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sexpigeon: Theoretically there was some time when this would...

Fri, 15 Mar 2013 10:15:11 -0400

Theoretically there was some time when this would have been the last thing I saw before I fell asleep. Would have considered the flaws in the brickwork, maybe even counted them. Would have considered bricks I actively like and ones I would like to see replaced. Would have come to hate that busted bullshit of a keystone. But of course now I fall asleep with my phone on my face, so the last thing I see is the sum of human knowledge, and not a disused brick chimney.

Hi-Five! Hi-Five?

Thu, 14 Mar 2013 13:11:00 -0400

I have discovered the solution to the constant awkwardness of the unknown handshake/hi-five/slap and hug intent. Be the first to put your hand out.

Life lessons, man.

Hannahmight: so fucking tired

Mon, 12 Nov 2012 09:05:56 -0500

Hannahmight: so fucking tired:

hannahmight:

of people being like “I wrote this comedic [screenplay/pilot]” and then you check their twitter and it’s all boring self-promote-y links and 0% jokes and no one is actually funny and everyone is super boring but it doesn’t even matter because of course success has nothing to do with anything. And…

"When I wrote Kitchen Confidential my business model was, “I Don’t Give a Shit,” and I’m trying very..."

Tue, 06 Nov 2012 14:21:21 -0500

“When I wrote Kitchen Confidential my business model was, “I Don’t Give a Shit,” and I’m trying very hard to keep that as my operating business model. I never, ever think, what will they like, what do they expect, what should I do next. The business model is to not be full of shit, that’s about as much as I can hope for from myself, and to write something that’s entertaining to me and presumably to others like me.””

- Anthony Bourdain (via howtowork)

Dark Social: We Have the Whole History of the Web Wrong Alexis...

Fri, 12 Oct 2012 11:23:44 -0400

Dark Social: We Have the Whole History of the Web Wrong
Alexis C. Madrigal, theatlantic.com

Here’s a pocket history of the web, according to many people. In the early days, the web was just pages of information linked to each other. Then along came web crawlers that helped you find what you wanted among all that information. So…

Joshua Longbrake: Theory Have you ever seen the show Shameless? The British series, not...

Sat, 06 Oct 2012 15:03:10 -0400

Joshua Longbrake: Theory Have you ever seen the show Shameless? The British series, not...:

joshualongbrake:

Theory

Have you ever seen the show Shameless? The British series, not the American one. Shameless is hard to watch and is it ever holy. Right? When art throws truth right in your gut, the first reaction is retraction. Too true! Too true! I cannot endure it. A quick summary:

Single dad, a real…

In which Pussy Riot signifigantly contributes to the literature of resistance

Sat, 18 Aug 2012 08:50:30 -0400

In which Pussy Riot signifigantly contributes to the literature of resistance

Double Robotics’ telepresence robot gives your iPad...

Tue, 14 Aug 2012 08:14:23 -0400

Double Robotics’ telepresence robot gives your iPad legs
By Nate Ralph, theverge.com

Double Robotics’ Double wants to get your iPad out of the house and into the office, or classroom, or factory floor —anywhere, really. The $2,499 telepresence robot uses a pair of iPads: one sits in the self-balancing base, the other ser…

These will be worse than dodging tourists.

"I know now that this was [Richard] Florida’s true genius: He took our anxiety about place and..."

Thu, 09 Aug 2012 15:17:35 -0400

“

I know now that this was [Richard] Florida’s true genius: He took our anxiety about place and turned it into a product. He found a way to capitalize on our nagging sense that there is always somewhere out there more creative, more fun, more diverse, more gay, and just plain better than the one where we happen to be.

But I’ve been down that road, and I know where it goes. I know that it leads both everywhere and nowhere. I know you could go down it forever and never quite arrive. And I know now that it may be wiser to try to create the place you want to live, rather than to keep trying to find it.

”

- from The Fall of the Creative Class (via thefollowingisforreferenceonly)

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Tue, 07 Aug 2012 08:27:48 -0400

NASA control room during touchdown of Curiosity

Mon, 06 Aug 2012 08:36:06 -0400

NASA control room during touchdown of Curiosity:

trevornp15, youtube.com

Humans doing a human thing at the human level.

"Be joyful, though you have considered all the facts"

Mon, 06 Aug 2012 08:22:48 -0400

"Be joyful, though you have considered all the facts":

The daily podcast from The Writer’s Almanac

But did it do the Ickey Shuffle?

Mon, 06 Aug 2012 07:43:33 -0400

But did it do the Ickey Shuffle?

The Tools Make the Rules

Sun, 05 Aug 2012 09:54:55 -0400

The Tools Make the Rules

Louis CK interview excerpt

Sun, 05 Aug 2012 09:38:50 -0400

AVC: In a conversation with fans on Reddit, you wrote that one of the last jobs you had before becoming a comedian was covering football games for local cable-access. That seems like, on one hand, terrible and an incredibly tedious gig, but on the other hand really useful in terms of learning how to put something together.

LCK: Totally. Really useful. Yeah. Covering football games—

AVC: How do you get a job like that?

