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nevver:

Job Security

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nevver:

Calvin and Hobbes

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grungebook:

New York Times: Nirvana’s most memorable live moments

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hodgman:

npr:

wnyc:

Baby Busta Rhymes, Salt-N-Pepa, EMPD, and a bunch of other hip-hop heroes star in an outstanding collection of photos on view at the Museum of the City of New York:

http://bit.ly/1CZ7PZZ
(via sideshow) 

These photos are amazing. -Emily

Mandatory

Well, I gotta get to NYC.

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artoftheglitch:

exuberance (2), 2015

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frankocean:

what, if allowed to live, we can grow up and become.

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pitchfork:

Tame Impala’s “’Cause I’m A Man” is named Best New Track 

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laughingsquid:

A Hypnotic Animation of a Quasicrystal That Reveals Hidden Patterns When the Viewer Blinks

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malcomxanaxxx:

Forever

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killerbeesting:

Eve Arnold, Subway, NYC, 1984 

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artoftheglitch:

bloom (low-res), 2015

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fairlyinteresting:

MoMA Recognizes Susan Kare, The Designer Of The Macintosh’s Original Icons.

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poison303:

Vintage

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twentysixpm:

+++ BLACK HOLE RING +++

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nevver:

Come as you are

Happy birthday, Kurt.

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nevver:

Something amazing, Jon Adams

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waybad:

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10th, 2015

Quick sketch from last night.

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malcomxanaxxx:

Rùñ DMČ & Thę Béåśtïé Bòÿš

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grungebook:

Kim Gordon: Queen of the Underground (Photos by Pari Dukovic)  

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dinosaurspen:

Colorful promotional image of the RCA Spectra 70 computer system, circa 1965.

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autoreverse:

malcomxanaxxx:

Biz Markie

Both the blog name and the photo.

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noahkalina:

#285f25

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davidhoffman:

Next Big Sound Presents 2014: State of the Industry

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thecreatorsproject:

Here’s 50 Years of Bowie Hairstyles in a Single GIF

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officialfrenchtoast:

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laughingsquid:

Literature Lover in Los Angeles Hacks a Road Sign to Say ‘Read a Fucking Book’

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steroge:

Kurt Cobain, The Last Session

Photo by Jesse Frohman

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aconversationoncool:

Paul McCartney and Mick Jagger traveling to Bangor, 1967. 

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nevver:

Peanuts

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newspeedwayboogie:

Feedback!

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newspeedwayboogie:

I am humbled by how incredible it is to think that this is where and how Allen Ginsberg lived.

nirvikalpa:

Gordon Ball, Portion of Kitchen & Hallway of Allen Ginsberg’s E. 12th St. Apartment, 1987

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nevver:

Paul Rand

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finermac:

Yosemite: Use Preview to quickly remove location info from photos
by David Chartier

Smartphones usually embed location info when you shoot photos. Preview in Yosemite gained a fast, simple tool for removing it.

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Andy Warhol, Skulls (Acrylic, silkscreen and ink on canvas), ca. 1976

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theswinginsixties:

The Doors, 1968

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theswinginsixties:

Jimmy Page photographed by Chris Deja, 1968.

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theswinginsixties:

Joni Mitchell photographed by Jack Robinson, 1968

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theimpossiblecool:

Robert Plant, NYC, 1970. 

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nirvananews:

Kurt Cobain by Philippe Levy in Rennes, France. December 7th, 1991.

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mpdrolet:

Apollo Mission Control Console, Houston, 2012

Dan Winters

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film genre meme ›› 2/8 – comedy 
The Big Lebowski (1998) dir. Joel Coen

Let me explain something to you. I am not “Mr. Lebowski”. You’re Mr. Lebowski. I’m the Dude. So that’s what you call me. You know, that or His Dudeness, or  Duder, or El Duderino if you’re not into the whole brevity thing.

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blackgirlsparadise:

Clock em.

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sonos:

Get playful and transform your life with music.

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explore-blog:

The best children’s books of 2014 – for your (inner) child, intelligent and imaginative tales of love, loneliness, loyalty, loss, friendship, and everything in between.

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design-is-fine:

Wilhelm Wagenfeld, Braun Record player PCS3, 1957. Max Braun, Germany. Via tugendhat

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apartness:

3mugs by lhwilkinson http://flic.kr/p/q7KFZG

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nprchives:

cupsandcrates:

vinylespassion:

Florent Bodart - Data.

Oh, I love this.

How many formats have you used?

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fuckyeah1990s:

Kurt Cobain using a cellular phone.

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rosamour:

@PunKandStuff @PunkRockClub Joey Ramone and The Beastie Boys pic.twitter.com/weH7WFM940 (via Twitter)

Wow.

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instagram:

Pushing Freestyle Skateboarding Boundaries with @kilianmartinsk8

To see more of Kilian’s masterful skateboard maneuvers, follow @kilianmartinsk8 on Instagram.

“My philosophy is that if you land a trick right away, it’s not your personal best,” explains Kilian Martin (@kilianmartinsk8), a freestyle skateboarder who lives in Carlsbad, California. “There’s something else you can do with that trick to make it harder. A new variation, an extra flip, a spin.”

Innovation is central in Kilian’s approach to skateboarding. “I am really trying to develop and evolve the tricks I have done in the past,” he says.

Kilian moved to the United States from Madrid, Spain when he went professional. His unique blend of freestyle and street skating, which requires extraordinary strength and coordination, is made possible by years of gymnastics training. What looks effortless on video is actually the result of endless practice. “A lot of my new tricks take me hundreds of tries,” he says. “Often I am ready to give in to physical exhaustion before I end up landing it.”

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(via Unfollow T-Shirt — Tools and Toys)

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buddyheadtk:

Stay punk…

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inneroptics:

walt whitman

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2087:

neural-entropy:

Just your daily reminder that everything you know is a lie.

thank you

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jewtumblin2u:

For real. #columbusday #indigenouspeople #history #truth #merica

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heteroglossia:

In honour of Indigenous People’s day, I erased a letter from Bartolome de las Casas [the priest who accompanied Columbus on his conquest of Cuba] which detailed the abuse and murder of the native population:

“Endless testimonies . .. prove the mild and pacific temperament of the natives…. But our work was to exasperate, ravage, kill, mangle and destroy… And the Christians, with their horses and swords and pikes began to carry out massacres and strange cruelties against them. They attacked the towns and spared neither the children nor the aged nor pregnant women nor women in childbed, not only stabbing them and dismembering them but cutting them to pieces as if dealing with sheep in the slaughter house. They laid bets as to who, with one stroke of the sword, could split a man in two or could cut off his head or spill out his entrails with a single stroke of the pike. They took infants from their mothers’ breasts, snatching them by the legs and pitching them head first against the crags or snatched them by the arms and threw them into the rivers, roaring with laughter and saying as the babies fell into the water, “Boil there, you offspring of the devil!” Other infants they put to the sword along with their mothers and anyone else who happened to be nearby. They made some low wide gallows on which the hanged victim’s feet almost touched the ground, stringing up their victims in lots of thirteen, in memory of Our Redeemer and His twelve Apostles, then set burning wood at their feet and thus burned them alive. To others they attached straw or wrapped their whole bodies in straw and set them afire. With still others, all those they wanted to capture alive, they cut off their hands and hung them round the victim’s neck, saying, “Go now, carry the message,” meaning, Take the news to the Indians who have fled to the mountains. They usually dealt with the chieftains and nobles in the following way: they made a grid of rods which they placed on forked sticks, then lashed the victims to the grid and lighted a smoldering fire underneath, so that little by little, as those captives screamed in despair and torment, their souls would leave them….”

