links for 2005-01-28

• The New York Times > Home & Garden > Hot Off the Web: Gossip and Design Guidance
  The NY Times on design blogs. Not very deep, but mentions some of my favorites.
  (categories: weblogs design nytimes designblogs blogs)
• we make money not art: The computer game you climb upon
  "Initially, the climbing wall is to be used as a musical instrument; every climbing grip yields an audio feedback when touched."
  (categories: musicalinstruments wallclimbing interactive art gaming computergames)
• Gothamist: Maria Raha, Cinderella's Big Score author
  Cinderella's Big Score traces "the path of women from Patti Smith and Debbie Harry to Sleater-Kinney and Le Tigre, including everyone from Tina Weymouth to Lydia Lunch to Kim Deal along the way."
  (categories: rock music books indierock undergroundmusic women womeninrock)
• Apartment Therapy - Philip Johnson
  A short but charming letter to the recently departed architect.
  (categories: architecture philipjohnson nyc anecdotes)
• TheFeature :: Music In, Music Out: The Garage Band Ethos in a Cellular World
  Douglas Rushkoff on using mobile devices as musical creation devices.
  (categories: creativity mobile music ringtones garageband)
• AIGA - The Spirit of Will Eisner
  With scans of his work, as well. "After all, this is the man for whom the industry’s most prestigious and coveted honor, the Eisner Award, was named. And deservedly so."
  (categories: willeisner aiga graphicnovels sequentialart comicbooks comics)
• Nerve.com Screening Room
  "Do you think Conor Oberst really can make buttermilk pancakes?"
  (categories: conoroberst brighteyes saddlecreek indierock)
• Josh Rubin: Cool Hunting: MC Lars: Joker or Superstar?
  Superstar, obviously. (I went to school with him, and knew him when he was just "DJ Drew." Very good guy.)
  (categories: mclars postpunklaptoprap music)

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