i’m still enjoying the regular entries on the ‘paris vs. new york’ blog
me news
what goes around…
this one comes around again every few years: the clean ‘type specimen’ look (spotted on qbn and behance)
ghosts of amsterdam
here’s a nice little idea: a series of comped images: amsterdam at the end of the second world war and today superimposed together, which i find fascinating to look at, the execution isn’t terribly good but it works, in fact the first image directly here below is actually the exact view from my office window here on the vijzelstraat… strange to see it like this
(spotted via ‘yacco vijn’ on fb)
history, rewritten
…i took my favorite book… and by removing words carved out a new story. It was hardly an original idea: it’s a technique that has, in different ways, been practiced for as long as there has been writing…
the ‘tree of codes’ book which i posted about earlier this month, has been reviewed by steven heller who has also interviewed the author on the why & how…
my own copy also arrived in the post today, it’s a fascinating object to hold and examine but the idea alone, of actually attempting to read it makes me feel tired…
meta data
young photographer ‘meta scheltes’ got in touch to share her portfolio, here’s a selection of what caught my eye… for a complete overview visit her website
