You can still buy a giant box of LEGO with 1600 bricks. That’s for those people that moan about the number of paint-by-numbers sets, branded kits and general non-creativeness of LEGO compared to when they were growing up. I’d also recommend the x-large grey baseplate — it was one of my favorites.
Month: June 2010
Mario 3 speed run
A video of someone beating Super Mario 3 in eleven minutes, and a poster outlining the button sequence needed to do it. Although, it’s really skill more than anything.
Writing ideas
Bernadette Mayer’s list of journal ideas — exercises and experiments in writing. Filed away for future reference.
I’m Comic Sans, Asshole.
You think I’m pedestrian and tacky? Guess the fuck what, Picasso. We don’t all have seventy-three weights of stick-up-my-ass Helvetica sitting on our seventeen-inch MacBook Pros. Sorry the entire world can’t all be done in stark Eurotrash Swiss type.
Uncovered posters from the 1950s
An interesting set of advertising posters from the 1950s recently uncovered at the Notting Hill Gate tube station in London. The passageway had been sealed off when the lifts were replaced with escalators.
Helvetify for Safari. Helvetify is an extension that basically sets
Helvetify for Safari.
Helvetify is an extension that basically sets the web page’s font to, yes, Helvetica (Neue to be exact.) With Safari 5, Helvetica on the web truly looks beautiful.
Helvetica Trade Advertising 02 Print design and production Volume 2
Helvetica Trade Advertising 02
Print design and production
Volume 2 – Issue 6, 1966
From the archive of Michael Hernan