Shortform bloggestry by Michael BuchinoTumblr (3.0; @buchino)http://blog.buchino.net/<embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://assets.tumblr.com/swf/audio_player_black.swf?audio_file=http://www.tumblr.com/audio_file/24060523263/tumblr_m3daud7bSe1qz8xth&color=FFFFFF" height="27" width="207" quality="best" wmode="opaque"></embed><br/><br/><p>“Watch Out Boy” by The Black Angels</p> <p>I want Nico or Sandy Denny to sing this and for there to be violins after every stanza a la “I’ll Keep It with Mine”.</p>http://blog.buchino.net/post/24060523263http://blog.buchino.net/post/24060523263Wed, 30 May 2012 05:48:23 -0700Bob DylanFairport ConventionI'll Keep It with MineNicoSandy DennyThe Black AngelsWatch Out Boylisten<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4rq13Qqs51qz8xtho6_500.png"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4rq13Qqs51qz8xtho8_500.png"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4rq13Qqs51qz8xtho7_500.png"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4rq13Qqs51qz8xtho4_500.png"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4rq13Qqs51qz8xtho3_500.png"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4rq13Qqs51qz8xtho1_500.png"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4rq13Qqs51qz8xtho2_500.png"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4rq13Qqs51qz8xtho10_500.png"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4rq13Qqs51qz8xtho9_500.png"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4rq13Qqs51qz8xtho5_500.png"/><br/> <br/><p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/alloverbeer/sets/72157624630608368/detail/">San Francisco Beer Labels</a></p>http://blog.buchino.net/post/23994483236http://blog.buchino.net/post/23994483236Tue, 29 May 2012 05:58:49 -0700San Francisco Beer Labelsbeerdesigntypetypography<iframe width="400" height="299" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/h1ImMtHrrKo?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://blog.joshuajabbour.com/post/23971658321/holy-shit-yes-this-is-why">joshuajabbour</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Holy shit yes. This is why.</p> </blockquote>http://blog.buchino.net/post/23974252047http://blog.buchino.net/post/23974252047Mon, 28 May 2012 19:43:00 -0700atheistatheismreligion<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4i9nhRljH1qz8xtho1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><em>Oklahoma </em>by Witold Janowski, 1964</p> <hr><p>Don’t look at Polish film poster design. Just don’t. </p> <p>Because once you do, you’ll fully understand how much you suck. And maybe you just won’t be able to take it right now.</p>http://blog.buchino.net/post/23730958179http://blog.buchino.net/post/23730958179Fri, 25 May 2012 05:50:01 -0700IllustrationOklahoma!Portland Center StagedesignWitold Janowski<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4jgkmnoK51qz8xtho1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4jgkmnoK51qz8xtho2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p><a href="http://www.draplin.com/2012/05/tonight_louisville.html">In which a really famous, very good, dashingly handsome graphic designer puts my name in the middle of a poster honoring the commonwealth of my birth, just above My Morning Jacket and right next to Slint.</a></p>http://blog.buchino.net/post/23679753645http://blog.buchino.net/post/23679753645Thu, 24 May 2012 10:42:00 -0700Aaron DraplindesignKentuckyLouisvilleBuchinoMy Morning JacketSlintSquirrel BaitRodanJune of 44Rachel'sBill MonroeLoretta LynnHenry ClayPaducahL&amp;NMan o' WarFruit of the LoomAbraham LincolnThe Bluegrass StateOhio RiverMuhammad AliLouisville SluggerDaniel BooneMammoth CaveBonnie Prince Billy<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3beqnN2Q61qz8xtho2_r1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3beqnN2Q61qz8xtho5_r1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p><em>Aaron Draplin’s Meatball Head 1</em> and <em>2 </em>by <a href="http://buchino.net">Michael Buchino</a></p> <p>I interviewed Draplin to lube up the Louisville audience he’ll be wooing today. We discuss travel, free work, humility and bourbon, amongst other things.</p> <p>Check out the interview at <a href="http://aigaportland.org/2012/05/draplin-interview/">AIGA Portland</a> or <em><a href="http://www.thelouisvillepaper.com/2012/05/10/draplin-design-co/">The Paper</a></em>.</p>http://blog.buchino.net/post/23669223991http://blog.buchino.net/post/23669223991Thu, 24 May 2012 05:49:00 -0700Aaron DraplinMichael BuchinodrawringsLouisvillePortland<iframe width="400" height="299" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Fzg1CU8t9nw?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>Richard Feynman: <em>No Ordinary Genius</em></p>http://blog.buchino.net/post/23606474512http://blog.buchino.net/post/23606474512Wed, 23 May 2012 05:48:01 -0700moving picture!science!<iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/29805315?