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> Wandering Star - Portishead
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> Army Of Me - Björk

Reading: Critique On First Things First Manifesto 2000 (excerpts below) / from Emigre Magazine

"...design has never had a responsibility to struggle for a better life for all. An easier one, sure. Life is not better because we can understand a subway map or a nutrition label, just as as life is not better better because of technological advances like microwave or subway - life is only easier."
" You've given us a manifesto that is nothing more than political pipe dream, full of brash accusations, not too much thought, yet much imagination. You're looking to get us excited about your magazine again, because there hasn't been much excitement the last few issues. And for the cover to carry such political urgency, what the heck do articles like Speech - recognizing Letterforms have to contribute to your political crusade? Speech-recognize this word: crap."

by Gary Williams II
published in Emigre No.52

revise the whole thing and don't include anything about Internet and other 21st century means of communication... Shooting desert pictures doesn't awaken someone from such an ignorance it seems...or does the ghost of one-size-fits-all Modernism linger?



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Incoming....
> Malice In Ponderland
> La Vie Est Un Miracle