Here's my Twitter process: before getting out of bed, I do a quick check via Tweetie, where I “favorite” (forgive me) anything I want to come back to. Once at my desk, I launch TweetDeck and catch up with the interim posts. Then I call up my Favorites and go through the morning’s additions — clicking, replying, and retweeting as appropriate.

Once in awhile, I call up the site on ye olde web, where I have the PowerTwitter extension to Firefox installed. I love PowerTwitter for several reasons, number one being the inline images. I’m a visual person and also a time-strapped person, and when I look at PowerTwitter, I get an image-enriched version of my tweetstream. I see Twitpics and YouTube videos and all sorts of things I wouldn’t have seen without having to click each and every link, and there are way too many great links for me to be able to click even half of them. (Here’s a mind-blower I would have missed this morning had it not been right there in front of me.) So a trip to PowerTwitter is a little treat, doled out carefully.

Enter @CarinBerger, who recently followed me and I instantly followed her back. Carin is a designer and illustrator, currently in Kyoto (check her blog for regular photos from there), and she is always on about something — vintage Japanese illustrations, Dadaist collages, Geisha hairdos. And as you can see from those links, she doesn’t talk about it: she posts images. Lots and lots of images. So now every morning, as a new part of my routine, I call up the website and go directly to her profile, where PowerTwitter lays out for me whatever amazing stream of images she’s posted since the previous day.

My current book project is not design-related and contains not a single photo, and I’ve been feeling cut off from the flood of images that is usually the biggest part of my daily worklife, so Carin is helping to keep me sane. But she is also demonstrating what a rich medium Twitter can be. Given their troubles with porn spammers and server overload, I understand why Twitter won’t make inline images a native feature, but it’s incredible what a different experience it creates. If you know anyone else who’s making imagery an integral part of their stream (as opposed to linking out, like most people do) please let me know! I want more and more and more.

If I get to LA between now and September 6th, I'll be stopping by the Central Library to see their exhibit of Richard Neutra's drawings. There's a nice review of the show at The Moment, but frustratingly few images.

It’s really sort of surprising (and I posted a bit about this at Readerville last week) that this book didn’t exist until now. I’ve only seen it, so far, in PDF form, but it combines photos, contact sheets, ads and notices, photographs, correspondence and transcripts into one bound document of the documentary. I particularly love the letter from an indignant viewer sent “THRU: Rogert (sic) Ebert, Film Critic.”

I can’t stop looking at it.

There’s a ton of great Grey Gardens-related video at YouTube, including the 1975 trailer for the documentary, the preview of the new HBO movie and the unforgettable “revolutionary costume” scene from the original.

This woman is my new hero. Make sure you go look at it from the other side; the contrast (and context) are the best part. (via @michaelsurtees)