Fred Tomaselli paints intricate psychedelic patterns onto covers of the New York Times.
He thinks he’s clever, huh? We bet he’s never drawn an elaborate roller coaster on a newspaper page, like Express’ very own Coaster Doodler does.
This is a weird feeling. We’re glad that David Carr liked the story we found (via Charles Apple) enough to retweet it, but a little bittersweet about the nature of the story. We hope that Carr’s 300,000+ followers get out of it the same thing we did — a strong sense of remorse and appreciation for great storytelling. We’re glad we were able to share this great piece of work the San Jose Mercury News put together.
Mashable has a gallery of the front pages of major Web sites (news and otherwise) on September 11, 2001. Unfortunately, digital history is not as easy to save as physical history, meaning many of the sites have missing images. One of the more interesting images in the collection is The Drudge Report’s “Who Did This?”; and Yahoo clearly struggled to present the events of the day in a meaningful way due to their limited front page design at the time. We need to do a better job as a digital culture of saving these moments, because they fly away at a moment’s notice if we don’t.
Alright, who gave this Hurricane Irene photo better play, the WaPo or the NYT?
Here’s what the NYT’s first-edition cover looks like tomorrow. Nice, dramatic photo. Nice work, guys. Though we feel a better headline would’ve been, “In Libya, the night is still young.” Well, the night is still young, so they might change it. (via the ever-retweetable Dave Beard)
Tweet of the night: A witty rebuttal from our friend Michael Roston, who, ironically, is the home page producer of NYTimes.com.
New York Times confirms: The front page of the site is down. This time-lapse would look really weird as a result of this.
New York Times hacked?
OH NO, WHERE ARE WE GOING TO GET OUR NEWS ABOUT THE LATEST TRENDS IN BROOKLYN?!?!?
A Future for Print: This Store Was Made with 1,800 Copies of the NY Times, Gawker
HEY GUYS! We think we just figured out how to save the newspaper industry!