Novum 11/11: The Making of the Famous Magazine Cover, a Must See for Graphic Designers
This video shows the cover design for the latest issue of German graphic design magazine Novum from first idea to finished product. Designed by Paperlux, the tactile cover, inspired by the designs… Read More
“Orts” by David Yezzi
“David Yezzi’s finely-tuned meters make the sound of New York now: a generous, disabused intelligence holding its nerve as nonsense and brutality build at the line’s edge, and the consolations of the… Read More
“Android Dreams” by Samuel Cockedey, a tribute to Ridley Scott and Vangelis
"A tribute to Ridley Scott and Vangelis, whose atmospheric work on Blade Runner has been a huge source of inspiration in my shooting time lapses, as well as for entire generations of… Read More
“The World is Too Much with Us” by William Wordsworth
"Wordsworth changed forever the way we view the natural world and the inner world of feeling. He also connected the two indivisibly. We are his heirs, and we see and feel through… Read More
Nostalgic for Typewriters, Ribbons, and Clacking Keys But Still Love the Ease of Editing on Computers? Your Wait is Over
"The USBTypewriter™ is a new and groundbreaking innovation in the field of obsolescence. Lovers of the look, feel, and quality of old fashioned manual typewriters can now use them as keyboards… Read More
“Money Is Also a Kind of Music” by Jason Guriel
"I hope that what distinguishes me is that people think my poems are entertaining. To that end, I try to get down to the business of entertaining the reader as quickly as… Read More
“BUNGA-BUNGA” by Quincy Lehr
A brand new poem from one of our favorite young New York poets. … Read More
“Hottentot Venus” by Cathy Park Hong
"Cathy Park Hong's first book, Translating Mo'um was published in 2002 by Hanging Loose Press. Her second collection, Dance Dance Revolution, was chosen for the Barnard Women Poets Prize and was published… Read More
“Pirate’s Life” by We Cut Corners
As simple as it looks. The entire video is hand-drawn, frame by frame, with markers on paper.… Read More
Eating The Hottest Pepper in the World, The Bhut Jolokia (Naga Ghost Chili)
Do not try this at home, E-Versers!… Read More
“Landscapes: Volume Two” by Dustin Farrell
"Landscapes: Volume 2 is the second of a three part series (probably). Every frame of this video is a raw still from a Canon 5D2 DSLR and processed with Adobe software. In… Read More
“Death by Aesthetics” by Mona Van Duyn
"Characterized by candor and compassion, Van Duyn's poetry depicts the pleasures and drudgeries of middle-class American life, an approach that at its best becomes an exploration of the spiritual and psychological dimensions… Read More
“S*&t!”: Periodic Table of Swearing
Clay produced the interactive Periodic Table of Swearing for Modern Toss. It was built in our Hoxton Street studio during our summer holidays. It's constructed from over 100 buttons, CNC'ed and laser… Read More
“My Blackberry Is Not Working!”: Soooo Dumb it Actually Works
Thanks to Andrew for sending this one in. … Read More
“I Am Very Bothered” by Simon Armitage
Simon Armitage (b. 1963) burst onto the poetry scene with Zoom! in 1989 and quickly established himself as the most high-profile poet in the group dubbed "The New Generation." … Read More
“The Sun Underfoot Among the Sundews” by Amy Clampitt
"The recipient in 1982 of a Guggenheim Fellowship, and in 1984 of an Academy of American Poets Fellowship, [Clampitt] was made a MacArthur Prize Fellow in 1992. She purchased a small house… Read More
Ernest Hilbert’s Introduction to the Maude Translation of Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace, Issued as Part of the Canterbury Classics Series
(ERNEST HILBERT) TOLSTOY, Leo. War and Peace, translated by Aylmer and Louise Maude. San Diego: Baker and Taylor/Thunder Bay, 2011. Stout octavo, hardcover. $24.95. ISBN-10: 1607103109… Read More
“2011: A Space Adventure”: A Short Film by Simon Mesnard
"A cosmonaut was sent to repair an old satellite. He just finished his mission when..." … Read More
“I Did This to My Vocabulary” by Michael Robbins
Michael Robbins’s first book of poems, Alien vs. Predator, will be published by Penguin in 2012. His work has appeared in the New Yorker, London Review of Books, and elsewhere. … Read More
Wanna Live Forever? Become A Noun!
Wanna Live Forever? Become A Noun from NPR on Vimeo.… Read More
“Acquainted with the Night” by Robert Frost
"He has bequeathed his nation a body of imperishable verse from which Americans will forever gain joy and understanding." - John F. Kennedy … Read More
“Memories Of Old Awake”: a Short Film from Cambridge University
Dr Emily Lethbridge of Cambridge University explored centuries-old Sagas of Icelanders (Íslendingasögur) over the course of a year-long research trip. Lethbridge discovers that the sagas are closely related to the landscapes and… Read More
Traveling Band . . .
Speed metal! That band is going places! Oh, make up your own, but these guys are funny. … Read More
“At the Archaeological Institute of America Conference” by Ernest Hilbert
All of You on the Good Earth guides the reader through chambers occupied by visionary gravediggers and spaced-out movie stars, frenzied dropouts, sullen pirates, and unrelenting stalkers, noble war correspondents and cornered… Read More
“Tutorial” by Ernest Hilbert in the New Issue of Drunken Boat
"But if the poet’s present seems much more peaceful than the poems’ past, Hilbert is not at all sure that is an advantage. The most savage poems in Welcome to all the… Read More
“Yggdrasil” by Ernest Hilbert in the New Number of Measure
Measure, as a biannual journal, has a mission not only to publish the best new poetry from both established and emerging writers, but also to reprint a small sampling of poems from… Read More
“Page 23” a Short Film by Jeroen Houben
"Amazingly beautiful, yet hoplessly impractical"… Read More
“Hortus” by Fleur Adcock
"Fleur Adcock (b.1934) is a New Zealander by birth but spent part of her childhood in England, returning to live in London in 1963. She worked as a librarian until 1979 before… Read More