Through Lines 249

April 22nd cannot come soon enough for the final season of Andor. Now to convince my wife that she should rewatch the first season with me so she can see why it’s easily the best of Star Wars.

• Not all posters function at the same level of useful intensity. But, some can and do provide a useful purpose in augmenting ideas in the mind of a viewer and eliciting powerful responses to their messages. I fully agree with Steven Heller that good posters can indeed help.
• Hi-ho, hi-ho, it’s off to bland we go! If that’s not a rallying cry that convinces you to consider turning off your computer, tossing your phone in an ocean, and doing something that probably feels uncomfortable, I don’t know what will. Creative work and the craft behind it needs air and time — and it needs space for us to play. Rob Schwartz is right on the money.
• Most of what lives in my phone is there because I forgot to delete it, making the things I’d actually like to be reminded of even more difficult to stumble across. A good case for what we lose when our memories are trapped in our phones.
• The three models of a curious mind — the busybody, the hunter, and the dancer are each useful in different contexts and we unconsciously switch modes depending on particular goals, but I find the dancer to be the most naturally compelling.
• Man installed “kill switch” so that if he was fired, all hell would break loose. I applaud the effort though also can imagine how difficult this might be to really pull off today.
• Frank Lloyd Wright’s stunning final home in Phoenix, Arizona, the Circular Sun House, is (currently still) for sale if you happen to have a cool nearly $9m lying around.
• I’ll always make time for anything about my favorite screen printing artist Corita Kent: The Pop Art Nun. Bonus: an appearance by Stewf and moments in the Letterform Archive with her work.
• Every new technology that comes along changes (re-shapes) the environment — and ultimately us — yet we repeatedly seem to forget or surrender our own agency in controlling these effects.
• There’s something to the Japanese dedication to care and craft over a lifetime that resonates so much with me, yet is sadly untenable in western society. Quality, maintenance, and craft. Thanks for this, Naz.
• Olivia King’s newly expanded Inclusive Sans typeface family feels comfortable — and, dare I say, inclusive. I also happen to particularly appreciate its very Riso-inspired presentation.
• It should be no surprise that my home country of Canada is pretty pissed at the US right now. There’s good reason, unlike the reasons that led to this moment as directed by the idiot that this country inexplicably elected again.
• It’s a shame it’s come to this but friends don't let friends buy Swasticars.
• I don’t need a Technics SL-1200 watch but look at that thing…
• Guess I better go look through our old collection of DVDs for disc rot.
• Some useful and worldly wisdom for the ages.
• Maybe for the first time, the AI is not wrong.
• lol, Owls in towels.