Introduction : Jax de Leon Bonkers student project dissecting and deconstructing Sufjan Stevens' Illinoise into various graphic elements. (tags: music design) Retro Futurism At Its Best: Designs and Tutorials | Inspiration | Smashing Magazine Huge roundup of various RF works both retro and modern. (tags: art design) What's Alan Watching?: 'Mad Men' coming back August [...]

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Sixteen Miles to Merricks Online Edition Whoa, I had no idea Barnaby Ward was quietly releasing new pages of his fantastic Sixteen Miles to Merricks online every week. You should still buy the book — it's one of the best dreamy/surreal comics I've read in quite a while — but I guess you could start [...]

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Channel 4 creates 4oD online back catalogue free of charge – Telegraph Yipes, time to find a UK proxy: "From July, viewers will be able to watch every episode of shows including comedy series such as Father Ted, Drop The Dead Donkey and BrassEye without having to buy a DVD box set." (tags: tv) YouTube [...]

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Bleeding Cool » Preview: PAUL Screenplay By Simon Pegg And Nick Frost Hey look, it's a quickie script review with little extracts of Pegg/Frost's upcoming comic-nerd/alien flick. (tags: movies)

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Blog Seven – Party! – Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World on Vimeo This is what it looks like when you have a party in Scott Pilgrim's universe. (tags: movies video) :: The Playlist ::: Metric's Music Confirmed As Standing In For Band In 'Scott Pilgrim' Playlist justifiably gloats a bit as they called it all [...]

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Merge Records: Polve sign to Merge It's like indie-90s-revival-day over at Matador and Merge: "On September 8th, Merge Records will release In Prism, the first studio album from Polvo since 1997’s Shapes." (tags: music) Matador Records | Coming September 8 : Yo La Tengo’s ‘Popular Songs’ Download the first MP3! "The new Yo La Tengo [...]

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Pitchfork: Mysterious Elephant 6 Major Organ Movie/Album to See Release "Back in 2007, we reported that Major Organ and the Adding Machine, a low-budget movie starring pretty much all of the Athens-based Elephant 6 collective, would finally hit screens in 2008. Well, it didn't. But Orange Twin Records says that they plan to release it [...]

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‘Up,’ Inside and Out – Interactive Feature – NYTimes.com Nice multimedia piece on how Up's characters came to life. (tags: movies art)

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The Cover Art Of Reid Miles (Blue Note Records) | NYLVI: Your Place for Vinyl: Blog Just a tiny little list of album covers reminding you how fantastic Reid Miles' Blue Note designs were. (tags: music design) GOOD Transparencies Archive – a set on Flickr GOOD's very pretty infographics in very good hi-res. (tags: design [...]

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The Making of Zach Galifianakis – NYTimes.com '“When you go from having your own talk show to doing stand-up in a bowling alley,” he said finally, “you can react by getting mad or depressed, or by just going away, like people expect you to.” He took in a slow, thoughtful breath. “I reacted by growing [...]

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