Lynn Stadum at Prom, I Guess

Tamara Christensen 2013

I met Tamara at a design conference last year. She spoke about "Sense Storming" which was pretty neat. Then we shared a cigarette after and got acquainted. I must've given her my card 'cause she emailed me not long after that. Then she came by for lunch with the rest of the dudes from work and me. Then We went to visit her at the Idea Farm, which was pretty great and now we're working on her website. Aaron and Ryan had a photo shoot with Tamara for that project just this past weekend and this comes from one of the pictures they made. So, I like Tamara. Think she's pretty smart.

Trish's Obscure Eighties Playlist

Trish, you should know you started me on a tangent with your post on the facebook:

Then Ted tagged me in his response:

You're not kidding, Ted. Translator was totally amazing that night. But I love the album just as well. In fact I still have Nothing Is Saving Me on my iPod. So let's begin our playlist with that...


Trish, I hope these are obscure enough for you. Click to hear and enjoy!




1. Translator • "Nothing Is Saving Me"

2. Suburban Lawns • "Janitor"

3. The Producers • "I Love Lucy"

4. Billy Clone & The Same • "She's So Primative"

5. The Primatives • "Sick of It"

6. David Sylvian • "The Ink in the Well"

7. B-People • "23 Can Can't"

8. The Photos • "I'm So Attractive"

9. Gang of Four • "We Live as We Dream, Alone"

10. Adrien Belew • "Swingline"

11. Tones On Tail • "Christian Says"

12. Everything but the Girl • "Crabwalk"

13. Choir Invisible • "Playing Cards"

14. The Vapors • "Waiting for the Weekend"

15. The Hitmen • "Bates Motel"

16. The Motels • "Cry Baby"

17. The Plugz • "Achin'"

18. Prefab Sprout • "I Never Play Basketball Now"

19. Ultravox • "New Europeans"

20. X • "Blue Spark"

21. Advertising • "A.R.T. - Art"

22. The Proof • "It's Safe"

23. The Housemartins • "I Can't Put My Finger On It"

24. The Unknowns • "Tax Deductable"

25. Josie Cotton • "Johnny, Are You Queer?"

26. The Colourfield • "Hammond Song"

27. The Rezillos • "It Gets Me"

28. Polyrock • "Body Me"

29. Holly & the Italians • "Rock Against Romance"

30. Magazine • "Model Worker"

31. Shellyan Orphan • "Burst"

Title Cards

Here are the title cards for some okay movies you might know. Some of the designs, I think, are pretty stunning, particularly the older ones. It makes me wonder who made them and what that job must be like. I always wished I could design film credits for a living. I think I'd be good at that.

Might as Well Face It

(This is what I look like now.)

Shield

I Always Liked the Paintings of Stuart Davis

Stuart Davis (December 7, 1892 – June 24, 1964), was an early American modernist painter. He was well known for his jazz-influenced, proto pop art paintings of the 1940s and 1950s, bold, brash, and colorful, as well as his ashcan pictures in the early years of the 20th century.

I Wish I Lived Wherever This Is

Literature

Here are twenty books I've never read.
And neither have you.
And you never will.
And neither will I.
Nobody will.

Ewa Aulin Can Mesmerize! 2012

The somewhat ridiculous nature of this picture should indicate to those who know me well that, A, I am in a good mood and, B, it's time for you to send me an expensive gift.

Amazing Stories

When I was a kid, I had a picture book of cover art from science fiction pulp magazines that I used to pour over constantly. Those paintings had me rapt and though I've since lost the book somewhere, I still sometimes think about how cool that stuff was, so when I found some via stumble upon, I naturally had to hold them in a post here at PROOF.

Amazing Stories was an American science fiction magazine launched in April 1926 by Hugo Gernsback's Experimenter Publishing. It was the first magazine devoted solely to science fiction. Before Amazing, science fiction stories had made regular appearances in other magazines, including some published by Gernsback, but Amazing helped define and launch a new genre of pulp fiction.