Happy Columbus Day everyone.

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I definitely don’t need any more t-shirts, but this is really great.

(via The Melvins/Love mashup shirt you didn’t know you wanted has arrived | Dangerous Minds)

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wilwheaton:

brucesterling:

*Well, if you amend that to “clutching the Old Testament and consulting the Koch Brothers,” it’s pretty spot-on, Carl

The scary thing is, Carl Sagan predicted this *decades* ago.

It’s all happening.

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suicidewatch:

It’s been a good run, tumblr friends, but Suicidewatch’s days are numbered. the DMCA notifications were just too many and now Yahoo is about to drop the hammer on my 6 year old blog. copyright law is a motherfucker. this should be expected when you name your blog Suicidewatch. Anyways my blog might be dying, but sadly I will live on as a wandering spirit of the internet moaning about all those lost followers (there are a fuckload of you!!!) 

I have a new tumblr account called ONLY THE YOUNG DIE YOUNG which is basically just gonna be Suicidewatch part 2 where I will be shifting posts. lots of reblogging and reposting will be going on over there.

if you want an archive for all of my mixes, they are reposted over on my blogspot account Ghettoblasters and Switchblades. my flickr account has most all of the images I have ever scanned for this blog. my Instagram is where you can stalk my sad boring boring life. and twitter is where you can see me complain about football and tv shows and comic books and lots of other uninteresting shit. 

thanks to everyone who followed this blog for 6 years, messaged me, chatted about music, reblogged my playlists, and basically made this a fun distraction. 

One of my favorites. Farewell. Hello again.

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vansmusic:

tuneage:

Julian Casablancas and Karen O Interview Each Other

O: It’s hard as shit to write lyrics.
Casablancas: To write good lyrics.
O: Yeah, anyone who really gives it a shot.… 
Casablancas: It’s hard to write good lyrics that are meaningful. It’s hard to not write bad lyrics and fake it and have a meaningless thing that sounds cool. That move you on a deep level and have a deep meaning but just sound good and you can enjoy lightly.
O: Lou Reed was really good at that.
Casablancas: Oh, man. He’s the best. When I was probably 19, he was doing a book signing at Barnes & Noble, and we went. He was walking away; we almost missed it. So I just grabbed one of the books—I didn’t even know if I had the money to pay for it—just to stop him, you know what I mean? And he was totally weird and awesomely insane. 
O: “Sangria in the park,” man. 
Casablancas: He’s the king. 

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Not sure about the math, but… Yeah.

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brucesterling:

*Techno as you’ve never heard it before.  Long, long before.

http://bit.ly/GAXknu

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newspeedwayboogie:

Garcia showin the Puma Clydes

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poison303:

early hype

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wilwheaton:

1977

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bombtune:

The Listening.

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fastcodesign:

This Kinetic Wall Of Clocks Is Utterly Hypnotic

Some things are just meant to be seen in motion. That’s certainly the case with A Million Times, a whirring board of almost 300 analogue clocks that exist in such a beautiful harmony with one another that they can segue from a pattern of rhythmically undulating waves to a full-functional digital watchface. A static image doesn’t do it justice.

Watch>

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newspeedwayboogie:

I Stand for Language, I Speak for Truth, I Shout for History | The Adios Lounge - great essay on the greatest record ever made

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(via VHS Skateboard Decks Series by 5Boro)

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(via Leica strips display from digital camera in 60th anniversary return to basics | The Verge)

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nedhepburn:

Hey ho lets go.

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lonelysandwich:

Sneak peek at Tuesday’s keynote

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saberspinner:

mobabyducky:

MY HEART

I actually just started tearing up in the middle of the marshall center lol

Amazing.

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newspeedwayboogie:

Ozzy by Mick Rock, 1974

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From the Republic Records VMA party last weekend with the walnut drive​ people. @bobboz was clearly making a move on me. He’s handsome.

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mollycrabapple:

Drawing for Ferguson 

thank you to my beautiful friend Akynos who posed for this

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mohala-sumiko:

this morning, police raided Greater St. Mark school/church in Ferguson, MO (formerly called St. Sebastian’s Parish).

community members had been using it as a safe space and staging area. police claim that the church is violating housing codes by sheltering protesters, even though the pastor has said it isn’t true.

please please please boost this. help these organizers recover the supplies they lost, and share just how fucking far these cops will sink to make the people of Ferguson suffer.

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WHAT?!

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brucesterling:

*Ouch

http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2014/08/05/illusion_rotating_rings_change_directions_when_you_look_away.html

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I was listening to NPR on my way home this evening and heard a powerful segment on Ferguson with Rev. Willis Johnson. I was so moved by it that I had to pull over and cry. If it doesn’t move you, you’re not human.

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b3naqua:

Ben Aqua, GOD HATES FACEBOOK, 2014

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laughingsquid:

Hilariously Bizarre GIFs Based on Renaissance Paintings

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Shabazz Palaces released their second album, Lese Majesty and it’s stunning. Definitely going to be one of the top of 2014 for me. I’m calling it now. 

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I just finished my second Daniel Suarez novel called Influx and it was a terrific read. Can’t recommend it enough. 

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theswinginsixties:

Michelle Phillips of The Mamas and The Papas in the studio, 1967.

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nevver:

Skater haters, Giuse Modica

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Maybe one of the dopest sneakers I’ve seen in a while.

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nevver:

Flowchart

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Hello, Dolly

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nevver:

Marcel Duchamp

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iheartmyart:

Andrew Ohlmann, apart of the Loop series, 2010, image posted with the permission of the artist.

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yvynyl:

Egypt, 1978.

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rtamerica:

Nestle continues to sell bottled water sourced from California despite record drought

California is facing one of its most severe droughts on record, which is hurting farmers and recreation alike. But despite water restrictions, Nestle is bottling spring water from the state and selling it, creating controversy alongside profits.

Nestle owns Arrowhead Mountain Spring Water, which has been bottling water from a spring in Millard Canyon, Calif. for more than a decade. The company’s 383,000-square-foot bottling plant, which also packages purified water under the Nestle Pure Life brand, is located on the Morongo Band of Mission Indians reservation.

In January, Gov. Jerry Brown (D-Calif.) declared a drought state of emergency in preparation for water shortages, especially during the summer months. The drought has entered its third year, and water restrictions have increased throughout the Golden State.

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Miss working with this guy every day.

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slow-culture:

Anthony Samaniego “Serene Dreams”
Opening Reception: Saturday July 12, 2014 7-10PM
Exhibition Dates: July 14 - July 24 2014

Slow Culture Gallery 
5906 N. Figueroa St.
Los Angeles, CA 90042

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bcardoso:

MARVIN MATTELSON Plughead Man, acrylic on rag board.

