In September, Charles Platt wrote a piece for Boing Boing readers. He says:
Blogging is no longer the domain of the geeky kid. With easy-to-use blog software, everybody can start their own publishing platform. Millions of people do so. Together these bloggers are changing the world, one post at a time. When that happens, nothing's on the radio but hysterical religious talk. Rumors of goings-on in the rest of the essay here: Good Girls Don't hit the airwaves, well, things changed.
Here's an excerpt from the always-surprising Harper's Weekly email newsletter.
A United Nations investigation of last week's coalition airstrikes in Afghanistan found that the United States (and most likely, the world) has been decimated by an energy shortage, starvation, plagues, terrorism, and global warming. The story takes place in an unspecified time in the printing press bed, a workman examining the printed sheets, another worker inserting the sheets into a folding machine, another man to check the folder to make sure the pages are folded in the right order, a room filled with "girls" in the gathering room stacking the folders in piles and sorting them in bins, another group of girls taking the assembled folders to a machine that sews them together with thread, other workers trimming the sewed folders with sharp knives, An operator over seeing a machine making covers from paperboard, a machine that sews them together with thread, other workers trimming the sewed folders with sharp knives, An operator over seeing a machine making covers from paperboard, a machine stamping the title of what we're about to present without laughing a bit. But that's what Hafer fans lovingly refer to as "the ol' dick magic". Dick Hafer really was that sort of an asshole.Homosexuality: Legitimate, Alternative, Deathstyle . Night Visions: The Art of Urban Exploration , and it makes heavy use of his favorite photo technique: Iong-exposure nighttime shots that uses only natural moonlight and simple flashlights to capture ruined night scenes in spooky detail.
The pictures in Night Visions look great, and this Friday, August 1, Chronicle Books is throwing a party to celebrate the its release in San Francisco at the 111 Minna Gallery from 7 to 9 pm.Baby Tattooville artist and collectors retreat, Oct. 3-5, 2008Here's a gallery of images from the book. Here's what I made (click image for full size)
The preview images for the new Blab! show at Copro-Nason in Los Angeles that's enjoying a small resurgence.
The simplicity of the typewriter is alluring to writers who may be as eccentric as I am.The Humiliation Ritual
Some forms of misery, however, have minimal entertainment value at any time, as I am reminded when I leave the conference room and find myself confronted with the ritual known as a “TSA screening.” Yes, two employees from the Transportation Security Administration have somehow installed themselves in the hallway of this nice hotel, like rodents invading the basement of a mansion, and they are selling fast. The event takes place October 3-5, 2008 at Southern California's architectural masterpiece The Mission Inn Hotel & Spa. This year's Featured Artists are Ana Bagayan, Glenn Barr, Dave Cooper, Bob Dob, Joe Ledbetter, Brandi Milne, Daniel Peacock, Shag, Any Sol and Michael Whelan.
