‘Tho all the maps of blood and flesh are posted on the door, theres no one who has told us yet what Boogie Street is for.’
Animation by cronogeo, featuring late 1920s woodcuts by ‘image novelist’ Franz Masareel (1889-1972).
Was recently reading about Masareel in David Berona’s beautiful edition, Wordless Books: The Original Graphic Novels.
Found via Oded Ezer, Belkind Scheps Osnat
Thomas Bernard and Florian Chevillard have invented The Printing Machine.
Presented at the Festival de l’Affiche in Chaumont, France.
It helps if you understand French. If not, that’s okay too.
Found via Monsieur Bandit
Maira Kalman: Various Illuminations (of a Crazy World) opened today at the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco.
Show details (and video) here.
Found via Blair Barton
‘Depicts 2.4 million pieces of plastic, equal to the estimated number of pounds of plastic pollution that enter the world’s oceans every hour. All of the plastic in this image was collected from the Pacific Ocean.’
From Chris Jordan’s Running the Numbers II: Portraits of global mass culture. Details here.
‘if graphic design did not exist, information would suffer, you’d die, and things would be ugly.’
This weekend, my alma mater – San Jose State University – is putting on their 2010 senior graphic design show – with two receptions scheduled.
Tough school. Even Businessweek thinks so – SJSU is one of their top 60 D-Schools worldwide. Always incredible work.
receptions
Friday May 21 and Saturday May 22, 2010 at art ark gallery in San Jose, CA. Details here (click on the people to see their work). Blog here.
Exhibition runs just under a week. Ends Thursday May 27, 2010.
Photos taken April 10, 2010.
Opening April 8, 2010 at the Bayside Church in Granite Bay, CA is ‘From the Dead Sea Scrolls to the Bible in America,’ an exhibition featuring five pieces of the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Also on hand will be some rare Bibles including (reportedly) an original by Gutenberg.
More information here. SacBee article here.
Found via Susan Poirier
One of the coolest printing history finds in the Los Angeles area is The International Printing Museum in Carson.
Tucked away in an industrial section and run by the incredible Mark Barbour, the museum hosts an amazing collection of rare equipment, The Book Arts Institute (Hi Rachelle!), The Wayzgoose Gazette, a gallery, library and more.
And now they have a new RSS-friendly blog-based website – sporting a new logotype (above) created by Gina Pirtle Simpson.
Click on any image to visit the museum’s website/jump.
Museum photographs by April Rocha
‘Canada’s home grown electro kings Holy FUCK lend their funk to this incredible snippet of the digital graffiti out of the olympic village. A huge backlit projection was set up in conjunction with photoshop and given to a group of anti-athletes’
Presented by Chairman Ting and Tangible interaction.
Snag Holy Fuck’s tracks here. MySpace here.
Found via YRB Magazine
Justin Timberlake’s Rock Your Body, feat. Janet Jackson . . .
Costumes designed by Alexander McQueen (no one mentions that)
Like ripples in a pond.
The legal battle resulting from the 2004 Superbowl Wardrobe Malfunction (above) – which led to rampant censorship across the United States, Howard Stern leaving his radio show and pixelated faces on late night tee vee – is STILL going on.
Read more here.
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