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iheartmyart:

kyttenjanae, Cause this is not who I’ve become, but what you make me into, 2014

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lietruth:

Lie▲Truth

http://lietruth.tumblr.com     ϟ

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drownedinsoundcloud:

Our 20 favourite albums of 2014 (thus far).

Been listening all week.

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suicidewatch:

The Stooges

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lessig:

At 9:30pm ET, 4 July, this happened, and then all of NH started celebrating — with FIREWORKS no less. (I love this state.) #MaydayPAC

Amazing!

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subpop:

Happy Independence Day, Losers. You guys are the best. 🔊🍻🇺🇸

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nevver:

Like fat kid love cake

It’s a sequel. 

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nevver:

Ryan Duggan

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theswinginsixties:

Joan Baez

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deerhoof:

the future is here and it’s horrible

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rosalova:

Allen Ginsberg with a roomful of admirers  - CalArts (California Institute of Arts), 1970 

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Quite possibly the best cake ever (yes that’s me). Finally got around to celebrating 40 with friends, family, tacos and a pool. Huge thanks to my amazing wife @lolahess for making it happen.

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(via Golden Age Of Audio)

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poison303:

Steve Albini

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theswinginsixties:

Jimi Hendrix at Woodstock, 1969.

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astronomicalwonders:

Filaments on the Inner Ring of the Helix Nebula

This cropped version of the Helix Nebula (also known as NGC 7293) mosaic shows cometary-filaments embedded along a portion of the inner rim of the nebula’s red and blue gas ring. The Nebula is in the constellation Aquarius at a distance of 650 light-years from Earth. The Helix is one of the nearest planetary nebulae to Earth and it a frequency target of study. Because of its ere stare it is sometimes called the “Eye of God”.

Credit: NASA/ESO/Hubble/Helix Imaging Team

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photojojo:

Romain Laurent makes perfectly looped moving portraits of his friends and neighbors.

We asked him just how he does it.

AND HE TOLD US!

Read our interview with Romain Laurent

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nevver:

Time spent looking at screens

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nevver:

The New Yorker, Daniel Clowes

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zombiesenelghetto:

David Byrne, journalist Lisa Robinson, and Ramones manager Danny Fields in Paris, during the Talking Heads/Ramones European tour, 1977

• via

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balvnced:

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runwiththegoldenwolf:

A lil’ snippet of a short we’re working on here at GW HQ

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poison303:

audience at an early Kraftwerk performance, 1970

Oh to have been in that audience.

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thefrogman:

World’s Best Father by Dave Engledow
[tumblr | twitter | facebook | fotoblur]

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nevver:

Ian Curtis, 18 May 1980

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poison303:

Debbie and Andre, date unrecoverable

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nevver:

Design Crush

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nevver:

Come as you are

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weaselfaceillustration:

FUCK YOU

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explore-blog:

If you read one thing today, make it Anna Deavere Smith on confidence and what self-esteem really means

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(via STUDIO for Creative Inquiry » Previously Unknown Warhol Works Discovered on Floppy Disks from 1985) /via

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It is time to put an end to useless products designed for people in crummy situations (via Everyone Deserves Great Design)

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(via The Dark Side of the Covers - a set on Flickr)

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Can’t wait to see it.

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I can always count on @davewidaman for the good stuff.

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newspeedwayboogie:

Fred W. McDarrah - “Jack Kerouac reading a passage from On The Road New York, February 15, 1959”

My fantasy consists of him reading these words when the photo was taken: “I even think of Old Dean Moriarty the father we never found, I think of Dean Moriarty”

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weandthecolor:

The Serif Hand, a handwritten font from La Goupil Paris

Fanny Coulez and Julien Saurin of La Goupil Paris are specialists for nice handwritten fonts. The Serif Hand is such a font that offers a natural hand drawn look.

Buy the Serif Hand font family on MyFonts.com

Check out more information about the The Serif Hand by La Goupil Paris or discover other recommended fonts on WE AND THE COLOR.

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blech:

Sony 3.5” disk, from the April 1981 issue of Byte (at archive.org). The editorial was breathless:

Another Sony breakthrough is a new miniature floppy-disk system (see photo). Each disk measures 8.9cm (3½ inches) in diameter and holds over 800,000 bytes! The disk resides in a rigid housing for protection.

One of the first major users of the Sony disk was the Macintosh, but the decision was not without its drama.

I still have a bunch of these somewhere. 

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nevver:

Banksy

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leonkarssen:

fun

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My man, Isac a.k.a. @minorthread

(via Los Angeles Blogger Wears a Different Band T-Shirt for 1,000 Days in a Row)

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(via Classic album covers in Google Street View – in pictures | Cities | theguardian.com)

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buddyheadtk:

trippy

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startupquote:

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do.

- Steve Jobs

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steroge:

Kurt Cobain, Springfield, Massachusetts, 10th November 1993*

Photo by Steve Gullick

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Certainly true for me as a kid, though I did like reading books as well.

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theswinginsixties:

Jimi Hendrix photographed on stage by Dominique Tarlé

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buddyheadtk:

wish i was up in that ass girl…. dr dre on burning man

Amazing.

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explore-blog:

Anonymous companies are controlling more than you think, and 2014 TED Prize winner Charmain Gooch is launching a campaign against them.

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otakugangsta:

Happy Birthday Bill!”

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tywhite:

Found at my grandparents’ house: a 1910 article on Tesla’s latest work — to create artificial 24hr sunlight, the world over!

“He proposes to create an artificial aurora borealis which will diffuse light over miles and miles of the earth’s surface, converting night into day and ending the age-long alternation between sunshine and shadow.”

I think Edison may have won this round by powering cities and office buildings — about as close to perpetual light as we can tolerate.

What a find. Wow.

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cuchilloyreloj:

hifructosemag:

littlelimpstiff14u2:

Yoshitoshi Kanemaki

Unusual Sculptures of People and Skeletons Chiseled from Wood by Yoshitoshi Kanemaki

Japanese sculptor Yoshitoshi Kanemaki chisels these life-sized figurative sculptures out of giant pieces of camphor wood, a kind of evergreen. The strange pieces frequently involve two or more characters merged into a single form, which could been interpreted as commentary on mortality, or multiple personalities/perspectives.

http://bunkyo-art.co.jp/artists/YoshitoshiKanemaki.html

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2014/03/yoshitoshi-kanemaki/

Wood sculptures will get you.

Love this. So much.

Incredible.

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weandthecolor:

Artwork by Leif Podhajsky

More about the digital artwork on WE AND THE COLOR

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nevver:

Sext

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feltron:

War Games

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hexeosis:

hexagonal awareness project

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nevver:

Schopenhauer

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theswinginsixties:

Pink Floyd

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b3naqua:

psyberbully:

b3naqua’s never log off - psyberbully’s .gif remix

#NEVERLOGOFF =)

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excusem-e:

Ian MacKaye

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hajohinta:

Evolution Door

I would really REALLY like a door like this in my house.

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iheartmyart:

Justin Bower, Dilation, oil on canvas, 7’ x 6’, 2013, courtesy of the Unix Gallery

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I… Just… I’m…. I don’t…. WHAT??? Is that they lead singer from Tokyo Hotel?

