Chris Weingarten rants against pageview culture driving new music culture.
"Good writing dies at the hands of search engine optimization."
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Great international cultural history of a single song: Sukiyaki.
I'm such a sucker for any old thing exhaustively explained. Sold!
When I was a kid, there were three fictional devices that I desperately wanted to be real:
- The Lightsaber (Star Wars)
- The Hoverboard (Back to the Future II)
- Penny’s Computerbook (Inspector Gadget)
This weekend, I FINALLY got a computerbook, and I totally just wrote this blog post on it.
Very cool game concept where powerups incrementally change the context of the audio and visuals from monochrome through 16 bit gaming conventions. Don't miss the 'Select a resolution' control on the blog itself – very nice touch.
The 3 volume Japanese ‘Jimmy Corrigan’ translation nears completion.
Unsurprisingly, both this and the Chinese translation show insane attention to detail.
The opening credits to Tron, re-imagined in the style of Saul Bass.
This appears to have been generated by a 'things Adam likes' machine.
The bedrooms America's young war dead left behind.
The images Jim Lee posts to twitter are amazing for comics-process nerds.
This particular image is a great example – there are sections in all states of completion, showing the crazy range between the roughed-in Flash and Cyborg at the bottom to the completed Batman and Green Lantern at the top.
I still maintain that someone should publish a series that is just Jim Lee PENCILS – no inking necessary.
I was in Utsunomiya, Japan, being waited on by a monkey named Fuku-chan.
