I'm a designer working on Luro in Austin, Texas. I also blog about logos, movies, music, and a bunch of other stuff.
Dreamland Sam Quinones A detailed history of the ongoing opiate epidemic. Quinones traces the rise of OxyContin (which Purdue Pharma falsely convinced doctors wasn't addictive) and how users crossed over to the much cheaper and readily available black tar heroin. One of my favorite reads of 2021. Buy on Amazon Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the…
A Star is Born 1954 Between the Lines 1977 Beyond the Limit 1983 The Big Sleep 1978 The Champ 1979 Chinatown 1974 The Dark Crystal 1982 Death on the Nile 1978 Flash Gordon 1980 Fuzz 1972 Hello, Dolly! 1969 Julia 1977 The Last Tycoon 1976 The Late Show 1977 The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean 1972 Little Miss Marker 1980 The Little Prince 1974 The Long Goodbye 1973 The Long Goodbye 1973 Lucky Lady…
227 1985 - 1990 The Addams Family 1964 - 1966 Adventures of Superman 1952 - 1958 Alf 1986 - 1990 Alfred Hitchcock Presents 1955 - 1962 Alice 1976 - 1985 All in the Family 1971 - 1979 The Andy Griffith Show 1960 - 1968 The Ann Sothern Show 1958 - 1961 The Bad News Bears 1979 - 1980 The Betty White Show 1977 - 1978 The Beverly Hillbillies 1962 - 1971 Bewitched 1964 - 1972 The Bob Newhart Show 1972 -…
Stuck on VHS: A Visual History of Video Store Stickers Birth.Movies.Death The covers on all these books really don't do them justice (seriously, take a sec to look at the interior photos ). This book was put together by Birth.Movies.Death (RIP) and even has three pages of peelable stickers at the end. Buy on Amazon VHS Video Cover Art: 1980s to Early 1990s Thomas Hodge I'm all about preservation…
This is a follow-up to my hair band lettering post . I enjoy connecting posts like this, and after a friend sent me the old Monster Ballads commercial , I immediately started digging into the old albums. I've got two shout-outs to give. The first is to Cinderalla for the purple color scheme inspiration. And the second is to Mathieu Triay for his beautiful revival of Marvin Visions . It seems like…
Marvel Comics: The Untold Story Sean Howe Probably the most definitive, well-researched history of Marvel out there (I had no idea that Stan Lee and Jack Kirby created the bulk of Marvel's characters in just three years). Bonus points for the cover lettering, done by the gang over at Young Jerks . Buy on Amazon Marvelocity: The Marvel Comics Art of Alex Ross Alex Ross & Chip Kidd I'm relatively…
12 Years a Slave 2013 All About Eve 1950 All Quiet on the Western Front 1930 All the King's Men 1949 Amadeus 1984 American Beauty 1999 An American in Paris 1951 Annie Hall 1977 The Apartment 1960 Argo 2012 Around the World in 80 Days 1956 The Artist 2011 A Beautiful Mind 2001 Ben-Hur 1959 The Best Years of Our Lives 1946 Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) 2014 Braveheart 1995 The…
3-D Man 1977 Ant-Man 1972 Ant-Man 1979 Banshee 1967 Beast 1972 Bishop 1994 Black Bolt 1972 Black Goliath 1976 Black Knight 1955 Black Knight 1968 Black Panther 1973 Black Panther 1988 Black Widow 1971 Black Widow 1999 Brother Voodoo 1973 Cable 1997 Cannonball 1985 Captain America 1940 Captain America 1978 Captain America 1994 Captain Britain 1976 Captain Marvel 1968 Captain Marvel 1979 Captain…
Code When it comes to the code on my blog, my general philosophy has been, “if it looks right, who cares what it looks like behind the scenes.” Not only was I over-engineering, but I was also piling up a bunch of junk code. A lot of times, I was doing multiple overrides or duplicating what was already there. I reduced my CSS by about 30% just by sorting through everything and doing some general…
A Colony in a Nation Chris Hayes The #BLM movement prompted me to learn more about the history of policing in America. Chris Hayes was on the ground in Ferguson and does an excellent job of looking at the historical and political decisions that lead to racial conflict. Probably my favorite read this year. Buy on Amazon The Autobiography of Malcolm X Malcolm X & Alex Haley From a street hustler to…
Heavy Christmas 220 Volt (1984) Listen on Spotify Buy Vinyl on Discogs Christmas Must Be Tonight The Band (1977) Listen on Spotify Buy Vinyl on Discogs The Little Drum Machine Boy Beck (1984) Listen on Spotify Buy Vinyl on Discogs Run Rudolph Run Chuck Berry (1958) Listen on Spotify Buy Vinyl on Discogs Christmas Rappin' Kurtis Blow (1979) Listen on Spotify Buy Vinyl on Discogs Peace on…
Aerosmith Permanent Vacation Alice Cooper Constrictor Bon Jovi Slippery When Wet Britny Fox Britny Fox BulletBoys Smooth Up Cinderella Somebody Save Me Damn Yankees Damn Yankees Danger Danger Danger Danger The Darkness Permission to Land David Lee Roth Crazy from the Heat Def Leppard Pyromania Dokken Tooth and Nail Enuff Z'Nuff Enuff Z'Nuff Europe Wings of Tomorrow Extreme Extreme Faster Pussycat…
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Piano Starts Here Art Tatum Years Recorded: 1933 & 1949 Label: Columbia Style: Swing Listen on Spotify Buy vinyl on Discogs Handful of Keys Fats Waller & His Rhythm Year Recorded: 1938 Label: RCA Victor Style: Swing Collaborators: Herman Autrey, Gene Sedric, Al Casey, Cedric Wallace, Slick Jones Listen on Spotify Buy vinyl on Discogs The Amazing Bud Powell Bud Powell Year Released: 1952 Label:…
Jazz at Massey Hall Charlie Parker / The Quintet Year Released: 1953 Label: Debut Style: Bebop Collaborators: Dizzy Gillespie, Bud Powell, Charles Mingus, Max Roach Listen on Spotify Buy vinyl on Discogs The Jazz Giants '56 Lester Young Year Released: 1956 Label: Verve Style: Bebop Collaborators: Roy Eldridge, Vic Dickerson, Teddy Wilson, Freddie Green, Gene Ramey, Jo Jones Listen on Spotify Buy…
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Movies (Sci-Fi Special) ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’: The Oral History of a Modern Action Classic The New York Times Featuring interviews with George Miller, Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron, and others - this is a remarkable narrative of how the fourth Mad Max movie got made. The film was such a spectacle that Steven Soderbergh remarked, "... I don't understand how hundreds of people aren't dead" upon watching…
While I was working on the sci-fi lettering post, I did a ton of research that made me think about all the sci-fi movies out there that I haven’t seen. The sci-fi genre has one of the biggest cult followings around (rivaled only by horror) and has entire film festivals dedicated to the genre. Not only that, but there have been a ton of great sci-fi films coming out lately, from low budget cult…
Son Nova 1988 Arel/Davidovsky/Ussachevsky Bach's Greatest Hits Bach Music from Big Pink The Band (Painting by Bob Dylan) The Baroque Inevitable The Baroque Inevitable Beethoven's Greatest Hits Beethoven Bernstein Conducts Bruckner Leonard Bernstein The Biggs Bach Book E. Power Biggs Live At Montreux The New Brubeck Quartet Better Days Paul Butterfield Put It In Your Ear Paul Butterfield John Cage…
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