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I guess this is as good a time as any to let you know (if you don’t already) that last Wednesday was my (and quite a few others’) last day at Topspin. Talk about a great run… Man, nearly five years of everything I had. We did change things and I can hang my hat on that. I’ve mention elsewhere that I am tremendously proud of the work we did at Topspin. It felt like the culmination of everything I’d done previous and I’m eternally grateful for the opportunity that, at least initially, Ian, Bob and Andrew gave me. They certainly took a chance on me when it came to handing over the operations reigns. After I got over my initial bout of Impostor Syndrome, it turned into the most challenging and rewarding job of my career (so far). It pushed me to the edge of my comfort zone and beyond. I learned those are the kinds of jobs that can become The Best Jobs Ever. Perhaps some day I’ll write something a little lengthier on the subject.

Here’s the email that I sent to the company:

Topspin has been my family and home away from home for the last nearly five years. That’s a record for me. Not only have I been at Topspin longer than any company in my career, it’s been the best and most challenging job I’ve ever had with some of the best and smartest people. When I started at Topspin I used to tell people it felt like working for NASA, or at least how I imagined it felt. Topspin built software that not only changed the music business forever, but in many cases it changed artists’ lives in immeasurably positive ways. No one can take that away.

I wake up every single morning proud of the work I do. It took years to get to that place - to this place and I only regret I didn’t place more importance on getting there sooner. If you feel the same about what you do, congratulations. I salute you. If you don’t, make it a priority and figure out a path to get there. Eat better, get outside, exercise, dance, be grateful, play air guitar (or drums), love, meditate, build things, create, play. Do everything you can to become happy in your career and your life and do shit that matters. Happiness is armor for life.

While happiness lessens the blow, this hurts, but I’m eternally grateful for the opportunity I’ve had to serve this company. I leave knowing that I gave it everything I had. I will miss working with you all, but I also know that it’s quite likely we will work together again. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

If there’s anything I can do to help any of you along the way, please don’t feel weird about reaching out. I’ve been through this experience several times and am happy to offer advice or simply lend an ear. 

Sincerely,
Brad

I’m spending the next couple of weeks talking to lots of people with the idea that I’ll figure out what I’m going to do next pretty quickly. If you’re wondering what I’m looking for, it’s likely either a role focused on product or operations or a mixture of the two. It will probably be in music, but at this point I know I can apply so much of what I’ve picked up in my career to other problems in the world. You can find me on LinkedIn for a better idea of what I’ve done. If you wanna talk about solving interesting problems, send an email to brad at bradbarrish dot com. Maybe there’s something fun we can do together. 

I’m also trying to help out all of the incredibly talented people that also lost their jobs on Wednesday. I’ve set up an email address for people to email opportunities at formertopspinemployees at gmail dot com. 

(Image via nevver)

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The now.

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youranonnews:

The State of the Union GIF you’ve all been waiting for…

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For their last studio album, In Through the Out Door (1979), Led Zeppelin’s design brief to Hipgnosis’ Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey Powell was simply “we don’t want anything too fucking weird.” What they got instead was one of the most excessive album packages of the 1970s. (via Codex 99)

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brucesterling:

*Couple of dudes hanging out in California

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Dead

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explore-blog:

A thought for today

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nevver:

You will live forever

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nevver:

It was all a dream

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Why you buggin’?

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(via A Rare Connection: My Photo Shoot with John Schneider | Jeremy Cowart)

Something in my eye…

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seaninsound:

‘We All Went Down With The Ship (Gavin Miller remix)’ by Ed Harcourt
A chilling, spectre-tacular, sleeping-dragon of a remix by one half of @ghostingseason vs @edharcourt

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nevver:

Banished from Paradise

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Card Against Humanity.

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kidmograph:

[[[[[[]]]]]]]

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steroge:

Edwin Land, the president and co-founder of the Polaroid Corporation, demonstrates his company’s “60-second film” in 1963. (Fritz Goro-Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)

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nevver:

Hip hop

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beesandbombs:

dot spiral

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mostlysignssomeportents:

Pun of the year.

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Pete Nice’s photo album is pretty great for a 90s era white boy MC. (via When Rap Ruled The World: A White Boy MC’s Photo Album, 1986-1991)

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rollingstone:

Watch newly surfaced footage from Nirvana’s final L.A. concert in late 1993.

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(via Dangerous Minds | ‘Experiencing Nirvana: Grunge in Europe, 1989’: Sub Pop co-founder Bruce Pavitt on his new book)

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parkertoddbrooks:

Don’t you want to become a cult leader? 

Yes.

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dvdp:

140104

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vicemag:

Kim Dotcom: The Man Behind the Mega 

In October 2013, VICE News was invited to visit the infamous tech mogul and creator of Megaupload, Kim Dotcom, at his palatial property in New Zealand. Even though Kim is under house arrest—since he’s at the center of history’s largest copyright case—he’s still able to visit a recording studio in Auckland. So check out this brand new documentary we made at Kim’s mega-mansion and in the studio where our host, Tim Pool, got to lay down some backup vocals for Kim’s upcoming EDM album while talking about online surveillance, file-sharing, and Kim’s controversial case.

Watch the video

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nevver:

On the Road Illustrated, Paul Rogers

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writerlyn:

This is, hands down with no exaggeration, one of the most inspiring and heartfelt collections of advice I have read.

Adding this to my advice trove for my almost-one-year-old daughter.

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superseventies:

Promo for Bruce Springstein’s debut album, ‘Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J.’, 1973.

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unknowneditors:

Casey Cripe born 1984,  is a designer & builder & collector & explorer & observer & human. He lives in San Francisco, California.

Cripe creates multi-layered scientifically oriented visualizations that capture data in a way that is truly stunning. Working in analog mixed media and in digital collage, Cripe explores human anatomy, ecosystems, cosmology, phylum trees, current maps and the solar system in his work.

Facebook I Vimeo

We’re Unknown Editors.

Check us out on facebook, instagram & twitter.

So cool. I want a piece from this guy.

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Parker (@boomcat) invited me along to Werewolf Heart for a quick video shoot with Trevor (@yungskeeter) from Spotify for an intro video for artists to get their stuff on Spotify. Coming soon.

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steroge:

Keith Richards in the desert in California, 1969. Photograph: Michael Cooper/EPA

(Keith Richards turns 70 - in pictures)

Happy 70th Keef.

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2087:

fromacompoundeye:

siggster:

Mariposa Venenosa

The Likeoholic, by Asaf Hanuka

sorta spooky how much this looks like me

F*ckin awesome

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Amen.

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(via Henry’s Concepts | Toronto wedding photographer | Canada | Worldwide | Wild Eyed Photography)

This is pretty great.

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A god among men.

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2087:

Awesome

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thisisviolence:

shortformblog:

oswaldofguadalupe:

The Twitter Mandela Hall Of Shame

When the right side of history doesn’t forget.

Oops.

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therumpus:

Here’s today’s Daily GIF!

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robsheridan:

For over two years, alongside a small group of awesome, passionate, brilliant music fans, I’ve been deeply involved in the creation of Beats Music, a new curated music streaming service. We’ve had so many ups and downs as the project has evolved, so many setbacks and frustrations, there were times I wasn’t sure it would ever see the light of day.

