A few weeks ago my "Random Stuff" post got me searching for another old folder of mine. This folder dates from 2001(!) and it contains images taken from ebay. I was convinced, at the time, that the photos people took of the stuff they were selling on ebay would be the next great source of "found photography". In retrospect, three things have become apparent. 1. Almost any photo of a prosthetic device or doll part looks like "art". 2. I spent way too much time trolling ebay for wigs and underwear. 3. The next great source of "found photography" is obviously Google Street View.
3/17/11
3/16/11
3/14/11
This Wednesday!
I'll be talking along with Helen Yentus and Henry Yee about the past, present and future of us. Probably showing a few covers that have never been seen before (nor will they ever be seen again). Type Directors Club.
3/9/11
Deface the Nation
The recent upheavals in the Middle East and other parts of the world have brought forth a barrage of one of the most potent forms of graphic expression: the defaced political poster. Let's leave aside the actual messages presented in these images—many of the posters come from an anti-Semitic mindset and others have insults not easily decipherable to western eyes. I'm still not sure how Mubarak can be both Hitler and an Israeli sympathizer. But is there a more passionate form of visual communication? On the home front we've seen Barack Obama photoshopped into The Joker, Hitler, and a bleeding-eyed Abraham Lincoln. These pale in comparison to the urgent paint and marker-ed images from the Middle East. Images that people risk their lives to create. 
3/4/11
3/3/11
3/2/11
Catching up
Casual Optimist interviews David Drummond
"Vip's" drinking art
A Journey Around My Skull is now 50watts.com
Family. A great bookstore in LA.
This series:
3/1/11
Upcoming events
A couple of talks/discussions/presentations I will be participating in.
I will be presenting my Nabokov presentation
at Galapagos on March 8th.
I will be discussing the the future of the printed book with fellow cover meisters Henry Sene Yee and Helen Yentus at the Type Directors Club on March 16th. This is also Book Cover Night, so there will be drinks, snacks and lots of book covers to see.
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