Collections Collected

Lots of new listings and exhibits have been posted for the spring at our Museum of Online Museums. The MoOM was featured on All Things Considered and in the NY Times. It was also selected as one of Time Magazine's 50 Coolest Websites and was discussed on a recent episode of NPR's Hello Beautiful! Consider joining our Museum Board, a subscription comes with a coffee mug but none of the snootiness so often associated with the patronage of cultural institutions.

A One Day Conference In Chicago

Seed Three

The third edition of our one-day conference on design, entrepreneurship and inspiration is set for Friday, June 6th and includes a new venue in Chicago, a modified and more ambitious format and some very smart guest presenters. Details have been posted and registration is open.

Making Book The Final Tally

5076 New Books
For Kids

Every spring when The Morning News announces the novels that will compete in their annual Tournament of Books we handicap the field and post the "Morning Line" odds for the event. This year we stretched the gambling metaphor a bit further and encouraged readers to wager on which book would win "The Rooster." With the help of 37signals, Metafilter, Happy Cog, Iconfactory, Core77, Daring Fireball, Emma, Business Brickyard, eight6 and skinnyCorp we raised enough money to buy over 5000 books for underprivileged kids. The winners have now been posted.

Layer Tennis The Final Fiasco

Forth and Back

It's super Monday here at Layer Tennis HQ, and we're happy to declare winners in a tightly-contested pair of Layer Tennis finals. Shaun Inman's message of change was more popular than Chris Glass' message of change, and Inman won the first match. We're just getting word that the polls are closed and Jason Koxvold narrowly edged out the 17-0 James Hutchinson in the last period of second match.

It was a long, fun Layer Tennis Season, relive it here while we start planning the next one. The matches were presented by Adobe® Creative Suite® 3, the weapon of choice for creative people and Layer Tennis players everywhere.

An Infrequent Mailing Contest

The Song Does Not Remain The Same

Selections from the hundreds of entries we received to our Cover Me contest that was part of last month's Infrequent Mailing. Our readers demonstrate their ability to find fab stuff once again. Enjoy.

Making An Endorsement

From The Committee To Reelect Our Greatest President Ever

We don't often jump into the political muck here at the site but Hillary Clinton's latest television spot asks a pretty serious question and we thought it was our patriotic duty to give it an equally serious response.

It Started In the Washroom

Abba Karenina

A while ago we hosted a quick contest called Booking Bands in which we asked people to combine the name of a book with the name of a band. We received thousands of entries, posted a ton of them and then randomly selected three and sent those people the book and a CD from the band that they mashed together. The process of coming up with funny or unexpected associations in this contest became a central part of JC's recent presentation at SXSW, A General Theory of Creative Relativity.

How Do You Spell Courage?

Inaction Heroes

For the proper effect, check the trailer first and then please take a few minutes (eleven actually) to watch our short feature film, Copy Goes Here. In case you missed it, here's what our home page looked like when we debuted the movie.

Field Notes The Shipping News

The Shipping News

Our newest brand was created in combination with the unstoppable Draplin Design Company of Portland Oregon. The first offering from Field Notes Brand is a super durable made-in-the-USA memo book inspired by vintage farmers' planting books and other practical, historic, mostly-midwestern American design. Now shipping in handy 3packs $9.95 each.

72° A Film Project

Plus a Share of
the Glory, If Ever
There Is Any

EMILY: Nothing exciting will happen, I suppose. There aren't any bells or whistles or fireworks. It'll just happen and... there aren't bells and whistles or fireworks, are there? ALAN: No.

The first draft of the script for our film project, 72° has gone out to our Producers. As with Copy Goes Here, we're posting about the film as we go along and also looking for a title sponsor and a roster of Executive Producers. Unlike CGH, this time we really started at the beginning. When we began, all we had was an archival photo for inspiration and a lot of enthusiasm. Check the weblog here and scroll down to see the very first entry for details. We're forever in debt to those who are coming along for the ride, like the most recent additions to our Executive Producer credits, Pierre Mai, Kevin Hamm and Andre Torrez.

scott smith's Ten

Thou Shall

In case you missed it, we're proud to be hosting Scott's stylish short film Ten, in which a man breaks all ten commandments before breakfast.

December Guest Kevin Cornell

Bear With Us

Henry Cline (hcl) is a Los Angeles-based director of photography and camera operator who has likely worked on at least one of your favorite films if not many. Among his lengthy IMDB listing, you'll note that he's worked with Errol Morris on Fast, Cheap & Out of Control, Sam Raimi on Spider-Man 3, and on numerous films with David Mamet. And as if that weren't enough, he's also a heck of a nice guy whose great blog, Interactive Hank, you may have visited from our site due to the many vias we've attached to all the interesting links he's been kind enough to send us over the years. In the interest of cutting out the middle man in that process, at least for a month, Henry will be our Guest Editor for July.

A list of all the brilliant people who have helped us by guest editing Fresh Signals can be found here.

Other recent features are listed on Page Two.