But our scrappy room of enthusiastic creators back in 2011 (Trent Reznor, Fredric Vinna, Brian Frank, Jens Jonason, Scott Plagenhoef, and myself, with the corporate guidance of Jimmy Iovine and Luke Wood) eventually gained the power of MOG’s team, the masterful design input of R/GA, followed by many new recruits and the leadership of CEO Ian Rogers, and we were finally able to start executing and expanding some of the many ideas we were once merely scribbling on a whiteboard.

Now, Beats Music is finally launching in January. It’s only the beginning of what we have in store, but I’m beyond excited to finally get it in peoples’ hands and show the world what we think a music subscription service can be. Claim your username now and stay tuned.

Here’s a quote from me about Trent’s role in the product, from today’s FADER post about the January launch:

Trent’s experience with creating Nine Inch Nails, not just as a band but also as a brand, as an experience, as a culture, and his business savvy, makes him very adaptable into other situations that require creativity with an understanding of branding and perception and user experience. Jimmy [Iovine] has a tremendous amount of respect for Trent. But when Jimmy initially brought Trent on board at Beats, he was looking at him just as a producer and an audio guy. Saying, “Trent why don’t you come in and check out what we’re doing in here and take a look at some headphones and see how you would improve the sound.” It was by chance then that Jimmy mentioned this other Beats project, this streaming music service. That was something Trent was really interested in, problem solving as it pertains to the music industry and business models. Trent and I have spent a lot of time talking about that previously, so he brought me along and we ended up going in there and turning the whole project upside down with our ideas. Since then, Trent has continued to hold this very high creative role in Beats Music. It’s been interesting to take everything we’ve learned from our experience bringing Nine Inch Nails out into the world, our thinking about what fans want, and apply that to this new situation.

Gonna be awesome.

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thiswillbeouryear:

Maestro Rhythm’n Sound For Guitar (G-2) (1968)

Used on: Beastie Boys’ Check Your Head (1992)

Beautiful. Looks like a piece of art.

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maxistentialist:

parislemon:

So cold. I need this tonight.

I’m sad that so many people are reblobing this without a link to the source, which is an app for PC and Mac called Pixel Fireplace, by my friend Ted Martens.

Supposed to be in the 30s in LA. Brrrrrr.

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npr:

First Listen: Dâm-Funk & Snoopzilla, ‘7 Days Of Funk’

I had very low expectations and was pleasantly surprised. Give it a listen.

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Smash your TV.

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@davidwidaman

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plastolux:

Eames

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autoreverse:

califonestitches:

dvdp:

“97 polysiloxane hoses” by zimoun.
via

bite marks and scratches

Pulled from the ether via Califone’s ‘Stitches’, an interactive Tumblr-based music video.

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nevver:

Where’s your head at?

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class-struggle-anarchism:

It’s true what he says though - there is no subject position from which it’s ok to talk about inequality - if you’re poor you are doing it out of jealously, if you’re not poor you’re doing it out of guilt/saviour complex, if you are young it’s just a phase, if you’re old you are hankering for times long gone and trying to recapture your youth, if you’re not well educated you just don’t understand the complexity of the situation, if you are well educated you’re in an academic bubble divorced from reality, if your politically apathetic you’re not allowed to complain, if you’re politically active you’re just trying to push your own sectarian agenda…

For every possible type of person there’s an established reason why your opinions on inequality are invalid. That’s not an accident.

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parislemon:

shortformblog:

newshour:

A San Francisco turned Gotham City made a five-year-old Bat Kid’s wish come true.

Above, the San Francisco Chronicle printed a special edition of their paper in honor of Bat Kid, with articles written by none other than Lois Lane and Clark Kent.

Again, best sense of civic pride anywhere.

Hard not to love everything about this. Good job, city.

I love everything about this. Everything.

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whitedogblog:

Synchrophasotron control center, Dubna, Russia, 1968

My decor of choice.

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patblashill:

D. Boon of the Minutemen with Raymond Pettibon, 1981. Photo by Gary Leonard

Damn. This would be a good one for the wall. 

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aseaofquotes:

Anne Morrow Lindberg, Girl from the Sea

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kidmograph:

VNFOLD

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rulesformyunbornson:

LOU.

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jukeboxgraduate:

lou reed corn flakes

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beesandbombs:

squares & circles

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kidmograph:

Cryst∆l

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tlvx:

GPOY

Source: dotroom – Creamy

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Today is #SpiritDay.

Did you know 82% of students report being verbally harassed in school because of their sexual orientation?

Did you know 64% of students report being verbally harassed in school because of their gender identity?

People all over the world wear purple on Spirit Day in a stand against bullying and to show their support for LGBTQ youth. Started on Tumblr and observed annually since 2010, individuals, schools, organizations, corporations, and public figures wear purple, which symbolizes ‘spirit’ on the rainbow flag.

Getting involved is easy: just wear purple on October 17th and turn your blogs, Facebook and Twitter profile pics purple using the app for iPhone and Android to help create a world in which LGBT youth are celebrated and accepted for who they are. Upload photos of you wearing purple with the hashtag #SpiritDay to Tumblr, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and Google+!

Get more graphics, apps, and ways to take action to stand up to bullying at http://glaad.org/spiritday

I didn’t wear purple today, but I’m celebrating.

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lilly:

THIS is how you run a country. You can send mail with Rush. Way to go, Canada! (Thx @deadsquid !)

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hilaryhess:

Going to miss this beauty.

THAT’S MY GIRL!

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kidmograph:

BIRTHDEAD V.2 Frame Blended

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laughingsquid:

Crypstagram, Image Sharing Site Lets Users Hide Encrypted Messages in Glitch Images

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hilaryhess:

Double Cassidy + @bradbarrish

Now I’ll have some photos of my daughter with me in them.

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laughingsquid:

Circa News 2, An iOS 7 Optimized News App Designed For Mobile Devices

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3 years ago I married @lolahess. I’m the happiest man alive. I love you!

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wilwheaton:

WITHER HUELL?

That head.

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maxistentialist:

Remember this photo every time you have to deal with a phone company.

Y E S

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Can’t wait to see this for myself some day.

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laughingsquid:

Man Fashions His Beard Into a Bowl & Eats Ramen Noodles Out Of It

It is officially a beard bubble. 

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veggieblt:

So I was walking around campus and I found this on the sewer drain outside my dorm.

TMNT FTW

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pitchfork:

Listen to Event II, the new album from Deltron 3030— aka Del the Funky Homosapien, DJ Kid Koala, and producer Dan the Automator— in its entirely via Pitchfork Advance.

Now listening.

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nevver:

Sad Skate Dad

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motherjones:

So, this happened…

What an asshole.

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(via Friends of Type — Coolifornia TShirt)

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beesandbombs:

warps

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piperferguson:

Yeah, This Guy still rules every night…man that was such a pleasure to get to experience, thanks Tom!

@tompetty at the Fonda Theater 6/6/13 

Such a spectacular photo. Wonder what he was playing?

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グライムス - Grimes glitch

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nineinchnails:

Listen to the new NIN album Hesitation Marks in its entirety RIGHT NOW, a week early, via iTunes (US only) here.

Now listening.

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nabildo:

Rick Rubin by: NABIL

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So great seeing Beetlejuice after all these years. 

