Got to see Helmut Jahn’s addition to the Las Vegas skyline, the Veer Towers, which slant at 5 degrees in opposite directions, in person this weekend. It was one of the few things in Vegas that lived up to the hype.
Twin Shadow - “Yellow Balloon”
Please don’t hold me responsible for the lyrics, just the groove. (Do people use that word anymore? Did I just out myself as totally lame?)
I am reminded of the Cansecos. Anyone? Bueller?
Oy. Recommending music is stressful.
Saw this on my walk to work this morning. Don’t mind if I do!
Big fan of The Walkmen. Big fan of this cover. New album out today.
Thanks to Co.Design, I stumbled this incredible infographic for GE’s Ecomagination Challenge built with Flash. The circles represent ideas and the larger circles represent the more popular ones, as they vie for GE’s $200 million in see money.
Look familiar? It’s a canvas inspired by spam by Stanley Donwood, the artist behind several of Radiohead’s album covers and band artwork. For his first solo US show, he shares photos of his process.
[Photo by Stanley Donwood.]
I just love these vintage covers [thanks CapitalNewYork and brainpicker]. Looking at them, it occurred to me that there are currently two types in the media industry: those that look at these covers and lament a golden age of magazine design and innovation that has long since passed and those that look at these covers and are inspired by its return, just in a different medium. I’d like to count myself part of the latter.
[Vanity Fair cover by Jean Carlu in 1930.]
For inspiration: It’s Scorsese v. Kubrick. Guess who wins? We do!
[Thanks, NYMag]
