Urban, Ever After.
July 19th, 2010 | Filed under: Blogs | Add a Comment »Some good writing here. (Really.)
This is cool. Mrs. Smrvl discovered a new website called Pinterest, which I’d say is something like the really good parts of Flickr and Twitter mashed together. You’ll have to check it out in person to see exactly how it works, but essentially you post up images (a la Flickr) from the internet or your hard drive to create a kind of living gallery. Perfect for styleboards, visual notebooking, portfolio showcasing, or just sharing hilarious images from whatever. It’s very well thought through, and it’s as cool as it looks.
Here are two pages to get you started: my pinboard and that of Mrs Smrvl.
Don’t say I never gave you nothin’.
[via onewordprints]
Slow Media
June 30th, 2010 | Filed under: Blogs | Add a Comment »Slow Media is a blog with a manifesto. I like manifestos.
In this manifesto, it advocates the aesthetic of Slow, “as in ‘Slow Food’ and not as in ‘Slow Down’.” It suggests that the coming decade will show a rise in demand for the well-considered, timeless, and progressive, rather than the improvised, ephemeral, and reactionary. I’d like to think they’re right.
“Slow Media are welcoming and hospitable. They like to share.” I could get into this Slow Media idea, I think.
[via The Casual Optimist]
New Construction blog
June 22nd, 2010 | Filed under: Blogs | Add a Comment »Just added New Construction, by Kevin H, to my Google Reader. It’s somewhat like this blog; a holding place for information that’s not trying to be anything world changing. But the information it’s holding is “cartooning practices and concerns,” which is close to my heart.
Brand New again
June 7th, 2010 | Filed under: Blogs | Add a Comment »A little while ago, I cleaned out Google Reader, unsubscribing to everything, because I wasn’t sure why I was getting things like “Pictures of Little Baby Tigers on Skatebordz LOL” in my RSS feeds. (I exaggerate, but that’s the general idea.)
I’ve slowly been building my feeds back up, and only today did I realize how much I’ve missed Brand New.
Their shtick is before & afters of corporate identity, and I always enjoy their posts. I have therefore re-added them to my RSS feeds and will continue to enjoy their great roundup of brand refurbishings, re-imaginings, and just plain ruinings.
It’s good to be back.
Does God Delight in Non-Christian Art? by Tony Reinke
May 7th, 2010 | Filed under: Blogs | Add a Comment »Here’s a good article. Well-reasoned theological stuff. The short answer is “yes,” and how he gets there is thought-provoking. I need to dig a little deeper into it (speed read a bit on my way to work), but it seems like a winner.