January 2011
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It’s Too Bad Obama Can’t Give a Rousing Speech On... →
Yep yep yep. From Animal:
“There is a good reason why so many people in this country are interested in weed, we’re good at it. While it’s true that Holland has made huge advancements in hydroponics and other outdoor growing techniques, as has Switzerland and Spain, the USA is still the best at advancing new strains and cultivating some of the best chronic in the world. It really is the...
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Ludic Despair: "Tool Time" in Hollywood →
“As the cameras swept across the terrified crowd, each table of stars wondering who might be the next victim of Gervais’ caustic abuse, Hollywood’s bright and beautiful trembled like terrified children trapped on a bus with an insane driver, one who might at any moment turn around and tell a particularly sensitive child that his last diorama, the one depicting a couple of...
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jenlindblad: blog: Implications of Art.sy: Pandora... →
Super interesting:
jenlindblad:
I have been thinking a lot about the VIP art fair. In an article in the WSJ today there was an article about “art darling” (ugh) Terence Koh using Skype to paint portraits. First of all, can we stop talking about Terence Koh? But more importantly, there is an interesting quote about the future…
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Facebook Resistance Workshop at Transmediale |... →
Huh. Interesting:
Short intro to FB Resistance:
Facebook Resistance is a research initiative accepting the status quo of Facebook beeing the dominant social identity management system, researching on ways to change it’s rules and functionality from inside the system, locally via Browser App.
FB sets the rules of how-to behave, so we’re asking: Are we happy to live in their visualisation of...
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In Which I Was So Much Older Then I'm Younger Than... →
Wow wow wow. This essay is SO good. Captures so much of what I’m feeling about my online existence at this moment. Isn’t it interesting that I can even think of myself as having an ‘online existence’? Not even 3 years ago, the concept would have made absolutely no sense to me.
Oh, and this quote, from Lambert:
“I have gone through long spells where I didn’t...
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“The weblog model lends itself to the derive, a continuous stream of thoughts...”
– Yep. What he said. Except I think it describes Tumblr more accurately than it does blogs at this point - which is why my Tumblr is titled thusly.
Quote from Things magazine.
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Episode 280: Rich Jacobs : Bad at Sports →
Alright!! This week, Bad at Sports interviews Rich Jacobs!
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Things I Learned About My 16-Year-Old Sister from... →
This short piece is very cute. I especially love the protective older-brother thing happening at the end. Super sweet.
Am I the only one who’s made super-uncomfortable by the “golden-voiced homeless man” meme?
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Conscientious Redux: Long before Twitter... →
things is probably my most favoritest blog in my RSS feed, hands-down. As a blogger, it’s my secret links weapon too.
conscientious:
… there was things magazine already, which has always been Twitteresque and which has been a long-time favourite of mine. It’s mostly text-based, with very short descriptions of the links (sometimes, there is slightly longer text), but unlike Twitter there’s...
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Cyberspace When You're Dead →
File under: to read; self-portraiture in the age of social media.
theatlantic:
Rob Walker:
Suppose that just after you finish reading this article, you keel over, dead. Perhaps you’re ready for such an eventuality, in that you have prepared a will or made some sort of arrangement for the fate of the worldly goods you leave behind: financial assets, personal effects, belongings likely to...
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Street Photographer Gets Famous Postmortem —... →
This link, via Animal. Also note that Chicago Magazine has a big article on Vivian Maier in its current (January ‘11) issue.
Professional flea market weasel John Maloof hit the jackpot when a purchase of some negatives at an estate sale lead him to discover Vivian Maier — just an ordinary French immigrant nanny who, in her spare time, was a prolific and gifted street photographer of...
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In Which Mark Rothko Hypnotizes Himself - This... →
An excerpt from Elaine de Kooning’s oral history (taken by the Smithsonian) where she discusses Mark Rothko and his paintings. Super interesting, click link for more:
“Gorky had a role in mind that he played, but Rothko was hypnotized by his own role and there was just one. The role was that of the Messiah-I have come; I have the word. I mean, Rothko had a very healthy self-worship...
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The 50 Most Badass Moments in Art History |... →
Via curated.
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