I write (mostly) about art, design, film, and music.
I live in Brookline, Massachusetts.
Get in touch via bryan.mckay at gmail.com or Twitter or AIM

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We’ve got our first tomato! (via Caitlin)
We’ve got our first tomato! (via Caitlin)

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I spent a good part of this afternoon rearranging the furniture in the bedroom. I wanted to make sure my efforts wouldn’t be wasted, so I took careful measurements and planned out the new space in Adobe Illustrator before I touched a single piece of furniture.

This isn’t the first time in my life I’ve done this.

I spent a good part of this afternoon rearranging the furniture in the bedroom. I wanted to make sure my efforts wouldn’t be wasted, so I took careful measurements and planned out the new space in Adobe Illustrator before I touched a single piece of furniture.

This isn’t the first time in my life I’ve done this.

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Shading film was used by artists and cartoonists as a quick way to achieve time consuming cross-hatching. From The Museum of Forgotten Art Supplies. (via amyyy & kevin & jacob)
Shading film was used by artists and cartoonists as a quick way to achieve time consuming cross-hatching. From The Museum of Forgotten Art Supplies. (via amyyy & kevin & jacob)

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Brakhage film stills (via branduponthebrain)
Brakhage film stills (via branduponthebrain)

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Do Ho Suh, Fallen Star, 2009 (via Alexis Hyde)
Do Ho Suh, Fallen Star, 2009 (via Alexis Hyde)

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A major benefit to society may be gained from the growing number of Twitter users: being confined to 140 characters per message, folks may finally shake the nasty, ugly habit of adding a second space after a period!

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“A seriously-minded architect, looking at it as an architect (i.e. a creator of organisms), will find in a steamship his freedom from an age-long but contemptible enslavement to the past.”

— Le Corbusier, Towards a New Architecture

“A seriously-minded architect, looking at it as an architect (i.e. a creator of organisms), will find in a steamship his freedom from an age-long but contemptible enslavement to the past.”

— Le Corbusier, Towards a New Architecture

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Architecture is the masterly, correct and magnificent play of masses brought together in light.
Le Corbusier, Towards a New Architecture

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The Fell Types are beautiful modern revival types realized by amateur type designer Igino Marini. Marini has made these fonts freely available through his website.
The Fell Types are beautiful modern revival types realized by amateur type designer Igino Marini. Marini has made these fonts freely available through his website.