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When Burger King first brought back their mascot a few years ago I thought it was the funniest and smartest ad campaign I’d seen in a long time. I was creating my first TV commercials at the time so I’d notice stuff like that.
It was also the first time that I realized other people from my generation were now working in the creative industry and companies were taking risks with them for their marketing. As soon as I saw the first ad with The King I knew it must have been created by other dudes who like me were weaned by the likes of Pee-Wee Herman and Ren & Stimpy.
Every so often I’ll come across an artist whose work is at once incredibly familiar yet totally unique.
Such is the case with Ward Jenkins.
I’ve been following Ward’s work for so long I can barely remember how I first discovered him. But I’m pretty sure it was when Grain Edit mentioned him back in the spring of 09… since that was right around the time I was discovering my great love for mid-century style.
And nobody does mid-century style like Ward. Read more
Earlier this year there was a bit of a buzz about an article in The Atlantic about Donald Gray Triplett—who in 1943 was the first child to ever be diagnosed as “autistic.”
The article itself (by John Donvan and Caren Zucker) is really fantastic. Even though it is a bit long for a web piece, it is totally worth your time. I love the introductory story where Donald’s talent (in other words—savant capabilities) for math catches the attention of a travelling entertainer who asks if Donald can join him for his travelling show:
whether they spoke this aloud to their guest or not, [there was] the sheer indignity of what Polgar was proposing. Donald’s being odd, his parents could not undo; his being made an oddity of, they could, and would, prevent. The offer was politely but firmly declined.
I really can’t say enough about this article. I haven’t read anything on the topic that I’ve appreciated so much.
But of all the connectedness of an article like this to my own heart’s strings, it is this image that invoked the most emotion.
For even in a photograph you can see his eyes are so piercing that they’re transcendent. Like the eyes of most individuals whom I’ve met with autism—on the rare occasion that they happen to look straight into your own, they’ll see right through into your soul.
After years of practice I’m lucky to now get a chance to look my son in the eye at least once every day and it still gives me butterflies every time.
Luckily it took very little research to discover the man behind this particular lens—Miller Mobley.
Austin City Limits has to be one of the best and most important TV shows ever (yes, TV can be important)
Considering the long history of the show, I’m a relative newcomer to the audience. The first episode I ever saw was a Widespread Panic. (must have been around 2000-01?)
It was like I had tasted first blood.
Now a decade later, I have so many great memories watching the show…
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Art and Faith have been intersecting since the dawn of civilization. I love finding examples of artwork that demonstrate spiritual ideas and manage to defy cliché (aka: the Thomas Kinkade effect).
I only had to see this Coldplay video one time and I had to find out who made it.
Turns out it’s a group of college buddies who stuck together all these years later as the collective Shynola—a name which not only comes from one of my all-time favorite movies, but has also produced videos for some of my all-time favorite artists, like Beck and Radiohead and of course everyone’s favorite Coldplay…
I get so excited whenever I see artwork that is something like I would do. When I saw the work of these guys, I wanted to go out and make videos again.
