Ugly website Monday.

...because I feel like we've all made or been subject to looking at sites like these, thought I'd share DesignO'Blogs Ugly Website contest.

Logo Thursday.

In my morning reading of all-things-interesting-on-the-internet, I came across the awesome new Fort Worth Museum logo. I had seen it last night, but in my cereal-induced-coma at 11pm, it didn't even register what it was. But I think it's one of the best logos I've seen in a long time:









Graphic design history lesson! It kind of reminded me, conceptually, of the MIT Press logo:

//chalk.

Firekites - AUTUMN STORY - chalk animation from Lucinda Schreiber on Vimeo.

Apparently 1900 frames and 6 months later, Autumn Story now has this awesome video to go along with it. ...and a lot of chalk dust.

i.
Random older customer: "Do you accept American Express?"
Me: "Yes, we do."
Random older customer, who is seeming crazier and crazier: "Do you have anything against mice?"

Thoughts running through my head: "Mice? In what context? In my house? In the wild? Can mice even *live* in the wild? Doesn't that make them rats?"

...all this translates as a blank stare. And I eventually manage to stammer, "Um, no?"

Exeunt Random older customer.

What? Yea. I don't know. When the weather gets warmer, all the crazy inhabitants of Allston feel the need to flock to Rite Aid. As long as they're harmless, it provides for some good stories, if nothing else.

ii.








Adobe pillows?! You. Freaking. Bet. MySuiteStuff now makes these, and I can't help but imagining the Adobe icons in my dock becoming pillows on my bed. And then I get kind of terrified. Ok, maybe they can exist on my couch. When I'm not having people over.

iii.
Uhh...save the best for last? Absolutely. Pentagram is releasing this awesome book, Manhatta, that paints a picture of what Manhattan was like 400 years ago. And what it's projected to look like in the future. It's so freaking cool. Maybe it's just because I'm obsessed with the History channel's new show, Life Without People, and The World Without Us, but it does look really interesting and well done. Surprised? Negative. :)

404?

After getting this on April Fool's Day, I thought it was some sort of weird thing Google was doing for April Fool's, besides the CADIE thing.

Turns out, it was just my internet being slow... :x

18tons?

Small, but seemingly older boy talking to bus driver: " Man, how do you drive such a thing?"

Older bus driver: "Let me tell you boy, this thing weighs 18 tons. When you're behind the wheel of something that weighs 18 tons and someone plays chicken with you, you don't flinch."

Seemingly older boy (that I later find out is going to law school in VA): ::dumbfounded look:: "Gee...I don't even know if my car weighs a ton..."

The hilarity in this conversation was just the dynamic between the two, that I guess you had to be there to see. Or maybe it's the fact that it's a horribly rainy Monday morning and my iPod died the second I turned it on, and I forgot my umbrella, and totally needed some form of amusement on the bus...

i. I still haven't watched Lost yet. Things that might need to happen before I think about sleeping tonight.

ii. I flew from Boston to NYC and back to Boston within 24 hours this weekend. It was an awesome weekend and awesome getting to go home for Mama's birthday party (especially since she had zero idea I wasn't going to be there. Somehow, everyone managed to blab to everyone else, but she still was kept in the dark). There were lots of tears and OMG's and "I can't believe you did this's", so overall success.

iii. I came home to a package on my counter, which was my business cards! Which printed amaazingly, and on Sarah's suggestion, I ordered them from Moo.com . Granted, it took them an exponential amount of time to send them (I ordered them on Jan. 9th and got them yesterday, apparently they had printed them incorrectly, and had to reprint. Which is funny, because they're still lacking the back image that I sent. If I had ordered more than 50 I would bother sending them back, but at this point, they're just a test run. See below!




























iv. This small child at work yesterday, was passing a magazine stand and on the front was the latest issue of some sort of news magazine with a large portrait of Obama on it. Small child could not have been more than 6 years old, and stammered for a good 6-10 seconds about, "Daddy! Look! It's Orack. No, bama...Obm-, Bar-, OH! Barack Obama!" and you have adorable.

v. Flying between MA and NYC > the bus. x893748972. We're talking SO much easier on all accounts. I literally closed my eyes on the flight back today, and opened them seeminly 5 minutes later when the seatbelt noise for landing sounded. Awesome.