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October 02 A list to get back to...I will not read anymore software manuals until i get through
some real books.Listening to Leonard Cohen and Woody Guthrie will do this to you I suppose. Last year it was 6 Henry Miller and James Joyce books straight through, and caught up on the latest cyberpunk earlier this year. We are going to Santa Fe for a week so i scrambling to buy some of the following. Posting this so I can pull it up on my Mac and print for the bookstore. "Writers" i have not yet read...
Nabokov, H.W Ross, Beckett, Jean Genet, DH Lawrence,
LeRoi Jones, Sartre, Camus, Ionesco, Artaud, Gunter Grass, Octavio Paz, Heinrich Boll, Fernando Arrabal, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Gary Snyder, Robert Creeley, Kenneth Koch, John Rechy, Frank O'Hara, Terry Southern, Larry Rivers, Caig Vetter, PJ O'Rourke, Che Guevara "Filmmakers" i have not yet seen...
Luis Bunuel, Jean-Luc Godard, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Maya Deren,
Stan Brakhage, Bruce Conner, Lenny Bruce, Jean Genet, Jack Smith, Paul Cronin, "I am Curious - Yellow"(saw it 11.20.05) And the winners are: "Gravity's Rainbow"-Thomas Pynchon (thanks Amy) and "Lolita" -Vladimir Nabokov(finished 11.18.05) and "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" -Hunter Thompson (finished 10.11.05) July 19 North Carolina State University: Design School SiteResources, courses, and vibrant discussion boards from the grad program at my old stompping grounds. Tyler Galloway (former kc designer, KCAI instructor) is wrapping up classes there. Have a friend that went through the program and works for The Syndicate at Burton. Great program, I miss NC.
Site for teachers/Graphic Design Education and Research:
Site for students/Vibrant discussion boards
July 17 Inspiration: Computational Art HeavyweightsDo you know these people? I have been sporadically posting some of these sites, i came upon this batch on another site and am assimilating here. There are many more throughout my posts, some of the following i take for granted, but if you are new to all of this, you should check these out. Going to use this space to assimilate the people i come across.
Daniel Brown
Golan Levin
Anyone that knows me personaly has heard this name a million times. Jeff Howard just finished taking his proce55ing class up at Carnege Mellon
James Tindell
Paul Brown
Marius Watz
Casey Reas
The guy responsible for changing my life after he demoed Valince for me while he was at MIT.. brilliant. Responsible for proce55ing
Ben Fry
The guy that wrote Valince, and the co-creator of procce55ing from MIT
James Patterson
Lia
Ed Burton
Zachery Lieberman
June 30 Inspiration: John Maeda's BlogJohn Maeda's blog: http://weblogs.media.mit.edu/SIMPLICITY/
The Maeda sk8 deck! I wrote the company making them and they haven't released them yet. It is limited edition (100) that will be released this September. That means when I meet him at the AIGA Conference in Boston, I can bring one along for him to sign. Hard to be a code groupy. :)
Mekanism Skateboards: http://mekanismskateboards.com
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