Skip to content

Tag: What’s this blog all about anyway?


Categories:

Meta-Aesthetics

Meta-Aesthetics
Post date:
Author:

This second installment of misfits’ prehistory builds upon some of the ideas in last week’s Property, Time & Architecture from 1999. I remastered the file from an InDesign package created February 2010. The original was probably made in Quark XPress a decade earlier because all images were .tif files. Bold headings summarize the text. Blockquotes are diversions and expansions. In this essay, I use the word aesthetics […]

Categories:

Property, Time & Architecture

Property, Time & Architecture
Post date:
Author:

To commemmorate seven years of not fitting in, misfits would like to present some of the early thinking that led to its formation. This visual essay dates from around 1998. It was put together between occasional bouts of paid work, using Quark XPress 3.2 and a PowerMac G3 with 64MB of RAM. The file was stored on iomega 100MB […]

Categories:

Misfits’ 2015 Midsummernights’ Quiz

Misfits’ 2015 Midsummernights’ Quiz
Post date:
Author:

Welcome to misfits’ 2015 Midsummernights’ Quiz! I know I know, there wasn’t one in 2014 but don’t worry – misfits haven’t gone all biennale on you. The quiz is only ever a compilation of oddities and curiosities that hadn’t yet found their way into a post. So go on – enjoy it for what it is! Q1. First up, what’s this? Q2. Who all-capped this on April […]

Categories:

Fact, Opinion, Bollocks

Post date:
Author:

FACT A fact is something we readily accept as true. We’re confident that we could somehow verify it if we wanted to. This photograph was taken by Virgile Lafreniere using a Canon Rebel EOS 300D, 18-55 Canon II EF-S f/3.5-5.5, Kingston CF 2GB 100x. INFORMED OPINION These refer to things we didn’t know before but we don’t bother to question […]

Categories:

Misfits’ Midsummernights’ Quiz

Misfits’ Midsummernights’ Quiz
Post date:
Author:

To fill in those long midsummer (or, for our southern hemisphere friends, mid-winter) nights, here’s some quick brainteasers. The answers are at the bottom – no cheating! QUESTION 1: Which is older? A: Villa Savoye? or B: Joan Collins … QUESTION 2: What did Frank Lloyd Wright’s mother give him to play with? A. LEGO? B. SUPERCITY? C. Froebel […]