Tip of the Quill: A Journal

Monthly Archives: February 2007


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Terri Windling on the Shri Swaminarayan Mandir in London. Ganesh makes a guest appearance (of sorts) in Bones of the Angel. Jesus: Tales from the Crypt. James Cameron has the bones of Christ? $11M over budget and five years late? Coming Soon: Nightmare Project from Hell, Part IV. Rebuild your database and speed up Mail.app. […]

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Separated at birth: the Center for Public Democracy’s Drew Clark and Star Trek: Voyager’s Robert Picardo. Uncanny.

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I’m writing this while sitting in the 2007 Beyond Broadcast Conference going on today at the Stata Center’s Kirsch Auditorium here at MIT. At the moment the director of Four Eyed Monsters is adressing us live from LA via an iChat video conference, tossed up on two 30-foot projected screens at the front of the […]

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In case you missed it. If you only click one of these links… Dwell redesigns! Every new site should incorporate video this well. NPR: Colleges want to cool admissions frenzy. “You should be honest enough to say, ‘Our school wouldn’t be a good choice for you, but you might consider the following schools.” 50 ways […]

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Oy, how bad is it that I’m just now getting around to respond to Bill’s meme baton-passing? Oh, well – such is life in the state of THESIS. Four Jobs I’ve Had Professional lawnmower Reinforcement label affixer Media specialist (my first paid design job, at RBB) Graphic designer (no shock there) Four Movies I Could […]

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Dave McKean on his cover for Circus Live. I like the idea of “commentary tracks” on art. BookScan 2006 numbers. $1.6M in sales for V for Vendetta. Wow. VanderMeer new fiction editor of Weird Tales. I’m a little amazed Weird Tales is still publishing, to be honest. Promising! Smith helming Reaper. Silent Bob doing a […]

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The WB brings Smallville: The Oliver Queen Chronicles to phones and cwtw.com. This animated spinoff looks sharp. Engadget: three-wheeled hybrid does flex fuel. We’re living in the age of Tron. DownloadSquad on Wis.dm. A CMS alum is one of the people involved in this new site. How social sites reveal what your audience likes. “Using […]

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I just added a couple pieces from late January and early Febuary to my writing archives. For the interested, these pieces are as follows: April Showers, Champs Elysees, Paris, 1888 Vestments Storage Morning Labor on the Seine Things with Wings

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More wisdom from IDEO’s Bill Moggridge can be found in an interview with Newsweek, Of Mice and Multimedia. Near the end, Moggridge explains his vision of the future of interaction design: The thing that was surprising about the Internet was that suddenly you move from dragging and dropping a file into a folder to the […]

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