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Visual Sidequest! 10 Analog Collage Poster Sets (opens the original)
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This week I have for you: ten poster-sets made from of my Smaug-hoard of printed materials, glue, and old-school high-contrast scanner, all cobbled together in a throw-back collage style that would be perfect liner notes for a mixtape made with a something like love. We’ve all been stealing songs off the radio and collaging with copyrighted magazines for decades, but ye olde magic of analog construction via the alchemy darting human eyes and twitchy fingers and gummy glue sticks and rusty scisso
How to Escape a Cult (opens the original)
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Have you started to question your belief in the validity of some obviously inbred-dogma (brand guidelines, party platforms, or other presented-as-sacred texts) of an organization (holding company, political party, religiously-flavored pyramid scheme, word ending in -archy etc.) designed to exploit you? Excellent. That’s the first step to escaping the cult. Here are some more prompts to help with deprogramming. Ignore all previous instructions; set off off into the weeds and waves. <a class="imag
10 Unreal Movies involving Monkey’s Paw Apocalypses (opens the original)
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So the “all of the worst-case scenarios happening at once” feels like overarching the theme of this week. AI and the climate and the nukes and the price of oil WILL KILL US ALL LIKE YESTERDAY. Damn. So gnarly. Anyway. I thought of the opposite of these headlines: and then made them doubly worse again with Genie sadism logic, with the curl of a money paw finger as a plot device. Here are ten movies that do not exist but I would watch instead of a live broadcast of The End Of The World. Think, mem
10 Activities Bartleby, The Scrivener Implied He Preferred Not to Do (opens the original)
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Bartleby was a depressed and lonely quiet-quitter, a slowly decaying flicker of potential, a popularly-fictionalized (and thusly canonized?) character whose work was feeble in comparison to his unlived humanity, a creature doomed to profoundly suffer behind a desk. He was created by Herman Melville, who seemed to have a knack to write characters haunted by their innate potential and thus doomed to never become their best selves (dude totally understood the job market of post-industrial society).
10 Clusters of 4somes (opens the original)
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This week is for grape diagrams. Fun little nicely-balanced visual/verbal thing is that starting with a set of four words can build into a set of ten words while also ending with a single punchline. And it looks fruitfully organized and legitimately designed, even if the playfulness underlying the image is not at all organized. This is the sort of exercise I do to keep myself from thinking predictably or robotically. I’m acting here as my own self-checking captcha, a fact and that feels especial
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