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Friday Edition
To err is human. To break every commandment before
breakfast takes skill: Scott Smith's Ten.
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CP Labs: Shift Option Rinse
Can you really clean your computer keyboard in the dishwasher? With the help of the RinseCam 9000, Michele created a short film to find out.
The Kit From Field Notes
The Kit
At Field Notes we're sensitive to the avalanche of "holiday" sales and offers out there. Really we are. So let's just say that we've packed up a little of everything in The Kit to make it easier and cheaper to buy the whole package for yourself or someone else and leave it at that.
Grey Skies Are Gonna Clear Up
Tips For Tough Times
As a public service, Steve and our pals from Schadenfreude present a new series of handy tips for Surviving The New Depression. Get happy.
IS THIS YOUR SANDER VITREUS?
Puzzled
Einstein's Fish, Booking Bands, Which Porn Star Ate The Most Hot Dogs? and Cover Me all started as subscriber-only contests in one of our Infrequent Mailings, which go out about once a month. Number 56 goes out later this week. Join the list here. We won't ever abuse the privilege.
Now With 50% More Months
Next Year
Shipping Today
Our Field Notes Brand 18 Month Desk Calendars are in house and shipping now. If you're gonna stare at one calendar for a year and a half, it ought to be this one. Plus, Field Notes Brand products are available in lots of stores like Coco's Variety in LA and The Akron Public Library. If you'd like to carry them in your establishment ping Michele for information.
I brake for quasi-religious symbols
Vehicle Identification System Update
We have word that recently two readers in New York, who followed our guidelines for updating their vehicle identification systems, pulled up alongside each other at a traffic light and celebrated their common bond by honking and pointing. Excellent. Our plot is beginning to take hold. Write for yours free today, but hurry, we only have tens of thousands left.
No Game No Plot
The Breeders’
“Walk it Off”
After stumbling into a lifetime-dream-fulfilling chance to direct a music video for indie-rock legends The Breeders, SD and BB came up with a concept for the song "Walk It Off" from the band's fantastic new album Mountain Battles. But wanting to make things extra-complicated, they decided to turn a fairly simple plot into an interactive, multiple-perspective, experimental experience.
a short film that seems longer
Long Day’s Journey Out of Iowa
Our Steve Delahoyde is a man with an iron will. An iron will, a subcompact, a girlfriend and an idea on how to make a regular drive more, er, interesting. Note: As of Saturday, the girlfriend and Steve are now Mr. and Mrs..
Films About Hand-Made Posters
Screening Documentaries
The Beginning and End Are Up To You, is our mini-documentary about John Solimine who created the limited-edition poster for Field Tested Books 2008.
For our first summer reading feature we asked Jay Ryan of The Bird Machine to design and hand-screen a limited run of posters. We visited Jay and Mat Daly at the Bird Machine Shop and we can tell you that the whole thing is refreshingly analog and deliciously slow. Check 6 Colors, 1,800 Pulls and 2 Dogs. The next Field-Tested Poster was created by Dan and Mike of Aesthetic Apparatus. Steve buzzed up to The Twin Cities for a visit and that resulted in Found & Reused.
Vox Vocis
Please Versify
After The Beep
On a whim, we asked people to read their favorite short poems into our answering machine for a project we called Verse By Voice. And they did, creating maybe the first-ever poetry meme and since April is National Poetry Month we thought it was appropriate to feature it again. Make sure to listen to novelist Zadie Smith reading Frank O'Hara's Animals and Laura Demanski reading Gerard Manley Hopkins' Spring and Fall. Note: we didn't include what is surely not Christopher Walken reading EE Cummings, but that's worth a listen too. Jim talked about this project during his appearance on Public Radio's Hello Beautiful! and the photos are courtesy of Sam Javanrouh's Daily Dose of Imagery.
For The Weekend Entrée Vous
Entrée Vous
Enjoy these lessons in life from Slowtron with a refreshing beer-bong and perhaps a polite game of bocce. Lots more CP films are available on our video wall.
Not Quite so
Fresh Signals
If you have a teenage girl in your life, you are surely aware of the hysteria over the release of the Twilight movie this week. Give her a gift that will make her head explode, her very own Edward.
In case you're looking for barstools.
And on the topic of animated colorful Avant Garde television titles, just Watch Us Now.
And speaking of "In The News," here's one I remember too clearly. I figured my parents would never let me go to a rock concert after that happened, but a few years later, I saw Rush at the same arena.
Here's the video version of the last post. Now W&T needs to make an In The News shirt.
