Two Images in the New Yorker

This is the layout of last week's pages 38-39 of the New Yorker. The article is about sports, marketing, stardom and money. The New Yorker's illustration for the article is a photograph of a Banksy street art piece; it reveals the writing's main thesis. In an uncanny echo, page 39 presents a wonderful Gillette ad which, with similar cues (fence, black man, physical activity involving height, etc) let's you know what's up: just buy deodorant.

Purposefully or not, I think this is great.

Pigeons, Doves, and Magic

The Senses

The New York Times has recently posted two short videos rendering the senses in interesting ways. The most recent is the raw and simple footage of a deaf man describing his experience of the assumable Haitian earthquake, and the second, on ansomia, records, although slightly unsubtly, the testimonies of people who do not have a sense of smell. (And both bring up food.)