June 2007
12 posts
So I was at the Dutch premiere of Helvetica at Kriterion last friday. The film was pretty cool, although slightly longish. I especially liked the city montages between the interviews as they came with better music and less self-indulgence than… say, Massimo Vignelli’s bit. Of course he is a genius but still. Also, I would have liked to have seen more of Hermann Zapf, he was on screen...
Biola Undergrad →
Lovely textures and attention to detail.
“The aftertaste of a blood orange bears a striking resemblance to the aftertaste...”
WatchMalcolm Gladwell: What we can learn from spaghetti sauce (at TED 2004)
“The reflective dock feels like an inadequate band-aid on an otherwise dull grey...”
The new Safari 3 beta for Mac fixes some nasty webkit rendering bugs, like the one where absolutely positioned content is not re-rendered after scrolling, causing parts of the page to disappear. That bug was really annoying me on the For Inspiration Only website.
I started using Last.fm again →
The new iScrobbler app is so much less intrusive than the official client.
Marian Bantjes →
Her work is stunning.
“Why is it that nowadays everybody is expected to have an opinion on everything?...”