I discovered this BEAUTIFUL song by Adem over the weekend and now I can’t get it out of my head. So I thought I’d share… A melding and reinterpretation of two Aphex Twin classics into a beautiful (yes, I say it again), dreamy, hope-filled ‘folk’ song. Impressive and inspiring…
The song is from his latest album, ‘Takes’, which features 12 cover versions of songs from 1991-2001. His eclectic selection of artists and songs, including Yo la Tengo, Smashing Pumpkins, Tortoise, PJ Harvey and Low, seems spot on. Can’t wait to pick it up.
It’s hard for me to believe that I launched LOKi design (labs) over 8 years ago now. Life is certainly much different these days, but browsing through my archives, I’m surprised by how much has stayed the same within my work. It was nice to see how much (strange) self-initiated work I did and think about how it has in some way lead to the zine. The numerous iterations of my site (this blog would officially be version 7!) that I created and carefully attended to over the years help me to believe that I genuinely do love this medium.
Looking back it’s also interesting to trace the currents and trends of (web) design that I voraciously followed and suppose in many ways still do. From the pointless lines and 45 degree angles, to miniscule pixel type, vector shapes and grungy posterised images, its all in there, part of my endlessly self-conscious searching for form.
Presented here for your enjoyment/amusement, a selection of images from those years. I’d love to hear what you think.
This has been everywhere lately, and that’s a good thing! So I’m jumping onto the bandwagon and posting it here for (my own little corner of the web’s) posterity’s sake. Backstory here.
Sunday July 13th 2008, 3:06 pm
Filed under: miscellaneous
I found this brilliant little piece of street art just outside of the Mont-Royal metro station last week. Not only is it incredibly intriguing as an object (a doorway…), but seriously, what are the chances that it would have been found by a typophile such as myself? In the middle of the night. And in a foul, searching mood to boot (the interior inscription by the arrow reads “for the broke(n) hearted”). Small miracles, I guess. Cat simply couldn’t believe it…
Some casual googling led to this gallery, but not much other info. Anyone know about this work? I’d love to know the provenance and backstory.
Submissions for issue ten are all in and we’ve begun the long, but very exciting process of selecting, editing and designing. We’ve received a wide range of amazing submissions from over 40 people for the next issue, and its going to be a challenging task to weave it all together.
In order to do this we need some glue to hold things together, and I’m hoping you (whoever you may be) can help. So, a small request to tell us something beautiful. It could be a few words, a line a paragraph, a simple testimonial of an experience, person, object, etc. that you found beautiful. We’re not looking for anything overwrought, philosophical or “poetic”, just an honest description.
You can leave your response(s) in the comments below or send it to me by email. Looking forward to hearing from you…
Once again this year I was honoured to be selected by my good friend Oliver Vodeb to act as a jury member for Memefest, the international festival of radical communication. For the last seven years, Memefest has challenged students, professionals, artists and activists around the globe to create and present work that counters the dominant (read capitalist) communications environment, both in theory and practice.
This year’s theme was radical beauty (from which we drew our inspiration for issue ten) and it certainly proved to be quite a challenge. A lot of work didn’t manage to quite stick to the brief, and I found that many particpants failed to contextualise their work, but nonetheless some exceptional pieces emerged. A nice development saw a growing number of participants from the UAE, which certainly proved to be an interesting challenge for me as a juror, being rather naive to that particular communications context. A selection of works from this year’s festival will also be included in issue 10!
The results of the festival are in, so please go check it out and be sure to browse through the archive of past years as well. You’ll find a ton of inspirational, radical work.
