Yup, our fellow designer made it one more year this past weekend. Congrats bud.

Great article in the New York Times.  check it.

Check this viddy - I think I see Tim-Bro (of Rome history books) and Nate B (former Burlington manimal) pretty much just absolutely getting urban on an urban ledge. Check the link below for the full urban experience.

http://www.yobeat.com/2008/12/urban-first-descents/

Urban First Descents from YoBeat Magazine on Vimeo.

The New York Times released their take on 2008 in photos, which can bee seen in its entirety here. There are some excellent images shown in this story, and some of my favorites have been stolen fare and square, and are shown below. Not nearly as good as the images shown in my previous post on The Big Picture, but good none the less. Most interesting to me are the lost Robert Capa negatives. Some digging around brought me to this link with info about them and a few images from the set. Fingers crossed that the ICP is printing them for a future exhibit. 

Enjoy

go to: http://www.zshare.net/download/531391814410dbc5/ and click “download”.

Merry Christmas

It’s the holidays, and the spirit of giving is in the air. So here ya go - enjoy.

“It makes me feel good to know that we live in a world where pirates still rule the seas”

Somali pirates

Im not trusting this ransom deal they worked out. I’ve seen enough movies to know that whoever is handing over the cash probably has a few tricks up their sleeve. Be careful Pirates…. Im rooting for ya!

other pirates of note

Captain Hook

that guy from Treasure Island

Captain Morgan

The Boston Globe has, what i consider, the best photojournalism on the internet. Sure, you might get some amazing photos here or there, but the Globe is consistently on point with their imagery. The Big Picture is a regular visit for me, and i continue to be blown away with the images they display. They are currently showcasing “2008 in Photographs” in a 3 part series. Part one and two are up as of this morning, with part 3 coming. Below are some images that blew me away from the first 2 sets, stolen fair and square. For the back story on all these photos and much more, make sure you check out The Big Picture site. 

EDIT: Part 3 is now up. Get in there, spend some time, learn something new.

Education in photographs.

One other recent gallery that blew my mind was of the riots in Greece last week. Enjoy.

So this is my first post, now that I’m a fulltime member of the design department.

I just got back last week from Spain where I was living in Barcelona for about 6 weeks doing some freelance design.

I thought I’d post a NCW sighting from a few weeks ago. I was walking by a Billabong/Element shop when I noticed that they were playing NCW on all the tvs in the store. As far as I could tell they weren’t actually selling the movie, I guess they just were using it for atmosphere.

Minnesota artist, Eric Carlson worked on the 2009 Solution graphics and is a master of heavy metal type. He makes graphic designs for YouWorkForThem. He also makes work with a small 3-person collective, Hardland/Heartland who have recently gained a light mention in Metro Magazine in regards to a new gallery opening in Minneapolis. Check out the Hardland/Heartland blog if you want to get seriously weird. Below you’ll find our interview with him featured in the Rome 2009 Consumer Catalog. You’ll also get a peak at some of additional work not featured in the catalog.

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Tell us about what you’re doing at YWFT.

I’ve been working at YouWorkForThem for nearly two years now. The studio is beneath a dojo and down the hall from some guys in sweatpants who make legitimate medieval weaponry: swords, battle axes, catapults in the hallway, and so on. I met one of the sword guys at a party, and he brought a war hammer for the birthday girl’s pinata. Mortal Combat aside, I shop books in a Minneapolis dungeon webstore, and pander pixels to designers around the globe.

400 Bar or Triple Rock?

Breakfast? Triple Rock. 

What’s up in Mpls? Galleries, Collaborations, New collectives, etc? 

Art of This, First Amendment, The Soap Factory, Seltzer Art Space, Soo Vac, Medusa, Vampire Records/Fort Santana, Midgitapolis, HopKIN, Wolf Pack, Skull Tower, The Shitizens, tamales, and summer time.

What is Golden Energy?

An idea.

Our chunk of the sun.

Reverse deadly.

Solid worth. 

Pure gold. 

Lead paint.

Absolutely nothing to be held. 

Absolutely nothing to be bought.

It is breath and blood and after that.

It is a series of drawings and puddles peeled off glass.

It is a performance of organs and bicycle wheels.

It is Hardland/Heartland’s twentieth project. 

Piles of treasure are nothing, really, simple worthless weight. 

Drip Goddess

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Golden Energy

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You’re tied in to an amazing blog, HRDLAND/HEARTLAND. What’s the story behind the blog and the art featured on it?

Hardland/Heartland is an amorphous cluster of artistic individuals who are working together to create an ongoing saga of vague and epic proportions. We make jokes and zines and art and music. We have eaten too much pizza.

The blog is one part of HL/HL. It is communication and collection. It is a public sketchbook in digital whateverness. Much of the imagery on the blog is ours, and if it is not, it is arranged with purpose. With a laugh it’s called internet poetry. We’ve never been serious, but we are dead serious.

Nothing Never

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The sidewalls of the Solution tell an amazing story. Give us some background on the quotes.

Each of the boards carries one of the seven seals of the apocalypse. They are not quotes but abbreviated prophecies. The first are the four horsemen: The Antichrist, warfare, famine, and plague. The fifth seal tells of those who are martyred for their faith during the end times, the sixth is an immense earthquake, and the seventh brings forth the sounding of the seven trumpets.

Pop, lock, and drop it, or Go stupid?

I will bob my head, and sincerely tap my foot.

Name one art tool that you couldn’t do without?

Hands. 

What’s on your coffee table at the moment?

 Ashes.

We Wolves

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