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News: Please join us for our second live Field-Tested Readings, this time in New York City on Monday evening.

Announcing our biggest, best edition of Field-Tested Books yet. We looked over the shoulders of lots of smart people while they read lots of interesting books in lots of familiar and unfamiliar places and now you can too. All the Field Tests from this new collection and previous years are online. Plus, we've created a sweet, new, limited-edition poster with Spike Press and we're totally excited to say that the first-edition of The Field-Tested Books Book, a paperback containing 143 selected reviews, is also available for purchase. We'll be making a donation to First Book for every one we sell, so order a book for yourself and help us buy a truckload of new books for underprivileged kids. The First-Editions are shipping now. Buy one today we'll ship it today.

The New Exhibits At The MoOM

The Museum
of Online Museums

Tons of new listings and exhibits have been posted for the summer at our Museum of Online Museums. The MoOM was featured on All Things Considered and in the NY Times. It was also selected as one of Time Magazine's 50 Coolest Websites and was discussed on a recent episode of NPR's Hello Beautiful! Consider joining our Museum Board, a subscription comes with a coffee mug but none of the snootiness so often associated with the patronage of cultural institutions. The images above are from Duke's Rare Book & Manuscript Library.

How Do You Spell Courage?

Inaction Heroes

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. In case you missed it, here's what our home page looked like when we debuted the movie.

A CP Labs: Film

Shift Option Rinse

Can you really clean your computer keyboard in the dishwasher? With the help of the RinseCam 9000, Michele created a short film to find out.

An SD Film Regrets

Passing Fancy

From JC's talk at Seed Conference 3. If you're at all like us and are better suited for starting things than you are for finishing them, you ought to pay attention to the fifth film in Steve's "Regrets" series, Hobbies.

Made In the U.S. of A. Field Notes

Places Of Note

Our newest brand was created in combination with the unstoppable Draplin Design Company of Portland Oregon. The first offering from Field Notes Brand is a super durable made-in-the-USA memo book inspired by vintage farmers' planting books and other practical, historic, mostly-midwestern American design. The notebooks are showing up in lots of interesting places, including in a recent issue of Lego Magazine!

Layer Tennis The Final Fiasco

Forth and Back

It was a long, amazing Layer Tennis Season, relive it here while we start planning the next one. The matches were presented by Adobe® Creative Suite® 3 , the weapon of choice for creative people and Layer Tennis players everywhere. The project has just been shortlisted for Cannes Lions in two categories, "Best Use of Internet/New Media" and "Business Products & Services." Winners are announced Wednesday.

CP Infrequently

Puzzled

Einstein's Fish, Booking Bands, Which Porn Star Ate The Most Hot Dogs? and Cover Me all started as subscriber-only contests in one of our Infrequent Mailings, which go out about once a month. Join the list here. We won't ever abuse the privilege.

Each Row A Minute 2001 Redux

Cinematic DNA

If you're looking for an endorsement as to why you should purchase one of the few remaining Brendan Dawes' 2001 Cinema Redux prints here's some news. Brendan's project is currently on display at The Museum of Modern Art in NYC as a part of their Design and Elastic Mind exhibition. The photo above is from this week's opening reception. If that doesn't impress you perhaps the fact that the prints are luscious, large, limited-edition continuous-tone Lamda proofs will.

Brendan's thoughts on Redux, The Things Around Us.

Heather Is The New Black

The Tee

We have made tee shirts for a variety of projects but until now we have never made a simple Coudal Partners shirt. And this one is about as simple as it gets. A tee, perfectly constructed tee from a sweet new blend with just our "Crois" logo on the front. That's it.

A CP Film In Five Parts

Laboratory Conditions

While we were in Los Alamos, New Mexico, looking for locations for one film project, we discovered a lot more about the town and its people than we bargained for. So we made a different film and called it Laboratory Conditions. It's being shown here in five pieces and is also available on DVD.

July Guest Editor Lincoln Cushing

The Power and
the Image

Our Guest Editor for July is Lincoln Cushing (lch) the force behind Docs Populi, that rare personal site that combines a serious mission with an infectious enthusiasm for the subject at hand. It's a huge categorized repository of posters and images created for a cause. Lincoln describes his aims as a commitment to "documenting, cataloging, and disseminating socially and politically significant graphic material which otherwise might be left behind in the digital revolution." Right on.