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surrogateself:

Infinite Drip

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marketmeasuresaustralia:

I Code Mountains

As promised, here’s the visuals:

And the accompanying code:

S[n_, t_] := Sin[n*3 Pi/50 +…

View Post

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therumpus:

Here’s today’s Daily GIF!

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seanbonner:

Some useful tips from COPWATCH

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blech:

“In this shot taken by NASA’s Skylab crew, Los Angeles smog extends from the San Gabriel Mountains to the coast. NASA Johnson Space Center.”

From the New York Times article Gorgeous Glimpses of Calamity, by  Michael Benson.

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zombiesenelghetto:

Marc Bolan of T-Rex, by Masayoshi Sukita, 1972

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brokemogul:

No Molly, Versace or Tom Ford. Just N.W.A

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My little shoe gazer on Flickr.

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nevver:

John Tottenham

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Instead of complying, Lavabit shuts down. Help them out by donating to their legal defense fund.

So now who do we use for email?

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kidmograph:

SPIT

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howardweaver:

Sterling’s masterful command of the contradictory circumstances that frame this controversy brings instant credibility for me. He doesn’t pretend there’s a right and wrong side, a good or a bad set of actors. By giving such eloquent voice to the fundamentally dystopian narrative, he frees me from the Hero Or Traitor? nonsense that has animated so much of the discussion.

His exposition frees me to think about how bad this might already be.

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WANT!

(via Studio  | LEGO Shop)

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nevver:

Resistance is futile

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nevver:

365 Rounds

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suicidewatch:

Run DMC, The Beastie Boys, Slayer, and Rick Rubin

Now THAT’S a photo.

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blech:

Vortex by robinhouston. You can see the source code on bl.ocks.org.

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1ucasvb:

The arc-length parametrization of an Archimedean spiral visualized with colors.

I just finished some new code to generate arc-length parametrizations of arbitrary curves. To try it out, I used it on this Archimedean spiral.

Then I got curious: exactly how does the re-parametrization redistributes the points along this curve? In the original parametrization, the points are bunched up in the middle of the spiral, and more spaced on the outside. The arc-length parametrization makes them equally spaced along the whole path. So how do they compare?

First, I tried this with black points, but it was too confusing. Same thing for a few dots highlighted. So I decided to color them all based on the angle in the original parametrization. This is the result.

It is really interesting how the colors are bent around. It seems that the distribution is quite non-uniform, even though the spiral is rather uniform in growth.

I originally rendered this with four times as many frames, but due to the amount of colors and dimensions of the GIF, Tumblr wouldn’t accept it. It was too large. Below is the animation with twice as many frames.

Hint: try squinting! It blurs the colors and it looks really trippy!

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Such a great poster.

(via Baroness Tour Poster III | Burlesque of North America)

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You will think these are magnificent, especially if you are a parent. 

(via Kopeikingallery.com : Exhibitions : End Times)

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blech:

Four of the eleven photos from the BBC slideshow in advance of the demolition of Inverkip Power Station, Scotland (via)

Why do I love shit like this?

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I would like a poster of this in my house.

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pugwizard:

fucks given - zero

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brucesterling:

NSA Inside 

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believermag:

THE BELIEVER: What was it like to compose the songs for Almost Famous?

NANCY WILSON: One thing that always seems to sink most fictional movies about rock: the fake songs. So we tried to be as authentic as possible. Before the movie started shooting, Cameron and I were taking a break at the beach, and thought we’d just launch headlong into the whole fictitious world of this Midwestern mid-level rock group circa 1972. We wanted them to feel like a blend of Bad Company with a little Led Zeppelin, Cream, and some Allman Brothers mixed in. All their songs, we decided, were either about a vague father complex, or the road. Nothing in the middle. You have no idea how fast and how fun those songs were to write! Every song is either about “Babe, I have to ramble” or “Father, father”… and sometimes both! And then, once we had the songs done, the problem became finding the right singer, because there was a certain rock accent in 1972 that no longer exists.

BLVR: A rock accent? What do you mean?

NW: There used to be a certain bluesy way of singing that people don’t really do anymore. In the ’90s, the Seattle sound developed—less of a drawl and closer to a warbley yell, the sound of Layne Staley, and somewhat Eddie Vedder and Chris Cornell, Kurt Cobain, or any number of those guys who channeled their rage through a prism of Kiss and Cheap Trick. It changed everything! And it really changed the rock accent. You still hear that grunge influence today in all the “alternative pop” stuff, or whatever you call it. But the singer for a band like Stillwater would’ve had that ’70s rock sound—more of a black blues translated back through the English bands’ inflections. Eventually, we chose Marti Frederiksen [an L.A.-based musician and producer who has cowritten songs with Aerosmith, Def Leppard, and Sheryl Crow, to name a few]. Before we found Marti, it was my mock vocal on the songs and it was pretty funny to see Jason Lee (who played the lead singer) lip synching to my vocals…

Peter Frampton and I gave the actors lessons on how to be rock stars. One thing we did was to tell them how you have to be ready for anything, because while you’re onstage, the fans can be really unpredictable. Stuff is hurled at you, like CDs and jewelry. You’ll be in the middle of a song, playing a huge Les Paul, and they’ll come up to the lip of the stage demanding you sign some piece of paper. And you’ll be like, “Uh, well, I’m actually a little busy right now! My hands are kind of full!”

BLVR: That’s hysterical. What’s the worst thing that someone has ever done?

NW: The ones who just jump up onstage really scare me. They usually have pinwheels for eyes and get whisked quickly away by the crew.

BLVR: What other things did you teach the Stillwater guys? Like, if you’re a television anchor, I heard you’re supposed to sit on your blazer, to keep it from bunching up. Is there anything like that for a rock star?

NW: Yep, there are some cardinal sins. Like you should never wear your guitar too high, because it looks dinky. Another thing a guitar player should never do is stare at your hands too much—it’s lame.

And it’s better, believe it or not, to have slouchy, sloppy body language that guys like Jimmy Page are known for. To help the actors get it down, Cameron had them study live concert footage of bands like the Who and Led Zeppelin. And by the time the movie rolled, they looked like a real rock band. Jason Lee had a head start because he already knew how to play the guitar. Billy Crudup [who played the lead guitarist] had the farthest to go, but he applied himself so much that he really nailed it in the end. He had only played piano before, and picked it all up in six weeks. He still plays; sometimes he leaves a phone message that’s just him playing “Smoke on the Water.” Just to let us know he’s still rockin’ the Stillwater sound.

So much care went into making that movie look and feel authentic—down to the types of chords we used in the songs, the guitar straps the actors used, the floor monitors on the stage. Nothing is anachronistic. There’s even a moment when you can see a roadie asleep on a case in the background, which is something that always happens if you’re touring. We even had Jason Lee put shaving cream in his hair to style it.

BLVR: Shaving cream? In his hair?

NW: That’s what we’d do in the days before there was mousse.

BLVR: It’s kind of amazing to pause for a moment and reflect on the fact that there was a world without mousse.

NW: Yep. Back before there were a million products, we’d heard David Bowie used shaving cream in his hair. So we’d use it in ours.

BLVR: What about the other films you’ve worked on? Were you writing background music?

NW: Well, that’s completely different from writing songs for rock bands, real or fake. It’s all instrumental, first of all. And you need to make sure it doesn’t call too much attention to itself. Otherwise, it’s going to step on the dialogue or the visuals. Rather than making a big statement, it needs to be subliminal.

