June 2022
Month archive / 30 posts
New Low
Whores
Rex: A Dinosaur's Story
The Newton Boys
Mötley Crüe & Def Leppard
I may be living in a backsliding democracy, but at least I finally got to see the mighty Def Leppard!
The Rules of Abstraction with Matthew Collings
We’re not lacking for shameful moments these days, and like most, this one is not a surprise. But it is despicable on a level I have not experienced in my lifetime, and my sadness is equaled only by my rage.
One Cut of the Dead
Kraftwerk 3-D
Another one checked off the bucket list!
Mad God
Many years in the making, Mad God is the stop-motion passion project of special effects legend Phil Tippett, best known for his pioneering work on Star Wars, RoboCop, Jurassic Park, and others.
Tippett cites Karel Zeman’s revered collage aesthetic as a primary inspiration, but I see a lot more of the Quay brothers in Mad God, or at least the grotesque brand of Street of Crocodiles worship seen in Adam Jones’s early Tool videos. While… See more →
Making a list of everyone I know who is really good at guitar, and wistfully saluting them.
Mad God
something something design systems youtu.be/Ef7hQ35bfIU
The Powers That Be
For anyone who wants to take a bite out of car culture, I just added some new stickers to my shop. shop.robweychert.com/products/stick…
The Way Down: God, Greed, and the Cult of Gwen Shamblin
Godzilla vs. Hedorah
For a profession predicated on providing clarity, “product designer” is about as vague a job title as I can imagine.
the raids continue
streets strewn with carcasses of
Amazon boxes
Smooth Talk
The Honeymoon Killers
Heaven's Gate: The Cult of Cults
I’m a big fan of Scott, but I think advice like this perpetuates society’s devaluation of creative work. Working some arbitrary job during the day and then using every ounce of your free time to do the work you actually want to do is not sustainable, or at least it wasn’t for me. twitter.com/scottmccloud/s…
Independence Day
Me, moments before my JavaScript idea does not, in fact, work
The Spider
We Own This City
This is essentially a six-hour Vox explainer video—sans cute graphics and podcast cadence—shoehorned into a drama. Like The Wire before it, it excels at unpacking long-festering issues in the American criminal justice system, making a product that’s both coherent and cogent out of a complex story on a non-linear timeline. But all the information it wants to convey and all the points it wants to make are spoken rather plainly, which may make it successful… See more →
Surrealist stop-motion woodworking tutorials are my new security blanket thisiscolossal.com/2022/06/omozoc…
rat in the dog park, please talk free
the door is locked, just you and me twitter.com/dinfowars/stat…