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Art Ford on his Greenwich Village Party program from 1957
Featuring Cy Coleman
 

Cy Coleman, Why Try To Change Me Now?
From Art Ford’s Greenwich Village Party, 1957
 

Fiona Apple and Dave Palmer, Why Try To Change Me Now? 2009
 

The Best Is Yet To Come: The Songs of Cy Coleman

New album available here. Official Cy Coleman site here.

Art Ford videos found via TV Days

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Vintage Original Joe’s ashtray, photo by mehallo

Kick back, have a Martini at Joe’s.

get the playlist or watch video or create your own at mixpod.com
please support the musicians on my player by legally purchasing their music

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Top: Ghirardelli Lux Milk Hazlenut
Middle: Ghirardelli Sublime White Vanilla Dream
Bottom: Ghirardelli 100% Cacao Unsweetened Chocolate Baking Bar

One piece of each.
Let all three slowly melt in your mouth.

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Funki Porcini Atomic Kitchen

Short film from Funki Porcini’s CD/DVD album Fast Asleep.

Typographic album cover:

(Hm. This cover reminds me of theSTART’s Chelsea Davis)

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Bomb Shelters, Inc. business card, 1959

Everything you’d ever need to know about ‘The Golden Age of Homeland Security’ can be found at the Conelrad website.

The site is named for the Civil Defense emergency network – ‘CONtrol of ELectronic RADiation’ which was set up to broadcast on AM 640 and 1240 in the event of an atomic attack.

Illustration from Walt Disney’s Our Friend the Atom children’s book, 1956

From TIME, July 26, 1963

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In the future, we were all supposed to live off of a never ending supply of nutritional pills. Which, from looking at the pill-based ‘natural’ supplements in my medicine cabinet – purchased in the pill section of the ‘natural’ food store – we’re not too far off.

From Wallpaper: Here’s three future of food videos by the Philips Food Design Probes project. Press release here. Gallery here.

The Nutrition Monitor
‘The Nutrition Monitor scanning wand consists of a sensor which is swallowed, and a scanning wand which can measure the nutritional value of food. It can determine exactly what sort of food you need, when you need it, and how much of it you actually need to eat to match your requirements and achieve optimum health.’
 

The Food Printer
‘The Food Printer provides molecular gastronomy at the touch of a button by using the principles of rapid prototyping. Simply pop in a couple of cartridges of, say, carrot and onion, and ‘print’ them into whatever shape and consistency you fancy.’
 

The Biosphere Home Farm
‘The Biosphere Home Farm contains fish, plants and other mini ecosystems, and allows different life forms to live in harmony with each other. It looks like a 21st century aquarium crossed with stylish shelving unit.’

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From Paleo-Future, Tomorrow’s Kitchen (1943)

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This is dedicated to my students, who’ve been working their asses off all weekend.

A few hours ago, I saw the online complaints about Kinko’s now legendary horrible customer service (was it always like this, or just after the FedEx buyout?). Typography 4 final crit is at 9 a.m. today.

Found via Utrecht Sacramento on Facebook

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I was told when I released my Jeanne Moderno fonts, they’d probably end up being used on a cereal box.

Instead, I’ll settle for this cool laundry detergent box designed by Bootleg.

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. . .  And when MyFonts did a write up of my Jeanne Moderno fonts for their Rising Stars newsletter – they spent some time digging thru so they could show some of my telescoping ascenders, alternates and ligatures (above). I like to hide things in my fonts, fill the blank slots as it were.

(Below) Psy/Ops new type sample for Jeanne Moderno. Psy/Ops also carries the Jeanne fonts, they did the final OpenType mastering before release (and without their support, Jeanne could possibly still be sitting in the 10 year limbo that was part of my process).

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