dogears
the naked truth
“I'm descended from the Kings you know, from the halls of Tara. It's like this… we're doing a job in London… tis the Albert Hall-at-all and we've run right out of the jelly.” scroll to 8.10min.
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corita kent
When you think of Pop Art you think Warhol, The Factory, The “Velvets” and Celebrity. The Immaculate Heart Community and a bunch of nuns… get sort of overlooked. You might argue with the message but the execution is peerless. View the slideshow & buy the book!
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graphic :
gene cable
Both his Heavy Metal Madness and Scanning Around series have been brilliant, humorous forays into the history of graphic design, typrography, photography and 20th Century culture.
design :
stan tracey
Some of Stan Tracey's back catalogue available to download, including the superb hexad at ronnie scotts.
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daisy palmer
Saw her playing with get the blessing at a gig in sligo recently. All drummer jokes stop here. Remarkable drummer… and then some.
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type periodic table
The Periodic Table of Typefaces is obviously in the style of all the thousands of over-sized Periodic Table of Elements posters hanging in schools and homes around the world. This particular table lists 100 of the most popular, influential and notorious typefaces today.
typography :
anymore ply?
Plywood, a moisture-proof, marine-grade, very low formaldehyde-content pine, certified by the European sustainable forest practices agreement, becomes a strong, almost abnormal complement…
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furniture :
flip & tumble
I got one of these for my wife… she loves it. Not just because it's a handy bag but because it doubles as some sort of stress ball. She can also throw it at me when she looses the plot!
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product :
ways of working
10 tips on getting started with street photography from Michael David Murphy. No. 1: Stop thinking about how to approach taking pictures of people and just start doing it. Good straight forward advice like that…
photography :
the jazz loft project
From 1957 to 1965 legendary Magnum photographer W. Eugene Smith made approximately 4,000 hours of recordings on 1,741 reel-to-reel tapes and nearly 40,000 photographs in a loft building in Manhattan's wholesale flower district.
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