Media Design Links
HillmanCurtis.com Motion Pictures
The hillmancurtis.com motion picture collection is of the finest online collections I have wanted to see. The documentaries are the heights of captivation while the “films on films” series is typical of playful, indulgent adults who did not play as hard as we played in the working-class neighborhoods of 1970s Los Angeles. Whenever someone gets playful around the office and they see that I am not amused or entertained, they would like to console themselves with a white supremacy that gently suggests that I just don’t get it. Quite the contrary, mufukka. I can’t make you understand what you can’t imagine.
The hillmancurtis.com bits about David Carson and Paula Scher are simply responsible. This is the first online tribute to these designers I have seen. David Carson was huge in the 1990s, when Quark XPress ruled the earth. For those old enough to remember the desktop publishing revolution, David Carson was the guy behind what has been called “grunge” typography/graphic design. Grunge really meant something while Curt Cobain was alive.
Larry’s World
Larry Sanger, the hardest working man at Wikipedia.org, is “forking” out of Wikiality and getting into traditional Imperial concepts of hierarchy and property deliberately—instead of by ‘accident’ (auto-pilot habits of cultural incarnation). It feels like he is building something that is a cross between about.com and netscape.com (doing dig.com). Be wary of lumbering, big Americans and their promises of “gentle expert guidance.”
VideoJug.com
“Welcome to VideoJug, the constantly growing visual guide to everything in life.” This is probably a clearing house for those mostly-public-domain how-to videos from the World War eras. They might be taking stuff from archive.org and remixing it for advertising dollars. And, oh yeah, videojug.com, “Hosts instructional videos created and uploaded by people just like you.” This might just be the new-millennium equivalent to all those instructional films we had to see in elementary school. Pixels for pupils?