October 25, 2009 Link to post
October 23, 2009 Link to post
Hauptbahnhof Berlin (via no)
October 19, 2009 Link to post
Berlin, Festival of Lights
October 14, 2009 Link to post
For whatever we do, even whatever we do not do prevents us from doing its opposite. Acts demolish their alternatives, that is the paradox.
October 9, 2009 Link to post
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Billy Bragg at Hardly Strictly
October 1, 2009 Link to post
fall/soon (via sajuko)
Death has cropped up a lot in my reading lately. In White Noise, Don DeLillo’s main character is fairly obsessed with death, it is the one thing he and his wife can’t bring themselves to contemplate or discuss. In the final pages of The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work, Alain de Botton sums up his book with the reason we toil: to help us forget that we will one day die.
September 30, 2009 Link to post
The Nature of Things is a project that attempts to question and disrupt our idea of ‘environment’ and what it means today. By using the body as a tool, I set up scenes that aim to change the landscape by introducing the unnatural into the natural, or the natural into the unnatural. For example, the photos depict a person painted as a fish in the ocean or a body covered in grass lining a New York City street. Through performance and photography, the reactions of the passerby’s are captured, highlighting the bizarre within the everyday façade of the ‘normal’. This project, like all my work, investigates interpersonal connections to our surroundings to ultimately question both collectively and individually, why we do the things we do.
Really nice New York Times illustrations by Fogelson-Lubliner
September 28, 2009 Link to post
Portmanteau
A portmanteau is used broadly to mean a blend of two (or more) words and their meanings into one. I make these all the time.
September 25, 2009 Link to post
Site Redesign
Version 7 of caitlinwinner.com is live. Thanks to Tumblr for making themes so easy to create, and special thanks to Cuie&Co for their help with branding.
This is the fourth custom theme I’ve made for a Tumblr site and I finally have a good work flow. Since the CSS and HTML ultimately end up in the same file, and since images need to be hosted remotely I struggled in the past trying to develop without constantly changing references to test locally, then on Tumblr, and back again.
This time I pulled the CSS out into a separate file locally and kept all my images locally as well. Basically I set it up as I would any other site. I created a test Tumblr site under my account and posted one of each type of post. Then, I grabbed the source code of the test site and created a testing.html file locally where I could see my CSS in action. Once I felt like the theme was almost there I posted my images elsewhere and pointed all the image URLs to the new locations. Then I merged the HTML and CSS applied it to my test site.
I still ended up doing a fair amount of real time tweaking near the end that required edting both local and published code, but by comparison the flow was much more efficent than it has been in the past.
September 23, 2009 Link to post
Designing a website for a yoga company. Round 2 of designs.
September 22, 2009 Link to post
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The xx
Intro
Ethereal Land
The photographer strives to question one’s assumptions of the apparently banal by showing the ordinary as both beautiful and mysterious.
In mid-day heat of the arid Sonoran desert sits the gutted remains of a Lockheed Tri-Star airliner at the storage facility at Mojave, California.
