Tags → “covid”
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21-Nov-2021 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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04-Aug-2020 Comic-Con@HOMEFrom 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…
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11-May-2020 - 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…
