all stuff to see.
We could spend hours clicking through Graham Hicks' gallery Found Typography. Menus, neon script, subway signs -- it's all art when seen through his lens. And speaking of words in pictures, Erik Kastner ... read more
As the last copies of the last issue of Jane magazine (R.I.P.) get swept aside to make room for more copies of the 840-page September Vogue, it's worth turning our gaze to founder ... read more
Comedian Bob Smith has written his first novel called Selfish and Perverse that's just arriving now in bookstores. It will end your summer with a grin. The openly gay comic has set his ... read more
Like a lot of newfangled web 2.0 applications, when Me.dium came across our desks, we were part wary, part addicted. It's an interface for Firefox that lets you view (via a browser sidebar) ... read more
The Prelinger Archives is a collection of educational, news, government, advertising, and amateur films in the public domain founded by Rick Prelinger. The term of art for these kinds of things is "ephemeral" ... read more
The name first. The Norwegian figurative painter Odd Nerdrum is the inspiration -- and if your name is David Madson from Cincinnati, a nod to the painter and the reversal of your last ... read more
It's like an online high school reunion, except the alma mater is that 20th-century relic the Playboy Club, the international chain of "gentlemen's lounges" owned and operated by Playboy Enterprises from 1960 to ... read more
Maybe it's that late August thing, when, at least in certain areas of the country, looking up into the night sky is more mind-bending, more entertaining, and more beautiful than anything you can ... read more
According to Wikipedia, Lanternfishes (or myctophids, from the Greek mykter, "nose" and ophis, "serpent") are small, deep sea fish of the large family myctophidae. Luckily, you don't need to know any of this ... read more
