Magazine Clippings

All magazines accessed via archive.org.

Although I only share a few images at most from each source, many of the magazine issues are well worth further exploration.

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Before Stack Overflow, copying of code was accomplished by hand, via multiple-page magazine spreads. What a magical time to be alive.

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What stunning 3D art from '97.

With so many individuals diving headfirst into "art" for the first time, now that NFTs have come around and made promising a career path that has always been beleaguered by "hunger," it's been truly fascinating to observe so many newly-formed artists springing into existence from thin air.

Sometimes, when there's a disconnect between idea and execution, the end result is magical.

There's a certain raw, human quality that is permitted to flow from the hands of the unjaded artist, that permeates an artwork's homely outer husk and brings us, the viewers, great pleasure.

Art created with love is love manifested. Always human, sometimes palatable.

Art, when manufactured without love, especially but not exclusively by the untrained, is a product. Nothing more.

I don't chase after clocks or calendars
I bow down not to masters, gods, nor managers
Cause all the greatest artists, they were amateurs
Unembarrassed, dressed in only bandages

—Titus Andonicus, "Dimed Out"

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From Portable Computing Magazine, 1984.

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How I feel by the end of a workday, right before I get started on personal projects for another several hours.

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The French AMSTAR magazine is packed with inspiration of all sorts. These images were grabbed from the first three issues. (50 issues are available for viewing, via the left sidebar.)

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Copying code from a magazine seems like such fun. How spoilt we've become these days!

Fred is a virus and Shaggy is Pac Man. Noted.

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Grainy, off-black texture as a feature.

In the 2020s, everything can be flawless. But we impose lossy-looking effects that teleport us back to a time when artists saught unnnattainable, smooth perfection (which brings us such malaise these days).

That's it for this round of clippings.

Have a thought-filled day.

-ш.s.