HOLY HEADSHOT

Holy crap, this is totally going on my Amazon Wishlist.

Probably the best coffee-table book ever, Holy Headshot! is an amazing collection of the funniest, strangest, most captivating performers' headshots and resumes you have ever seen.

And don't miss the YouTube channel of some of the people in the book. My favorite is Yenz Von Tillborg.

PSYCHOTRONIC TITLES

Thanks to fidgetcub for finding this great website with an image gallery of over a hundred movie title cards and opening-credit sequences -- a great reference for lots of cool, kooky text design ideas, ranging from sci-fi and horror to sweeping drama and comedy.

MUSIC AS MARKETING

Thanks to caseystratton for posting a great article about the sad state of music-as-marketing. A snippet:

...as music becomes a means to an end — pushing a separate product, whether it’s a concert ticket or a clothing line, a movie scene or a Web ad — a tectonic shift is under way. Record sales channeled the taste of the broad, volatile public into a performer’s paycheck. As music sales dwindle, licensers become a far more influential target audience. Unlike nonprofessional music fans who might immerse themselves in a song or album they love, music licensers want a track that’s attractive but not too distracting — just a tease, not a revelation.

DOUBLE-ENDED MALE ADAPTERS

Found on The Consumerist... isn't "immoral" a little harsh? :)