Entries from November 2007 ↓

Came across Square America today. The (seemingly) thousands of photos are organized in a variety of ways, so you can spend a lot of time here – like a library.

I chose these especially for Thanksgiving.

An interesting interview with Peter Saville. He did the graphic design for Factory Records as well as a few album covers for Pulp (J.C. is Dan’s boy). It’s been my opinion that Saville is little overrated and arrogant, but this interview changed my perception of him a bit.

On Factory and designing record covers:

Complete liberty… Strangely out of disinterest. It was New Order’s disinterest and agreed policy of disagreement that allowed it.

I had this kind of autonomous moment, which arose within the context of Factory, for a decade, which was unlike any similar situation that I have experienced since and it’s very unlikely to happen again. The many circumstances of Factory itself; Ian Curtis’ death, the whole range of things that happened, created this autonomous platform, with a very large reach, to do what I wanted.

Referenced in the interview is the Style Mixer, which I just discovered in flash format.

I bought this British Fashion magazine, Lula, mostly for the font on the cover. I say mostly because I probably could have figured it out in the store (the font is Kursivschrift with modifications). Gripes: The thing is, it’s really self indulgent, overly hip and feminine, and doesn’t tell me about anything new. The interviews are set in this difficult typeface that makes me think they don’t want you to read!

I will probably buy it again, the photos are really nice.

The “official” cover / my cover (bootlegged??? haha)

Also hip and feminine: These paper dolls by Amy Earles.

Jens Lekman made a video for Sipping on the Sweet Nectar *.

While watching this video in quicktime, I realized that I’ve gotten accustomed to internet video=YouTube’s pitiful video quality. Don’t get me wrong, YouTube is alright. You can watch anything you want at one place without anyone complaining about their bandwidth costs, but the quality is shit.

Nothing to do with Jens, but I think this is a nice approach (using flash video) to a fashion label site.

*I will watch, listen, and like anything he does.

On Saturday Dan and I visited the Cousteau Society “mini-museum”. It’s a one room space near the Air and Space Museum in Hampton. The place was pretty haphazardly put together – half the items weren’t labeled and it felt too awkward to take any pictures inside because were the only people there. They had: a cross section model of The Calypso (complete with little beanie clad explorers), a shark diving tank, a few tiny strange submarines, metallic diving suits, and a ton of interesting photographs.

Jacques Cousteau’s internet presence is much like this museum, I couldn’t find any information or proper websites with the exception of Cousteau Society (worthless) and some articles about the Calypso rotting away. We decided Jacques Cousteau would make a good Halloween costume, but that people will just assume you are Steve Zissou.

Recently I started keeping track of my expenses and creating a budget at Expensr. My biggest waste of cash is clothes, I already knew that much, but now I have figures and charts. I’ve done an excellent job of staying out of stores lately, but I’ve fallen victim to online shopping tonight. It’s 1:30 am and I’m waiting up for Dan, he’s driving down after work (he gets off around midnight).

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This Halloween I didn’t dress up as anything. I love costumes, but I thought it would be a let down putting together a costume just to hand out candy with my parents. Dan dressed up as Richard Dreyfus in JAWS, part of a group costume. Hopefully next year I’ll have someplace to be on Halloween, because I’ve come across so many great homemade costumes (and really that’s the only way to go if you don’t want to be “Naughty!”) online that I can’t wait to make a costume. Maybe I’ll dress up for Christmas. This girl (above!), Nicole Magne, had the best costumes I’ve seen so far online – her Marie Antoinette won a contest for MAKE magazine.

Also: Movie Costume Reference Site, We’re Old Gregg!