Exhibit 5a | Creative Disobedience

PosterWire is a great site about movie poster design. Really interesting analysis of old and new posters, plus it’s a great resource for movie poster images as well. For example, decide for yourself if the Brokeback Mountain posters are an homage to “one of the most romatic movies of all time” or just a ripoff. [...]

You know it’s bad when Oprah cries foul. James Frey got bitch-slapped by Herself now that it’s pretty clear that his memoir, A Million Little Pieces, is less “memoir”, and more “fabrication of a memoir.” Frey is still sticking to his story that the book is a non-fiction and not a novel, but my insider [...]

I found Plan 59 via boingboing and it’s definitely worth a viewing. Plan 59 is a gallery site of Retro Images which is spectacular. Browse through the Demonic Tots section to see what happens when you cross the children of the corn with the Beaver. And don’t miss the other adverts and sci-fi fantasies.

Photo by Rob Godspeed. The Heurich Mansion, nicknamed the Brewmaster’s Castle in Dupont Circle in Washington D.C. is in trouble and needs your help! This historical monument which has served the public for more than fifty years faces foreclosure. Built in 1892-1894, the Brewmaster’s Castle was DC’s first “fireproof” residence: A distinguished example of Richardsonian [...]

Buying wine in East Harlem isn’t an easy thing to accomplish. All of the liquor stores in my neighborhood consist of tiny entrance areas boxed in with bullet-proof glass keeping the booze and the employees safetly segregated from the patrons. Often these stores also sell lottery tickets which means that the tiny customer area is [...]

Everything that the Bush Administration touches turns to shit. It really does. I heard a disturbing segement this morning on NPR about Bush and the Coal Industry. A Bush appointee to the Federal Mine Safety and Review Comission reveresed a 30 year old law requiring separate shafts be dug for fresh air and coal extraction, [...]

Comic Sans. We’ve all seen it. It’s been the bain bane of our existence since personal computers started showing up on every desk and in every family room. In college we were told that anyone who used Comic Sans or Hobo on a project would be issued an instant failing grade and would be mocked [...]

My girlfriend works with highschool students and had a conversation with one of her kids the other day about the social structure of today’s high schools which cracked me up. When I was a kid, there were the obvious cliques that seem to exist: Popular Jocks Skaters Punk Rock/Goth The Heads, both Gear and Pot [...]