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Posts Tagged ‘inspiration’
Carl Jung’s The Red Book
Monday, September 21st, 2009
Last week the New York Times published an article by Sara Corbett on Carl Gustav Jung’s unpublished The Red Book entitled “The Holy Grail of the Unconscious.” Corbett’s article covers all of the story from how Jung created the book to its secrecy and ultimate shelving in a safe so there is no need to repeat it here. 
The book is the outpouring of Carl Jung’s exploration into his own psyche. The few who have read it said they either read with bated breath or felt it the ramblings of a psychopath.
The illustration and typography of the book from scans looks amazing, as in these full color scans of The Red Book. Reminds me of the Voynich manuscript– a mysterious illustrated work from the Renaissance filled with peculiar imagery.
Though unlikely to live up to the hype of those who have read it, The Red Book promises to be a substantial work by one of the twentieth century’s great minds.
Tags: carl jung, Graphic Design, inspiration, psychology
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The Internet is Pictures of Cats: Superbad
Wednesday, June 10th, 2009
The granddaddy of internet weirdness, the digital id of the late-90s, the reason we all got excited about JavaScript in the first place… I present to you, gentlemen, Superbad.
This has been the homepage on at least one of my browsers since 1998. I remember plumbing its depths on a dial-up, making animated GIF-laden homages with AOLPress in the wee hours of the night through high school. I basically spent my college career as ‘guy in the dorm who knows computers’ stealing code off this thing and turning it to woefully conventional purposes for skinny blondes and pointless presentations. For such a sin, I owe penance.
Apparently, this is the work of a fella named Ben Benjamin, a decomissioned code ammunition dump and something that could be tagged with that dusty, decrepit tag of ‘net art’. (Hey, are any of you old enough to remember when the infowebhighwaysurfnet had Artist(e)s?)
No, there’s no point. But that’s the point. Remember possibility? Remember when pointless was simple? Remember back when the web was slow enough where we all felt alone and no one talked about building their own personal brand? Here’s the zen garden for your ADD.
Tags: 90s, code, DHTML, inspiration, internet, JavaScript, Mulch, superbad, the internet is pictures of cats, weird
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