The Dark Balloon

A weblog by Hao Lian.
A journey into the soft of night.
A terrible secret guarded by golems.

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Hoist.

The design firm Office recently gave an identity to the 826 Valencia San Fancisco pirate supplies store. 826 Valencia is the fantastic writing workshop center franchise headed by Dave Eggers (TED). It’s a visual bonanza of fantastic beauty. (via Brand New by Armin)

[(2008 December 22) • • • .]

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Primary sources.

Oh, you look like a pirate! A handsome pirate!

M. H.

Captain Blackbeard stared at the gaunt figure in the mirror, porcelain tiles swathed around these twins. “Sometimes I think about shaving,” he mused to no one. He wished he had a protégé; anybody to talk to, really. He reached for his razor blades. “Needle in the Haystack” began playing.

The Tenacious Lip Baums: A Trial and Error Kind of Life on the High Seas: An Autobiography in Third-Person, Captain Blackbeard
[(2008 June 28) • • • .]