Passive-Aggressive Notes

Painfully polite and hilariously hostile messages from shared spaces the world over.

Feb 10, 2009 by mejiann No Comments

Prison Memory Archive

The Prison's Memory Archive has collected over 200 audio visual recordings from ex-users of the of the Long Kesh/Maze prison complex in the North of Ireland honoring their memories from political conflict.

Feb 08, 2009 by mejiann No Comments

Mike Perry’s Piles of Letters

Mike Perry, aka MIDWESTISBEST, works in Brooklyn making books, magazines, newspapers, clothing, drawings, paintings and illustrations. He creates new typefaces and sundry graphics that inevitably evolve into his new work, exercising the great belief that the generating of piles is the sincerest form of creative process. I wonder how many sketches went into his bikini type (below).

Feb 07, 2009 by mejiann No Comments

Russian Anti-Coca Cola Calendar

These anti-Coca Cola calendars are produced in Russia using a Soviet design style. Striking images with harsh warnings. On May's image (below), “Dealer is the worst enemy!”. Ah, the politics of soda..

Feb 06, 2009 by mejiann No Comments

Clever Images of Human Consumption

What does the oil used in the US in two minutes actually look like? Or a million disposable plastic cups? Photographer Chris Jordan illustrates the staggering scale of human consumption. From New Scientist. This image depicts 32,000 Barbies, equal to the number of elective breast augmentation surgeries performed every month in the US in 2006. In 2005, 291,000 American women had bags implanted in their breasts, 324,000 Americans had fat vacuumed out of their bodies, and 231,000 had fat, skin and muscle cut from around their eyes. If you include less common operations such as buttock lifts, pectoral implants and vaginal rejuvenations, as well as "minimally invasive" procedures such as Botox injections, the American Society of Plastic Surgeons estimates that Americans underwent at least 10.2 million cosmetic surgery procedures in 2006. Findings from epidemiological studies indicate a link between cosmetic surgery and suicide. Five studies, including a US study of over 13,000 women who received breast implants and another of 24,000 from Canada (American Journal of Epidemiology, vol 164, p 334), set out to investigate the alleged link between silicone breast implants and cancers, autoimmune diseases and other disorders. Though they failed to confirm any such connection, another striking link did emerge: women who have received breast implants are two to three times as likely to kill themselves as those who have not.

Feb 05, 2009 by mejiann No Comments

Google Maps Street View

"In the spirit of open information" here are the Top 10 Moments Caught on Google Maps.

Feb 05, 2009 by mejiann No Comments

7 Productivity Tips, Plus Tools for Freelancers and Web Workers

Feb 03, 2009 by mejiann No Comments

Twittering away Standards or Tweeting the Future of Journalism?

Reuters journalist, David Schlesinger, has been tweeting from the World Economic Forum, his tweets being published before Reuters got his stories out.
Here he discusses how journalism, as one of the great self-declared professions, now has a choice of platforms for publishing work, in his case social media sites and Reuters. Read his article.

Feb 02, 2009 by admin No Comments