Pike Murdy - Part 2

03/29/2010

Knoxville’s Big Ears in the NY Times

…and it’s not something embarrassing.

Minimalism, which is Mr. Riley’s ballpark, can be expressed through many musical languages. After getting a headful of Ms. Newsom, I went to the Pilot Light, a tiny bar, to hear Argentinum Astrum, a fantastic doom-metal band from Knoxville. Repeated riffs so fat, loud, slow and heavy that the individual notes are nearly disconnected: what’s more minimal than that? Nothing. Consider yourself informed.

Be sure to check out the photos by my friend Brian Wagner.

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Knoxville, Music.

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03/19/2010

Four Ways to Mix Fonts

Is there a way to know what fonts will work together? Building a palette is an intuitive process, but expanding a typographic duet to three, four, or even five voices can be daunting. Here are four tips for navigating the typographic ocean, all built around H&FJ’s Highly Scientific First Principle of Combining Fonts: keep one thing consistent, and let one thing vary.

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Typography.

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03/10/2010

The Faces Behind the Famous Hands | The Big Money

Some photos of hand models.

The Faces Behind the Famous Hands.

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02/07/2010

Sites that I Have Recently Enjoyed

An explanation by Dave Eggers of Timothy McSweeney.

Really sexy photos of really sexy houses, with appropriate captions.

Infographics, from the victorian age.

The place known as The Island of the Dolls in Mexico is one of the creepiest places on Earth.

Weirdimals is one of the best uses of Quentin I’ve seen.

I sometimes imagine things like this: Found Functions.

If you visit no other site today, visit this site: Custom Letters 2009.

Animals, Sites.

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02/03/2010

Quentin 2.0

After a few years of silence, I have quietly redesigned.

There are several new features that you can read more about on the Quentin Page. It’s an old-fashioned theme. If you think Quentin may be right for your content, please download it and give it a try. WordPress.com has added a modified version of Quentin 1.0 to the choices of themes when you sign up for a WordPress.com blog. So at the moment, Quentin 2.0 is only available if you host the site yourself.

If you are using Quentin–any version, on any site–I may not know about it. I’d love to see it and you can show me your site here.

Visit the Quentin Page

Quentin, WordPress.

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01/28/2010