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0&color=ffffff" width="400" height="225" frameborder="0"></iframe><br/><br/><p>Origami design and folding: <a href="http://mabonaorigami.com/">Sipho Mabona</a><br/>Animation: <a href="http://stoptrick.com">Stoptrick Hamburg</a></p> <hr><p>Also: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhinoceros">Rhinoceros</a> are crazy! They’re in the same order as horses (Perissodactyla) and their faces are bizarre! How did they get that way? The white rhino and black rhino are pretty much the same color grey—and the black rhino was named that to distinguish itself from the white rhino. <em>What‽</em>  And then there’s this extinct “giant giraffe” rhino (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraceratherium">Paraceratherium</a>) that is the largest land mammal known—<em>larger than the  mammoths!</em></p> <p>A group of rhinos is called a<em> crash</em>.</p>http://blog.buchino.net/post/23541950311http://blog.buchino.net/post/23541950311Tue, 22 May 2012 05:51:00 -0700moving picture!designorigamirhinocerosInterrobang<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4e0o0ixfU1qz8xtho1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4e0o0ixfU1qz8xtho2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4e0o0ixfU1qz8xtho3_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p><a href="http://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/were-having-a-comic-contest">McSweeney’s is having a comic contest!</a></p> <p>Even though <a href="http://www.no-spec.com/faq/">spec work is shit</a>, I decided I should probably submit <em>something</em>. I mean, I am a <a href="http://blog.buchino.net/post/468744534/the-difference-between-african-and-asian-elephants">really</a>, <a href="http://blog.buchino.net/post/4506914544/blind-date-hint-its-not-the-granola-bars-and">really</a>, <a href="http://blog.buchino.net/post/9997601913/president-obamas-job-speech-inspired-me">really</a>, <a href="http://blog.buchino.net/post/19450632398/my-friends-were-talking-about-hot-firemen-so-i">really</a> good cartoonist and I haven’t been picked up yet, so maybe this is my big break. </p> <p>Anyway, here are three requisite comics. I hope I win and stuff. Thanks for the tip, <a href="https://twitter.com/#!/MattBors/status/204628055682060288">Matt</a>!</p> <hr><p><em>Update:</em> <a href="http://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/comic-contest-we-should-have-talked-ourselves-out-of-it">McSweeney’s cancelled the contest</a> so now I won’t get any of the prize money no matter what! Argh!!! </p> <p>If you would like to buy these one-of-a-kind, limited edition, original images for $500 ($525 framed), Gmail me at michaelbuchino.</p>http://blog.buchino.net/post/23492807331http://blog.buchino.net/post/23492807331Mon, 21 May 2012 12:31:00 -0700drawringsMcSweeney’s<iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/eU7V4GyEuXA?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p><em>A Brief History of John Baldessari</em></p>http://blog.buchino.net/post/23486519132http://blog.buchino.net/post/23486519132Mon, 21 May 2012 06:00:00 -0700John BaldessariTom WaitsHenry JoostAriel SchulmanMax JosephGabriel NussbaumMagdalena GorkaMandy YaegerErin Wrightartmoving picture!LACMAJean Luc Godard<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m33h0uX2fb1qz8xtho1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://society6.com/buchino/Tulip-d9p_Phone-Skin">Nice iPhone skin.</a></p>http://blog.buchino.net/post/23288100240http://blog.buchino.net/post/23288100240Fri, 18 May 2012 05:47:03 -0700Michael BuchinoPortlandTulip<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3x2j38iF71qz8xtho1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>My nose’s humble beginnings…</p>http://blog.buchino.net/post/23162996045http://blog.buchino.net/post/23162996045Wed, 16 May 2012 06:01:06 -0700gpoyw<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3q9niwkd61qcbrp0o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://blog.buchino.net/post/23036019518http://blog.buchino.net/post/23036019518Mon, 14 May 2012 05:56:04 -0700Calvin and HobbesBill Waterson“<p>This world view ignores the fact that those “superstar” leaders of “hyperefficient” companies have been sucking up a thousand times as much welfare as those low-skilled workers Brooks is talking about. Here’s how the “superstars” of the banking world sometimes earn their bonuses: they borrow trillions from the U.S. Federal Reserve at zero or near zero interest, then they turn right around and lend chunks of that free money to a place like Greece (ex-FDIC Sheila Bair, in a hilarious editorial on the subject, pegged the ten-year yield at 21%), then they pocket the proceeds and call it capitalism.</p><p>…</p><p>The point is, when people talk about “austerity,” they only ever talk about the pain the general population should voluntarily accept, in the form of reduced services and curtailed “stimulus.” No one ever says the financial services sector should have to cut back on its access to easy money, and there hasn’t been much in the way of serious plans to restore some sanity and prudence to the lending and investing business.