Flickr user blprnt_van has been using Processing and the New York Times Article Search API to track the occurence of "organizations and personalities" over the course of the year. "Connections between these people & organizations are [then visualized as] lines," and the mind-blowing results are below:


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One thing that's fun about the AWP Conference I was at last weekend is that it gives me the opportunity to learn a little bit more about "who's out there" in terms of interesting writers, publishers, designers, etc. That translates into... more links for the blog!

So here are two innovative literature publishers I encountered at AWP who are ( Read more... )

[This entry is part of the Production Design Blog-A-Thon, which begins today and runs through May 25th. Please consider joining us with your own post on the topic.]

I wanted to begin by discussing one of the films I used for the Production Design Blog-A-Thon banners, specifically "the blue one," which features a still from 2002's Punch-Drunk Love. ( Read more... )

Over at Flickr, my "Mold Patterns" set has been updated with a few photos of a revolting / magnificent spore colony in an old thing of leftover soup; the "Notebook on Cities" and "Notebook on Entropy" sets have also seen some activity.

And I also thought some of you might enjoy seeing some of my recent stabs at the art of poster design. As you can ( Read more... )