December 2009
57 posts
“I’m gonna have a looooonnnng time to be cool after I’m dead. Ain’t no use to doin’ it now.”
- George Clinton
November 2009
53 posts
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A recent throwback: Ida Maria “Oh My...
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Photographers you should know about right now (a few new and a few old):
Edward Burtynsky Lee Friedlander William Eggleston Andres Gursky Stephen Shore Nan Goldin Gregory Crewdson Richard Avedon Diane Arbus Erwin Olaf
Obama to Go to Copenhagen With Pledge of Emissions... →
Obama is going to Copenhagen but will he miss the opportunity to impact negotiations with an early appearance?
His ambivalence is concerning me. We need him to set forceful reductions and cutbacks that will motivate and impact the rest of the world.
“to shut ones eyes is to travel.”
- Roni Horn
she said / he said
"We got into a fight about him cheating on me. I cut him with a box cutter, and he punched me in the face."
- Lisa Gibbs, 41
"I punched her in the face because I was defending myself when she tried to cut me with the box cutter."
- Lisa's husband Christopher Binns, 34
New York, je t’aime
“To offer no resistance to life is to be in a state of grace, ease, and lightness. This state is then no longer dependent upon things being in a certain way, good or bad. It seems almost paradoxical, yet when inner dependency on form is gone, the general conditions of your life, the outer forms, tend to improve greatly.”
- Eckhart Tolle
The Lure of the Vampire →
I have to admit that I too have a fascination with vampires. I have since I was a child. I don’t know why…maybe it’s the sexiness and mystery coupled with the science fiction and danger.
“Sex plays a part, undoubtedly—today’s pop culture champions infinitely virile vampires who resemble Abercrombie & Fitch models. And perhaps equally salient is the appeal that comes...
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WatchThe Eyewriter
Behold the latest ocular assault weapon from the Graffiti Research Lab, openFrameworks, The Fat Lab and The Ebeling Group: The EyeWriter. It is a low-cost eye-tracking apparatus + custom software that allows graffiti writers and artists with paralysis resulting from Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis to draw using only their eyes.
The goal of the hardware component of the EyeWriter...
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Coke Announces Global Rollout of Plant-Based... →
A huge move by one of the largest consumer food manufacturers, The Coca-Cola Company unveiled today a new plastic bottle made partially from plants. The “PlantBottle™” is fully recyclable, has a lower reliance on a non-renewable resource, and reduces carbon emissions, compared with petroleum-based PET plastic bottles. The new bottles stand to cut down on carbon emissions by up to 25%...
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WatchCharlotte Gainsbourg and Beck’s video for “Heaven Can Wait”
French singer-songwriter and actress Charlotte Gainsbourg teams up with Beck in her beautiful new video for “Heaven Can Wait”. Beck produced and co-wrote Gainsburg’s upcoming album IRM. Video directed by Keith Schofield.
Is Doomsday Coming? Perhaps, but Not in 2012 →
“Most of what’s claimed for 2012 relies on wishful thinking, wild pseudoscientific folly, ignorance of astronomy and a level of paranoia worthy of ‘Night of the Living Dead,’ ” Ed Krupp, director of the Griffith Observatory, in Los Angeles.”
(via The New York Times)
i am who i say i am
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WatchBeyonce’s video for “Video Phone”
HOT DAMN, B! You make Lady Gaga look like a wet noodle!
“The gesture that you end up making in the world happens through instinct and all these desires for procreation. The greatest beauty is the acceptance of nature and how things function.”
- Jeff Koons
get present to being present.
Does Technology Reduce Social Isolation? →
they can do a focus group on anything, it seems.
“…people still prefer face-to-face communication as the primary means to stay in touch with friends and family (people see loved ones in person an average of 210 days a year). Respondents said that they were in touch via mobile phone an average of 195 days a year.”
Good News: The World Is Finally Flat →
Henry Rollins meets a woman wearing a Black Flag T-shirt in Jakarta. She has no clue who he is. Interesting how a brand can become so widespread that it can lose or have no meaning at all.
“America washes ashore like cultural driftwood in countries like this one. The locals wear and digest it like an imported non sequitur as they walk through an absurdist landscape that used to be their...
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Lindstrom & Christabelle “Love...
Little Dragon “My Step”
off her new...
Throwback: Orbital “Satan”