Fresh Signals

"If they need high resolution images, make sure you send them 72 dpi thumbnails." Salt Publishing's advice on how to take a bad author photo. sd-07.02

Start your Field Notes COLORS subscription with letterpressed Grass Stain Green. jc-07.02

"Robert Buelteman works indoors in total darkness, forsaking cameras, lenses, and computers for jumper cables, fiber optics, and 80,000 volts of electricity. This bizarre union of Dr. Frankenstein and Georgia O'Keeffe spawns photos that seem to portray the life force of his subjects as the very process destroys them." dw-07.02

A Lego combination safe. dw-07.02

Searchable collection of thousands of rare photographs chronicling Europe's colonization of East Africa. hcl-07.02

An annual MoOM link. Museum of Firecracker Label Art. Light fuse and get away. jc-07.02

Watched The Jonny Quest Documentary (previously on Coudal) and had to write about it. What really got me excited was the return of P.F. Flyers. hcl-07.02

Pretty fresh Neil Young & Paul McCartney performing A Day in the Life, live from Hyde Park, 27th June 2009. They do look a bit old. hcl-07.02

Laurent Champoussin's Cardiovascular Paper. dw-07.02

So you know, 10 fascinating last pictures taken. ms-07.02

Trailer for the film Five Minutes of Heaven. ms-07.02

Um, not so much for me, thanks. ms-07.02

Fab, Characters for an Epic Tale. ms-07.02

Ever wonder why there are not more options for watching high quality streams of like The Criterion Collection? Check out The Auteurs. hcl-07.02

Film Noir Foundation's upcoming NOIR CITY Chicago festival. Can't wait! Get your Noir of the Week now! hcl-07.01

Information on and photos/footage of Buro Happold and Hoberman Associates' 50 ton expanding video screen, currently being used at U2 concerts. sd-07.01

One time in high school I went to see a band and this really cute goth chick invited me back to her rich, out-of-town parents' house. Things were going pretty well until I lost interest because Rock and Roll High School was on Night Flight on her parents' huge TV. So yeah, I'm excited about Night Flight: Born Again. Thanks, Jeff! bb-07.01

"...from office window on my new iPhone 3G S." Thanks for that Steffan. jc-07.01

Weegee talks about the hows and whys of news photography (mp3). Via sjp. hcl-07.01

The elusive and horribly disfigured Wilhelm Staehle and his perennial beauty, T.D.Rio, have finally launched an online store, The Bazaarium, to sell their Victorian-inspired goods and wares. Via bblinks. sd-07.01

Information on artist Zoe Beloff's stereoscopic surround sound installation, The Ideoplastic Materializations of Eva C., wherein "phantoms reenact a series of ten seances held in Algeria and Paris from 1904 to 1912 with the French medium Eva C." sd-07.01

Qapture ranks the links being shared right now by some of the most interesting folks on Twitter. Via sjp hcl-07.01

Over at scribd: a Letter from Edie Beale. Via RKC. hcl-07.01

The 20 Most beautiful libraries in the world. hcl-07.01

An ant. Via DF bb-07.01

The Scratch DJ coffee table. dw-07.01

Hey you! Don't watch that, watch this! (but skip to :45). Or just listen to the original.. bb-07.01

Related to MS' post below: one of the best This American Life episodes, featuring Kurt Eichenwald who talks about the ADM price fixing scandal. The Informant, the book, is also comes highly recommended. sd-07.01

I love TED and have been a fan since engorging myself in Richard Saul Wurman's Access travel books. I have a bunch of TED stuff to lay out, but why not start with the TED Ten Commandments hcl-07.01

A big thanks to Fuzzy Gerdes (fg) for serving as our Guest Editor in June. Up next for July is Henry Cline (hcl), the Los Angeles-based director of photography and camera operator who has worked with the likes of Sam Raimi, David Mamet, and Errol Morris (so expect some great filmmaking links this month). A list of all the brilliant people who have helped us by guest editing Fresh Signals can be found here. sd-07.01

I've worn out several pairs of Vans hi-tops and my battered "Death to the Pixies" t-shirt hasn't fit in fifteen years, but do I really need these? bb-07.01

Gah! A huge collection of gorgeous photos of food from fab restaurants. ms-07.01

For all the tea drinkers in the office, a collection of modern teapots and kettle designs. ms-07.01

For Hump Day, a Hoedown. Via Fubiz. ms-07.01

Music vid of the moment, Fever Ray's Triangle Walks. ms-07.01

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Drew Myler
Grant Hutchinson
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Karen Labenz
Andrew Figgins
Mark Powell
Mike Keen
Chet Yeary II
Greg Storey
Matt Lee
Jeremy Quinn
Grant Unrau
Debbie Millman
David Demaree
Charles Adler
Paul Joyce
S.J. Barlament
Stephen Vance
Sam Potts
John Tolva
Cameron Moll
J. Thomas Lowell
Hillman Curtis
Gridiron Software
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William Dampier
Mario Van der Meulen
Simon Angling
Colin Scroggins
Inline Studio
Witold Riedel
Alan Hawkins
Marko Dugonjic
Chris Bernard
Matt Mullenweg
Alexander Muse
Dan Rubin
Thomas Mackechney
Dan Cederholm
Eric Mersmann
Ben Edwards
Brian Seethaler
Lightburn
Matt Haughey
Bill Keaggy
Pierre Mai
Kevin Hamm
Andre Torrez
Greg Hoy
Issa Breibish
Drew Stauffer
Abby Urban
Christopher Ebmeyer
Jeffrey Rutzky
Robert D. Whitson
Hunter Weeks
Christopher Cennon
Josh Williams

Your Name Here

the pitch

You can be an Executive Producer of our new short feature film, 72°. If you've always wanted to be a hotshot Hollywood player, or you just want to lend a hand to the project here's your chance.

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:

"I have to say I am more than happy with them! My favorite part is they just send the templates and the cases and then I get to customize it for each bride & groom." Read the entire post.

Another Thing We Made: The Show

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.

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