Remixing popular culture and Penguin Books covers
A roll-up of album covers, fantasy fiction, and video games that have been redesigned to look like Penguin Book covers.
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The places you will go
A few thoughts on retaining a child-like belief in your own limitless potential.
What do runners think about during a marathon?
A clever short film by Improv Asylum shares the stream of consciousness of one runner as he participates in his first full marathon.
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Gotham typeface: Inherently inspiring a sense of change and hope?
Type from a 1939 poster produced by the British Government to bolster the morale of their people in the event an invasion re-entered popular culture in 2000.
Discovering the Smith Westerns
Discovering wonderful new music often happens by accident. While perusing a lovely little site titled “My Little Corner of the World,” a Tumblr blog maintained by Brandon Boyer (who writes for Boing Boing) I came upon a post with an embedded video and a link to a short article on Nowness.com.
Applause for Bob Boilen’s ‘Tiny Desk Concerts’
There are moments when you first hear the melody or lyric of an unfamiliar song that can result in pleasant skin tingling sensations, a welling up of energy, or an emotional response like tears or joy. We are introduced to these experiences by friends, music evangelists, or clever marketing campaigns. The later has made use of increasingly potent visuals in the form of music videos and/or subliminal presentation of catchy tunes in advertisements, television shows, and film in order to introduce us to new music experiences.
