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This Summer Deadbeat mixtape is awesome

jess — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 09:00:45 +0000

Deadbeat Summer Mixtape by Happy End_ings

jess — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 13:02:15 +0000

“You want me to act like we’ve never kissed, you want to forget; pretend we’ve never met, and I’ve tried and I’ve tried, but I haven’t yet… You walk by, and I fall to pieces.”

Patsy Cline

This bank deceives, cheats and kicks people out of their homes.

jess — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 12:17:42 +0000

Sticker spotted on La Gran Via, Madrid. October 2011.

Super Mario wall, Lisbon

jess — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 18:39:16 +0000

Design with the Other 90%: CITIES

jess — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 11:02:15 +0000

“It’s easy to build a house, much harder to build a community,” as Cynthia E. Smith, the show’s curator, told me. “Cities are very complex, and what the best designers illustrate is how to give form to sometimes very simple ideas. Good design involves bringing not just a fresh eye to problems but, most of all, listening to the people who live in those communities. We’re talking about a billion people living in informal settlements today,” she added. “You can see them as a billion problems or a billion solutions.”

Exhibition on now at the UN in NYC. Article on the show in NYT.

Beautiful store exterior, Madrid.

jess — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 18:40:53 +0000

Still life with sunglasses, Amsterdam.

jess — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 16:33:03 +0000

James Russell: The Agile City.

jess — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 15:49:15 +0000

On writing: Kurt Vonnegut

jess — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 14:58:54 +0000

Find a subject you care about and which you in your heart feel others should care about. It is this genuine caring, and not your games with language, which will be the most compelling and seductive element in your style. I am not urging you to write a novel, by the way — although I would not be sorry if you wrote one, provided you genuinely cared about something. A petition to the mayor about a pothole in front of your house or a love letter to the girl next door will do.

- from the 99 percent

Hi, Adrian Tomine!

jess — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 13:55:56 +0000

On Wednesday night, Comic superstar Adrian Tomine had a signing at (the awesome) Desert Island in Williamsburg to launch Optic Nerve 12. I won’t pretend to be any kind of expert in the graphic novel realm, but in the case of Optic Nerve, I’m a major fangirl.

I distinctly remember the first time I came across it – a friend was having a big sale/clear-out of his record store, and there was a copy of an early issue on the coffee table (not for sale). I opened it to a random page, and then had to sit down to read the next page, and the next… I spent the next hour ignoring everyone and everything around me. I couldn’t put it down.

There’s something so captivating and honest about his characters, and you end up reading the spaces around them as much as their expressions or words. So it was amazing to meet him in person and have a chat to him while he drew this for me, and customised another book for a friend. It’s awesome to meet your heroes and discover they’re just as approachable, sincere and funny as you imagined they’d be.