What goes down must go up

[imomus]

I've just published my second article on Design Observer. This time it's about the Vice magazine Design Issue. You can read the issue here and my blog about it here.



I must say I still get a thrill hitting 'publish' on the Design Observer Moving Type page. It's like being given the keys to a big newspaper office, creeping in there late at night, playing at being a journalist, sub and editor, and actually producing a whole edition of the newspaper yourself. With rude words and everything. Then seeing people reading it on the street the next day, scratching their heads and opening their collars. Well, perhaps not here on the street in Hokkaido...



The other thing that's just gone up is the Art Harbour Radio Page. At the moment there's just test music playing there, but from now on there ought to be fresh field recordings daily from my Lost Radio, Found Sound project. Since we've got a Terry Richardson toilet in this entry, I will tell you that two students have already submitted flushing toilets as their contributions. But there are some much more interesting sounds coming, including the wonderful squeaky sloppy rubber sound of a moored fishing boat rocking against tires in a blizzard and the squidgy yelp of a Kleenex mopping the inside of a car windshield.

Comments

[kojapan.livejournal.com]

I picked up that issue of Vice at Hollywood Mirror in Chicago. My favorite article is Anarchy in the UK.
Wow.

[sarmoung.livejournal.com]

Of course, I read through both the Japanese and English versions of the manifesto to spot the differences. Doing a Marxy, perhaps... I do miss those optimistic and positive "let's" sentences and I'm glad there still there in the English. Momasu almost sounds like a verb!

[cementimental.livejournal.com]

Steve Schultz on Vice (http://ruthlessreviews.com/rants/schultz/fuckvice.html)

[imomus.livejournal.com]

Wow, that fellow is tremendously dowdy. Jesse and Gavin at Vice are amusing people to spend time with, but people who hate Vice always seem tremendously... dowdy.

[imomus.livejournal.com]

Plus, I just read the following sentence in his writings on Japan (http://www.harmful.org/homedespot/newtdr/currentpage.htm):

"According to the wonderful book DOGS AND DEMONS... [blah blah blah] ...This book is so deadly accurate it is scary."

He hates Vice and loves Alex Kerr. He is tremendously dowdy. And his graphic design is perfectly ghastly.

[cementimental.livejournal.com]

I haven't read Alex Kerr so can't comment!

Graphic design, hideous maybe. But then, he's not a graphic designer...

[cementimental.livejournal.com]

:D Dowdy! Haha, fair enough... though really, from what I know of him (ie internet, I don't personally know the guy) I'd probably have picked 'Dowdy' as the least apt description of him possible! :)

You may or may not enjoy his 'Tokyo Damage Report'... http://www.harmful.org/homedespot/ADIARY.htm
Recent days' posts have mostly been various rants which you might not enjoy, but his blog is full of strange and funny reports of weird and/or normal things in Japan, well worth a look. He is very dedicated to documenting a range of events from punk gigs to industrial packaging conventions. I'd read his site it over Vice any day, though of course that's a totally false dichotomy.