November 2011
style is brand independent and fashion is brand dependent.
- james nord | where have all the cool kids gone?
Watch..it was still very fresh, it wasn’t pop culture, it was still very underground. we had a lot of people telling you it wasn’t art that it didn’t belong. it was always in the shadows and it was difficult to do this as artist and always have somebody telling you shouldn’t do it or couldn’t it. when im making a piece of art, when i’m painting i’m tapping into memories but im trying...
starting today, you can save those places you read about online straight to your foursquare to-do list, without leaving the article you’re reading. just look for the ‘save to foursquare’ button, which you’ll now find sitting pretty on tons of your favorite websites, from time out to cbs. - foursquare blog | via joshuanguyen
tech tuesdays
the series will essentially assume no prior knowledge of computers other than as an enduser. the goal for the series is to provide enough understanding to carry on a meaningful conversation with engineers without needing a translator (and without the engineers rolling their eyes), the first installment next week will be about distinguishing between five basic components of computer...
[passages: my voice] i looked at other couples and...
shouldn’t we have a category for endangered words? perhaps we need a system of adopting words to keep them safe and well, the way people adopt favourite stretches of highway. we would sign up, promise to use our chosen words as often as possible and of course object when they are misused or threatened with abandonment.
- robert fulford | when words die | via courtneylewis
between identified, liberated individuals and the nameless, faceless drones of mechanical turk lies identity: does it matter who performs the task at hand? if the worker’s background, skills, or experience matter, there’s likely to be higher variance in demand for a particular person’s services, and free agents will be sought after and chosen by reputation on services built for...
it’s funny how hard it is to pick an interesting image from a giant grid on a web site. it’s also funny how many images we look at each day. what’s not funny is how much all that digital viewing numbs our senses and sucks our souls. i’m speaking in terms of science, of course. but when you display one image at a time in a series that’s essentially customized, based on time, something profound...
human beings, lucretius thought, must not drink in the poisonous belief that their souls are only part of the world temporarily and that they are heading somewhere else. that belief will only spawn in them a destructive relation to the environment in which they live the only lives that they have. these lives, like all other existing forms in the universe, are contingent and vulnerable; all things,...
Watchwild beasts | a take away show from la blogotheque for pitchfork music festival paris
oh take a stroll through paris with the wild beasts. it’s something…special. | via wikstenmade
Watchhome, finally. andrew + carissa - and rinah makes three. goodness. | via taza
