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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 about words, pictures and bravery, Copy Goes Here. In case you missed it, here's what our home page looked like when we debuted the movie.

Layer Tennis The Finals

Game Set Match

Friday in our live Layer Tennis Championship Match, Shaun Inman defeated Gregory Hubacek. Thanks to everyone who played, commented and watched during the year. We have condensed the whole of Layer Tennis Season Two down to just a couple minutes. Check it out.

Department of Collections

The Museum of
Online Museums

One of the most popular parts of our site, The MoOM has been featured on All Things Considered, in the NY Times and Time Magazine and was discussed at length on an episode of NPR's Hello Beautiful! Please consider joining the MoOM Board of Directors. A subscription comes with a handsome coffee mug but none of the snootiness so often associated with the patronage of old-school cultural institutions.

Jewelboxing Case Study 15

To the Ends of
the Earth

One of the main advantages to running a number of completely different businesses is that we can usually find at least a partially legitimate reason to talk to just about anyone. Case in point is our Jewelboxing Case Study 15 for which Steve had a conversation with solo polar explorer Ben Saunders. Ben uses our system for packaging promotional discs to help him generate support for his awe-inspiring expeditions but, to be honest, that was just an excuse for us to learn more about his life and work. More Case Studies, most of them devoid of polar bears, are listed in the right column of the JB blog.

Field Notes Colors Subscriptions

Green Is the New...
Oh, Never Mind

Two 3packs of limited-edition Field Notes Brand Memo Books, once each quarter, Field Notes Colors Subscriptions are available now starting with our new letter-pressed "Grass Stain Green".

It All Started In the Washroom

Are You There Godsmack? It’s Me, Margaret

A while ago we hosted a quick contest called Booking Bands in which we asked people to combine the name of a book with the name of a band. We received thousands of entries, posted a ton of them and then randomly selected three and sent those people the book and a CD from the band that they mashed together. The process of coming up with funny or unexpected associations in this contest became a central part of JC's recent presentation at SXSW, A General Theory of Creative Relativity.

Passing Fancy

Easily Distracted

Are you better suited for starting things than you are for finishing them? Pay attention.

Puzzler: Einstein’s Fish

Whose Fish?

One of our most popular projects ever was Michele's Einstein Fish Puzzle and it seems to be getting yet another round of links, so we're featuring it yet again. See if you're in the two percent of the population that Albert Einstein purportedly said could figure it out. More puzzlers: School of Government, Da Vinci's Other Code and One With Everything, which asks the question, "Which porn star ate the most hot dogs?"

Dear Cell Phone User

Shut Up Already

Can design ride to the rescue against obnoxious cell-phone users? CP and the incomparable Aaron Draplin think it can. As a public service, we introduce the reasonably polite SHHH, the Society for HandHeld Hushing. Downloaded hundreds of thousands of times and featured in Wired News, on Australian National Radio and dozens of other places. Get your very own copy free here. Then just print, trim and fight back.

A Film About Working Together

Close Enough

Most of the time we all get along pretty well here at the studio. Most of the time.

July Guest Henry Cline

Smooth Operator

Henry Cline (hcl) is a Los Angeles-based director of photography and camera operator who has likely worked on at least one of your favorite films if not many. Among his lengthy IMDB listing, you'll note that he's worked with Errol Morris on Fast, Cheap & Out of Control, Sam Raimi on Spider-Man 3, and on numerous films with David Mamet. And as if that weren't enough, he's also a heck of a nice guy whose great blog, Interactive Hank, you may have visited from our site due to the many vias we've attached to all the interesting links he's been kind enough to send us over the years. In the interest of cutting out the middle man in that process, at least for a month, Henry will be our Guest Editor for July.

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

Gorgeous trailer for the film Still Walking. ms-yesterday

For my money, the most important beer summit of the week was today's Toledo Beer Summit, which sought to patch things up between mayoral candidate Ben Konop and angry heckler Maxwell Austin, following their very funny run-in earlier this month. sd-07.31

"If Helvetica Man can do it, why can't I?" Symbolic Gestures by Jesse Smith. jc-07.31

Christina Weber's Woven Art using "leaves, barks and grasses found and foraged on urban walks." Via 2 or 3 Things. sd-07.31

A very large collection of Crappy Taxidermy. Would have also accepted "Creepy Taxidermy." sd-07.31

Ukulele Beatles Fun. hcl-07.31

Old school 70s skateboard tricks. dw-07.31

Big thanks to our Guest Editor Henry Cline for all his great work here in July. Now that we've reached the end of the month, Henry wanted to share a kind of parting gift with us: the launch of his Radio First Termer Restoration Project, which is telling the story and restoring audio tapes of a pirate radio station that broadcasted out of a Saigon brothel during the Vietnam War, hosted by an anonymous Air Force sergeant known only as "Dave Rabbit." sd-07.31

No fuss movie buzz, Skinni Popcorn. jc-07.31

A Google Maps driving simulator mashup. hcl-07.31

The Sherry Council of America's attempt at bringing sherry into the 21st century. sd-07.31

Sure to make you the king of the hipsters: the Pabst Blue Ribbon Sweater. sd-07.31

Beers I Have Drunk. jc-07.31

Cars I Have Seen. jc-07.31

"Antiquated printing technology meets eighties sci-fi aesthetic in this special Tron-niversary Edition of DIY Friday." jc-07.31

Relinking Jan von Holleben's Dreams of Flying just because. Via RB in the NYT. jc-07.31

Better order some more white dots. Thanks everyone. jc-07.31

From an occasional series, Great Moments in Fresh Signals History. Frames of Reference. Ghost in the Underblows. Fully Flared. 1999 AD. and Courir les Rues. jc-07.31

Bar games beer mats. ms-07.31

Pure. Solid. Gold. Maybe the best Friday Drink Link ever, Beer sweaters from the 70's and 80's. ms-07.31

Twouble with Twitters. ms-07.31

Trailer for Wes Anderson's Fantastic Mr. Fox. ms-07.31

So you know, the 2010 Ikea catalogue is now online. ms-07.31

Chicago, from the top of a huge construction crane. jc-07.30

This made my day. Trailer for the documentary 45365. ms-07.30

Marbelous. dw-07.30

A really great companion interactive website for the documentary WaterLife. Via Cpluv ms-07.30

For DW: the Blu Apple Yoghurt Cafe in Jakarta, Indonesia. sd-07.30

Kevin Kelly's Internet Mapping Project rolls along. Awesome. Via Mefi. jc-07.30

Trailer for the latest from the Coen Brothers, A Serious Man. ms-07.30

Since we opened up Field-Tested Books to reader submissions, we've received dozens of interesting stories of a certain book in a certain place. Have your own? Send it in! And for your own summer reading, the Field-Tested Books Book is available here. sd-07.30

This is not a comprehensive list of the oral history interviews held at the Niels Bohr Library & Archives, but it is still quite a bit of reading. hcl-07.30

"This sheet was distributed on February 3, 1967 along the Haight on telephone polls, walls, and in windows, like all ComCo broadsides." Diggers Papers No. 3: Storm Warning. Via Speedway Boogie. jc-07.30

Track asteroids and comets that could destroy Earth on Twitter. dw-07.30

Trailer for the film/album hybrid from the band Noah and the Whale: The First Days of Spring by director Charlie Fink, who has been responsible for all of their great music vids. sd-07.30

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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:

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