Eminem lets his politics be known

Eminem's Mosh Music Video. See it here.

Sticker shock

Sasha Frere-Jones, Dave Tompkins, Hua Hsu, and Jeff Chang have just about launched their new audioblog, Sticker Shock. I was involved in the minimal design. It's gonna be big.

New photoblogs

My cousin Dan just started his first photoblog. It's called Un Object d'art.

THREE.2

THREE.2 is a new digifotoblog posting frequent images thus far in and around New York.

Kill Kitty

Chang Cheng-Yue is performing in New York and Boston on Sunday and Monday (and he's playing in LA Oct 23. He's a Chinese Rock star, and this marks the first time a Chinese Rock artist has toured the states. Click on the banner for more information.

I love eggs

And you might too after seeing this. Though maybe eating them 365 days a year would be bad for your health. . . . Thanks to Dennis for pointing it out.

Open House New York

"The Second Annual OHNY weekend is scheduled for Saturday & Sunday, October 9 & 10, 2004. 100 fascinating spaces and places in all five boroughs will be open for tours - free of charge. Each site will offer different experiences, including guided and self-guided tours, informal talks and conversations with the designers." I missed this last year so I'm definitely going out this year to check it out. Read about it on their site: www.openhousenewyork.org

Photo books

I'm ordering two books. Eric had recommended the VII agency's book War to me a few weeks ago. At AIGA's 50 books 50 covers I saw the book itself and spent a good portion of my time there flipping through it (you would think that their site would have at least thumbnails of the winners). The other book I'm buying is Michael Ackerman's End Time City, a collection of photographs he took while in Benares. I've been meaning to get that one for a wihle and am finally breaking down and doing it.

Audio blogs

On the subject of audio blogs, here's two more that I'm enjoying (one courtesy of SF/J). Today, Moistworks is offering some mashups. The one mixing the Beatles and the All Saints is eeriely cool. Fluxblog's offering a Phil Specorish song and a funky little jam. The winner today would be Moistworks if you were to compare mp3s. Though Fluxblog's been quoted in the Times on an article about marketing through audiobloggers.

Fruits of Chaos

Fruits of Chaos is an mp3 blog devoted to (mostly) Asian pop music. At least as far as I can discern from my initial glance at it.

The 8th Tehran International Poster Biennial

"The 8th Tehran International Poster Biennial is the latest in a succession of seven national Biennials of Iranian Graphic Designers. It has been prepared for a long time, and very carefully, and has been preceeded by a number of exhibtions both in Tehran and in Europe." You can see some of the posters and the designers here. Oh to be in Tehran!

Creep (acoustic)

Cool animated music video set to Radiohead's "Creep". Very nicely done.

Mining links

I haven't checked #1/usr/bin/girl in a while, and she's put up some links to some cool games and animations. Check out the Scarecrow game, which looks like Tim Burton might have designed it; MoMa's site on Tall buildings, which is nicely designed though it bothers me that three or four of the buildings are WTC sketches which won't even be built; the speed reading test; and the cartoon Heroes.

Soul Sides

Oliver Wang (aka O-Dub) is running this great audio blog called Soul Sides. It started as a place to post record reviews, but it's since become a place where he posts mp3s and comments on those. One of the greatest discoveries in recent weeks is the Bizzie Boys. If I had the original 12"'s, I'd be wearing out the grooves. As it is, the three tracks O-Dub's posted are quickly climbing the charts according to my Itunes play count. It's too bad they only had those four singles. It's almost enough to convince me to become a record collector.

Like sand for water

A neat video showing that sand behaves like water.

Hot in Herrre

What happens when two video game combatants decide to lay down their arms and get funky? Well, you might get something like Dance, Voldo, Dance.

Middle East photographs

I've spent the last three days scanning negatives and designing and producing a site to exhibit some of the black and white photos I took while in the Middle East. A color site will have to come later (when I have the time to edit all the photos). You can find the site here.

Pentrx: Pen Spinning Revolution

I never got but the basic tricks down (and that took forever). Some of the moves shown on this site are beyond what meagre abilities I might ever hope to have. (courtesy #!/usr/bin/girl)

Terror, Terrorism, and the Human Condition

This is my 200th post on this blog. Just thought I'd note that. I'm still trying to figure out what to do with my day. Guillemette guilted me into working (she's been working on her book all weekend) and so I spent part of my afternoon doing this. About the book: In an attempt to explore the impact of terrorism at its most basic level--that of sowing fear and anxiety--this book investigates our now centuries-long attraction to, and dread of, terror and its progeny, including terrorism, or political terror, and mass murder. It is also a call to thought, and an appeal to reasoned action. Charles Webel argues that while a "war" on terrorism cannot succeed in eliminating terror from our human condition, this does not mean that it cannot, and should not, be confronted by means other than war.

Women's Police Stations

There are times that I wish I did read all the books that I design, especially those for the academic press for which I do work. This book "examines the changing and complex relationship between women and the state, and the construction of a gendered citizenship and justice, using the case study of women's police stations in Sao Paulo. These are police stations run by police women to deal with crimes against women, such as domestic violence, assault, and rape." Think of how much better informed if I could read all these books (and retain the facts—that's the other problem. Remembering what I read).