X CD Shelf #1 by HandMadeFont, made out of concrete with a steel frame. I’d love a larger version of this for books — I don’t see my CDs sticking around for so long…
The latest issue of Offscreen magazine has just been announced (you can order a copy direct from the website), and as per usual it features an amazing lineup. I was privileged to have been asked to contribute in a small way this issue, and jumped at the chance to be a part of it :)
Recent work by Guim Tió. (via supersonicelectronic)
So I found a cute picture of a dog today on the internet, as you do. It was credited to a blog post, but the original blog post was completely absent of a credit for the image (as is so often the case). While I wanted to post it on my blog (because everyone needs cute dogs, right?), I didn’t want to do so without giving due props to the creator. Here’s where the fantastic ?¿ src-img bookmarklet comes in.
If you haven’t used this before, it’s a fantastic little tool created by Jarred Bishop and Hayden Hunter which will overlay links on images that, when clicked, take you to a Google Image search and more often than not turns up the original image (though sometimes it will still take you a few clicks to find out, especially if the image has been pinned on a billion Pinterest walls).
As it turns out, the dog photo is by Thomas Hole (who also has a Tumblr and took some great photos of a 2012 round-the-world trip that included New Zealand). The photo is All Rights Reserved, so rather than posting the original image here I’m instead showing the overlay view you get when running the ?¿ src-img bookmarklet.
Kids — ALWAYS ATTRIBUTE, ALL THE TIME.
OH MY GOD. YES. Photo by Dino Dalle Carbonare. (via vinh)
Letterboxd News: Intermission #2.
Until recently, Polish-born Marcin Wichary could be found at Google, where he spent time in several of the company’s key product groups, and assisted in the creation of many of its best-loved interactive Google doodles. […] In reply to one of his many helpful Letterboxd feedback emails, we snuck in a few questions for him.
We just posted an entertaining interview with Marcin, one of our earliest beta testers. If you haven’t read his account of tracking down a building from Sneakers, it’s well worth the read :)
R.W. by Alex Kanevsky
Just posted Exorcist, a new track from our power-duo project called Gentlemen, for your listening pleasure. Shake your ass.
Letterboxd News: Intermission #1.
Somewhere in Scotland — often with the curtains drawn — lives our most prolific member, at least in terms of his tally of films watched. You won’t find much of an online presence for Adam Cook outside Letterboxd, but within the site his depth of knowledge, generosity and authoritative writing style are all on show. We asked Adam a few questions for the first in a series of red-carpet interviews with the people who make Letterboxd great…
Adam seems to possess an almost encyclopaedic knowledge of films, as evidenced by the list he created where people give vague descriptions of often-obscure films they can’t remember the name of and he identifies them.
Social sites often talk about how their users are what makes them great. It becomes a cliché because in fact it’s incredibly true. We have some amazing people on Letterboxd, writing thoughtful, intelligent reviews and creating interesting (and funny!) lists, and it’s a humbling thing to have such amazing people using a service you had a hand in creating.
