YELLOW POWER

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RUN-DDB

Sidenote: anyone know the date of this ad? As in, was the RUN-DMC logo created before or after this? Granted, red lines with sans-serif type isn’t anything new (Kruger), but it would be interesting to find if RUN-DMC got their logo based on this ad.

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I’ve been staring at this animated gif for about five minutes now and lamenting over the brilliant career Michael Keaton once had. Was Jackie Brown really 13 years ago?

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Forbes Magazine’s Top 10 Most Stressful Cities to Live in America

1. Las Vegas, NV
2. Los Angeles, CA
3. Houston, TX
4. Tampa, FL

High Unemployment Rank: 5
Long Commute Times Rank: 17
Long Working Hours Rank: 10
Limited Health Care Rank: 13
Poor Physical Health Rank: 4
Limited Exercise Rank: 9

5. Riverside, CA
6. Miami, FL
7. Dallas, TX
8. New York, NY
9. Chicago, IL
10. Detroit, MI

According to Forbes, Tampa is the #4 most stressful city to live in the US.

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You and me both, Kanye. You and me both.

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Gary Anderson (right): creator of the recycling symbol
1970 

Anderson was a 23-year-old USC Architecture graduate when he entered the Container Corporation of America’s design contest to create what would become the universal symbol for recycling. From Wikipedia: The 500 entries to the competition were judged by designers recognized as world leaders in graphics and industrial art, including Saul Bass, Herbert Bayer, James Miho, Herbert Pinzke and Eliot Noyes. According to Anderson: “Angela Davis had just shot up the courthouse and the Manson murders had just happened. I wanted to move away from that, from the Haight-Ashbury poster art with its amorphous organic shapes to create something simpler and cleaner.”

Also in 2008, Michel Gondry was there and he drew a picture of me and signed his comic. Pretty surreal meeting him. I don’t think a lot of people knew who he was or didn’t think it was actually him. I guess he’s been living in Brookyln for the past few years and also draws comics for fun.

GPOY: 2008 MoCCA Art Fest

We’ve been on hiatus but fret not, Calavera Comics will return with some new stuff soon. I definitely have some ideas for doing a new comic. It’s been too long.

This was taken at the MoCCA Art Festival 3 years ago. That’s Hope Larson (middle) and Bryan Lee O’Malley on the right. For two years (‘07 and ‘08) they’ve always had a table next to ours and at the time we we didn’t really know who they were but noticed they definitely had a fanbase and were selling enough comics to have their own cash register. Which, if you are in the comics industry, is pretty baller.

Of course now Bryan Lee O’Malley has a Scott Pilgrim movie out in theatres that’s directed by Edgar Wright while we just…pretty much continue to watch Spaced and sulk as starving artists. Sigh.

However livin better now, Coogi sweater now

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Going to see this tonight. Only bummer is I wish they would’ve gotten Daniels to play Othello instead of Herc’s sidekick.

This is how we chill from ‘97 Til

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Binki Shapiro for Elle Magazine
Photo by Serge Leblon
July 2010

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