The Making of Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
To mark the film’s 30th anniversary, Vanity Fair presents rarely seen photographs from the Empire Strikes Back set.
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Playboy in Braille
If you can think of it, it probably exists>
How do you explain a naked woman to a pubescent, visually impaired teen?
“Elka leans against a wall, wearing only a carpenter’s tool belt. She’s hot. Believe me.”
“Katsumi arches unnaturally over a coffee table. You can see the whole thing.”
“Anja’s Mediterranean skin is a warm brown, like the craft paper Playboy you’re reading with your finger.”
Playboy in Braille makes you think. It’s exciting but uncomfortable at the same time. Like Courtney Love fixing your stove.
ELSE/WHERE: MAPPING
Cool looking web site with an equally cool looking book—I’m a sucker for coolness.
ELSE/WHERE: MAPPING — New Cartographies of Networks and Territories, the second book to be published by the Design Institute, is a scholarly anthology on techniques and contemporary applications of mapping, in four sections:
MAPPING NETWORKS
MAPPING CONVERSATIONS
MAPPING TERRITORIES
MAPPING MAPPING
Featuring 40 essays by U.S. and European historians, designers, cultural critics, geographers and social scientists, copiously illustrated with over 250 color images in extensive visual “gazetteers” — including specially-commissioned portfolios by artists and designers — ELSE/WHERE: MAPPING investigates:
how new technologies of navigation and location are emerging to chart “virtual” terrain such as social networks and online conversations
how these new mapping strategies borrow and reinvent metaphors adapted from the cartography of physical terrain, considered at various scales — urban, regional, continental, global
how new modes of representation of spatial data are evolving to explore the potential for collective “bottom-up” (rather than “top-down”) mapping
how cities, communities and social networks are being re-envisioned, as artists and designers use technologies such as GPS, GIS and digital interface design to devise alternative mappings of social and spatial relationships.
Fuck this Book
We saw this funny book after we watch that bootsie ass Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. This dude puts “Fuck” stickers on street signs—most of them are funny as fuck. Go to the web site to get your own stickers to create your own fucking funny ass signs.
Pigeon Killa
If you hate pigeons but like art, checkout this show at the Receiver Gallery in SF:
Canceled Flight: The Exhibitions, showcases illustrations from the “Canceled Flight: 101 Tried and True pigeon Killin’ Methods? book created by A.V. Jones. With works by more than 85 artists, The Pigeon Show has previously shown in NY at The Reed Space, and continues on after Receiver Gallery in San Francisco, to Los Angeles’ Lab 101 and Denver’s Andenken Gallery.
Featuring the art of Tiffany Bozic, Brendan Monroe, Dalek, kozyndan, Nago Richardis, Sirron Norris, Nate Van Dyke, Saiman Chow, Chris Pew, Honest, Paul Urich, David Choe, Ezra Li Eismont, Derrick Hodgson, Freddi C, GH, Marq Spusta, Peter Sutherland, Ferris Plock, Ryan McGinness, and Struggle Inc; and many other artist
thoughtless
A book by jane fulton suri of ideo: thoughtless.
thoughtless acts are all those intuitive ways we adapt, exploit, and react to things in our environment; things we do without really thinking.
Hip Hop Heads
Any book that features Too Short in their promo is all good. I’m getting this book tonight.
Theme
You gotta get this magazine. It has folks like Jai Tatsuto West, Nam June Paik, Denki Groove, Towa Tei, Nikki S. Lee, Zhang Huan, and Barry McGee. Don’t sleep.
Mister Cartoon
Mister Cartoon, the tattoo artist who is responsible for giving Eminem, 50 Cent as well as Beyonce their ink, has moved up on the food chain. Like hip-hop stars Jay-Z and 50 Cent, the tattoo artist/entrepreneur has moved into the shoe world and is preparing to launch his own shoe with Nike. The artist has inked a deal with Nike to custom design six shoes, three Air Force Ones and three Nike Cortez.
Listen to this NPR interview or watch this quicktime movie. Wesssyde!
The RZA and Terry Gross
If you’re a fan of Terry Gross or RZA, checkout this interview on NPR. Some background info on the RZA:
“The RZA is one of the founding members of the kung-fu-meets-hip-hop group the Wu Tang Clan. He has also written film scores, including Kill Bill and Ghost Dog. Now he has turned his efforts to a new book, The Wu Tang Manual. The RZA is also known as the Abbot, Bobby Digital, Prince Dynamite and more. His birth name is Robert F. Diggs.” Buy the book from Amazon.com.