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Amy and Taylor Lautner

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Big Bambú at The Met

So excited! I thought I had missed this. We're queuing up this AM for Big Bambú at The Met!
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/23/arts/design/23bambu.html

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Harbor Tour NYC

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Video On iPhone 4 - test #1

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H&FJ News | Hoefler & Frere-Jones

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"[H&FJ] designer Brian Hennings stumbled across a great resource this morning: on the website of the Library of Congress, a collection of 926 posters from the Works Progress Administration. The LOC has done a nice job with this collection, providing for each poster not only the relevant archival information, but high-resolution TIFF files that are free to download."

Thanks, Hoefler & Frere-Jones for sharing the wealth. You guys are awesome.

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Ebon Heath and his visual poetry | yatzer | Design Architecture Art Fashion +more

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Interregnum, or, The Old King is Dead, Long Live the King

Recently on a Saturday morning in Austin, I got together with client/friend/marketing genius Bob Carlton (Austin’s expert on eBooks and the future of eReading) to present a morning workshop on the present and future of books, new media literacy, and transmedia storytelling. Our audience wasn’t a random group of conference attendees, but rather we were presenting to the board of directors of the Texas Book Festival[1], a brilliant, fun, and creative group of book lovers who facilitate of one of the premier literary events in the country, annually hosting over 200 Texas and nationally known authors.

There, Bob described a term that was new to me, but one which instantly made sense. He pointed out that, when it comes to books, we are in an interregnum: a political term which describes the period of discontinuity between the reign of one monarch and the next (in this case, the dying reign of codex books since ±300 AD). Bob’s point was precisely this: we don’t know who the next ‘king’ is going to be when it comes to reading — and all of our present explorations in e-reading software and hardware are only baby-steps in this direction.

Interregna produce punctuated periods of intense creativity, problem-solving and social cohesion. Social scientists, theologians and philosophers have used the similar concept of liminality to describe the “ambiguity, openness, and indeterminacy” of our present age; we’re living in a “period of transition where normal limits to thought, self-understanding, and behavior are relaxed ‘ a situation which can lead to new perspectives.”). [2]

You can imagine that when cuneiform tablets gave way to animal skin and papyrus scrolls, and scrolls gave way to codices, there was upheaval and frustration with each new technology. Early adapters and stalwart, status quo types did their battles, prototypes were bandied about, and eventually the new became normative. But whole generations passed who lived in the interregnum — they didn’t know who the new king was, only, rather, that the old king was dead.

It’s an interesting time for me to be in publishing. I started off as a journalism major thinking I would make my living redesigning newspapers who were making the slow switch from manual to digital design and composition. When I made the switch to graphic design halfway through my university coursework, I kept that warm place in my heart for publishing, and many if not all of my best work in the last 20 years has centered around the publishing industry, whether it’s been periodical design, branding for publishers, transition strategies for publishers moving in to the digital space, tactical design for publishers wishing to broaden their footprint beyond their print pubs, audio packaging design, etc.

If you’re interested in this liminal space we publishing people find ourselves in, I encourage you to follow the work of Henry Jenkins[3] , the Provost's Professor of Communication, Journalism, and Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California. He’s a genius on new media literacy, transmedia storytelling, and the current changes in media consumption.

Here’s a great example of transmedia storytelling, but perhaps an even better picture of what we mean by interregnum. Here (below), the old is housing the new, giving credence to the new, and the new is tipping the hat back at the old (HT Bob Carlton):

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Pogo's Back! HT: thedailywh.at

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This doesn't top his Mary Poppins, but it fits nicely in the oeuvre.

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Today I am 15,000 days old.

I set a calendar item to remind myself that today Mark and I are 15,000 days old.

That's 2142 weeks and 6 days.
Which is 41 years and 25 days, including 10 leap years*.
(= 41 years, 3 weeks and 4 days.)
Therefore, I am 41.1 years old.
We were born on a Wednesday;
our last birthday was a Friday
and our next one will be on a Saturday.

HT Marjorie for the link: http://korn19.ch/coding/days.php

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New Grill, 6/12/10

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Jazz Mass at St. Thomas

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Syler won a new car!

For those of you who know my brother-in-law Syler Thomas, this will come as NO surprise, but today at a Cubs game at Wrigley, he won a NEW CAR. Drove it off the field. This is a small, insignificant piece of the charmed life he lives. Love it. A Toyota Prius to replace his 17-year-old Camry with no A/C. Good show, Sy.

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Mujeres

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"Sunday's Coming" Movie Trailer

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with love to all my contemporvant friends :)

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beautiful image | Joshua Bright for The New York Times

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At Craft, on East 19th Street. The bulbs' glow flatters, but they use much more energy than standard incandescent bulbs.

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Iceland, Eyjafjallajökull - motion-control time-lapse - May 1st and 2nd, 2010

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Jónsi, Icelandic volcanoes, and motion-control time-lapse photography (Canon 5d). I wish I had a valid reason to buy one of these rigs: (see http://vimeo.com/milapse).

by Sean Stiegemeier

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If you Selma Schertz, i will be Bracken the poorhouse

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Making sunglasses at Lakeshore Learning

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Lego Hello World (HT @derekgoins)

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Old Neon

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