New documentary screening this Wednesday courtesy of AIGA New York “…celebrates the spirit behind one of the most influential cultural movements of a generation. In the early 1990’s a loose-knit group of like-minded outsiders found common ground at a little NYC storefront gallery. Rooted in the D.I.Y. sub-cultures of skateboarding, surf, punk, hip-hop and graffiti, they made art that reflected the lifestyles they led. Developing their craft with almost no influence from the ‘establishment’ art world, this group, and the subcultures they sprang from, have now become a movement that has been transforming pop culture.” With a terrific poster design by Keith Scharwath.

David Leonhardt explains how everything got so fucked up.

Okay, um, I can’t seem to get my act together on this blogging stuff. I’ve been a bit… distracted lately, is one way of putting it. And now I’m about to head out to San Francisco for the better part of this week. I’ll be there until Friday morning; I’m a terrible trip planner, so for all of those folks whom I know in the Bay Area and whom I haven’t called, please forgive me. However, I’ll be around until Friday morning if you want to drop me a line — at which time I’ll be taking my nephew to Paris for a week. Look for a couple of posts while I’m overseas, at least — I figure I’ll have some free time. How hard can it be to keep an eleven year old entertained?

Third-party front end for cross-city searches on Craigslist.

The “ten legal commandments” of photography.

Commissioned photography packages in which “subjects are unaware of the exact moment they will be photographed and of the photographer’s identity. Instead, the subject is photographed completely naturally, living life as normal.”

Sometimes I feel as if I could blog all day every day, and other times I feel like I couldn’t write another blog post if my life depended on it. At the moment I’m feeling a bit of the latter, as some readers might have intuited from the fact that for the first time in a long time, I blogged not once all last week.

Part of the blame for this goes to the disorderly state of my blogging software. I’m eager to move off of Movable Type and over to Expression Engine, but it’s a process that’s going to take lots of time (even though I’ve been receiving the generous help of some readers like Adam Khan in getting up to speed with the new software). In the meanwhile, it kind of pains me to continue to mess around with the existing platform.

A rebuttal to “Why is 37signals So Arrogant?.”

Fingers crossed, it’s going to be great.

“What killed CB radio was that moment when its annoyance factor exceeded its utility.”

Black out the unwanted parts of the digital matrix printed on these tape rolls to create your own messages. Thanks to Kim Bost.

iPhone-formatted site for New York City subway lines

Nicely done graphical nostalgia tour.

“When you remove Garfield from the Garfield comic strips, the result is an even better comic about schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and the empty desperation of modern life…”

“Music composed using only sounds from Windows XP and 98.”