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the value of doing nothing

o.k. parking are requesting entries for their new boring issue, the deadline is in about a month’s time… surely boredom is a valuable asset that we all badly need? problem is… it seems to be out of fashion… or is it just me?

m / 07-01-2011 08:11 - tags: , , ,  

eventually there’ll be a twitter-based classic

…within a decade, we’ll know what dark matter is… do we really need to know that i wonder? and …all sorts of things will just be sold in plain packages…, now that could be interesting

novelist and writer ‘naomi alderman’ has a peek in her crystal ball twenty years ahead for the guardian

…are you reading fewer books? I am and reading books is sort of my job. It’s just that with the multifarious delights of the internet, spending 20 hours in the company of one writer and one story needs motivation. It’s worth doing, of course; like exercise, its benefits are many and its pleasures great. And yet everyone I know is doing it less. And I can’t see that that trend will reverse…

m / 06-01-2011 12:34 - tags: ,  

forget the film…

just watch the titles, nice (link via ‘nalden’)

m / 06-01-2011 12:14 - tags: ,  

organic plastic

beautiful font experiment from young american design graduate eujung yoo using cheap plastic forks as a starting point, this project was also selected by the tdc (type directors club) for this years annual awards & book…

m / 05-01-2011 15:34 - tags: ,  

yes

indeed

m / 05-01-2011 15:33 - tags: , ,