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• Commented on Nazis, Alcoholics and Potty-mouthed Rats: It's the Best Comics of 2008!
  chris ware is the best. period....
• Favorited FINI on What Are You Looking At?
• Favorited Bangalore Bounty on Grids
• Commented on FINI
  That blog is awesome. Focusing on what comes between the title and closer, nevver.com is a collection of stills paired with an mp3. Each ends up being a pretty interesting escape and riff on the original context....
• Commented on Best Holiday Gift Spot: Dashwood Books NYC
  Dashwood is hands-down the best photography bookshop in the city. David always has great recommendations and is very accommodating for special orders or tracking down stuff you just can't find. They keep a great selection of impossible-to-find-elsewhere, limited edition photographer...
• Commented on Bangalore Bounty
  Life Sucks Die, the old graffiti mag by the guys over at Burlesque, did a feature on Indian pasting and movie posters awhile back and I almost forgot about it. Those wheat pastes you posted are awesome! Do you have...
• Commented on Robert Pollard's Album Art
  This work is great! Not being into his music or Guided By Voices I haven't seen it before. Thanks for the post....
• Commented on Office Inspiration
  Spete!...
• Commented on Photos from the CITY
  Go, Eddie, go!...
• Commented on Movie! Movie!
  This guy's archive is one of the best sites on the web. I picked up a book called 'Uncredited' earlier this year that focuses on opening sequences with stills of around 1,000 films and around 300 to watch on dvd....
• Commented on Panorama Project 3
  This show was great - definitely recommended. LeVine usually throws some good shows....
• Commented on The Blender Redesign: It's all about the "E."
  Congrats Dirk. The new issue looks great....
• Commented on Beautiful Losers
  I caught a screening of the doc earlier this year and left with mixed feelings. Although an amazing documentary and look at some of the more popular artists from this "club," it left out so many of the just-as-influentials that...
• Commented on Olympic Typography Skills (in 1968)
  My favorite Olympic ID has to be Otl Aicher's from1972 in Munich. For me, the posters and pictograms have remained untouched. For a refresher, start here. Mexico '68 is definitely still in a photo-finish 2nd, however, if not for the...
• Commented on Dylan Went Electric and Ed Fella Has a Website
  Ed Fella has always been one of my favorites, being one of the first designers that made me discover the commonalities between my interests in graffiti and professional work through his colored pencil drawings and hand lettering Polaroids. Two Lines...