Film on Paper

Above is a detail from a magnificent 1974 Cuban poster for The Godfather that was found while we were hopelessly and joyfully lost in the archives of Eddie Shannon's Film on Paper. Matt Singer wrote about the site for IFC.

Field Notes Brand Books

Fathers
and Sons

“My first memory is of my father carrying a hammer into our bedrooms and smashing open our piggy banks on the night Roberto died.”

"Play Ball!" Forty-one seasons ago, Roberto Clemente slashed a double into left-center field, recording his 3000th regular season career hit. That hit would turn out to be his last. The bat he used is the central object in Kevin Guilfoile's book, A Drive into the Gap, the first title from the publishing imprint of our Field Notes Brand. The book has garnered great reviews and is a story about baseball and memory, and fathers and sons. See a film, read an excerpt and buy a copy of A Drive into the Gap here.

Here's a longer excerpt, plus some nice video features from ESPN The Magazine, and to learn how the whole thing came about check this Gapers Block interview with Kevin.

Want a Milk With That?

You Know, For Kids

2001: A Space Odyssey Howard Johnsons 1968 Children's Menu. A fabulous find by John Sisson. It doesn't explain the film much, but really, how could it?

Field Notes Where We’re From

Seeds, Tractors and Fences

Aaron Draplin talks about Field Notes' heritage in a short film, From Seed and a small portion of his collection of agricultural themed American memo books from the last 100 years are now online at the Field Notes site. Tangentially related, Bryan and Jim walk through all 17 limited-editions we have made so far, in four very nerdy videos.

At the Very Moment

Gone Off

Luminant Screen Shapings is a photographic series of old tube televisions taken at the very moment they are switched off. The TV picture breaks down and is abstracted to its essential element: light... In contrast to the Luminant Point Arrays the Luminant Screen Shapings show black and white televisions." —Stephan Tillmans.

Copy Goes Here A Film

How Do You Spell Courage?

"How do you spell courage?" For the proper effect, check the trailer first and then please take a few minutes (eleven actually) to watch our short feature film about words, pictures and bravery, Copy Goes Here.

A Very Short Attention Span

Regrets, I Have a Few

Are you better suited for starting things than you are for finishing them? Are you easily distracted? Do you find it hard to concentrate on any one thing when there are so many other things to check out? Yeah, us too.

Spring From Field Notes Brand

If It Was a 4-Pack We Would Have Included “Fruited Plains” Too

The spring limited-release for Field Notes is made up of three picturesque memo books. It's the America is Beautiful Edition, we also made a film to go along with it. As usual it's only slightly related to the product, except in spirit of course. As an added bonus we shot in the film aspect of 2.35:1, Hello Cinemascope!

In with every "Beautiful" 3-pack is a classic water transfer decal, perfect for the back window of your muddy old pick-up. Here's some tips on how to install it properly.

Stuff About Stanley Kubrick

Denied Permission for an Emergency Landing at Clavius

Jim and John Gruber chatted recently about 2001: A Space Odyssey and other things on this episode of The Talk Show. For over ten years we've been collecting links and tossing them into various categories. As you probably have noticed, we're a bit of obsessed with a certain film director. In honor of a recent Chicago screening of a new 70mm print of 2001 A Space Odyssey, spend some time in our big messy archive of Kubrickian links.

Free Vehicle ID System

In Lieu of Your Family as Happy Stick-People

We have word that two readers in New York City, who followed our guidelines for updating their vehicle identification systems, pulled up alongside each other at a traffic light and celebrated their common bond by honking and pointing. Excellent. More recently, John Heslop's vintage Toyota HiAce is looking badass in Wales. Our plot is beginning to take hold. Write for yours free today, but hurry, we only have tens of thousands left. BTW, who has a green Mini Cooper with the Fleet sticker in Chicago?

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Department of Collections

Check the exhibitions now showing at The MoOM and our "MoOMumentary," The Curators. The galleries will be rehung for the Spring soon.

May Guest Eric Smith

Hobo Lookout

Eric Smith (esm) is a Chicago-based designer and creative director currently working with Guaranteed Rate, located just five blocks from his home. He's spent time as Design Director for BenchPrep, a Lightbank funded start-up, and at Playboy doing both print and digital design. His two sons keep him busy providing assistance with all things Star Wars. In his free time, he draws Mythical Beasts, and keeps a constant eye out for the Hobo typeface on his blog, Hobo Shelter. For the month of May, Eric joins us as our Guest Editor.

