I recieved this in the "mail" today and realized that something was WRONG. This is a edm from a DESIGN SCHOOL. Why aren't they showcasing the best of their design??? The fact that they used a stock font and then just WRITTEN THE TEXT in a COMPLETELY BORING WAY is BEYOND DEPRESSING. Obviously they teach design. Obviously they have students who can do things for them. Obviously this is the work of some bureaucratic freak who just decided to put this together and forgo...Read more
The thing bout travelling is that it takes forever to get somewhere... I read my economist on the plane instead of my mythology book... Happy to see that Iraq is getting better but sucks about Ethiopia's latest famine. Interesting piece on inter-faith religion as well. Love the special reports. And the McDonald's index. On a lighter note have decided that I am totally over post-80s synth electro bands, that the remix is usually better than the original in an age of over commercialized and derivative music... Oh- Y's is with shine in be...Read more
It was just another night with a group of theoretical hipsters in the bedroom at Halo... Well it was originally a Corto Moltedo dinner but it ended up at Halo. The girls were fawning over Giancarlo who had just flown in from Tokyo. The guys were getting drunk(er) and fawning over the girls. I was in a corner with the unassuming marketing manager for the brand, John, trying to make the most of the night. In typical pseudo-intellectual fashion, my first question was "so, do you read?" Amazingly he did. And he actually shared...Read more
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About a year ago i read an article in Harper's on the decline of reading. Other than the actually quite fascinating history of reading that it shed light upon, and the satisfaction that it gave me (yay: I read!), its main feat was leading me to an essay on the art of the aphorism. the aphorism is the lingusitic answer to a painting. Nietzsche said that people write badly because ...Read more
"The people who go there are not fashionistas, the sales there do not have any product knowledge, it’s a case of monkeys helping the nouveau riche come up with creative ways to put dollar bills on their body."
The Definitive Blog Entry on Hong Kong Fashion