Online Opinion

7 harsh realities in Social Media View more presentations from Bart De Waele. Finally, someone presenting some sense about the work required to make social media work. It aint magic all y’all traditional media Luddites.

I guess there’s already similar interfaces out there, but the breadth of availability of both iPads & Ableton makes this pretty interesting. Go Richie! Details over at http://liine.net/griid/

This Haroshi dude makes cool sculptures out of old skateboard decks. I want one.

Find it difficult to write on touchscreen keyboards? Well fret no more with the USB Typewriter

John Woo illustrates. Suck on that Sartorialist.

The Guardian made this thing that I find absolutely fascinating.

BY MIKE LACHER Listen up. I know the shit you’ve been saying behind my back. You think I’m stupid. You think I’m immature. You think I’m a malformed, pathetic excuse for a font. Well think again, nerdhole, because I’m Comic Sans, and I’m the best thing to happen to typography since Johannes fucking Gutenberg. You [...]

http://pentagram.com/what-type-are-you/ My friend Marina Script is apparently: “delicately emotional with aristocratic precision and restraint.” Ha! And I’m: Wim Crowel’s ‘New Alphabet’: striking, but totally illegible. Fair enough.

http://www.smugglingduds.com/catalog/6/underwear Genius. Where were you during all those “halcyon days” spent at Fabric? Maybe Tony Abbot should check these out too?