Open Letter to Dwell Magazine

This “open letter” to one of the magazines I subscribe to made me chuckle. Kinda true…

Dear Dwell:

Love the magazine. As a favor, I have rewritten the Table of Contents of your July/August issue:

Cover House with Horizontal Wood Slats
Page 43 House with Vertical Wood Slats
Page 52 House with Horizontal Wood Slats
Page 58 Ice Cream Makers
Page 66 Pavilion with Horizontal Wood Slats
Page 70 Philadelphia
Page 80 House with Horizontal Wood Slats
Page 88 House with Horizontal Wood Slats
Page 96 House with Vertical Wood Slats

I hope you find this useful.

Fondly,

Jeff Speck, AICP
Washington, DC

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Junghwan Chei’s Desk Pillow

I could have used one of these ingenius pillows designed by Junghwan Chei when I was in school, especially during finals period. This pillow looks more comfortable than resting my head on a stack of books.

Relatedly, during one particular finals week at Columbia University, I documented into a comics format the napping habits of my fellow classmates at Butler Library. Enjoy.

Bryan Adams, Photographer?

Who woulda thunk that singer Bryan Adams is a well established fashion photographer (NSFW) with “photos published in numerous well-known publications such as L’uomo Vogue, British Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, Vanity Fair, Interview magazine, and Esquire.”

Prague’s Mongolian Death Worm

Czech artist EPOS 257′s latest work is a public installation recreating a cryptozoological Mongolian death worm running amok in Prague.

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This Is Why You’re Fat

From This Is Why You’re Fat (previously), a site devoted to Frankensteinian creationsm, such as the “flapjack fiasco” that helps explain our country’s growing waistlines.

Michael Fawcett

Disturbing photoshop found at Fark.

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Farrah, Michael, and Hair

Along with being pop culture icons, Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett, who also passed away today, shared another commonality which centered around the public’s fascination with their hair.

Farrah Fawcett, Michael Jackson: Hair yesterday and gone today. Sorry, I couldn’t resist.

Thinking about Michael

Andrew Sullivan skips past the hagiograpy and gives his nuanced thoughts on the pop legend’s passing:

I loved his music. His young voice was almost a miracle, his poise in retrospect eery, his joy, tempered by pain, often unbearably uplifting. He made the greatest music video of all time; and he made some of the greatest records of all time. He was everything our culture worships; and yet he was obviously desperately unhappy, tortured, afraid and alone.

I grieve for him; but I also grieve for the culture that created and destroyed him. That culture is ours’ and it is a lethal and brutal one: with fame and celebrity as its core values, with money as its sole motive, it chewed this child up and spat him out.

Read rest here.

The King of Pop’s Return

As I tweeted:

“It’s okay everyone. MJ will be back…as a ZOMBIE doing the THRILLER DANCE!”

Update: Well that didn’t take long.

Animated OS X Folders

This video is like the sweet spot in a venn diagram of geek interests: Macs, animation, color theory. Emilio Gomariz had to create 22,655 folders to produce it.