Monthly Archive for September, 2008

My Bloody Valentine @ Roseland

My Bloody Valentine

My Bloody Valentine performing at Roseland Ballroom, in New York City.
My Bloody Valentine on MySpace »
Brooklyn Vegan’s Photos »
Stereogum’s photos and video of an earlier show »

Walk­ing out of the Rose­land Ball­room last Tues­day night, I felt blind, deaf and dumb­founded – and I’m not the only one. We had just stood through an assault on our eyes, ears, and patience, but it was an amaz­ing show.

Ear plugs were handed out on the way in, and I jammed them in as far as they would go – but, I’m not sure it was enough. It was cer­tainly the loud­est show I’ve ever witnessed.

And it wasn’t enough for the light show to be trippy and beau­ti­ful, but it also had to burn out your reti­nas. Lisa made the point that there were more lights pointed out at the crowd than at the band them­selves. Still, the bright pink glow was exactly the per­fect accom­pa­ni­ment for the band that recorded Loveless.

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September 29, 2008
in music and travel
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Economix & Green Inc. Blog Headers

The Times is in the process of beef­ing up its busi­ness cov­er­age online, adding new ver­ti­cals on the econ­omy and green energy. As part of that roll out, we launched two blogs last week, and I was tasked with the header designs and illus­tra­tion assignments.

I really enjoy the little bits of art direc­tion that I get to do at the Times. It’s fun to search for the illus­tra­tors, work with them on con­cepts and sketches, and in the end they do all of the work.

Economix

Economix Blog header

Illustration by Headcase Design

Economix is writ­ten by David Leon­hardt and Cather­ine Ram­pell, and will focus on both the global econ­omy and the per­sonal deci­sions read­ers make everyday.

The illus­tra­tion was done by Paul Kepple’s team at Head­case Design, with art direc­tion and design by myself.

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September 28, 2008
in Apple, design and work
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Election 2008, Powered by Twitter

Twitter found another inter­est­ing thing to do since acquir­ing Sum­mize this past summer: they launched an Elec­tion 2008 feed, which dis­plays Twit­ter users thoughts on the elec­tion in real time. The scroll goes dizzy­ingly fast, but the pause on mouse-​over is a nice touch.

It will be inter­est­ing to keep an eye on it during the first pres­i­den­tial debate tonight, as I’m sure there will be lots of insight­ful, thought­ful com­ments. ::wink, wink:: Though I wish that the list was curated down to a select bunch of jour­nal­ists or commentators.

September 26, 2008
in links and politics
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Sacha Baron Cohen Crashes the Catwalk at Milan Fashion Week

Ali G and Borat might have been put to rest, but come­dian Sacha Baron Cohen seems to now be work­ing on a Brüno movie, based on his gay Aus­trian model character.

Ear­lier today, he caused a ruckus when he crashed the cat­walk at Milan Fash­ion Week, dressed in a ridicu­lously funny cos­tume. The photos and video look hilarious.

September 26, 2008
in links, photos and video
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No More Pink Grid Bars

Quick admin note: I removed the grid​lay​outs.com javascript from this site, so you should not see the pink bars appear­ing when you’re typing a com­ment or search­ing for something.

The Javascript was only sup­posed to toggle the pink grid bars when the user hits ctrl+shift+G – but it must have inter­fered with some other ajaxy stuff, because it was tog­gling with only the G key. So, it’s been removed – and I added a screen­shot of what it looked like to my orig­i­nal post about the redesign.

That is all.

September 24, 2008
in design and weblogs
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Jennarator on Hershey’s Switch to Partially Hydrogenated Vegetable Oil

Jenna on Hershey’s deci­sion to replace cocoa butter with par­tially hydro­genated veggie oil in their choco­late candies:

Every­one feels tricked and betrayed by their beloved Her­shey. And to that I say, it’s f*cking her­shey, get over it. It’s not a high qual­ity prod­uct to begin with (still love it, though).

I just think this is a dumb thing to get worked up about, espe­cially when so much food right now is making people sick. Can we focus on making and grow­ing food that won’t give us E. Coli and for­give a little veg­etable oil?

My answer is no, but I think that foods of all kinds con­tain too much processed sugars and fats.

September 22, 2008
in food and links
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Waffle House Wedding

Some truly excel­lent jour­nal­ism, from The Gwin­nett Daily Post: Waffle House Wed­ding. I love that you can order any of the photos.

September 19, 2008
in links and video
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Inside Obama’s Emails

In the wake of Sarah Palin’s email account hack, The Onion brings you Inside Obama’s Emails. Funny, but I thought John McCain didn’t know how to do the e-mail? [via Jason]

September 19, 2008
in links and politics
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Time.com Redesign

New Time.com

New design for the homepage of time.com, the website of Time Magazine.

Time Mag­a­zine started rolling out a redesign of time.com yes­ter­day – it was designed by my friend and former col­league Sean Vil­lafranca, who left our group at the Times ear­lier this year to become the Design Direc­tor for time.com.

It strikes me as a wel­come depar­ture from its pre­vi­ous CNN-esque iter­a­tion, and a little more faith­ful to the print design. I like the use of Arial Black, and the daring use of the TIME word­mark on the white back­ground. (Daring because it would’ve been far more pre­dictable to use the word­mark reversed on a red background.)

They seem to have only rolled-​out the home page and the arti­cle pages at this point – sec­tion fronts still show the legacy design. But on the whole, it’s a very good improve­ment to a very good news resource – just in time for the gen­eral elec­tion season.

ALSO – A few birdies tell me to expect some major design changes to wsj.com today or tues­day, coming hot-off-the-heels of their mag­a­zine launch this month. Yes, we’ve heard this before, but there are some pre­view screen­shots out there. Stay Tuned!

September 15, 2008
in design and media
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Obama is RESTful

Corey Ehmke wrote up a funny com­par­i­son of the tech­nolo­gies used by the Obama and McCain cam­paigns on their web­sites. His con­clu­sion? Obama is RESTful.

September 13, 2008
in links
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Memorial, 7 years

Memorial

Twin beams of the Tribute in Light in lower Manhattan, as seen from the Promenade in Brooklyn Heights.
September 11, 2008
in Links and photos
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