why? 1. time wasted creating them. even if it’s not you making them, it’s time spent by someone who could be attaining those high resolution images that you actually need. 2. programs that often use heavy doses of images (adobe indesign) can handle a large quantity of high resolution files in one document anyway. therefore, fpo’s are not creating efficiency. 3. organizing files from the getgo helps orient you with the structure of a project. that’s a lot of time spent cleaning and organizing files that’ll get disregarded anyway. 4. they are deceptive when blowing up an image large — you never actually know if you’re actually going to receive a high-res image high enough to match your use. thus, it’s a considerable amount of redesign when the high res doesn’t match the size. 5. time wasted replacing fpo’s with high res images. i understand images are plucked from the internet or substituted with chromes, and the like. but fpo’s are cluttering and ultimately unnecessary. please ask your content manager, publisher, editor, whoever, to forego fpo’s and provide you with high resolution images directly.

Below are the results of an experiment: The premise is simply to capitalize on the excitement of receiving mail. Being as rare as that is these days in our e-universe, we encouraged a group of random participants to create an exhibition that would come together at our doorsteps. The framework of this project was to gather a group and provide every individual with everyone else’s mailing address. A lot of these folks didn’t know each other, which really provided most of the excitement. A theme was supplied, and everyone was off running creating their postcards. We would then mail them out to each other and everyone would then receive a piece of art in the mail! We decided to kick-off the first round with the theme of the Rhizome seeing as how we felt this project was one in itself. Below are the results:

Ivan Anic & Gerri Lawrence

Matthew Bardelucci

Nina Boesch

James Chae

Sarah Knotz

Mia Nolting

Asad Pervaiz

Laddawan Prawatyotin

Fumiha Tanaka

Jessica Williams – - – Thanks to all of the participants for taking the time to make this project happen! If you would like to participate in the next round feel free to send either of us an email (Sarah or Asad) with your mailing address and we will add your name to the list.

Nice assortment of objects (from pillow cases to books) for sale from Third Drawer Down, an Australia-based collective. Unique designs provided by an array of wonderful artists from around the world.

Nevermind the fact that this has been mah song (what-what) for under a year now. The accompanying video, just released, is a fun paper cut-out stop-motion animation. And, it’s also a gentle reminder of how even just a little craft can go a long way. Es cute. mykonos video

The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) has decided to publicize 12,000 Canadian short films from the past … ever. All on their website for your own free and private viewing. Of course this includes auteur animation and drama, full length documentaries, releases new and old, fiction and non, etc. These archives opened up only a week ago and proves that public money can be well spent. Here’s a few to get you started:

Walking Ryan Larkin, 1968 5 min 6 sec

Design Innovations for Canadian Settlements Brian Mackay, 1976 17 min 23 sec

Deep Threat Zlatko Grgic, 1977 7 min 12 sec (a ridiculously cute one on evolution)

Drylanders Don Haldane, 1962 69 min 24 sec Go Canada! There I said it.