BLVR: That sounds so different from being a rock star, where you are so visible. Was that an interesting switch for you?

NW: On a live rock stage, I get really amped, literally and figuratively. I feel really inspired to move and perform. Commandeering a big screaming electric guitar is such a thrill. But yeah, when you’re using music to help depict a movie, it’s a very different discipline. Much more cerebral. I think about the emotional arc of a scene, and then try to paint musical colors around it.

BLVR: So how do things work? Do you start by watching a movie with dialogue but no other sound?

NW: While the movie is being filmed, I lay down different things on my own. In Almost Famous, much of that method worked. Carl Kaller, my music editor, can also create new cues from existing music and cut and paste things around to fit the picture. It happens every which way.

With Vanilla Sky, I spent about nine months working on the score in a closet of a studio. We were trying to balance out the heaviness of the story with sugary pop-culture music. We made sound collages of all kinds. We were channeling Brian Wilson to a large extent. I was recording things through hoses, around corners, playing guitars with cello bows, and with Carl Kaller, we tried all kinds of wacky stuff. In the murder–sex scene sound collage, Cameron even used Brian Wilson’s speaking voice from a Pet Sounds mix session.

The whole process was really fun. It began with reading the script together in the kitchen. Near the end I enlisted Jon Brion, who does so much great work, to help me with some string arrangements. He’s got some strange instruments we used as well. He’s done a lot of great songs and scores himself—Magnolia, I Heart Huckabees, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Those temporary string pieces were really great sounding, but sadly not right for the film. Again, it all sounded a little too dark when it joined to picture. But a lot of my other stuff got used.

An interview with Nancy Wilson (August 2007).

Those who know me know that I love Almost Famous. I went to the first public screening of the film, which was to be called Untitled. Cameron introduced the film and I just loved it and I loved that it was about him.

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liartownusa:

Frampton Comes Apart!, conceived by @DJRotaryRachel

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gofwd:

No webpage is an island.

Every time you click a link on the internet, you set off a cascading series of events. Some are the ones you would expect: the site needs to talk to a server to download images, for example, which takes some time. Others are less obvious. These are the obscure URLs that flash by at the bottom of your browser, and slow the whole process down.

Those little URLs are just the tip of the iceberg, and Ghostery is a free browser extension that lets you see the whole thing. For example, here’s what Ghostery, which sits in the background while you browse, tells us about those invisible parts of this IMDB page:

To see the IMDB page for Pacific Rim, my browser talked to nearly 30 sites outside of IMDB (disclosure: BuzzFeed racks up about 15, and the NSA’s official website counts just one: Google Analytics).

They’re a mixture of advertising sites, tracking software, analytics tools and social plugins — tweet buttons, Facebook buttons and the like. A lot of the names in the lists will be familiar: Google, Amazon, etc. For the ones that aren’t, Ghostery gives you a summary of what they do. Usually the weirder ones are ad products; sometimes, they’re pleasant surprises:

The Most Important Piece Of Software You’ve Never Heard Of

One of the first things I install on a browser.

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glitchee:

Untitled #73.

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For anyone not freaked out about the NSA just having metadata on every email you’ve sent and received in Gmail, make sure you take a look at this little project/experiment some MIT students put together. The graphic you see above is a diagram of who I email, how often I’ve emailed with them and how and if they are related to other people I’ve emailed with. I removed the name labels, but you can view the diagram with names as well. This is approximately 10 years of email. So yeah, just having metadata can tell someone a lot. MIT lets you delete the info. The US government does not.

BTW, something I figured out was that because I had Gmail (on the web) configured to only give access to my 1000 most recent emails via IMAP, I had to remove that limitation in order to give this project access to all of my email.

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Took this on a trip to Death Valley.

2006-09-21 at 08-01-50, Processed with Analog

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laughingsquid:

The Rock ’n’ Roll Casualty Who Became a War Hero

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thortechreview:

Did you knowth, thy Facebook keeps a record of EVERYTHING you type in the search bar? Hereth how to clear it: http://on.mash.to/13NWFEG

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laughingsquid:

Uncured, Melting Portraits by Ben DeHaan

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officialneilkrug:

Kodachrome 64

Photograph by Neil Krug

http://instagram.com/neilkrug

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nevver:

Lyon, France

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The Beastles : Ill Submarine (via)

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kidmograph:

ISL∆ND I

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Drops (at MOCA)

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The Art of Punk. (at MOCA)

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joseph-kyle-art:

Joseph Kyle

Radiance #06

2003

84x84 in

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princewifi:

me

me 2

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I asked this dude if I could take a photo of him in his t-shirt. His reply was, “Are you going to say I’m a dick?” To which I replied, “Yes”.

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Jam. (at New Monkey Studio)

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gnumblr:

turbine.gif

view the still version here!

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mnunu-nimune:

glitcheando la pantalla

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Father. Daughter.

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autorevrse:

leiaj:

Omfg

I actually LOLed. 

Me too.

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artdawdlings:

Bruce Mau’s Incomplete Manifesto for Growth. Currently at 43. Very cool - I mean interesting. 

1. Allow events to change you. 
   You have to be willing to grow. Growth is different from something that happens to you. You produce it. You live it. The prerequisites for growth: the openness to experience events and the willingness to be changed by them.
   
   
2. Forget about good. 
   Good is a known quantity. Good is what we all agree on. Growth is not necessarily good. Growth is an exploration of unlit recesses that may or may not yield to our research. As long as you stick to good you’ll never have real growth.
   
   
3. Process is more important than outcome. 
   When the outcome drives the process we will only ever go to where we’ve already been. If process drives outcome we may not know where we’re going, but we will know we want to be there.
   
   
4. Love your experiments (as you would an ugly child). 
   Joy is the engine of growth. Exploit the liberty in casting your work as beautiful experiments, iterations, attempts, trials, and errors. Take the long view and allow yourself the fun of failure every day.
   
   
5. Go deep. 
   The deeper you go the more likely you will discover something of value.
   
   
6. Capture accidents. 
   The wrong answer is the right answer in search of a different question. Collect wrong answers as part of the process. Ask different questions.
   
   
7. Study. 
   A studio is a place of study. Use the necessity of production as an excuse to study. Everyone will benefit.
   
   
8. Drift. 
   Allow yourself to wander aimlessly. Explore adjacencies. Lack judgment. Postpone criticism.
   
   
9. Begin anywhere. 
   John Cage tells us that not knowing where to begin is a common form of paralysis. His advice: begin anywhere.
   
   
10. Everyone is a leader. 
    Growth happens. Whenever it does, allow it to emerge. Learn to follow when it makes sense. Let anyone lead.
    
    
11. Harvest ideas. 
    Edit applications. Ideas need a dynamic, fluid, generous environment to sustain life. Applications, on the other hand, benefit from critical rigor. Produce a high ratio of ideas to applications.
    
    
12. Keep moving. 
    The market and its operations have a tendency to reinforce success. Resist it. Allow failure and migration to be part of your practice.
    
