Archive for culture

Book Designs of 2008

2 January 2009

Via the penguin blog and featuring this incredible ABC3D book from Roaring Brook Press.

Absolutely magical.

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Almost there

4 November 2008

Vote!

We made our minds up back in January.

Feels like the waiting is almost over.

We’ll be glued to Fivethirtyeight tonight, and hoping.

Oi Polloi

28 October 2008

The Guardian has a profile of Steve Sanderson, who is one of the owners of Oi Polloi, the best menswear shop in the world.

Now if only they would open a branch in London…..

LOVE SAVES THE DAY

24 October 2008

Eskil Steenberg’s one man game, LOVE looks incredible.

Could be a defining moment in indie game development and good for everyone if it helps get us past the ‘games and violence’ debates and onto talking about video games as culture.

More here.

A temporary break in my self-imposed Wire-fast

9 September 2008

The why is it. The why is what makes journalism an adult game. The why is what makes policy coherent and useful. The why is what transforms bureaucrats and foot soldiers and political leaders into viable instruments of rational and affirmative change. The why is everything and without it, the very suggestion of human progress becomes a cosmic joke.

And in the American city, at the millennium, the why has ceased to exist.

David Simon on the breakdown of urban society across the US

The guy can write, yes he can.

Bubble, bubble toil and trouble

6 September 2008

“Essentially, what has happened in this country is that we’ve confused home ownership with the acquisition of wealth,” says Adam Sampson, Shelter’s chief executive. “Those two concepts, which should be distinct, have become irrevocably yoked together. It shows plainly in the reasons people give for wanting to buy: 30 or 40 years ago, you bought a home for security, stability, status, to gain control over your life. Now you do it to acquire wealth. And that has been encouraged as an article of faith across the political spectrum. It really has been the equivalent of the South Sea Bubble, or the Dutch tulip bulb hysteria.”

A clear and succinct a diagnosis as any I’ve seen.

Aglimore

27 August 2008

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Prints etc on etsy.

Nice.

Roubini in The (New York) Times

18 August 2008

The United States, Roubini went on, will likely muddle through the crisis but will emerge from it a different nation, with a different place in the world. “Once you run current-account deficits, you depend on the kindness of strangers,” he said, pausing to let out a resigned sigh. “This might be the beginning of the end of the American empire.”

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If only all electric cars looked this dope.

5 August 2008

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The SAM car from CREE, looks like it’s arrived from the future. (and maybe it has)

I so would.

more here

“Pineapple Express just may be the Casablanca of Pot Comedies”

4 August 2008

Greencine rounds up the first reviews, here.

(it’s looking good)