Wire and Twine's brand-new SPECIAL shirt. Awesome.
Bram Meehan of Panel Press sent along a link to an interesting Mother Jones article that fits with our featured Laboratory Conditions film. Fear and Fallout in Los Alamos by Bill Donahue.
Google is hosting millions of photographs from the LIFE Magazine and John Gruber did the required first search on "Kubrick," yielding amazing results, like this beauty.
Thomas Kinkade's 16 Guidelines for Making Stuff Suck. We just can't steal enough links from Chris.
Elbow-Toe's fab 17 pages of doodles with a red felt-tip pen. Looks like we better send that dude some Field Notes.
Song and video of the moment, if the moment is in 1977 or possibly at some time in the future. Magic Fly from Space.
Neal Shafer adds Field Notes to his Christmas list. Thanks for that.
Yay! Taschen releases The Ingmar Bergman Archives and the book looks amazing. It's in the same style and format as The Stanley Kubrick Archives, which is just about the nicest present I ever received thanks to H.
Page Two gets a redo this morning.
"Instead of painting on canvas, I install a canvas behind real objects." Forest for the Trees, an interview with Myoung Ho Lee in the TMN Galleries.
Lines and Colors spends some time in the Phillip K. Dick Book Cover Art Gallery, a featured collection in the Fall Exhibitions at The MoOM.
"Each month or so, we release a new issue of 'i left this here for you to read.- We then leave them in public places (such on park benches, on buses, in airports and dentists' offices...) for anyone to take--free of charge." From artist Tim Devin, i left this here for you to read.
The NYPL collection of dust jackets from American and European Books, 1926-47. More than 2,000 original specimens. I. II. III.
Vote the Chicago way, early and often. Choose your favorite most influential designer of our time.
Show me your dock, I'll show you mine. Clipped from Quipped.
Matt Lee points out that sometime life imitates art. Check the descriptions here which correspond nicely with our home page from the day we launched our short film Copy Goes Here.
Hollywood seems determined to ruin my childhood memories. Teaser trailer for Race to Witch Mountain.
Ron Wise's Banknoteworld, a geographical directory of world paper money. Tons of great scans. I. II. III. Thanks Sean.
Notice.
Tor reviews our Museum of Online Museums. Thanks for that.
From an occasional series, Great Moments in Fresh Signals History, Grant Hamilton's awesome Polaroid portfolio, an obsessional on Polaroid Land Cameras, the branding of Polaroid 1957-77, Phil Patton's Gone in Sixty Seconds and a tutorial on Polaroid Transfers.
Wow, that is one lucky penguin.
Amazing photos of the wildfires in California.
Yet another reason why BB should get the iPhone, Bacon iPhone cases.
Nice vintage photo collection of celebrities.
The renovated Tel Aviv Port.
Jon Tan's thoughtful essay on the paragraph in web typography and design.
An omnibus of recent Field Notes sightings.
An ambitious project, the creation of a new graphic identity for the Dutch government by Studio Dumbar which includes a beautiful custom typeface by Peter Verheul.
I saw Quantum of Solace this weekend, loved it. Seen in the previews was the hotly anticipated new trailer for J.J. Abrams' Star Trek. There's a crappy version floating around the internets but if you are patient, you can see the HD version today at 10:00 am PT here.
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What all those little square icons in Fresh Signals mean.
A post from our monthly guest editor. The complete
listing af all the people we owe favors can be found here.
We love these products so much we even paid for them.
A post with this icon may well end up in our Museum of Online Museums.
About Depth of Field.
Not to be missed.
A Friday Drink Link. Hic.
Film feed. Short attention span video theater.
Having to do with our Field Notes Brand.
What we just talked about at lunch.
A Thing We Made:Jewelboxing
We hated the options available for custom packaging DVDs and CDs so we created a brand that gives creative professionals and hobbyists the tools to make great stuff. Here's a bit from the latest Jewelboxing weblog entry:
"Bringing it full circle is that someone recommended taking the time to scan these important pieces of your life and sticking it all onto discs, then going that extra mile by nicely packaging it in Jewelboxing." Read the entire post.
Some Other Things We Made:
Field Notes Brand "I'm not writing it down to remember it later. I'm writing it down to remember it now." A CP/DDC joint.
Pinsetter: Spell with buttons.
Limited-edition, professionally mixed and mastered, custom-designed live performances on CD. That's The Show. With partners like The Pixies and Dead Can Dance. More news soon.
Lowercase Tee: For politically and otherwise active kids.
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