Alexis Fellenius

Designer and part-owner at Winston Design, a small web-agency in Stockholm, Sweden. Twitter, Jaiku, Flickr, Delicious, Dopplr
Feb 03
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But more than an exercise is realism for its own sake, the verisimilitude of The Wire exists to serve something larger. In the first story-arc, the episodes begin what would seem to be the straight-forward, albeit protracted, pursuit of a violent drug crew that controls a high-rise housing project. But within a brief span of time, the officers who undertake the pursuit are forced to acknowledge truths about their department, their role, the drug war and the city as a whole. In the end, the cost to all sides begins to suggest not so much the dogged police pursuit of the bad guys, but rather a Greek tragedy. At the end of thirteen episodes, the reward for the viewer — who has been lured all this way by a well-constructed police show — is not the simple gratification of hearing handcuffs click. Instead, the conclusion is something that Euripides or O’Neill might recognize: an America, at every level at war with itself.

David Simon (via Kottke.org The Wire Bible)

The Wire is the best TV-show ever made. It’ll probably never be outdone.

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Dec 04
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“Coleran’s UIs are a mix of proudly retro and boldly new, mingling compact pixel art, wireframes and the solid, militaristic reds, blues and blacks of software from the 80s with touch-free gesture systems and overelaborate visualizations. It’s the kind of stuff you take for granted in action and sci-fi films, but rounded up in one place, it’s a strangely impressive, almost cohesive view of the future of software, as designed by someone with no contraints.” via Gizmodo

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Nov 20
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Almost everything now a days is on the web. Why not get rid of the OS?

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Nov 19
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Nov 05
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Hilarious! (via The Font Feed)

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Aug 16
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Mar 26
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Where The Wild Things Are on Vimeo (via Vimeo)

Sure looking forward to this.

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