Posts filed under "asides"
The Mleeta Resistance Landmark - I’m actually completely lost for words, the Hezzbollah ‘Disneyland’. Honestly words are just not enough, go have a look at this thing.
Tax Evasion and the Greek Economy - Excellent little article about the situation in Greece at the moment, which has dominated the news for a good chunk of news time. I’ve been trying to wrap my head around it all and what it means to the country that I once called home, and which now is home to my parents and brother…
Comics Journal 301 - Love the fact that this thing will be a beast of a book, and cock full of classic stuff to read. Especially love the Dave Sim interview, god I’ve missed TCJ in print…seriously.
Top Shelf 2011 Releases - It’s been a while since I’ve read anything published by Top Shelf, but there are some great things being published this year under their banner.
reMIND - Trying to get back into drawing again (things are finally starting to calm down after the wedding etc). This is an awesome resource of links and thoughts about putting a graphic novel together, by someone who actually has done it. Congrats to Jason.
TreeShirt - It’s not very common for me to see a Lebanese initiative that I honestly like, so this was a great surprise for me, even though they are a bit on the pricey side.
Sami Basri - The man behind the artwork on the upcoming Voodoo ongoing series. Don’t fuck this up buddy, please kill it, Voodoo and Jeremy are easily the best WS characters.
The Definitive Guide To The DC Comics Reboot - Great table by the iFanboy guys in putting all this information together. The thing that popped out for me was Scott lobdell writing no less than 3 books. Bob Harras does like that guy. The truth is I have read some pretty awesome Lobdell books, but then again I’ve also read a bunch of real crap by the man in the past. His X-men/Wildcats with Travis Charest is definitely the high point for me.
http://www.brokenkode.com/the-definitive-guide-to-the-dc-comics-reboot
Mad Men Season 5 Greenlit - The title makes it out as though this whole thing was Jon Hamm not agreeing to a previous deal…which I don’t think was the case. Whatever the actual reasons were, I’m just glad we have another 3 seasons of Mad Men (hopefully?)
Annie Wu - That Flight of the Concords print is most excellent. Love her style, definitely an artist worth looking out for.
Bill Willingham interview mammoth - Seriously congrats on 10 years of Fables.
On Office Magazine - Excellent website for what’s going on in the world of contemporary architecture and design. Been on a bit of a mission to filter out the good ones. Shame their RSS feed is not a full feed, but rather a snippet.
USM Modular Furniture - Been looking for a modular way to store all my books. Can’t get these in Lebanon (which is just as well, because they are bloody expensive).
Rise of the Planet of the Apes trailer - This looks interesting, except for a few things. The acting looks a bit hammy, with the dialogue just grating on me a bit (and it’s only a trailer), the super confident/pretty actors, that are meant to be science geniuses (which I don’t buy) and the font used for the text inbetween scene just felt like the wrong choice; but damn do those monkeys look creepy.
10 more useful iPhone tips & tricks - Seriously amazing list. If you have an iPhone, do yourself a favour.
Society6 - Definitely something I would like to try in the future. I want to get back into regular drawing and creating artwork, so here’s hoping after all this wedding stuff is over I’ll get a chance to do more of this sort of thing.
Webstock Past Talks - Heard enough about these talks. Will definitely be checking them all out at some point, once things have settled down here before the wedding.
Browserling - cross-browser testing in your browser. Finally a website that doesn’t suck for testing out what everything looks like on all browsers (via brett)
The “q” trick - Posted over a year ago, but I’m only now starting to get into Notational Velocity and Simplenote so it’s all starting to make sense now.
Read & Trust - Now see this is interesting. It’s basically a much better 9rules from way back. For those who don’t know what 9rules was, it was one of the original blogging networks. The great thing about Read & Trust is that it appears to be run by someone who appreciates and knows what they’re doing. One of my biggest online failures was Inksmith. I loved the idea and it’s a shame it never came to be as i originally envisioned it, but I guess having something like this is the next best thing.
Harry Houdini - Love these retrospective birthdays on Google. Like when they put Will Eisner’s birthday on there a few weeks ago.
Architect’s Sketchbook - Nothing in particular grabbing my attention, but it’s always nice to see what’s going on in the world of architecture. I do feel a bit displaced from it at the moment, so I’m going to need to try and get myself back into it again and start subscribing to some architecture magazines and getting some more books in the near future.
The Lost Thing - A short film based on the book by Shaun Tan. Love the feel, the website. A must order on DVD.
Help Nathan Buy Firefly - The website address says it all. The best thing Joss Whedon ever created was Firefly.