Cinematic stains of the great directors: Antonioni

In honor of the passing of the Italian director Michelangelo Antonioni last month, here is a shot of the ink spilling scene in L’avventura, and then three alterations of the image as it passes into memory:

Chiseling a painting to life

Sometimes, scraping away many layers of paint that ain’t workin’ is best accomplished with a sledgehammer and chisel, at least when the painting is on plywood. Now it’s ready for a new beginning.

Stevenson Street San Francisco

Graffiti goes digital on Ecko adboard

Says adgoodness: Marc Ecko wants to promote his roots and love for graffiti. Digital citylights are created that consists of an LCD and a bluetooth interface. People will get the possibility to access the citylight via bluetooth with their cell phones and spray their own graffiti with the cursor of their phone. Click on the [...]

Malibu bod y hook

Sign near a hotel pool in Malibu today: Could be a BODY HOOK or, perhaps, a BOD y HOOK. I think it’s the latter, not a ladder.

Rental cottage interior, Malibu

Minimal, but highly effective, kipple.

Storage unit hallway floor stain

It looks like it may have once been liquid coffee.

An apparent typological anomaly

Thinking more about the work of linguist Simon Kirby, featured in the New York Times book review that I wrote about a couple days ago, so I Googled him. That led me to the rich vein of glorious word ore that is Linguistic Typology, an academic journal about, well, linguistic typology, stupid. The LT website [...]

The first word

Interesting review in the New York times today of a new book that attempts to unravel the mystery of how language came to be: THE FIRST WORD — The Search for the Origins of Language, by Christine Kenneally. This it what turned me on the most (italics mine): One of Ms. Kenneally’s most intriguing scientists, [...]