All posts tagged Colossal

Quarterly Co. is an online service designed to send subscribers four packages a year from their carefully curated lists of influential contributors. Quarterly Co. was founded by Zach Frechette, the co-founder and former editor of GOOD.

Since it’s start, the innovative subscription service has delivered packages from contributors like Felix Salmon, Alexis Ohanian (of reddit and hipmunk fame), recording artist Pharell Williams and now Colossal’s Christopher Jobson will be joining the list.

Frechette set out to create a service that could more effectively reach his audience and with a $25 per package, he has surely delivered. He states, “We hope Quarterly.co can be a bridge between the digital and the tangible. We purposely used the subscription metaphor because we don’t want it to feel like shopping. It’s a content experience: Each package comes with a personal letter.”

You can check out Christopher Jobson’s contributor page to get updates and clues to what he’ll be sending to his lucky subscribers.

Colossal, which was recently ranked one of the “Top 100 blogs on the Internet” by Technorati, has been getting some high profile attention on Twitter lately.

Including a shout out by actor, singer, and director, beloved Dr. Doogie himself, Neil Patrick Harris.

Loving the blog thisiscolossal.comArtistic, smart, and inspiring. Thanks @heidiabra for informing me (she’s also an amazing artist, btw)

— Neil Patrick Harris (@ActuallyNPH) April 24, 2012

Fellow actor, Ashton Kutcher, seems to be  a fan of Colossal as well. Recently Kutcher shared one of Colossal’s posts on an ongoing series of portraits by New York artist Kumi Yamashita.

What can you do with nails and thread? bit.ly/NNYM6z #art

— ashton kutcher (@aplusk) June 25, 2012

Most recently, famed film critic, Roger Ebert, shared Colossal’s post about street artist ‘Bored’ who turned Chicago sidewalks into an alternative Monopoly game. A twitter share from the man who’s reviews won him a Pulitzer Prize, we’d say that’s pretty cool.

Street artist turns Chicago streets and sidewalks into world’s largest Monopoly game. bit.ly/N8Z1HC

— Roger Ebert (@ebertchicago) July 4, 2012

Colossal is a blog that explores the intersection of art, design, and craft. During any given week you can find about twenty posts on everything from photography, art, and architecture to drawing, animation and street art. Creator and editor Christopher Jobson is very selective in choosing what he shares on Colossal. His goal was to create a blog that was accessible to everyone, not just those directly involved with the arts. We’d say he is succeeding in that goal.

To our friends at Colossal, keep rocking the Twittersphere!