Wer auch nur ein periphäres Interesse an Typographie und Druckkunst pflegt und zugleich vielleicht auch noch Max-Goldt-Verehrer ist, dem seien Martin Z. Schröders Einblicke in seinen Arbeitsalltag ans Herz gelegt. Dort kann man zur Zeit nämlich miterleben, wie Goldts nächstes Buch entsteht.

>>> 1, 2, 3, 4

»II.
comfort noise is used in telecommunication because listeners prefer a low level noise to dead silence. the sounds that are heard when there are no voices on the line are often overlooked, yet are important contributors to the perceived call quality. dead silence is disconcerting for most people. comfort noise is therefore an artificial background noise used in radio and wireless communications to fill the silent time in a transmission resulting from voice activity detection


III.
comfort noise in dubtechno-productions is used to fill the space between the bass drum beats. it is a background noise that often stays unobserved, although it is indispensable to evoke the characteristic mood inside this sound: comfort noise desings the carpet that holds the listener unfailing on the ground of a fuzzy, warm, cosy and relaxed feeling. prototypical use of this effect occurs in the m-series, from four to seven«

>>> ComfortNoise.com

(Für Sebastian)

»My standard for verisimilitude is simple and I came to it when I started to write prose narrative: fuck the average reader. I was always told to write for the average reader in my newspaper life. The average reader, as they meant it, was some suburban white subscriber with two-point-whatever kids and three-point-whatever cars and a dog and a cat and lawn furniture. He knows nothing and he needs everything explained to him right away, so that exposition becomes this incredible, story-killing burden. Fuck him. Fuck him to hell.«

>>> David Simon [via]

»Wer Bastian Sick bei sprachlichen Debatten anführt, schreckt bei historischen Diskussionen auch nicht vor Guido Knopp zurück.«

>>> Paul

Völlig sinnfreie Visualisierung meiner Last.fm-Hörgewohnheiten über den Zeitraum 1.1.2007 bis 31.12.2007, bewerkstelligt mittels LastGraph. [via]

>>> Architect is a self sustaining audio visual system. The project questions the value of human interaction by creating a system that can both create and appreciate its own creativity without the need for human presence. [Theodore Watson] [mov]

>>> The composer Karlheinz Stockhausen passed away on December 5th 2007 at his home in Kuerten-Kettenberg.

>>> My Favorite Book Covers of 2007 [via]

Filmplakat des Jahres. Hitchcock-Farben, perfekte Anwendung der Neue Helvetica, super arrangiert, minimal. Wüsste zu gerne, wer das gestaltet hat.

>>> Paul Snowden
>>> Galerie Sandra Bürgel