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These are from X-Rated Collection: Adult movie posters of the 60s and 70s, and they are pimptacular! (click posters to enlarge. tee-hee)

Reason #131 why I wish I was rich: Visionaire Magazine.

I had heard of the "Play" issue of Visionaire before, but I didn't know the actual magazine title, so I never got to get a closer look. Now, thanks to Josh Rubin's Cool Hunting, I can.

Keep in mind that every issue is handmade to ludicrous proportions, and every issue is totally different. Subscriptions are Seven Hundred Dollars for four issues.

The description from the fantastic Visionaire website (An absolute must see for fans of good design):

Visionaire invites you to PLAY with us.

Sixteen artists take to their cameras and computers to create original films in the form of flip books for Visionaire 39 PLAY. This collection of sixteen flip books comes in a sleek tilted case.

Contributors include leading photographers Steven Meisel, Nick Knight, Mario Testino, Steven Klein, and Craig McDean, plus a provocative dance number photographed by Peter Lindbergh and a blooming flower photographed by fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld.

The issue also features a daredevil explosion by video artist Roman Signer; a collaboration between film-graphics firm Imaginary Forces (Minority Report) and architect Greg Lynn; a special message straight from artist Tony Oursler's lips; cross-country travel from the Snorri Bros. directing team; and work from preeminent filmmakers Pedro Almod—var (All About My Mother), Spike Jonze (Being John Malkovich), Darren Aronofsky (Requiem for a Dream), and Wong Kar Wai (In the Mood for Love), as well as a burlesque Visionaire can-can dancer by Baz Luhrmann (Moulin Rouge).

Visionaire 39 PLAY was conceived in collaboration with the creators of PlayStation 2, Sony Computer Entertainment (SCE).

Limited Edition of 4000 numbered copies.

Awesome.

Anybody that knows me knows that I'm a bit of a whore for magazines. Looks like I need to add one more.

O'Reilly's Make is like ReadyMade for techies that don't like to make things from hemp. It's a quarterly, but it's sold like a book, so check the shelves, not the newsstand. Buy here, read first 20 pages here.

I want this is DVD format. Please? Please Bill? While I'm at it, please Berke? Please Charles (or Charles' estate manager)?

Found via Drawn.

Rick Dakan's self published novel is generating a good bit of blog buzz as a fun read. He's selling it for only a fiver, or you can download the pdf for free (Note: Right-click and save target if you don't want your browser to poop all over you.). I haven't read it yet, but the blurb is right up my alley:

"Fired from a job he hated at a company he loved, videogame designer Paul Reynolds is drowning his sorrows in late-morning margaritas when he meets an alluring, pink-haired conwoman named Chloe. With her gang of techno-pirate friends, Chloe helps Paul not only take revenge on his former employers, but also extort a small fortune from them in the process. What more could a recently unemployed, over-worked videogame designer in Silicon Valley ask for?"

I'm on page 71 of Chuck Klosterman's Killing Yourself To Live, and it's already one of my favorite books of all time. I wish I could write like this.