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Hoefler and Frere-Jones have a post on their blog about those random strings of non-letter characters used to denote swearing. Apparently there is even a name for it:
The term is grawlix, and it looks to have been coined by Beetle Bailey cartoonist Mort Walker around 1964. Though it’s yet to gain admission to the Oxford English Dictionary, OED Editor-at-Large Jesse Sheidlower describes it as “undeniably useful, certainly a word, and one that I’d love to see used more.
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Radiohead’s new video is pretty neat. It was done without cameras, using laser-based 3d scanners instead.
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Schwartz’s & Roadsworth Movie Trailers
One makes smoked-meat sandwiches, the other does street art. But both are institutions in my home town of Montréal, and both are now getting documentaries.
July 16th, 2008