May 2010
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'Why I Won't Be Watching The Last Airbender Movie'... →
Someone thought the Airbender story would be improved if the heroes were more Caucasian? Really, Hollywood?! I hope the premiere weekend is plagued by irrelevant commercials, crappy trailers and obnoxious text-messaging jerks with the brightest, most-blinding phones. Clickthrough to Gene Luen Yang’s original post for more racebending-related commentary. Nice work, dude
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'Iridescent Gray' by Dean Goelz
From the ‘Escape From New York’ group show in Paterson, New Jersey. Some ‘making of’ footage can be found here and other work by Dean Goelz can be found here
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They Did Not Die In The Plane Crash, Shut Up →
I’m tired of all these lazy bums mumbling that the finale revealed they were dead all along and the events of the island never happened! Here’s another item from LA Times:
‘Lost’ exclusive: ABC sets the record straight about the series finale’s plane crash images
May 25, 2010
You know those Oceanic 815 plane crash images that ran after Jack’s (Matthew Fox) eye...
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The LOST Finale Decoded, From A Bad Robot Insider →
“The Island: It was real. Everything that happened on the island that we saw throughout the 6 seasons was real. Forget the final image of the plane crash, it was put in purposely to f*&k with people’s heads and show how far the show had come. They really crashed. They really survived. They really discovered Dharma and the Others. The Island keeps the balance of good and evil in the...
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The 20 Irrefutable Theories Of Book Cover Design,...
Irrefutable Theories 1-10, My Linktastic Notes from AIGA Small Talk with Jamie Keenan and Jon Gray, May 5, 2010. Above: Unheimlich Theory
i. Face Theory
The face is the first and direct form of communication. People have a natural tendency or preference to recognize faces in images
Otherwise Pandemonium, Nick Hornby; Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro
ii. Association Theory
Stimulus and...
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The 20 Irrefutable Theories Of Book Cover Design,...
Irrefutable Theories 11-20, My Linktastic Notes from AIGA Small Talk with Jamie Keenan and Jon Gray, May 5, 2010. Above: Method Theory
xi. Absent Presence Theory
Unseen, the imagined. Something hidden or out of the frame
Marcel Proust’s Search for Lost Time: A Reader’s Guide to The Remembrance of Things Past, Patrick Alexander; This Book Will Save Your Life, A.M. Homes
I think the missing...
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The 20 Irrefutable Theories Of Book Cover Design,...
(Above - something I arranged super-quick at my desk. The lettering could be better but hey, this was a super-quick-fast!)
May 5, 2010, AIGA’s Small Talk No. 7: Jon Gray (gray318) & Jamie Keenan: XX: The Twenty Irrefutable Theories of Book Cover Design (Or How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Kill Fee). The tag team presentation rolled out cover design slides and theories at a fast...
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There are no innocents. There are, however, different degrees of responsibility.
– Stieg Larson, The Girl Who Played With Fire