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Read the article in the Creative Review about the MTV’s brand new look here.

Really like this one called ‘Mad Drummer’:

MTV International / Mad Drummer from Universal Everything on Vimeo.

From Andrew Sullivan’s the Daily Dish:

Even as the flow of footage, tweets, and reporting from Iran has started to ebb, the Dish wants to keep the spotlight on the Iranian people as much as possible in the coming weeks. So while continuing to post fresh political content, we want to start featuring as much cultural content as we can find - particularly as seen through the eyes of young Iranian bloggers. The more Americans get to know Iran’s rapidly-ascending millennials, the greater chance there is for melting stereotypes and finding commonalities, however incremental.

Read the full post here.

Well, not quite 100% there yet but I’m trying to control this playlist using Python on my Mac - will publish results in near future.

Our friend Johnny has been busy making a trailer (working for Passion Pictures) for The Beatles Rock Band game. It’s absolutely awesome:

An informative article by newsweek magazine.

Link to article

Pretty interesting stuff:

Source

Many procrastinators do not realize that they are perfectionists, for the simple reason that they have never done anything perfectly, or even nearly so. They have never been told that something they did was perfect. They have never themselves felt that anything they did was perfect.

Read the essay hosted by structuredprocrastination.com - I like it!

This site was recommended @chrisbillett via Twitter.

A joke from photoshopdisasters.blogspot.com:

• Receive requirement
• Sketch out rough
• Get approval
• Create artwork
• Review
• Create finished artwork
• Preflight and proof
• Print
• Notice reflection is upside-down*

*optional

See the image here.

I thought  it’d be good to remember the process and leave a note on purplemass (forget the last item!).

Our first free party this year.

The similarities are uncanny then again it was the 1930s & 40s and maybe there weren’t that many graphics artists around!

Read this article titled “Nazis and Soviets Acted as One” by Henry Makow Ph.D.  from henrymakow.com.

The images are from the above article & web site.