brain's brian

Lost my lease. Everything must go.

2008-06-04T22:14:00.003-06:00

I love Blogger and Google, but I'm geeking out on Tumblr at the moment. So, Brain's Brian will be moving here. You can also find me on twitter.

Why didn't we do that?

2008-05-27T21:00:00.004-06:00

This looks like something The Sloganeerist and I would do. Maybe we can trend off this and do something with the awesome Activision manuals.

A boy and his dog

2008-03-17T18:47:00.004-06:00

My significant other is a much better photographer, but I like to snap a few now and then.

Three of my favorite things

2008-03-03T16:44:00.001-06:00

Montage-a-google

2008-01-31T16:32:00.000-06:00

Have fun with this.

Windsor Elongated

2008-01-30T20:49:00.000-06:00

AKA the Woody Allen font. A great post from Kit Blog.

Yummy sound effects

2008-01-30T13:21:00.000-06:00

I wasted spent a lot of time with this.

Video game manuals

2008-01-30T09:04:00.000-06:00

The Activision manuals are stunning.

Blue Note, Blue Note and more Blue Note

2007-07-17T19:47:00.000-06:00

It's going to take me a long time to see everything here, but it will be time well spent. Yeah, you can get the Blue Note album cover books, but it's nice to be able to pull these up whenever you need some inspiration.

The singer not the song

2007-07-12T15:59:00.000-06:00

Never has that been more apparent than here.

Who loves ya, baby?

2007-06-20T13:27:00.000-06:00

By now you really ought to know. Telly does.

One myth confirmed

2007-06-08T16:10:00.000-06:00

The truth about incontinent racehorses.

Boogie Wars

2007-05-31T08:03:00.000-06:00

Boogie Nights meets Star Wars.

Dance Tonight

2007-05-24T07:58:00.001-06:00

I love this video by Michel Gondry, mainly because it reminds me of all the cool videos in the eighties like this one and this one.

Grammar police

2007-05-22T10:50:00.000-06:00

Two nice archives of unnecessary and incorrect punctuation.

Pulp jumping off the pages

2007-05-17T09:03:00.000-06:00

Awesome photographs of re-purposed pulp fiction book covers.

Stranger Than Fiction

2007-05-06T21:09:00.000-06:00

I really didn't want to see this, but I'm really glad I did. Awesome graphics, great music, great acting, great story.

Truth in advertising

2007-04-19T16:40:00.000-06:00

And the truth hurts.

Say "Helvetica haiku" three times really fast

2007-04-03T16:15:00.000-06:00

I'm a sucker for haiku, especially haiku about a particular, ubiquitous font. If your curious, the winners are posted here.

Los Naturales

2007-03-29T08:26:00.000-06:00

Accept no substitutes

2007-03-20T14:15:00.000-06:00

Only the original will do. Thank you.

Daddys are from the sun, kids are from earth

2007-03-18T20:55:00.000-06:00

Max and I collaborated on this a few weeks ago. I played production artist to his art director. Unlike our holiday cards (which were never mailed), I'm pretty sure this is close to his vision for the piece. Maybe we'll get around to mailing those cards soon.

Like staring at a train wreck

2007-03-15T23:15:00.000-06:00

I couldn't stop looking at this.

Boy meets girl

2007-03-01T13:15:00.000-06:00

Boy meets girl with animated infographics.

See the light

2007-02-28T15:40:00.000-06:00

This is the best commercial I've ever seen with a talking hamburger and a tailor. From the Top Ten Ads With People Dressed Up As Food.

Say what again!

2007-02-27T14:57:00.000-06:00

An animated typographic rendering of a scene from Pulp Fiction. Jules and Brad—you know the one. Don't forget the headphones.

Change is good

2007-02-20T15:38:00.000-06:00

A gallery of 50 covers of La Luna de Metrópoli, a weekly supplement of the Spanish newspaper El Mundo, courtesy of Speak Up.

8,000 square feet of vino

2007-02-14T19:14:00.001-06:00

Another kindred spirit.

All of your breakfast cereal character questions answered.

2007-02-08T21:29:00.000-06:00

I don't know Topher, but I believe he's a kindred spirit.

Anything to say your mine

2007-01-31T22:31:00.000-06:00

Without a doubt, this is my favorite recording. Ever.

And the cover? Oh, yes.

The woman is wild, a she-cat tamed by the purr of a jaguar

2007-01-28T18:51:00.000-06:00

We witnessed the heartbreak that is the Memphis Grizzlies last night. Thanks to some generous kind-hearted friends we had freaking-amazing seats. Pau and company fell apart in the second overtime, but it was a great game. If you ask me, the guys running the show pulled "Maneater" out a little early, somewhere around the middle of the 1st period. Where do you go after that?

119 beers in 6 hours

2007-01-24T22:45:00.000-06:00

A great story about one of the greatest wrestlers drunks of all time. If only half of this is true, it's still amazing, not only for the inebriated exploits, but for the insider stories from the glory days of professional wrestling before it turned into a steroid-fueled circus. Bonus points for referencing Bill "Superstar" Dundee at the end.

Less is more

2007-01-15T20:25:00.000-06:00

"Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion." —Democritus(460-370 BC)

Rainy days and Mondays

2007-01-15T12:07:00.000-06:00

A list of music that I often enjoy on days when daydreaming about living in Seattle is as easy as looking out the window and thinking to yourself, "This must be what it's like to live in Seattle."

Billie Holiday Lady In Satin
Clem Snide Soft Spot
Tom Waits Alice
Skip James Complete Early Recordings
Bonnie Prince Billy Ease Down The Road

Vintage logofied VW buses

2007-01-12T10:57:00.000-06:00

They don't make 'em like they used to ...

An engaging critique of the alphabet

2007-01-10T09:29:00.000-06:00

One of my favorite posts from Speak Up.

Vending Machine

2007-01-08T22:08:00.000-06:00

Secret Service New Year's Eve Show

2007-01-02T13:48:00.000-06:00

There is a pestilence upon this land, nothing is sacred. Even those who arrange and design shrubberies are under considerable economic stress.

2007-01-01T19:48:00.000-06:00

I wish the words of Roger the Shrubber, arranger, designer and seller of shrubberies, were prophetic, but it's really just my way of getting this off the ground. Don't expect too much—a quote here and there, a list, a recipe, maybe some recent work, the nic-nacs taking up residence right and left...