A list of all the brilliant people who have helped us by guest editing Fresh Signals can be found here.

Other recent features are listed on Page Two.

Fresh Signals

Zaha Hadid's Guangzhou Opera House. jc-today

Maria Popova's "semi-accidental" discovery of gorgeous black-and-white photos of vintage NASA facilities. jc-today

Colossal on Ondu Wooden Pinhole Cameras from industrial designer Elvis Halilovic. Check the video. More at ondu.si. jc-today

"...the whole staff was shot through with drunks, incompetents, and hacks." An illustrated history of Newsweek, by Andrew Losowsky. jc-today

If Wes Anderson wrote the Bible it would sound like this." jc-today

A look at some of the entries for the 2013 National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest. ms-05.17

Trailer for Europa Report. dw-05.17

13thwitness. jc-05.17

A relink and ridiculously addictive, GeoGuessr. ms-05.17

The Waterfall and the World at Night. ms-05.17

The Cocktail Chart of Film and Literature. ms-05.17

"Rosebud" Butt is credited with inventing the Long Island Iced Tea while he was a bartender at the Oak Beach Inn in the 1970s. Via American Drink. jc-05.17

Posters from Cannes 2013. jc-05.17

Newspaper hats. dw-05.17

Stormtrooper Minimalist. dw-05.17

9 Film Frames is an attempt to showcase a film by using only 9 of its frames. dw-05.17

"Ginger Baker is a motherfucker, that's it. He personally is what drums are all about." -Stewart Copeland. Trailer for Beware of Mr. Baker doc. jc-05.17

I'm not usually the one to post about videos (SD), or music (BB), or music videos (MS), but this song is catchy and this video is pretty great looking. The Vaccines, I Always Knew. mcj-05.17

Apropos of nothing, Sparks '74, This Town Ain't Big Enough For Both Of Us. jc-05.17

Related: scans by Winkelhaken of a Berthold Diatype brochure. jc-05.17

Related to the last, Gizmodo on artifacts From the dawn of digital typography jc-05.17

Lucky for those of us outside NYC, Michael Surtees went to Monotype's Pencil to Pixel Exhibition. Dig the Futura Demi-Bold Diatype. jc-05.17

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"I thought that the very concept of a man who was kidnapped by aliens was truly unbelievable and a tad ludicrous." Lone Star Statements, by Matthew Baldwin. A compilation of one-star Amazon reviews of great books. jc-05.17

Trailer for the documentary A Band Called Death. ms-05.17

Second City by Arne Wossink. Via Chicagoist. dw-05.16

Encounter. Via DWL. dw-05.16

From photographer Ilya Pitalev, North Korea 2012. ms-05.16

Crossing the river in Russia. With excavators. Gah! Via DRB. ms-05.16

Miniature worlds inside of old TV sets. dw-05.16

Local Note: Come out tomorrow night for the Chicago edition of ARTCRANK, a bicycle themed poster show at the Co-Prosperity Sphere in Bridgeport. A sneak peek of all the posters that will be up for sale tomorrow can be seen here. mcj-05.16

So cute, 3D Safari Cookie Cutters. ms-05.16

Jonathan Burton illustrated a great set of playing cards for The Folio Society. Via It's Nice That. dw-05.16

For our Field-Tested Books, Megan Price just submitted her story about reading The Last of the Just in Paris. Have your own story of reading a certain book in a certain place uniquely affected the way you experienced both? Send it in! sd-05.16

So you know, how to make a picture book, by Adam Rex. jc-05.16

The 'ghosts' in these machines are just folks, dwarfed by the technology that pervades their lives." A photo series by Mark Crummet. Via My Modern Met. jc-05.16

Not a new conversation in the slightest, but a good article from Spiegel about the fine-line photojournalists walk with Photoshop: "Enhanced Reality: Exploring the Boundaries of Photo Editing." sd-05.15

Can't imagine they haven't been running this same sort of ad since at least the 1960s, but it's still a lot of fun: Oklahoma's 2013 tourism spot. sd-05.15

Hiring a skywriter to write stupid things in the sky. Thanks Claire. sd-05.15

Related to 16" softball, Royko At The Goat, a film by Scott Jacobs and Lilly Ollinger. Fab. jc-05.15

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