Thank god [sic] for the French
I’m glad they can do this, unlike the censorship in our so called, Land of the Free!
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Firecracker Art!
I came across the Times of India Diwali greeting this year, over at Soumyadip’s blog .
I always loved the illustrations on these boxes, they are fairly similar to hindi movie posters, which I’ll add examples of at some point to the site. I’m sure some of these artists do both. But in a sexually repressed society, the population notwithstanding, there’s just something very sexual about all these lovely gals with their firecrackers, ahem.
Here’s the text on the image:
There is art.
There is Noise.
But only we have perfected the art of noise.
Some of the most original works of art can be found on cracker boxes. There is as much bang outside the box as there is within. From pictures of gods and celebrities to politicians and animals, they all find their pride of place on a cracker box. Whether it is Diwali, Dussehra, or winning a One-Day International, we celebrate all with the most beautiful sounds.
The Times of India
Celebration Times. Forever.
But being familiar with all these images of lovely gals, what really caught my eye in this collage was the Roman Legionnaire!
I wonder where he arrives from, probably ‘sourced’ from an Amar Chitra Katha comic by the firecracker guy.
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GoaPress.com
I was tired of getting my news about Goa from a bunch of disparate sources all over the place. Since I have a house there now, I like to keep up with what’s going on.
So I created my own page with feeds from a bunch of websites I read, and viola! GoaPress.com lives, I figured I’d get a domain and throw it up.
I’ll probably play with it further and rotate the feeds about as I find more sic*better sites or more relevant news. But as the page stands right now it gives me a great snapshot of all current events, news and happenings in Goa
I also threw in a bit of eye candy, Flickr snaps and YouTube video’s, they are a lot of fun for me, they take me back there. Videos are generally a little too trance-y for me, but a few gems slip in once in a while.
Take a look: GoaPress.com
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Landmark Web Design or how I learnt to stop worrying and just build the damn website.
A bunch of interesting articles/essays recently, that led to interesting discussions on the topic of timeless web design. All worth a read if you have any involvement in the wonderful wacky world of ‘design‘ and the web.
First Armin Vit writes an essay asking Landmark Web Sites, Where Art Thou? Essentially he asks why no individual web designs/sites have attained any historical significance worthy of being deemed landmarks that lead the way, such as Paul Rand’s IBM Logo.
Dan Saffer posts an interesting unrelated thought on Making Stuff vs Making Stuff Up a day later. He alludes to the problem of creation (thought) and production (implementation) for a designer.
Khoi Vin picks up on both and posts Something’s Missing in Web Design . The interesting points he adds are, “the very best designers are leaving behind the work of actually doing design…” and “that Web design is really boring…”
Joshua Porter picks up on Armin’s initial post and posts a response, Do Canonical Web Designs Exist? His point being, “It’s just that canonical design on the web isn’t as glamorous as some want it to be.”
They are all great reads and the ensuing discussions are absolute fun to read.
As to timeless or landmark web designs, there are many for me, most may not exist anymore, but they did leave a mark on me and is that not the point.
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Now this is a Raft!
More photos of this Raft by Tod Seelie are here, I’m guessing this is the raft he and his friends are building/built?
This is one of the rafts built for Miss Rockaway Armada .
Art Down the Mississippi, is an article in the NY Times about this event.
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