December 2011
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Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come
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Link (Thanks, Tim)
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“A lot of people who do Legos do large commission pieces, but that doesn’t...”
– In this New York Times piece about his LEGO taxidermy kits, David Cole really hit upon the thing I love so much about pixel art: each drawing is actually an engineering challenge. Whenever I start a new drawing, I think “what is the smallest number of pixels I can use to represent this?” (via...
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“If you’re doing nonsense it has to be rather awful, because there’d...”
– Edward Gorey on nonsense, quoted from “Edward Gorey and the Tao of Nonsense.” The New Yorker, November 9, 1992.
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“This tattooing had been the work of a departed prophet and seer of his island,...”
– The description of Queequeg’s tattoos quoted on the blog The Loom, the author of which has a new book out about science-inspired tattoos. It hadn’t occurred to me when reading Moby-Dick, but European sailors had only been decorating themselves with tattoos for some 80 years by the time...
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“What I learned from architectural drafting is that everything has to have a plan...”
– Ice Cube, rapper and former architectural draftsman (“You don’t want to live in nothing I draw”), shares some advice in a NY Times Q&A as a followup to his recent Eames House appreciation video.
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