The Mezzanine - Nicholson Baker
The Visual Display Of Quantitative Information - Edward Tufte
All these books are good for their own reasons but they’re also good examples of people who are really interested in stuff that others think of as banal and who explain it in a way that makes you share their passion. That's good.
And that's it.
I have been getting into what comics signify and what a cartoon can say about society and the rules of the game. From ancient times when Egyptians wrote on the wall to present day street art comics tell a story. Why do we believe cartoon forms of ourselves? Why is the high intellectual property of the New Yorker only illustrated?
I'm working on a comic of my own. Hopefully it will be up by next week. More to come later.
6 comments:
Cori, you got to #10. Do you think you're more interesting yet??
I can't WAIT to see your comic.
I bet it's all cooky cori crazy.
Nice! Dunno if you've been there before, but you might check out Jim Mahfood's stuff at http://www.40ozcomics.com/ . Live art, street murals, comics... pretty cool stuff, nice vibe and all.
I think so, that comic website is super tight!
Woah that's stellar! A very good likeness I think. ;) Take that and multiply it by 8 hours and the result is my average day.
When susan and I had been thinking of what to call the faculty laptops, naturally "flaps" came to mind, but not nearly in the same line of thinking as your computers in flight.
My idea was more from a mom/ disgruntled service worker...flap meaning some kind of disagreement or controversy..."hey, what's the big flap about?" You have captured the essence of our office. You did a good job on dave's hair.
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