Mike Popovic, Text Adventurer
In Japan, Food Can Be Almost Too Cute To Eat
Take children’s television, for example. Some of the most beloved cartoon characters in Japan are based on food items.
One favorite is Anpanman, or “Bread Man” — a superhero whose head is made out of a sweet roll filled with red bean paste… Anpanman spends most of his time running around, saving starving children by letting them take bites out of his oh-so-delicious head.
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings talks about new series and new ways to consume them at GQ.
“What if you could radically alter the way stories get told?” asks Ted Sarandos. “What if the way people wanted to consume content actually changed what you could make?”
An annotated script from Moonrise Kingdom. Sketches, notes, etc.
Last chance to read Bushman Lives for free. This is the version Daniel Pinkwater serialized before publication. As he notes, it is the “the unedited, uncorrected text as handed in to the publisher.”
An informative collection of current business-speak worst practices.
“Double click” – to examine in greater detail – “Let’s have a meeting to double click on that.”
“going forward”, as in “we will be instituting some amazing changes going forward.” It seems to be creeping in everywhere and it’s completely superfluous in every instance.
I mean, of course you’re going forward. That’s how time works.
Love the graphic design of sports teams? Not so into actual sports? Check out the History League for sporty designs of events relevant to most humans.
There a themed Monopoly set for just about everything these days, but ONOPO is what happens when you strip away the theme entirely.
I’m a bit late to this, but there are still a couple of days left to enter the New Happy Birthday Song Contest. What’s wrong with the old song that everybody knows? Even though it has origins tracing back to the 1800s, it is under copyright in the US until 2030! So if you sing it at your kid’s party and put it on YouTube you’re breaking the law. For real.
The winning entry will be recorded professionally and distributed in fancy packaging to those in the film, tv and restaurant industry in an attempt to upend the birthday status quo.
Scene from The Muppet Movie, 1979 (jump ahead one minute if you’re in a rush).