“In 2007, the ‘artist’ Guillermo Vargas Habacuc, took a dog from the street, tied him to a rope in an art gallery, and starved him to death.

For several days, the ‘artist’ and the visitors of the exhibition have watched emotionless the shameful ‘masterpiece’ based on the dog’s agony, until eventually he died.”

Its a sad sad day for animal lovers and pretentious art idiots everywhere. Im not sure what is more sad in fact, that this poor animal died as an art exhibit, or that these human beings justified the action in the first place.

I know I know. Reaction is the point, did it make you feel something then its art, blah blah blah. It a tired, lame, lazy, and disgustingly self important argument for an artist to make, let alone incredibly unintelligent. Yeah no shit watching something die will illicit a feeling.

And it doesnt stop there. The so-called artist has been invited to re-execute his exhibit for the Central American Biennial of 2008. You can help stop this disgusting action by quickly signing a petition below.

SIGN THIS PETITION

On our new site for 2k we discovered a super error message on IE: “Internet Explorer cannot open the Internet site *** Operation aborted.” Google turned out this solution. Turns out it was a swfobject conflict with lightbox. Also, god I hate IE.

One of our clients, Bill Janis, sent me this link to an Analytics app for Air. Pretty dope, I tried it out at home and it behaved beautifully. I favor the design of the Google one though.

You can quick look excel files! Pretty amazing. That’s it.

http://www.helveticafilm.com/

Highly highly recommended.

Amazing documentary! It will make any designer feel respected and powerful once again!
It almost felt like I was in a therapy session while watching this.

In a nutshell it’s about the origin of the font, the original font haus and the modernism movement vs. today’s contemporary designers who have a strong use of typography such as D.Carson and the S.Stagmister. Basically typography rules vs. no typography rules.

Vic’s and I were having a discussion the other day about what makes Davis Carson so special and after watching the film I had more respect for him, Raygun and Mario. Stephan Stagmister is also one of those guy’s that was questionable to me before watching this. His big “fuck you” attitude to the modernist movement is very interesting during the film. On a side note, Dan Yomanz (buk freelancer) just recently met him in person at one of his lectures and said he was a really nice and approachable guy. I was waiting for Ben’s idol, Hillman Curtis to appear but no dice, I sorta figured he’d be on this documentry by default.

If I had to choose a side “moderism or contemporary typography” I could be swayed either way. I have always felt there’s a time and place for all uses of typography and if you have the respect and understanding of both, it’s fair game.

Don’t miss this link:
http://www.hillmancurtis.com/hc_web/film_video/source/fof/sagmeister08.php

I’d recommend this book for school projects Vic’s. I love it.
http://www.miltonglaser.com/
http://www.amazon.com/Design-Dissent-Socially-Politically-Graphics/dp/1592533078/ref=pd_sim_b_img_2/104-9065744-0143904