Archives for March, 2005
2005.03.26 (Sat)
Cracked skyline
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The blue yonder glimpsed while photographing a work event last week.
2005.03.19 (Sat)
Surfacing, decompressing, coming back to earth
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There are lots of words that describe the kind of week I’ve had, and they’re all pretty damned good. Saying that and then just adding the word “intense” ought to give you enough of a picture.
2005.03.17 (Thu)
A chesty lettering problem
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What do you think this tattoo says across the chest of the person in this photograph Lil took?
2005.03.12 (Sat)
Jackson pseudo-trial
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Today for some strange reason – don’t ask me why – I thought I would read a story on the Michael Jackson trial. What I found could only have come from a ‘news’ outlet owned by Rupert Murdoch, although why the BBC decides to mention something like this is beyond me.
2005.03.11 (Fri)
Old money #2
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A rooster on the ¥1 note issued (I think) just after the war.
2005.03.09 (Wed)
Old money
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Money is cool. No, not like that.
2005.03.08 (Tue)
Antique mudball
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Two years would count as antique, wouldn’t it, for a mudball?
Kikkoman advertising: fish and sazae
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One of the nice things about Ōhashi’s illustrations – at least the ones in this style – is how well he can create both a stylized, simplified drawing of something that’s also perfectly realistic at the same time.
2005.03.06 (Sun)
Slow advertising
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Speaking of advertising, Robert Brady has a wonderful post on a superb local form of advertising I don’t think you’ll see anywhere else.
Kikkoman advertising: takenoko
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A beautiful bamboo shoot in colour, and how it appeared in the magazine ad.
Contax ends production of 35mm cameras
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Via dangerousmeta: Contax is dead! (35mm and digital, at least: the 645s apparently live on.)
2005.03.05 (Sat)
Michal Levy’s Giant Steps
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A wonderful piece of animation/visualisation set to music by John Coltrane.
Kikkoman advertising, 1950 - 1969
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Beautiful, witty and charming advertisements for Kikkoman soy sauce from Japan’s post-war reconstruction years by master illustrator Ōhashi Tadashi.
2005.03.04 (Fri)
The African Cliff
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A startling graph showing reduced life expectancy in 5 African countries due to AIDS. Via Alex Tabarrok at Marginal Revolution
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