Category Archives: Design-related

Tonight, on Thumb Drives and Oven Clocks, a kinetic type animation, with music; or, here is what I did with about twenty hours of my life about a month and a half ago

Posted by Darby on Saturday, August 28th, 2010 at 6:41 pm.

I’ll keep this one relatively brief, since I’d rather you spend the next minute of your life enjoying what’s behind door number one, either by clicking on the big type-laden image or this link right here. (There is sound, so if you’re supposed to be working on a spreadsheet or something, you might want to [...]

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In which our narrator enjoys a stain-filled breaking point

Posted by Darby on Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010 at 12:18 am.

My interest in visual communication as a thing that people do for/to/with other people is, in the context of my life to date, a new one, one I did not see coming until maybe two years ago; partially schooled, partially felt, fundamentally stumbled into, it’s the sort of thing that, whatever genius or drudgery might [...]

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    • The American Girl and The Glitter Scene by Monika Fagerholm
    • "Monika Fagerholm creates a dark, dramatic, and lyrical world, often insular, full of change and loss.... I fell in love with this world and these books; they are, for me, a fresh reminder of what story itself is about.." Reviewed at The Collagist.
    • Some Things That Meant the World to Me by Joshua Mohr
    • "Joshua Mohr’s debut novel...is where Michael Gondry would go if he went down a few too many miles of bad desert road." Reviewed at The Collagist.
    • Drowning Tucson by Aaron Michael Morales
    • "Fill your book with blatant, modern-day classic, critical thematic concerns and a reviewer ought to have no problem calling them out in an easily digested bullet-point format.... Except, this book hurt. And trying to find a way to talk about that without merely repeating over and over again that this book hurt presents a far greater challenge." Reviewed at The Collagist.
    • Chronic City by Jonathan Lethem
    • "Let me be completely transparent: with Lethem’s work, I approach it with expectations. I expect spice. In this case, I found the book flavorless and cold." Reviewed at Identity Theory.
    • Ray of the Star by Laird Hunt
    • "Consider the f-bomb: you can trace the trajectory of the story’s heart by the elegant deployment of that dexterous cuss word across the pages of...Laird Hunt’s latest (arguably best, unarguably most emotionally engaging) novel." Reviewed at Identity Theory.
    • What Is All This? by Stephen Dixon
    • This review includes footnotes. Reviewed at The Quarterly Conversation.
    • The Orange Eats Creeps by Grace Krilanovich
    • "It is a slippery novel. It will never lay still and compromising in your hands, but the harder you hold on to it, the harder it is to hold. In confounding, it rewards: to borrow a line from the book, 'It’s only a problem if you make it one.' Reviewed at The Collagist.