God Awful Things

This is how Spolans Busting works:

Now, for some reason at a BBQ last night I was reciting the bit about “The Gypsies had no home!”  Spolans the proceeded to claim the Romani people were essentially wiped out in the holocaust and this is why we don’t hear their stories.  Said with such certainty, I knew [...]

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There has been little to link to lately, so whilst I sit back and unbuckle my brain in this 90 degree weather in Los Angeles, I will leave you with this.

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When I was a teen in the Iowa countryside, it would be an understatement to say there was nothing to do. Especially if you didn’t really care to participate in any sports.  So my friend Steve and I did what any self respecting “alternative” teens would do in the 90’s…
“Let’s start a band, man!”
“Fuck yeah!”
So we [...]

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From Wired:
In the hollow mask illusion, viewers perceive a concave face (like the back side of a hollow mask) as a normal convex face. The illusion exploits our brain’s strategy for making sense of the visual world: uniting what it actually sees — known as bottom-up processing — with what it expects to see based [...]

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Sorry to get all advertising and design busters in the ol’ blog lately, but whilst I go through my quantum physics desert of inspiration I just have to go back to the old reliable world of people selling shit.
It is a well known fact I can get lofty and pompous when discussing design and all [...]

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I’ve been held up for the past few days aching and weak from allergies.. so to fill that void, please enjoy some Richard Hawley.
Exclusive Off-Guard Gig #3: Richard Hawley – Live @ Yahoo! Video

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