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Had a vision check up today. Wanted to know why they use such an elaborate set up for the eye chart vision test: A projector near my seat sends an image of the eye chart to a mirror across the room and reflects it to a gray square on the wall behind my chair. I am looking straight ahead into a mirror that is reflecting the projection. This seems like quite an elaborate set up for a vision test.
“Is this hotel pager-friendly? I’m not getting a signal on my beeper.” “I also need to know where the phone wall is… You know… A wall with lots of payphones on it…” (from The Hangover) Payphones are gone. The way people call each other has changed forever. And keeps changing! Fun Challenge: Can anyone find and photograph a true, sure-enough payphone – that works?! Post to Flickr and imbed your link in the comments section. Good luck! (BTW – no prizes for best photo, sorry…)
The show is a great study on advertising and marketing in the 1960s. It also paints a great picture of life in the 60s. The dynamics in the work place, home life, politics and social movements. The series is loaded with tons of cool artifacts and period designs – architecture, magazines, furniture and fashion all play a huge role in visually defining the era. One excellent review of the design, in particular the fonts, used in the show can be found here. AMC launched an interesting, though the concept is not new, online promo for the show – MadMenYourself.com. The color palettes and patterns really take this character generator to the next level.  Knoxville, Tennessee This is one of my favorite views of downtown. It’s not one that a lot of people get to see. The city appears right on the edge of the river and you almost anticipate Huck Finn to float around the bend on his raft. I have heard it described as just the right size to make things happen. Its not so large that you won’t be heard. And its not so small that there’s no one to help accomplish anything. Knoxville is a great place. I’m happy my family and I are here. |
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The new season of Mad Men begins Aug. 16. This is a show that anyone in the creative industry should enjoy. The show centers on Don Draper, the creative director at Sterling Cooper, an ad agency on Madison Avenue. (Hence the name of the show “Mad Men.”)