined it for me, so i figured i’d spare all y’all and give you the only other version i could find online. not much better, but at least they’re not perfectly styled pioneer hipsters, and it’s a great song. by kl
mmmmmmmmmmmmm paris plus kubrick plus napoleon
ten books in one telling the fascinating tale of stanley kubrick’s unfilmed masterpiece, napoleon. designed by the still-lovely, m+m paris. by kl
in love with alexey, how bazaar
how cool was alexey brodovitch back in his day! diana vreeland wasn’t the only progressive nut-ball making harper’s bazaar amazing from the 30’s to the 60’s.
alexey was prominently influential in introducing into the united states the radically simplified graphic design of modernism. through his teaching, he created a generation of designers sympathetic to his belief in the primacy of visual freshness and immediacy. fascinated with photography, he made it the backbone of modern magazine design as photography was previously used sparingly, and he fostered the development of an expressionistic, almost primal style of picture-taking that became the dominant style of photographic practice in the 1950s.
basically, brodovitch is the model for the modern magazine art director. he did not simply arrange photographs, illustrations and type on the page, actively conceived and commissioned all forms of visual communications, as well as specializing in discovering and showcasing young and unknown talent. his first assistant in new york was irving penn. he also nurtured photographers such as leslie gill, richard avedon and hiro.
his impact on media, fashion and editorial expressions of harper’s bazaar made him a bit of a celebrity… for example, the film funny face which starred fred astaire as a photographer much like avedon, named its art-director character “dovitch.” by kl
never thought I’d see steve jobs and johnny cash in the same sentance but here it is
“10 years ago we had steve jobs, bob hope, and johnny cash. now we have no jobs, no hope and no cash.” by fm
BUT YOKO DID IT FIRST…
an earlier bottom film, “four” by yoko ono, 1967. by m+m
steve just left and apple already sucks
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i went to purchase a few songs on itunes and i got this? so much for all the praise for apple. can some one please explain what the hell does this sentence mean? if you had written this in 8th grade you would have failed your paper. its not even a sentence.
i quote: “notification of an additional type of previously-purchased content may be subsequently downloaded to certain computers and devices as an accommodation to you. subject to existing association rules; and that content may be played back on certain devices that are not subject to existing association rules, with limitations.”
it is clearly written in a way to confuse the hell out of the user. its absolute nonsense. are they changing the rules so “your previous purchases can no longer be played on multiple devices?” i cant make sense of it! i cancelled my planned purchase of the songs till further notice, and i’m a little pissed. and i’m not alone… here is another user and his question on apple support: “The new terms and conditions for the iTunes Store say that each device can only be associated with a single account, and you can only switch them once every 90 days. I have accounts in different countries because I’ve lived in different places. How is this going to affect me? Am I going to lose access to half of my apps?” by dd
stop that, toby dammit!
the incredible terence stamp in fellini’s toby dammit (spirits of the dead) read this amazing article on the film. by xy
ok promise: this is the last post on sebastien tellier
pp will be on my case for the million posts, but its very guido crepax despite the fact that no one can do guido like crepax. that said, he never did animation, or that which i know of. simple idea and it works. animation by mrzyk & moriceau and mathematic . by dd
quote of the day
by cm
talk about how our tax money is being spent heres an info graphics to amuse you
of course i would have been more interested about the iraq war costs but that ship has sailed and the attention spans are short. afghanistan was one war out of all the recent wars that was some what justified. but its the same story. the irony of all this is that little number on the bottom: civilian deaths due to the afghan war 14,000 that’s innocent men, women & children, just imagine your own family. now it makes me laugh when i hear that we went to this new war in libya “due to mounting civilian death at the hand of the regime” there. of course now “mums the word” and there’s no mention of the 1,000+ casualties thank’s to our french and british made tornado’s and our friendly new neighbor the NTC. next on the list is syria. why, we can’t just stand by and watch assad kill 100s of people when we can kill 1,000’s and feed our military business machine with our tax money. who really runs this show? cause its getting really fucking boring. by dd
