listen | nick lowe

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watch | mr. siebert

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look | when to say nothing

happening | family band

i highly recommend that you make the last time you missed family band the last time you miss family band.

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watch | vulpes vulpes

sawr a foxy double feature over the weekend of the fantastic mr fox and robin hood, both of which were so good. i also had rice and beans one night. oh who cares.

DOWNLOAD: Roger Miller - Oo De Lally [mp3]

happening | leonid meteor shower

keep an eye on the night november 16-17th, will you? last year the leonids delivered 500 meteors an hour and i'd imagine scared hell out of at least as many fanatics. back in 1833, when the woodcut above was... cut?, the meteor shower blew minds so bad that the whole world just about went crazy. be outside. i got a roof if you need one.

look | saul leiter

"i think that i learned to see what others see and do not see. one of the things photography has allowed me is to take pleasure in looking. i see this world simply. it is a source of endless delight." ~saul leiter

i first saw saul leiter, as may you have, lighboxed on bathroom tile at the bryant park train station where i got and left the F years back. the photo above, an ad for an exhibition called early color, occupied the only sweet square feet to be seen in that fluorescent midtown grime palace i hated twice a day for ages. but i never followed up. was always in too much of a rush to catch the name on the poster. the romance of the postmen and their soda ads went better unnamed anyway, same way it doesn't matter so much who wrote "o' holy night!" (love jesus or leave him), but how it's sung and how it overwhelms you for a second with the grandiose breath-gone delusion that your seventy-some years of jerkoff subsistence is eternal life because you've tapped into some larger, everyhuman pulse of caveman awe. anyway, now that i've gone and oversold him, here are some saul leiter photos that i rediscovered and put an overdue name to, reading megan mcisaac's diary half awake last night and early this morning.

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read | george mendoza

And I Must Hurry for the Sea is Coming In...
by George Mendoza
photographs by DeWayne Dalrymple
design by Herb Lubalin
Prentice-Hall, Inc. ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS, N.J.

nice lookin type. good enough poem. but man, the photos kinda blow it.

look | kim krans

happening | justin kay

The inaugural exhibition in the new Herb Lubalin Study Center of Design and Typography.

Herb Lubalin (1918–1981) is best known for his wildly illustrative typography and his groundbreaking work for the magazines Avant Garde, Eros, and Fact.

On view in Cooper Union’s new gallery, the installation includes recent posters, publications, and motion graphics by internationally recognized graphic designers that spotlight an emerging trend toward expressive lettering and typography.

Original sketches, magazines, logotypes, and posters selected from the Lubalin Center Archive will illuminate Lubalin’s influence on contemporary graphic design.

Exhibition On View: November 5, 2009 – December 8, 2009

look | steven brahms

an old buddy steve brahms sees the apocalypse everywhere he looks nowadays. in a campfire, a quarter and a safety pin, in the panic-stricken faces of slick-dressed asian longhairs and in fires showed up only as smoke on the horizon. he's making 100 photos, one at a time. maybe it'll be 200. no matter what the number, each of them will invite you in innocently enough, only to ask you without exactly asking, what will you do when the end times come? click the photos for more.

listen | grouper

up there's a sleepy doper poem of harinezumi-scratch snippets, frankensteined and justin kayed and come out looking better than the first go round, or even the memory, which was halloween, november one, two thousand nine.

DOWNLOAD: Grouper - Heavy Water/I'd Rather Be Sleeping [mp3]

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