things somehow got out of control
i’ve been enthused about a magazine for a long time, but i only just visited the website for Lürzer’s Archive for the first time. you can find ads of the week and tv spots of the week, along with classic ads of the week. you can also browse industry photographers and designers, but anything much deeper than thumbnails will cost you one subscription fee.
i just found this other one online, called simply delve. evidently they have a print component as well. i’ll look for it. the interface for viewing the magazine is really novel (in my experience, anyway). once you click on an issue title, a window appears. then you click on the right half of the image for the next page, and the left side to go back a page. there are no instructions, but we all know how to hover our pointers nowadays and look for where to click. i guess maybe not all of us. certainly worthy of further thought. i admit to feeling hamfisted when it comes to theses slick new webdesigns that keep popping up.
the experience of many sites makes sense to me only because a buddy once peeped me to a site called nobodyhere. it is possible for one (you) to lose one’s self (yeah, you) here indefinitely.
speaking of which, one (you) should definitely check all the links tailing from nobodyhere. one of my favorites, which is always fresh, is explodingdog. this person Sam Brown draws pictures based on titles that people send to him. they are insightful and hysterical and grotesque (in the Sherwood Anderson Winesburg, Ohio kind of way), and worth a few hours of noodling around. the illustration above is his, dated 10.11.07.
one more think: it seems illustration has expanded into terraforming lately. thanks to eikongraphia for showing so many fine photos of the sea near Dubai, UAE and for all the stimulating architectural eyecandy (and moreover the analysis/commentary). from earthen materials we form islands, from islands we get a mosaic image of the earth in the water, and when you finally plant mansions and swimming pools thereupon, we are left with quite a labyrinth. behind it all, there is no ground. or rather, there is no bottom. wait, we can have it both ways! in any case, the floating signifier is made manifest. Roland Barthes? are you watching?
and now this entry has really gotten out of control.
Thursday, October 18, 2007
“things somehow got out of control” by sam brown, explodingdog