Tags → covid 
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Citysuit!
In July 1999–or rather 01999 as Long Now would write it out–I designed an entry for the Viridian Couture Contest. The design brief can be read here, here are some excerpts: (((The natural question then arises: what should really wealthy, technically proficient, middle-aged people dress like? What kind of clothes will garner them the rewards…
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Comic-Con@HOME
From SDCC: We sincerely hope you enjoyed Comic-Con@Home this past weekend on the previously scheduled dates of Comic-Con 2020 (July 22-26). And for those of you who took part, thanks for making it such a great success: As of Sunday evening, YouTube, the platform which hosted the majority of our programs, had received over 2.5…
- 03-Aug-2020Long time since I’ve referenced Thomas PM Barnett
I remain a fan. Good thinker. On 28 July he posted a pithy piece: How badly US performs on COVID compared to rest of G20, here’s a quote: Now the underperformers ranked by severity (defined as the biggest gap in percentage shares): EU: 27% COVID – 4% world pop = 23 percentage pt. gap United…
- 11-May-2020Gary Groth on the bizarre time for comics and books
Quote of the week, er… last week: Question: Have you put contingencies in place — as far as publishing goes — as this crisis drags on? Absolutely. We’re assuming depressed sales. We know sales are going to go down. The problem is nobody knows how much. 10%? 20%? More? Nobody knows the answer to that…