“If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life it would be like hearing the grass grow and squirrel’s heartbeat and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.”
- George Eliot, Middlemarch
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Started following .?’s photostream on Flickr when he started following me but I have been obsessed with his work ever since with its strange bleached out nostalgia-like feel. Enjoy.
Mark Simonson’s critical analysis of Mad Men typography.
Mad Men illustrated by Dyna Moe.
The Mad Men Guide to New York.
I’m being followed by Betty Draper: Mad Men on Twitter.
Real Mad Men at Wired, Business Week, and the New York Post.
Imaginary Forces’ Mark Gardner and Steve Fuller on the title sequence design and its homage to Saul Bass.
The drinks…
and the Draper’s kitchen.
I’ve been working on a project for the past two weeks that has found me immersed in the graphic language of rockabilly, burlesque, punk rock, chopper bikes and hot rod cultures. I can’t reveal much more than this at the moment but thought I would share with you two of the more unapologetically cooler websites that have crossed my path in the course of my research, both of them harkening back to a simpler time when a woman’s place was on the pinup calendar and men were measured by the muscle under their hoods: 60′s & 70′s Funny Cars.
(Now if I only knew where my old Hot Wheels collection got to…)
Brilliant poster for the highly anticipated new film by Charlie Kaufman – writing and directing this time around – Synecdoche New York.
David Ehrenstein had this to say about the film:
“This film is a masterpeice. I am in awe. Charlie Kaufman’s previous screenplays indicated a very original and eccentric talent. Now directing his own screnplay for the first time he has upped the ante. It’s three times the size of all his other films put together and infinitely more complex. Imagine a jam session between Philp K. Dick and Raul Ruiz. I don’t know what this film’s chances are in an increasingly — proudly — stupid world. Not good, I expect. Therefore — for the happy few.”
