ig link Friday is my sorry attempt at #followfriday as well as a fulfillment of my promise to make this blog more of a resource. Also I’m impressed with the way that people like Thor make their ljs about so much more than the repeated tracks of their obsessions. So here’s some of the stuff I’m enjoying these days. Hopefully it’ll spice up your weekend.
This weekend is the New York Art Book Fair, which gets more exhausting every year. It’s a fantastic event, but there is so much stuff. My bank account is already making whimpering sounds.
What’s great about the artists’ book thing is that it’s another example of D.I.Y. culture. Printed Matter has managed to bring together both the art and ‘zine strains of this into something that seems to be spawning a whole new generation of practitioners. It a way of making things that has been much on my mind lately.
Along with that, here’s a project that I ran across this week which is the first thing to make me interested in Star Wars in a long time: Star Wars Uncut, a project where random people are remaking the first movie in fifteen second chunks. There’s something so great about this: it’s a project that talks about the way that certain films get lodged in our collective memory, about methods community art making, and it treats the film as a kind of musical score. Watch the trailer: the bits that are finished so far are already awesome.
Along with communities coming together to make weird things happen with data there’s the more than slightly sleazy but totally safe for work I Just Made love a google map of where snu snu has just happened all over the world or at least where people want us to think it has happened. So now we can all broadcast our smug. I like the fact that they allow you to add a note to your record, as well as to let people know if you’re getting it on indoors or under heaven’s vault. You can zoom in to see if there’s anyone else on your block up to hanky panky.
After sex, what then? For many of us it’s video games, and as we all know the best video games are free and have “Donkey” in the title. So here’s Time Donkey, which is kind of like Groundhog Day with a donkey and also tacos. Wow, I wish I had some tacos right now. My breakfast is wearing off.
Speaking of clumsy transitions, I’ve been on a breakfast yogurt and muesli kick for the past few months ever since Sylt, and for the last two days the yogurt has come from Butterworks Farm. It has the kick that I remember yogurt having when I first tried it. My font of idle curiosity is endless and so i checked today to see if the company is online at all. The farm seems to be run by an earnest Vermont couple (with a studly husband by the name of Jack). I picked up the yogurt without much thinking, and now I’m surprised at how much more connected I feel with it after having looked at the website. This is what ad companies are spend millions to do theses days: to make us feel a personal connection to brands, with “web presence”. Have I just been tickled in my target audience spot by the home spun nature of Butterworks Farm’s site? In truth, I have no greater proximity to them now than when I was shoveling their milk product into my maw a few hours ago, yet I think I’m developing some brand loyalty.
That’s one of the tricks of digital media – it is both intimate and far away at the same time. Like yesterday Nick Frost retweeted me! That means we are totally super friends now, right?
Finally, if you like that drop cap that I began the post with, you should go over to this site where designer Jessica Hische is putting up one drop cap each day. Click through and look at the rest of her charming work.
P.S. Oh yeah – fur flashing: there’s some peeking out of the open collar there. And I got bored and braided my beard.
Tags: big link friday, books, food, movies, online life, sex