December 2020
Month archive / 32 posts
The Death of Stalin
Never Rarely Sometimes Always
Dick Johnson Is Dead
Mank
Time
The Forty-Year-Old Version
Hey Philly screen printing friends: Is there a place in town I can email a stencil image and have them make a screen for me?
seriously why do we continue to abide this steampunk nonsense twitter.com/robweychert/st…
The Trial of the Chicago 7
The Grand Bizarre
How is the vacuum cleaner still our best solution for a dusty floor? What century is this?
First Cow
The Nest
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Black Christmas
The Sound of Music
Just said the words “These sweet potatoes look like graboids.”
New old work: I redesigned our Cabinet Cards a bit for the incoming administration. features.propublica.org/cabinet-cards-…
Tim's Vermeer
A sloppy film in many respects, but its formal shortcomings do little to diminish how fascinating its subject’s single-minded obsession is. Reading some of the more prominent critiques of said subject in the Guardian and the New York Times, which describe Tim Jenison as a philistine whose attempted deconstruction of Vermeer’s technique is an act of denigration, I was struck by how willfully they miss the point. Jenison makes no bones about being a dilettante,… See more →
You know how little kids will give their parents, like, a rock from the backyard as a Xmas gift? Congress is that kid.
Fargo
There's Something About Mary
Time, material, initiative.
I watched Lovers Rock a week ago and Janet Kay’s “Silly Games” is still stuck in my head. youtu.be/qCVR5XR04Mo
As always, spend some time with this, resize your browser a bunch, soak up all the fun and brilliantly executed details. Lynn just rules. 🏆 twitter.com/lynnandtonic/s…
After fretting for months over what CMS to use for my site redesign, I’m relieved to say I’m just staying with @jekyllrb. v7.robweychert.com/blog/2020/12/v…
our toilet bowl cleaner smells like birch beer
its only a matter of time
The Misfits
V7: Choosing a CMS
Do my new content requirements need a new content management system?
For awhile, I had basically resigned myself to the idea that the massive amount of stray content I’m planning to bring home (thousands of tweets, Flickr photos, etc) would necessitate moving my site onto a LAMP stack CMS. I started poking around in WordPress, which I hadn’t touched in years, and Craft, which I use regularly in my work at ProPublica. The former felt bloated and the latter’s setup presumed a level of back-end know-how… See more →
Lovers Rock
As perfect a Friday blog post as they come. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 twitter.com/raygunray/stat…