via artsjournal: for years, i’ve bellyached over the state of architecture in chicago. the city has a reputation as one of the most beautiful cities in the country, but that has been eroded since the late 90’s when the housing market went bananas and architecture became a commodity. the chicago tribune (oh my!) hosts a fairly scathing article featuring several blameworthy architects and bureaucrats.
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thirstype, the foundry which sells my typographic collections, has taken on a new typographic boutique: underware.
first up in underware’s offerings are dolly and sauna, both characterized by a graceful hand and the studio’s gentle wit. i highly recommend the purchase of either collection.
hp is launching about a hundred new thingies with a marketing strategy emphasizing simplicity. irony noted.
ordinarily, i wouldn’t really care, but last night i was at a raw art space. they shared floorspace with an electronics recycling firm on the floor below. at one point during the show, i wandered into the recycling firm’s storage space and was absolutely dumbfounded by the amount of content waiting to be stripped of valuable components, then dumped…probably somewhere in asia where there’s no nagging environmentalists. this space was positively mournful—about 10,000 square feet full of four-foot-tall packing crates filled with barcode scan guns, gutted cash registers, hard drives, monitors, and cash drawers—all waiting to poison someone somewhere.
i’d rather hp simplify by just supporting their older product lines adequately. their support record for OS X is pretty reprehensible. i can’t see this rollout resulting in much good.
Dear Su & Patrick (sic) King:
You had written to us about the problem of nocturnal enuresis (bedwetting) some time ago. Since you have no telephone number (or at least none that is listed), we were unable to contact you about this problem to see if we could be of help.
okay, which one of you bitches signed us up on this mailing list? to you i say: bravo. and fuck you.
