Consumption: July 2005

On the Web

Guitar Shred Show: Learn the way of the exploding solo and become the shredder you have always dreamed of being!
Picnic Mtn. Book 1: Thirty-two pages of perplexingly hilarious comics for $5.00.
Live: Shellac: I have passed up a few opportunities to see Shellac. I am stupid.
The Bearskinrug Store: Kevin Cornell is now selling prints and posters. Buy now—this stuff is gonna go fast!
Glyphs: Dave Shea examines the awesome power of Unicode.
The Warriors: Come Out to Play: Caaaaaaannnn yooooouuuu diiig iiitt??
Best American Bands Ever? A Haiku Review: Twenty very concise and very funny reviews.
The New Renaissance?: Are we living in a new golden age of creative cranial capacity?
The Immortal Gutenberg: Ruminations on the vitality of print.
It Ain’t Broke, But I’ll Fix It: Regisration of my disdain for a ludicrous product.
New Corpse Bride Trailer: Between Corpse Bride and the Wallace and Gromit feature, October can’t possibly come soon enough.
Five Simple Steps to Designing Grid Systems: Mark Boulton’s latest instructional series.
David Carson: The latest installment in Hillman Curtis’s series of designer mini-documentaries profiles the most influential graphic designer of the 1990s.
My First Sony: The story of my introduction to web design.