</p>”<br/><br/> - <em><p><a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/austerity-cant-be-a-one-way-street-20120508">Matt Taibbi, “Austerity Can’t Be Just for Regular People”, </a><em><a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/austerity-cant-be-a-one-way-street-20120508">Rolling Stone</a></em></p> <p>I don’t understand why we don’t call the 1%ers the welfare class and why we don’t elect to cut their entitlements. </p></em>http://blog.buchino.net/post/22838581110http://blog.buchino.net/post/22838581110Fri, 11 May 2012 05:51:43 -0700Matt Taibbiterrible<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3n1sctAmZ1qz8xtho1_500.png"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3n1sctAmZ1qz8xtho2_500.png"/><br/> <br/><p>Just watched <em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hustler_(film)">The Hustler</a></em> and <em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Color_of_Money">The Color of Money</a></em> back to back. I recommend you do the same. </p>http://blog.buchino.net/post/22585016374http://blog.buchino.net/post/22585016374Mon, 07 May 2012 06:02:43 -0700The HustlerThe Color of MoneyPaul NewmanJackie GleasonPiper LaurieTom CruiseMary Elizabeth Mastrantonio<p>I read a few articles (and listened to one podcast) this week that all essentially try to define what makes art art. </p> <p>I love this topic.</p> <p>I’m the jerk who thinks Rothko’s works are shit (<a href="http://blog.buchino.net/post/2489199504/google-image-search-rothko-beautiful">unless tiled together in a Google image search</a>) and cringes when he hears the words <em>water </em>and<em> lilies</em>,  forever associating them with the hundreds of meh-evoking turds that museums around the world scramble to possess and brag about.</p> <p>I&#8217;m the asshole who digs contemporary art museums because of the initial strong reactions its art may elicit—my repulsion, my euphoria, my randiness, my utter confusion—and not necessarily the form or contextual history. </p> <p>But my mind changes from time to time. </p> <p>Anyway, here are some more idiots’ opinions on how you should think about art: </p> <blockquote> <p><a href="http://www.npr.org/2012/04/27/151357124/what-do-we-value-most">“What Do We Value Most?” by Alison Stewart, with Paul Bloom and Amir Bar-Lev—TED Radio Hour, NPR</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/im-sick-of-pretending-i-dont-get-art">“I’m Sick of Pretending: I Don’t Get Art” by Glen Coco—VICE</a></p> <p><a href="http://blog.millsbaker.net/post/22259020047/objectivity-and-art">“Objectivity and Art” by Mills Baker—Aporia</a></p> <p><a href="http://pitchfork.com/features/inbox/8823-whats-really-real/">“The Cred Test” by Jayson Greene, Mike Powell and Brian Howe—Inbox, Pitchfork</a></p> </blockquote>http://blog.buchino.net/post/22338236810http://blog.buchino.net/post/22338236810Thu, 03 May 2012 13:57:01 -0700NPRTEDVICEAporiaPitchforkJayson GreeneMike PowellBrian HoweMills BakerGlen CocoAlison StewartPaul BloomAmir Bar-LevartMark RothkoClaude Monet<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3a5tvhTb81qz8xtho1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3a5tvhTb81qz8xtho6_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3a5tvhTb81qz8xtho7_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3a5tvhTb81qz8xtho5_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3a5tvhTb81qz8xtho4_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3a5tvhTb81qz8xtho2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3a5tvhTb81qz8xtho11_r1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3a5tvhTb81qz8xtho3_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p><a href="http://collections.mcny.org/C.aspx?VP3=SearchResult_VPage&VBID=24UP1GYR6F75">Photos by Stanley Kubrick</a></p>http://blog.buchino.net/post/22318210846http://blog.buchino.net/post/22318210846Thu, 03 May 2012 06:01:04 -0700Stanley Kubrickphotography<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m396ym1AMd1qz8xtho1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23m1gs">#m1gs</a></p>http://blog.buchino.net/post/22190134459http://blog.buchino.net/post/22190134459Tue, 01 May 2012 06:01:51 -0700M1GSMay Daygeneral strikeowsOccupy Wall StreetOccupy Wall StOccupy PortlandOccupy<iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Bv0Fjk9D968?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p><a href="http://www.theatlanticcities.com/commute/2012/04/traffic-explained-less-4-minutes/1779/">Traffic Explained in Less than 4 Minutes</a></p>http://blog.buchino.net/post/22119989574http://blog.buchino.net/post/22119989574Mon, 30 Apr 2012 06:01:05 -0700You’re not stuck in traffic. You ARE traffic.terrible<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2kxky9shn1qz8xtho1_500.jpg"/><br/> Mt. St. Helens<br/><br/> <img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2kxky9shn1qz8xtho2_500.jpg"/><br/> Mt. Hood<br/><br/> <p>I like that bike rides in Portland include mountain views. </p>http://blog.buchino.net/post/21979122080http://blog.buchino.net/post/21979122080Sat, 28 Apr 2012 08:02:38 -0700Mt. St. HelensMt. HoodPortlandPDXOregonWashingtonSauvie IslandColumbia River Gorge