Boxes are great. When I was a bit younger, nothing excited me more than a brand new box. Boxes opened new worlds to my brothers and me. We could use them as pieces of forts, or crafts, or terrain for Lego towns. Or, we could put things in them.

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"This is not a love story. This is a story about love." -(500) Days of Summer

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You are standing inside and empty room in every way unremarkable. The floor is rough concrete. The walls sheetrock. In front of you is a window through which you see shapeless figures wander. Behind you is an open door.

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However, in light of his declining popularity and the surge of Tea Party traditionalism, many of 2010’s candidates have moved away from modern fonts and clean layouts, in favor of neo-traditional serif and star filled designs. However, since Americans are increasingly attune to conscious font design through the purposeful letterings of companies like Apple, American Airlines, IKEA, and the now infamous BP, will this shift be received positively by the public?

Do good graphics even get noticed or is it just the truly atrocious? And, the most important question of all – do graphics create winners? With these questions, we turn to today’s election in New Hampshire.

“Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos; the materials must, in the first place, be afforded: it can give form to dark, shapeless substances, but cannot bring into being the substance itself. In all matters of discovery and invention, even of those that appertain to the imagination, we are continually reminded of the story of Columbus and his egg. Invention consists in the capacity of seizing on the capabilities of a subject, and in the power of molding and fashioning ideas suggested to it.” –Mary Shelley

...in his land, owing to the absence of settees and sofas of all sorts, the king, chiefs, and great people generally, were in the custom of fattening some of the lower orders for ottomans; and to furnish a house comfortably in that respect, you had only to buy up eight or ten lazy fellows, and lay them round in the piers and alcoves.

A short poem by Alan Keegan

Jordan Blake is awesome. He writes, directs, and edits with style. He is almost tragically hip. And, he's full of class. His newest film Some Nights. is a fascinating exploration of the artistry and mundanity which constitute our relationships. We caught up with Jordan a few weeks ago and traded words.