for the typographic enthusiasts (like me)

Ever wonder what type you are? Here is a fun mini web site Pentagram put together to discover the truth about what type you really are.

Seeing Things: The Art of the Billboard

Billboards, like palm trees and freeways, are ubiquitous elements of Los Angeles’s vast cityscape. Over the next seven weeks, “How Many Billboards? Art In Stead,” an ambitious urban exhibition organized by the MAK Center for Art and Architecture, will be displayed on 21 billboards across the city. When the Museum of Contemporary Art unveiled its controversial 2001 marketing campaign, in the form of billboards plastered with clever plays on museum labels, Kimberli Meyer, the MAK Center’s director, imagined billboards as a site for art rather than for advertising. (read more)

- from NYT Style magazine, Brooke Hodge

dr. sketchy's burlesque drawing class

while visiting my brother in d.c., he took me to an event called dr. sketchy's burlesque drawing class. this is one event of many held all over the country. it started in nyc and there is a group doing it in atlanta too. here are the results of my burlesque life drawing class. i was a little rusty because i haven't been in a life drawing class since my sophomore year in college, about 12 years ago. for the last one, it was requested that we add in a washington d.c. scandal somehow.