Words & Letters
Despite what the Matrix tried to say, déjà vu is not a glitch. It does come from the French, and as Americans, we’ve wholeheartedly adopted the word. Oftentimes, it’s confused with coincidence but they are not the same. I recently watched a comedy special on Netflix and the opening music was a track from They […]
Most of these posts follow a pattern. There’s a bunch of links from one discipline, maybe two, and then a random collection from others. This week that pattern is gone. There are two work articles and then one each from a variety of mediums. In all the years I’ve been doing this, I can’t remember […]
I finally got around to posting my 2022 book review post. It’s not as comprehensive as I would have liked, but rather than waiting for 3 months to pass, I opted for getting something up over making something perfect. Perfect is a lie anyway. Graphic Design/Branding Pepsi’s 7UP rebrand is rather gorgeousJust check out that […]
Sick of swole head rappersWith their sicker-than rapsClappers and gatsMakin’ the whole sick world collapseThe facts are gettin’ sickEven sicker perhaps (sicker perhaps)I stick a bush to make a bundle to escape this synapse Excerpt from ‘Stakes Is High’ by De La SoulRIP Trugoy the Dove, AKA David Jolicoeur of De La Soul Industrial Design […]
“It is always easier to destroy a complex system than to selectively alter it.” ― Roby James, Commitment
“To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.” – Soren Kierkegaard
“One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.” ― Rita Mae Brown
“The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance” ― Carl Sagan
“I suppose I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.” ― Tennessee Williams
“When men oppress their fellow men, the oppressor ever finds, in the character of the oppressed, a full justification for his oppression.” – Frederick Douglass