Please read on if you feel comfortable with outward links – there are a plenty in this edition of Quipsologies.
In case you have not seen the latest Apple commercials, please take a moment to enjoy John Hodgman’s (author of The Areas of My Expertise and Daily Show irregular) performance as a PC.
As a follow-up to last week’s Quipsology about the Silent Hill poster being painted on, I now offer Ragnar Freyr’s very-open-for-contributions poster.
If, for some reason, you enjoyed Comcast’s The Slowskys, linked in Vol. 53 you will enjoy the outtakes.
And if you enjoyed last week’s bag link by m. kingsley, feast your eyes on even more clever shopping bags. [Image compiled from e-mail forward from Josh]
Because you can’t have enough computer peripherials cast in wood
An international competition revolving around the topic of prostitution. “QUANTOproject wants to arouse new reflections to bring forward a topic that tends more and more to hide and become unconspicuous.”
11 days until one of the coolest AIGA chapter-run conferences in the country, MOVE3: Under the Influence. Brought to you by AIGA New York.
“Bruce Mau designs exhibitions in much the way that Fred Astaire used to design stage musicals. He gathers his favorite people together, in Mau’s case this would mean Dean Kamen and Jaime Lerner rather than Cyd Charisse and Ginger Rogers, then he proclaims, ‘Let’s do a show!’” David Stairs probes Bruce Mau.
A new web resource from the BD4D crew, Vitamin.
Meet Randy J. Hunt.
Beer label art? [Via]
Word on the Street:
Norm says that according to British law, an anonymous person photographed in a crowd (this kid was at a motorcycle convention) tacitly gives their consent if they smile at the camera. - David Byrne meditates on fair use.
Give us your tiresome, your passionless, your huddled and talentless masses and we will usher them safely to the far shore of their crushing mid-life crisis. — On the unspoken value of art.
Want a tattoo, but don’t want a tattoo? Consider using UV blacklight ink.
Found while surfing livejournal during a couple sleepless nights in allergy season: Vintage fashion photography, and Beatle pictures.
A beautiful collection of underwater photographs. (some NSFW)
Currently at the New York Public Library: French Book Art/Livres d’Artistes: Artists and Poets in Dialogue.
Opening on May 18: The Eames Lounge Chair An Icon of Modern Design.