Atherton Bartelby posted an article on The Curious Affairs Of Atherton Bartelby - Apr 15, 2010, 12:09 pm
It’s probably true for a lot of celebrities that their public personas are not accurate reflections of their private lives. One striking example is actress Megan Fox, who’s famous for being a sex goddess. But the fact is, as she told Harper’s Bazaar magazine, she has only slept with two men in...
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Atherton Bartelby posted an article on The Curious Affairs Of Atherton Bartelby - Apr 10, 2009, 12:17 pm
Not Your Average Twitter Listicle I was inspired recently by GrainEdit‘s curated list of designers to follow on Twitter. I admire it because it not only includes the “Design Rock Stars” as one would expect (@ilovetypography, @DesignObserver, et al.), but also highlights some truly amazing des...
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Atherton Bartelby posted an article on The Curious Affairs Of Atherton Bartelby - Apr 8, 2009, 1:09 am
Scallywag And Vagabond - A Salon of Cultural Affairs To say that I was elated when Christopher Koulouris, Chief Editor, Cultural Correspondent, and Scallywag himself, invited me several weeks ago to become a contributing correspondent to Scallywag & Vagabond, would be a woeful understatement. As I ...
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Atherton Bartelby posted an article on The Curious Affairs Of Atherton Bartelby - Mar 26, 2009, 8:56 am
We Are Not From Kalamazoo - Proposal For La Reunion Artist Residence Sustainable design, the philosophy of designing products, architecture, and services to comply with principles of economic, social, and ecological sustainability, has been one of the fastest-growing trends in the world of design f...
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Atherton Bartelby posted an article on The Curious Affairs Of Atherton Bartelby - Mar 24, 2009, 11:35 pm
In celebration of Ada Lovelace Day, nearly 2,000 bloggers pledged to write about a woman in tech they admire. Ada Lovelace (10 December 1815, London – 27 November 1852, Marylebone, London), the only child of poet Lord Byron, is known for having written a description of an early mechanical general-...
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Atherton Bartelby posted an article on The Curious Affairs Of Atherton Bartelby - Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
Design by Hannah Ljung - Grafisk Utbildningsfonden - Uppsala Sweden I first became aware of the significant importance of visual communication the day I helped banish all art on my college campus. It was during my sophomore year of my undergraduate schooling, when, as a member of both the lesbian,...
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Atherton Bartelby posted an article on The Curious Affairs Of Atherton Bartelby - Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
I was born on The Internet in 1994. As lavishly expensive as my small liberal arts undergraduate college was to attend at the time, it was a bit late to connect members of its student body to the world wide web. My friends from prep school who had matriculated at Amherst, Swarthmore, Vassar, and Wi...
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Atherton Bartelby posted an article on The Curious Affairs Of Atherton Bartelby - Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
Churchill Downs - Louisville Kentucky Derby Day. The mere thought of the day conjures poignant road markers from memory. The scent of my mother’s rosewater; and that of the peculiar mixture of mint, bourbon, and tobacco on my father’s breath, as he knelt to properly tie my bow tie; and...
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Atherton Bartelby posted an article on The Curious Affairs Of Atherton Bartelby - Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
James Graham Ballard - 15 November 1930 to 19 April 2009 I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that is my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again…the future is just going to be a vast, conforming s...
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Atherton Bartelby posted an article on The Curious Affairs Of Atherton Bartelby - Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
Tod Kapke Foto Illustration Design - Bunnies Very early this morning I remembered an Easter Sunday tradition in my childhood home. My mother would put some beautiful, moving piece of music on the record player (usually, in honor of springtime, Cl
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Atherton Bartelby posted an article on The Curious Affairs Of Atherton Bartelby - Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
This past weekend, I became engaged in a conversation with several friends on Twitter regarding Nabisco’s apparent redesign of the Oreo and Ritz brands’ packaging. I was not too surprised at my nearly irrationally vehement reaction against the redesign, for both aesthetic (i.e., “ZOMG the rede...
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Atherton Bartelby posted an article on The Curious Affairs Of Atherton Bartelby - Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
SuperCW And A Really Goode Job Application Last evening I received an email from a dear friend of mine from back in my days of The Cocktail Circuit in Honolulu, Christa Wittmier. It was a brief note explaining that she was applying for a job, asking her friends and contacts to vote for her video ap...
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Atherton Bartelby posted an article on The Curious Affairs Of Atherton Bartelby - Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
My mother bought me my first gun when I was five years old. She did not want to buy it for me, but I begged and pleaded until she did. It was a toy gun, a .38 Special replica that fired caps off of those rounded red disks. The same gun that Kelly Garrett, Sabrina Duncan, and Jill Munroe carried. (M...
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Atherton Bartelby posted an article on The Curious Affairs Of Atherton Bartelby - Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
Scallywag And Vagabond - A Salon of Cultural Affairs When I first received the list of suggested assignments for my column at Scallywag & Vagabond this week from my fabulous editor, I groaned inwardly. Not because the topics were uninteresting or unseemly (quite the contrary; my fabulous editor’s...
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