A CP Photo Contest

Say Cheese Cheese Cheese Cheese

Everybody loves to jump in an old-school photo booth, pull the curtain and act wacky. For this month's contest, create your own strip of four "photo booth" style photos. You can make them look like the real thing, in black and white with a single, bright light source above the camera, or you can create your own modern version or even head to your local bowling alley and do it the old-fashioned way.

Do whatever you like, but your entry must consist of four sequential shots of a person, or persons, in a small booth-like space. We'll post the most interesting ones and send those people Field Notes Brand memo books. We'll also choose a Grand Prize winner and send that person a whole mess of stuff, including a 100pack of Jewelboxing Kings, a hand-screened, super-secret poster and a MoOM Mug too. Send a link to your entry to photobooth at coudal dot com before Friday, May 16th 23rd. BTW: As with most of our contests, Infrequent Mailing subscribers got a head start on this.

One Day Conference In Chicago

Seed 3 June 6

The third edition of our one-day conference on design, entrepreneurship and inspiration is set for Friday, June 6th and includes a fantastic new venue in Chicago, a modified and more ambitious format and some very smart guest presenters. Details have been posted and registration is open.

The Spring Collections MoOM

In the Eye of the Curator

Lots of new listings and exhibits have been posted for the spring at our Museum of Online Museums. The MoOM was featured on All Things Considered and in the NY Times. It was also selected as one of Time Magazine's 50 Coolest Websites and was discussed on a recent episode of NPR's Hello Beautiful! Consider joining our Museum Board, a subscription comes with a coffee mug but none of the snootiness so often associated with the patronage of cultural institutions.

A video series art + inspiration

Western State

We've recently noticed a few people 'discovering' the Western State Series that we've been hosting for Slowtron. For the benefit of the uninitiated if you haven't met these people before, let us have the pleasure of introducing you to Andy Mueller, Cory McAbee, Geoff McFetridge and Jason Gnewikow.

Each Row A Minute 2001 Redux

Cinematic DNA

If you're looking for an endorsement as to why you should purchase one of the few remaining Brendan Dawes' 2001 Cinema Redux prints here's some news. Brendan's project is currently on display at The Museum of Modern Art in NYC as a part of their Design and Elastic Mind exhibition. The photo above is from this week's opening reception. If that doesn't impress you perhaps the fact that the prints are luscious, large, limited-edition continuous-tone Lamda proofs will.

Brendan's thoughts on Redux, The Things Around Us.

Made In the US of A Field Notes

Writing It Down To Remember It Now

Our newest brand was created in combination with the unstoppable Draplin Design Company of Portland Oregon. The first offering from Field Notes Brand is a super durable made-in-the-USA memo book inspired by vintage farmers' planting books and other practical, historic, mostly-midwestern American design. If you'd like to carry Field Notes in your store, drop us a line through the Field Notes site.

Layer Tennis The Final Fiasco

Forth and Back

It's super Monday here at Layer Tennis HQ, and we're happy to declare winners in a tightly-contested pair of Layer Tennis finals. Shaun Inman's message of change was more popular than Chris Glass' message of change, and Inman won the first match. We're just getting word that the polls are closed and Jason Koxvold narrowly edged out the 17-0 James Hutchinson in the last period of second match.

It was a long, fun Layer Tennis Season, relive it here while we start planning the next one. The matches were presented by Adobe® Creative Suite® 3, the weapon of choice for creative people and Layer Tennis players everywhere.

Field-Tested Books Reading List

Pack Carefully
Books Are Heavy

Our Field-Tested Books reading list contains 47 personal reviews of books read in "a certain place." It works great as a shopping list too, with recommendations from smart people like George Saunders, Michael Bierut, Maud Newton, Terry Teachout and Ben Greenman. FTB 08 is bigger, better and right around the corner. Stay tuned.

An SD Film Regrets

Passing Fancy

If you're at all like us and are better suited for starting things than you are for finishing them, you ought to pay attention to the fifth film in Steve's "Regrets" series, Hobbies.

How Do You Spell Courage?

Inaction Heroes

For the proper effect, check the trailer first and then please take a few minutes (eleven actually) to watch our short feature film, Copy Goes Here. In case you missed it, here's what our home page looked like when we debuted the movie.

scott smith's Ten

Thou Shall

In case you missed it, we're proud to be hosting Scott's stylish short film Ten, in which a man breaks all ten commandments before breakfast.

