Berserker Rage: Art geekery and education thinkery by Simon Tarr

Jewelboxing

Nice DIY. Because sometimes people want it on disc. And Amaray cases suck ass.

[From Jewelboxing - Super Jewel Box Packaging System - CD and DVD Cases]

Amazing Today.

I hope this will get a reaction of “well, duh” in three years.

[From Star Wars opening crawl, using only HTML and CSS]

You’re privileged enough to attend a Research 1 university. You complain that we don’t have any “classes in [insert single piece of software here].” I suggest taking your tuition money and getting an apartment in Bangalore, so you can be closer to the outsourced job that you want to be “training” for.

Negative-land

Good piece on design that gets to the WHY.

[From FINCH :: Fresh Creative]

George Orwell’s Rules of Language

I try to follow this:

(i) Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.

(ii) Never us a long word where a short one will do.

(iii) If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out.

(iv) Never use the passive where you can use the active.

(v) Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.

(vi) Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous.

[From George Orwell, "Politics and the English Language," 1946 ]

“Best” “Films” “Direct to DVD” in “2009″

I disagree with most of this list (would it be a year-end list if no one did?), but it’s an important point to make. Read it at the “Independent” Film Channel.

http://www.ifc.com/news/2009/12/2009-direct-to-dvd.php

Shaking the Money Tree

Shaking the Money Tree, 3rd Edition

Just in time for Spring semester. I’m making this a key textbook for my graduate seminar. SUCH a great book, and a new version coming out just at the right time.

Protocol Society

“Economic change is fomenting intellectual change. When the economy was about stuff, economics resembled physics. When it’s about ideas, economics comes to resemble psychology.”

(Found at David Brooks – The Protocol Society – NYTimes.com)

This sentence cracks open a lot of nuts, gives a lot to think of for artists, and their respective holding companies (recording industry, movie industry). I need time to digest this.

Tagline for a decade?

“…wholesale flight from truth”
(Via Tiger Woods, Person of the Year – NYTimes.com)

Phantom Menace Review, or Lesson of Cinema?

Watch this. All of it. I’m officially going to require that all film students I ever have from now on will be required to study this. I’ve made a playlist of the entire series of seven reviews, it’s about 70 minutes.

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