This is a neat way to pay homage to print media without actually having to read anything.
Cut squares of newsprint larger than nails. apply a base coat of polish. when nails are completely dry, soak them in alcohol, then press newsprint on nail and slowly pull off. top coat to seal.
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People are so darn emotional about the iPhones today. Way back when, those kinds of feelings were reserved for typewriters.
This little gem of a personal essay that ran in The New York Times in 1915.
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I enjoyed this piece in Fortune about the future of books and newspapers and magazines. The writer, Josh Quittner, starts out with a nice little anecdote about how his 12-year-old recently subscribed to Vogue.
Each month Clem was excited when Vogue arrived. She’d rip into the issue and scamper up the stairs to her chambre à coucher, with enough enthusiasm to do Anna Wintour proud. But after digesting each issue, Clem would reappear with it hours later — only now a zillion Post-its jutted from its pages, stegosaurus-like.
Over time, one by one, those stegosauri began to stack up, spines out, in her closet. One day I decided to take a peek at the dinosaur graveyard to see what my daughter was tagging so furiously. It turned out that she was trying to annotate each issue, sorting the material by outfits, accessories, footwear, and other categories for later reference. I noticed that the more issues she tagged, the more frustrated she became. This was a lot of work. So why was she doing it?
“Don’t you get it?” my wife observed. “She’s trying to turn the magazine into a computer.”
Et voilà! Of course she was.
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The incredible shrinking newspaper! I spotted this at a diner this morning in NJ. It’s so itty-bitty! If I recall correctly, old papers were about as wide as this one is long.
4 Former Merrill Lynch media analyst Lauren Fine Rich on the shuttering of Editor & Publisher magazine (via Geraldine Baum in the LA Times).
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Nina Jua Klein’s typewriter recordings:
“A project based on an early childhood memory of my father writing his articles on a typewriter. The sound of each article on page 1 of the Sueddeutsche Zeitung typed on a
typewriter is recorded on a cassette recorder, then translated into a digital file. The sound is played back on an iPod, presented alongside a typewritten sheet of paper and a cassette:
the relics of processes that have become redundant in the digital age.”
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A certain someone over at Gizmodo has already discovered—and documented—the wonders of the Google oracle, but Scranton’s Times-Tribune’s metro editor Jeff Sonderman has learned that Google doesn’t have a rosy outlook when it comes to newspapers…aka fish wrap.
(via @markclayson via Techcrunch)
5 Former literary agent/book publisher asks all the right questions in a Sunday New York Times article about the way technology has affected the workplace. Preoccupations - Treasuring the Artifacts of Publishing.
12 Stephen Colbert, Aug. 17, 2009
