July 2011
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June 2011
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March 2011
2 posts
Demdike Stare Live in Budapest
Demdike Stare is one of my favorite new (to me at least) electronic music groups that I first heard last year, during which they released two full length albums (Liberation Through Hearing and Voices of Dust) along with an EP (Forest of Evil) - all of which has just been compiled with an additional hour of music (over 3 hours total!) as Triptych. They’re from outside Manchester and create...
February 2011
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January 2011
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October 2010
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August 2010
2 posts
No Levity, Please, This is a Business Office
I just discovered the website Letters of Note, which is from where the above came. A lot of really interesting letters, some very touching, some, like the above, which comes from a total of over 30 memos from this company, all saying similar things, almost seem like a parodies. Letters of Note seems like a place that could waste a lot of my time, though.
Via Letters of Note
July 2010
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June 2010
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At Least His Middle Name Isn't "University"
From the Harvard Crimson:
Yale Fan Chooses Harvard Despite what his name might suggest, Yale W. Fan will be joining the incoming class of 2014—at Harvard.
Oh the hilarious irony!
Via Gawker
May 2010
2 posts
In Order for Jazzercizers to Stay Alive, They Must...
Listen to Music I Made
As you may have noticed, I’ve added a link to my SoundCloud on the list of social networking type websites on the left. So click on the link and listen to music and let me know what you think. By the by, seal/mother are actually me and my friend Kurt, but what I’ve uploaded are songs I’ve done by myself.
April 2010
16 posts
You Know that Insane Friskies "Adventureland"...
“This commercial is a tour for the cat to go around the world. And I wanted to do that, like, uh, Little Prince style. You know, the world is small enough that the cat can go around in one trip.”
The best part of this video is the filming of cats on the green screen, jumping through a portal. This part of the video is highly informational, as it explains how people filming a...
This is a Picture of Robert Pollard Holding a...
As I am originally from Cincinnati, and Guided by Voices (who are from Dayton) was one of the first bands of which I was a really massive fan, I find this picture pretty amazing. Apparently Robert Pollard is going to be writing music for the upcoming Pete Rose documentary 4,192.
Via Pitchfork
Psychotic Ravings of Legendary Science Fiction...
Near the end of his life, Philip K. Dick experienced something which, if familiar with how paranoid psychosis is framed in Freudian psychoanalysis, seemed to trigger a prolonged schizophrenic episode which heavily influenced his later writings, specifically the VALIS series of books. For anyone who’s really interested in Philip K. Dick, it’s also fairly well known (at least in the...
Is Mindy Kaling Writing the Next David Cronenberg...
I would imagine not, but this sounds like it would be a movie with just about everything. I’m thinking that it begins with Jeremy Irons as Charlotte Gainsbourg’s gynecologist. She’s in a sadomasochistic relationship with her boss, James Spader, who, while once attractive, is rapidly becoming a puffy Boston lawyer. She marries Jeremy Irons, but Irons then falls in love with her...
To prevent your friends from sharing your info... →
newsweek:
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This nugget is buried deep within Facebook’s new privacy statement.
The more you know
Georges Bataille's Movie Treatment
Salon, republishing an article from The Believer, has posted a series of movie treatments developed, but never produced, by famous philosophers, authors, and theorists such as Aldous Huxley, Vladimir Nabokov, and Jean-Paul Sartre (who proposed a seven to eight hour movie about the life of Freud). Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer, for instance, deliver a proposal for what sounds like would be a...
Guy Maddin's "Night Mayor"
“Criterion favorite Guy Maddin continues to make his own kind of music with his latest, Night Mayor, a fourteen-minute work that the National Film Board of Canada website has been so kind as to post in its entirety. In the movie, made for the NFB’s seventieth anniversary, a mad inventor tries to harness the heavenly ethers of the aurora borealis and distill them into music and motion...
Bethany Cosentino of Best Coast Enjoys Spending...
Gayngs - “The Gaudy Side of Town”
This Is the Most Incredible Web Design I've Ever... →
Whoever did the design for this is either a genius or some sort of web savant. I’m guessing the latter. And if you click on the sections, such as “Psychological Thriller,” it only gets better.
Via guillee
Please Consider the Following Juxtaposition
From the “New Idols” exhibition by Francesco de Molfetta
The new ad from Nike titled “Earl and Tiger.”
WatchIt’s a promo for the new Steve Brule show!!
via Gawker.TV
March 2010
26 posts
If You Think that Advertisements Have No Relation...
So, this is a pretty nerdy tech demo video, but it shows that the people working on Photoshop have created a new feature called “content-aware” fills which, basically, makes modifying an image so incredibly easy that it’s astounding. It’s almost like Baudrillard’s greatest dream/nightmare has come true.
Via The Awl
Neon Indian - “Sleep Paralysist”
Build Your Own Richard Serra Dessert at the SFMOMA
From the SFMOMA, via Dinosaurs and Robots
People On Lost Like Cake
Who Needs Basketball Tournaments When You Can Have...
Prefer Contemporary Art Centers and Art:21 to Basketball Arenas and ESPN? Well head on over to Modern Art Notes and fill out a bracket (and vote) for who you feel is the greatest living abstract artist!
Via Modern Art Notes
Just What is the Designer of Jimmy Carter's Book...
Via The New Yorker Book Bench
Award Winning Canadian Author Margaret Atwood...
Via Salon
“The Republican National Committee plans to raise money this election cycle...”
– A 72 page document was leaked to Politico - interestingly enough, a usually right-leaning political website - that documents the Republican strategy for the next election. On one hand, it exhibits a sort of victory-at-all-costs attitude, rather than an attitude that actually wants the issues that...
Baby Bunny Eats Flower, Is Cute
Via CollegeHumor
Ever Wonder What's Inside Brian Dennehy?
Sarah Heggan investigates the science of Brian Dennehy’s anatomy.
“On Monday, the mayor of Topeka, Kansas signed a proclamation unofficially...”
– Still not as weird as Hamilton, Ohio officially changing its name to “Hamilton!” to encourage economic growth.
via AtlanticWire
Rush Limbaugh is Just Like You in Every Way
These are images of Rush’s $13.95 million New York apartment. Looks pretty homey to me.
Via Gawker
“The late night wars are over and peace has returned to the 11:30 p.m. time slot....”
– Like many things television reaffirms, Jay Leno shows us once again that boring, predictable, and repetitive is how TV works. And people who use the Internet don’t really watch TV and don’t seem to have much of an effect as to what gets shown there anyway.
Via The Daily Beast
WatchCan somebody tell me about how much time it takes to make something like this? Because I don’t really understand why anyone would bother. Unless people making these videos are, in fact, getting some super cool media production job based on their ability to recreate movie scenes using Legos. The same goes for most viral videos on the Internet.
Heatstroke
deadhamster:
From Sara
When I was a kid I got a hamster and my mom asked me to name it. I decided to name it Heatstroke. My mom said that was an unacceptable name for a pet and so it was renamed Heathcliff. Several months later it died of heatstroke.
A friend of mine has started a blog posting stories of how hamsters have died. You should check it out.
Flying Lotus - Computer Face // Pure Being
