June 2006
Month archive / 9 posts
Consumption: June 2006
On the Web
- World’s Largest Photo: Created using a decomissioned air hangar as a camera obscura!
- Moleskine Solvent Transfers: A gorgeous sketchbook on Flickr.
- Meat Is Murder. Tasty, Tasty Murder: With the vegetarian and vegan cults claiming record numbers of victims, this shirt is more imporant now than ever.
- Hands On: Possibly my favorite Savage Chickens cartoon.
- Our Futurist Past: Marian Bantjes’s review of the V&A’s “Modernism: Designing a New World 1914–1939” exhibition.
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News and Tributes

I Just Can’t Stop It
Titonic
It was the beginning of a new millennium. School was in my past, a magazine production job in Manhattan was in my future, and limbo consisted of waiting tables in New Brunswick, New Jersey. It may as well have been Mars. I knew no one, and my ghetto neighborhood, animosity for hostile Jersey traffic, and underdeveloped sense of direction prevented me from venturing out much (to say nothing of the dearth of places worth visiting).… See more →

Fake Train

Lincoln
1976
I was born on 3 June 1976. Today, I am thirty years old.
I share 1976 with some important stuff. Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak formed Apple Computer, which would inadvertently revolutionize creative technology and desktop computing. Seminal releases from the Ramones and the Damned—and a legendary television appearance by the Sex Pistols—brought punk rock’s disaffected bite into the public consciousness. We said goodbye to luminaries like Alexander Calder, Max Ernst, and Howard… See more →