An atlas for the blind circa 1837. Without a drop of ink in the book, the text and maps were embossed on heavy paper.
Will by Eusong Lee (CalArts 2012)
The New Gawker Commenting System
Live as of today, including a cute “Burner” option for anonymous commenting. Regardless of what you think about Nick Denton’s editorial attitudes, you discount his ambition for innovation at your peril. What strikes me as obvious in retrospect is that this new system is less about making the comments more sophisticated as it is abandoning the traditional concept of comments altogether. What Gawker now supports is in-house reader blogging, for all intents and purposes. Sure it’s super-sophisticated or customizable like your very own blogsite, but that’s not the point. The folderol about empowering people to control conversations as a way to increase “quality” may or may not pan out qualitatively, but if the system is fun to use it will certainly convert people to more active users rather than passive readers. Makes sense after all, because Gawker is a tech company.
Adverve: A camera that describes the scene it sees
The descriptive camera takes a picture just like any other camera that you might shoot a scene with - only instead of displaying a photo, it prints a written description of what it sees.
The mondo-geeks who built the descriptive camera realized that all cameras record a load of metadata withevery photo. Most of this we never see. They’ve fused that with some super geek wizardry that takes it even f
urther.This will be perfect to record a diary of your travels. If you are looking for that sort of thing.
“duchamp was here”
(via woostercollective)
Depends on the day of the week.
Sometimes I am not sure about myself either.
TOMORROW!
The First Annual CalArts Print Fair is tomorrow; Sunday, April 15th in the Main Gallery of CalArts from 11AM - 5PM. If you’re in the LA area, you should come check it out, it’s sure to be a promising event. Workshops, lectures, food, friends and most importantly, lots and lots of printed goods from the CalArts community!
If you would like to have a copy of the official CalArts Print Fair poster, email me your mailing address; we will be shipping them out tomorrow.
There’s a whole lot to go around! cburnettdesign@me.com
google maps for nes. awesome.
How a book is made today, using traditional printing methods – lovely short vignette from The Daily Telegraph. Also see how books were made over the ages, from the middle ages to today, and the fascinating Books: A Living History.