May Guest Editor Naz Hamid

All In The Family

Our Guest Editor for May is Naz Hamid, (nh) one of our favorite web designers anywhere. We have a lot in common with Naz. Most notably, his wife, Jen Schuetz, helps us out at CP on a number of projects. Naz's personal site NZRN and his business site, Weightshift are but two examples of the attention to detail and consummate good taste his work always demonstrates. He's also a founder of the Chicago site, Gapers Block and we hear he's wicked-fast on two wheels too.

A list of all the brilliant people who have helped us by guest editing Fresh Signals can be found here.

Other recent features are listed on Page Two.

Fresh Signals

A new film from Hillman Curtis, a beautiful profile of iconoclast and conceptual artist Lawrence Weiner. jc-yesterday

The illustrations of Jules Le Barazer. Via It's Nice That. jc-yesterday

The adventures of the Middleman. nh-yesterday

The official announcement is coming shortly but if you're a student and you'd like to attend the Seed Conference free on June 6th, watch this. jc-yesterday

Brilliant redesign of peanut butter and jelly jars. dw-yesterday

The Disappearing World of Soho's Independent Record Shops. nh-yesterday

Worldwide Postal History, Marks and Thematic Meters Gallery. jc-yesterday

So waiting for this to come to town, trailer for the documentary Monster Camp. ms-yesterday

Page Two was reshuffled this morning. jc-yesterday

Related to the last. Craig Robinson's most excellent Atlas, Schmatlas. jc-yesterday

Flip Flop Flying loves architect Oscar Niemeyer, and what's not to love about the Museu de Arte Contemporanea de Niteroi? jc-yesterday

I am totally adopting him. Seriously, do you really need to make me cry to get me to watch your channel? ms-yesterday

Catching the sun. jc-yesterday

Related to JC's earlier post: Trailer for Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Undead, one of the first features to be shot on a Red One. sd-yesterday

How to make a disco ball with CDs, perform headtracking using the Wii remote, disappear, not be seen, win at Monopoly, destroy the Earth and make a 3D displacement scanner from Legos and Milk. jc-yesterday

Annotated listing of useful movie sites. jc-yesterday

Film-tech nerdery, Roberto Quezada-Dardon finds reactions to the Red One camera from two crews who have worked with it. jc-yesterday

Regarding Florida and Michigan, see the first video. jc-yesterday

What's love for? ms-yesterday

Norm Nelson on Field Notes, "I love 'em, I can't do without 'em... I use the shit out of these things..." To stock them in your store, write Michele at wholesale at fieldnotesbrand dot com. jc-yesterday

Lovely work from photographer Juliane Eirich. The Schools set is fantastic. ms-yesterday

Not sure how good my shooting would be first thing in the morning, maybe yours would be better? ms-yesterday

So you know, 20 well designed e-commerce websites. ms-yesterday

Gorgeous visuals, trailer for Reprise. ms-yesterday

Patterns are everywhere and Fitting in society's box. nh-yesterday

I like dogs. I like SCUBA. I love this. jsz-05.14

Andrew Huff finds a new use for a lazy susan -- a fake dolly. nh-05.14

Intriguing trailer for The Visioneers. Via Green Cine Daily. jc-05.14

Folks from 23 states plus Vienna, London, Amsterdam, Paris, Antwerp, Montevideo, Toronto, Rio de Janiero and Tel Aviv have registered for our Third Seed Conference on June 6th in this amazing building. Who's next? jc-05.14

World history in graffiti. dw-05.14

Pencil Talk. dw-05.14

Increasingly opposed to the Vietnam War, Robert F. Kennedy struggled over whether he should challenge his party's incumbent president, Lyndon Johnson, in 1968. His younger brother, Teddy, was against it. His wife, Ethel, urged him on. Many feared he would be assassinated, like the older brother he mourned." An excerpt from Thurston Clarke's novel on Robert Kennedy, The Last Good Campaign. ms-05.14

"Time to nip this "Kirk got laid every week" nonsense in the bud." The truth about Captain Kirk. ms-05.14

The words of philosopher Alan Watts animated by the South Park guys. ms-05.14

Marital Rating Scale from 1939. sd-05.14

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A Thing We Made:
Jewelboxing

We hated the options available for custom packaging DVDs and CDs so we created a brand that gives creative professionals and hobbyists the tools to make great stuff. Here's a bit from the latest Jewelboxing weblog entry:

"Being as Bryan is our resident Jewelboxing printing expert, and just because he's a generally pleasant person, it's an interview well worth your time." Read the entire post.

Some Other Things We Made:

Field Notes Brand "I'm not writing it down to remember it later. I'm writing it down to remember it now." A CP/DDC joint.

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