Hardland/Heartland Hardland/Heartland is a Minneapolis-based collaborative of thing-makers. I would say it’s not as much a group as a lifestyle and way of working. It’s process-based Apocalyptic Psychadelia. MadMax on a marred bitmap visionquest with Bucky Fuller in the be-skulled sidecar. Check out the blog here: http://hardlandheartland.blogspot.com/2006_08_01_archive.html
Zoran Primorac Zoran was born in the Croation city of Zadar, and began playing table tennis at a club there as a youth. His next major accomplishment was in 1987, when at the age of 18, he won silver in the World Championship in New Delhi. The following year he took silver in the Olympics. [...]
Bicycling is a big thing at our office, the majority of us who live in the city bike to work everyday. Some of use even cycle competitively, and there’s a whole group of us who bike to and from Philly’s best bars on a regular basis. That’s why I thought these two things would be [...]
Cultureby.com / Grant McCracken Cultureby is the blog of anthropologist Grant McCracken. His blog is about contemporary culture in terms of technology and media, and its effects. I recently purchased McCracken’s new book, Transformations, which explores the contemporary idea of personal transformation and its cultural implications. It’s a daily dose of insight and critical thought. [...]
Micah Lidberg I was honored to share a wall-space with Micah during the 2006 MCAD Merits Award show. He was only a junior then, but as every piece of his went up, I knew that this dude was going to be amazing. Micah’s hand-painted typography, compulsive linework and stunning color palettes were in a less [...]
This holiday season we will see David Fincher and Brad Pitt reunite for a film that I’m very excited about, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. I can appreciate Mr. Pitt and Mr. Fincher for all their talents, but I think what I’m most excited about is the story, which comes from a series of [...]