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Alex

One Half Laughing

About Me

www.alexzahradnik.com

My Interests

girls who work at private schools, posters, Basel Switzerland, fake tilt-shift photography, Friends With You, small family communes, Hjarta Smarta, brushed steel buckets of ice and glass bottles of coke, the expansion of the universe, Gustav Dejert, Ashi, Eshy, Eva Hjelte, saving the girl from Frente!, nanotech, jitterbugging American beatnik-types who'd steal my girl from bonfires under the cliffs at Cape Henlopen, ghosting the people in the back seat, high weirdness, portraits, Luther Blissett, typography, Indian cooking, Camelback, Jennie Svennigsson, PSC with my ladee, Belize, Jultomten, contemplating soul shouting

I'd like to meet:

guh

Music:

Victoria Bergsman, indie pop, skinhead reggae, twee, La Maison Ou J'ai Grandi, new music, Ghostface, the 90's, reverberating instrumentation, Baby's Going Underground, northern soul, jangle, folk, glitchy stuff

Movies:

Darjeeling Limited, Sunshine, Ingmar Bergman (Wild Strawberries, Persona, Magic Flute, Smiles of a Summer Night), ir77, Mercury Rev videos, Funkstorung videos, anything by MK12, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Shaun of the Dead, La Dolce Vita, Vertigo, Battle Royale, Rashomon, Withnail + I, Masculin Feminin, Rushmore, The Limey, Ghost World, L'Aventura, Trouble Every Day

Television:

SNL, 120 Minutes, the Office, the opening credits of Mystery, Wonder Showzen

Books:

New Perspectives In Painting, Harper's, Fabric of the Cosmos, Our World Without Us, Maximalism, Graphic Design for the 21st Century, Wuthering Heights, Hemingway, Crime and Punishment, Baynard, Umberto Eco, Siddhartha, Elements of Typographic Style, The Pilot and the Panda

My Blog

Sometimes I write about loose science, letter drawing, and food

hereBader writes about comics, the 90's or the 00's, Portland, the classics, beanbag chairs, walking the highway to the beach, video games, and solicits outside submissions from elsewhere as editor-in...
Posted by Alex on Tue, 24 Apr 2007 06:57:00 PST

Good introductory Singularity article

NEW YORK (Fortune) -- Just thinking about likely near-term innovations in computing is exciting, but slowly a longer-term vision is coming into focus. Down the road we're probably going to have acces...
Posted by Alex on Tue, 15 Aug 2006 08:24:00 PST

Robins + Geese

are all fucked up this winter.  
Posted by Alex on Sat, 18 Feb 2006 10:34:00 PST

Culmination of major aesthetics as of late on SNL's "Smorgasbord"

One viewing of Saturday Night Live's "Smorgasbord" sketch from the Scarlett Johansson / Death Cab for Cutie episode and comparison to my interests here will find a great singularity spike. From t...
Posted by Alex on Mon, 16 Jan 2006 04:35:00 PST

Bordelaise Sauce

First, you have to make a roux. You can do that by melting butter (I prefer using soy margarine, because it's clearly healthy and behaves just like real butter, in every way) in a small pan and sautei...
Posted by Alex on Thu, 01 Sep 2005 03:12:00 PST

Official Launch of my Design Site!

Today is the official launch date of my design site, alexzahradnik.com I'd like to invite you all to take a look at some of my work highlights from the last 5 years or so. I plan on updating frequentl...
Posted by Alex on Sat, 27 Aug 2005 06:32:00 PST