LCK: Well, I was technical director of a cable station, so I had to do everything. But you get it by going to a local-access cable station—I don’t know if they still have those. But I was a volunteer intern, and I was in high school. And I learned how to use every machine in that place. My biggest advice to people would be key on the technical. If you learn how to use these machines—cameras and editing systems and stuff like that—then you will have the tools to do stuff creatively. There’s some people who turn up their nose to the technical side of production. It’s the dumbest thing that people do, because then you need to get permission and crews to shoot for you. But I learned how to fix the fucking cameras at this local-access cable station. I knew how to do everything. So I could be trusted with the equipment. That’s really all it ever comes down to, is insurance. They can’t fucking give you the equipment unless there’s somebody qualified to run it. And I learned how to do this stuff when I was 16 years old. So out of high school, I worked at a cable station, and I covered the football games. And so I had to drive this little remote van with a switcher in it and cameras and three big, fucking heavy cases. And there’d be, like, three volunteers with me. Had to drag these cameras up to vantage points around the football field, and the clock is ticking and people are showing up for the game, and start placing the cameras, register the cameras—which is a really weird technical process with tiny screwdrivers—plug them into the van, fucking fire up the van, get all the shots right, punch in all the fucking names of the players and their numbers, and get ready, and here comes the game. It’s a lot of pressure. Yeah, huge training ground. Great benefit.

AVC: One of the things that’s interesting and unusual about your career, especially for a comedian, is that you’re deeply interested and invested in the business, technical, and artistic elements of everything you do, not just the creative side.

LCK: Well, it’s all so interesting. It’s all so goddamn interesting. It really is. I love knowing why I was able to sell out in one town, and why I wasn’t in another town. I love knowing what goes into everything—the economics, the technical aspect, and how to create the ideas in the show. It’s great. If you can have access to all of that, why the fuck would you not want to know? I just love learning. I think learning is how you live. The verb of my life is learning.

http://www.avclub.com/articles/louis-ck-on-eating-pressure-and-providing-an-alter,82102/

Echo chamber in full effect

Thu, 02 Aug 2012 09:27:09 -0400

Echo chamber in full effect

fueledbycoffee: Sometimes you just gotta make bad ideas real to...

Thu, 02 Aug 2012 08:23:28 -0400

fueledbycoffee:

Sometimes you just gotta make bad ideas real to realize how bad they really are.

ArtSpotter app launched out of beta to mark the London 2012...

Tue, 31 Jul 2012 08:19:49 -0400

ArtSpotter app launched out of beta to mark the London 2012 Festival
Jamillah Knowles, thenextweb.com

Apparently there is an enormous sporting event taking place in London at the moment, alongside this is a cultural celebration, known as the London 2012 Festival, that is less well-known. The ArtSpotter application has been refres…

Love the idea of an artist, with a painting hanging in a cafe somewhere, and no sense of whether anyone ever saw it or cared, could start to track their impact through a virtual layer like ArtSpotter. The whole city becomes a gallery, and it’s citizens become mindful, connected observers of art.

Olympic swimmer blames social media addiction for failing to win...

Tue, 31 Jul 2012 08:05:20 -0400

Olympic swimmer blames social media addiction for failing to win gold medal
By Vlad Savov, theverge.com

Emily Seebohm, the Australian swimmer that set a new Olympic record in qualifying for the 100m backstroke final but narrowly missed out on the gold, has admitted that spending too much time on Twitter and Facebook may have affected h…

Exactly.

"People always ask me why I don’t tweet…And my answer is that I blurb. They are, after all,..."

Mon, 30 Jul 2012 20:16:43 -0400

“People always ask me why I don’t tweet…And my answer is that I blurb. They are, after all, conceptually identical: the short, targeted judgment in which the initiator draws attention to himself while seeming to draw attention to something else.”

- Malcolm Gladwell, NYTimes.com (via somethingchanged)

alt gestalt

sexpigeon: Theoretically there was some time when this would...

Hi-Five! Hi-Five?

Hannahmight: so fucking tired

"When I wrote Kitchen Confidential my business model was, “I Don’t Give a Shit,” and I’m trying very..."

Dark Social: We Have the Whole History of the Web Wrong Alexis...

Joshua Longbrake: Theory Have you ever seen the show Shameless? The British series, not...

In which Pussy Riot signifigantly contributes to the literature of resistance

Double Robotics’ telepresence robot gives your iPad...

"I know now that this was [Richard] Florida’s true genius: He took our anx­i­ety about place and..."

Photo

NASA control room during touchdown of Curiosity

"Be joyful, though you have considered all the facts"

But did it do the Ickey Shuffle?

The Tools Make the Rules

Louis CK interview excerpt

Echo chamber in full effect

fueledbycoffee: Sometimes you just gotta make bad ideas real to...

ArtSpotter app launched out of beta to mark the London 2012...

Olympic swimmer blames social media addiction for failing to win...

"People always ask me why I don’t tweet…And my answer is that I blurb. They are, after all,..."

"I know now that this was [Richard] Florida’s true genius: He took our anxiety about place and..."