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

Tarantino's Mind. Thanks Marshall. ms-today

Trailer for the movie Take. ms-today

The Shining, with robots. ms-yesterday

A special offer, good until our live event in NYC is over. Buy a copy of our Field-Tested Books Book and we'll include a 3pack of Field Notes Brand Memo Books ($9.95) free in your shipment. Use the coupon code MAKINGNOTE jc-yesterday

Oh, and Field Notes in Toronto too. jc-yesterday

Does the term "Phased withdrawal" ring a bell? No, we're not talking promises from Barack Obama about Iraq, we're talking the good old war in Viet Nam in 1971. See this delightful Escher-esque rally poster. lch-yesterday

"A techno-crutch for the chronically indecisive." Torn between two options? Get an answer at icantdeci.de. Brilliant. Check the blog too. Or don't. Whatever you think is best. jc-yesterday

Essential 1800. dw-yesterday

Great type discussion started by Jason Santa Maria, who is Trade Gothic. jc-yesterday

Field Notes in action, in Ghana, and in stock too. jc-yesterday

Interesting interview with designer Stefan Sagmeister. Thanks Jeff. ms-yesterday

So you know: a list of fictional ducks. sd-yesterday

"It's 1975 And This Man Is About To Show You The Future." Scenes From An IBM Slide Presentation, via iso50. se-yesterday

"Then the Child ventured forth from Israel and Palestine and stepped onto the shores of the Old Continent. In the land of Queen Angela of Merkel, vast multitudes gathered to hear his voice, and he preached to them at length." Funny piece of political satire by The Times' Gerard Baker. sd-yesterday

Gorgeous, photographer Noah Kalina's Labs at Night. Via DRB ms-yesterday

Trailer for the movie The Brothers Bloom. ms-yesterday

Scientists in the UK are studying streets to make them more drunk-friendly. Likely so they won't have to deal with tipsy people getting stuck in holes. sd-yesterday

Passages from the shortlisted selections for this year's Literary Review Bad Sex in Fiction Awards. Iain Hollingshead took home the top prize for his bewildering scene in Twentysomething. Here are some excerpts from previous years' winners. sd-yesterday

Former astronaut Edgar Mitchell says aliens and UFOs are real. Perhaps, but doesn't this open today? dw-yesterday

Typographic Tree Columns. jc-yesterday

Photographer Marc Steinmetz's Escape Tools, a collection of inventions made by prisoners in German jails. Via Defective Yeti. sd-yesterday

Creepy trailer for Swedish vampire film Let The Right One Come In. jc-yesterday

Sweet poster for the Neuchatel International Fantastic Film Festival. jc-yesterday

A preview of the new Acropolis Museum in Athens. dw-yesterday

iPint. dw-yesterday

Wanna be a little white dot? Stock Field Notes in your store and we'll say real nice things about you behind your back. jc-yesterday

Lia Halloran, photographer, artist, skateboarder. Via DesignNotes. jc-yesterday

"The country was bustling with construction, redevelopment, and euros. I stayed at the newly-restored Hotel Adlon, near the Brandenberg Gate pictured on the front of my $0.75 Dell paperback edition of le Carré..." Michael Bierut is a Field Tester and will be reading at our event in NYC Monday. Join us, won't you? jc-yesterday

Follow up to a previous post, more bird's eye landscapes in Russia. ms-yesterday

One last "related to the last." The story of the scene from DLN in which Sutherland and Christie's lovemaking is intercut with them dressing to go out. Rightfully on every hottest scenes list. jc-yesterday

Donald Sutherland talking about Nicholas Roeg's Don't Look Now. jc-yesterday

Related to the last, Big Audio Dynamite's song about director Nicholas Roeg, E = MC2 and the trailer from Roeg's Don't Look Now. jc-yesterday

Sure to spark discussion in the studio, the top ten horrific movie moments. ms-yesterday

Ride The Little Trans-Mongolian Railroad and "See Brooklyn By Rail." jc-yesterday

Hand Shadows to Be Thrown upon the Wall by Henry Bursill, 1859. jc-yesterday

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You can be an Executive Producer of our new short feature film, 72°. If you've always wanted to be a hotshot Hollywood player, or you just want to lend a hand to the project here's your chance.

A Thing We Made:
Jewelboxing

We hated the options available for custom packaging DVDs and CDs so we created a brand that gives creative professionals and hobbyists the tools to make great stuff. Here's a bit from the latest Jewelboxing weblog entry:

"After four years and more than 200 entries to the Jewelboxing blog, we realized that the archives had grown a bit unruly and it was time to do some organizing." Read the entire post.

Some Other Things We Made:

Field Notes Brand "I'm not writing it down to remember it later. I'm writing it down to remember it now." A CP/DDC joint.

Pinsetter: Spell with buttons.

Limited-edition, professionally mixed and mastered, custom-designed live performances on CD. That's The Show. With partners like The Pixies and Dead Can Dance. More news soon.

Lowercase Tee: For politically and otherwise active kids.

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