    
13. Slow down. 
    Desynchronize from standard time frames and surprising opportunities may present themselves.
    
    
14. Don’t be cool. 
    Cool is conservative fear dressed in black. Free yourself from limits of this sort.
    
    
15. Ask stupid questions. 
    Growth is fueled by desire and innocence. Assess the answer, not the question. Imagine learning throughout your life at the rate of an infant.
    
    
16. Collaborate. 
    The space between people working together is filled with conflict, friction, strife, exhilaration, delight, and vast creative potential.
    
    
17. ____________________. 
    Intentionally left blank. Allow space for the ideas you haven’t had yet, and for the ideas of others.
    
    
18. Stay up late. 
    Strange things happen when you’ve gone too far, been up too long, worked too hard, and you’re separated from the rest of the world.
    
    
19. Work the metaphor. 
    Every object has the capacity to stand for something other than what is apparent. Work on what it stands for.
    
    
20. Be careful to take risks. 
    Time is genetic. Today is the child of yesterday and the parent of tomorrow. The work you produce today will create your future.
    
    
21. Repeat yourself. 
    If you like it, do it again. If you don’t like it, do it again.
    
    
22. Make your own tools. 
    Hybridize your tools in order to build unique things. Even simple tools that are your own can yield entirely new avenues of exploration. Remember, tools amplify our capacities, so even a small tool can make a big difference.
    
    
23. Stand on someone’s shoulders. 
    You can travel farther carried on the accomplishments of those who came before you. And the view is so much better.
    
    
24. Avoid software. 
    The problem with software is that everyone has it.
    
    
25. Don’t clean your desk. 
    You might find something in the morning that you can’t see tonight.
    
    
26. Don’t enter awards competitions. 
    Just don’t. It’s not good for you.
    
    
27. Read only left-hand pages. 
    Marshall McLuhan did this. By decreasing the amount of information, we leave room for what he called our “noodle.”
    
    
28. Make new words. 
    Expand the lexicon. The new conditions demand a new way of thinking. The thinking demands new forms of expression. The expression generates new conditions.
    
    
29. Think with your mind. 
    Forget technology. Creativity is not device-dependent.
    
    
30. Organization = Liberty. 
    Real innovation in design, or any other field, happens in context. That context is usually some form of cooperatively managed enterprise. Frank Gehry, for instance, is only able to realize Bilbao because his studio can deliver it on budget. The myth of a split between “creatives” and “suits” is what Leonard Cohen calls a ‘charming artifact of the past.’
    
    
31. Don’t borrow money. 
    Once again, Frank Gehry’s advice. By maintaining financial control, we maintain creative control. It’s not exactly rocket science, but it’s surprising how hard it is to maintain this discipline, and how many have failed.
    
    
32. Listen carefully. 
    Every collaborator who enters our orbit brings with him or her a world more strange and complex than any we could ever hope to imagine. By listening to the details and the subtlety of their needs, desires, or ambitions, we fold their world onto our own. Neither party will ever be the same.
    
    
33. Take field trips. 
    The bandwidth of the world is greater than that of your TV set, or the Internet, or even a totally immersive, interactive, dynamically rendered, object-oriented, real-time, computer graphic–simulated environment.
    
    
34. Make mistakes faster. 
    This isn’t my idea — I borrowed it. I think it belongs to Andy Grove.
    
    
35. Imitate. 
    Don’t be shy about it. Try to get as close as you can. You’ll never get all the way, and the separation might be truly remarkable. We have only to look to Richard Hamilton and his version of Marcel Duchamp’s large glass to see how rich, discredited, and underused imitation is as a technique.
    
    
36. Scat. 
    When you forget the words, do what Ella did: make up something else … but not words.
    
    
37. Break it, stretch it, bend it, crush it, crack it, fold it.
    
38. Explore the other edge. 
    Great liberty exists when we avoid trying to run with the technological pack. We can’t find the leading edge because it’s trampled underfoot. Try using old-tech equipment made obsolete by an economic cycle but still rich with potential.
    
    
39. Coffee breaks, cab rides, green rooms. 
    Real growth often happens outside of where we intend it to, in the interstitial spaces — what Dr. Seuss calls “the waiting place.” Hans Ulrich Obrist once organized a science and art conference with all of the infrastructure of a conference — the parties, chats, lunches, airport arrivals — but with no actual conference. Apparently it was hugely successful and spawned many ongoing collaborations.
    
    
40. Avoid fields. 
    Jump fences. Disciplinary boundaries and regulatory regimes are attempts to control the wilding of creative life. They are often understandable efforts to order what are manifold, complex, evolutionary processes. Our job is to jump the fences and cross the fields.
    
    
41. Laugh. 
    People visiting the studio often comment on how much we laugh. Since I’ve become aware of this, I use it as a barometer of how comfortably we are expressing ourselves.
    
    
42. Remember. 
    Growth is only possible as a product of history. Without memory, innovation is merely novelty. History gives growth a direction. But a memory is never perfect. Every memory is a degraded or composite image of a previous moment or event. That’s what makes us aware of its quality as a past and not a present. It means that every memory is new, a partial construct different from its source, and, as such, a potential for growth itself.
    
    
43. Power to the people. 
    Play can only happen when people feel they have control over their lives. We can’t be free agents if we’re not free.

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What an awesome first Mother’s Day.

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smyrno:

Naked Lunch

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Stripes club meeting at @brigode and @hillarieb’s place.

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bensears:

RIP MCA

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maxistentialist:

Matthew Baldwin:

Every time drivers are parked on the curb and open their driver’s side door without first checking their side- or rear-view mirror, they run the risk of dooring a cyclist: striking them as they pass and knocking them into traffic, or abruptly placing the door unavoidably in their path such that they collide with it at full speed. Either way, it’s what we in the business refer to as a “huge bummer” for all involved.

Dooring is also one of the easiest oh-rats-I-just-killed-a-cyclist scenarios to avoid: Whenever you’re parked on the side of a road, check your mirrors to ensure no one is approaching before you open your door.

Great advice on how to not kill a cyclist.

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spytap:

pberntsen:

cheatsheet:

Is it summer yet? 

Whhhhhhhhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat thheeeeeeee fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck

This.

Changes.

EVERYTHING!

Mind. Blown.

comedycentral:

This was magical.

If you ever needed a reason to follow @TheDailyShow, this is it.

Here’s the original segment, in case you missed it.

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Somehow, I’m responsible for this. Still pretty amazing. I have never loved another human so much. #nofilter

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acousticartbeat:

RIP Chris “Mac Daddy” Kelly

:(

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I’m really into this collaboration between The Hundreds and The Grateful Dead. Might have to order one of these. (via SHOP THE HUNDREDS | The Hundreds: Sunrise Day Dream Tee)

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seanbonner:

LA at night

Good enough for a wall. Wow.

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swinglargo:

Lichtspiel: Opus 4 (1925), absolute film by Walter Ruttmann

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crookedindifference:

“The first powered flight of Virgin Spaceship Enterprise was without any doubt, our single most important flight test to date. For the first time, we were able to prove the key components of the system, fully integrated and in flight. Today’s supersonic success opens the way for a rapid expansion of the spaceship’s powered flight envelope, with a very realistic goal of full space flight by the year’s end. We saw history in the making today and I couldn’t be more proud of everyone involved.”
- Richard Branson

I can barely contain my excitement.

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Happy 60th to one of my all-time favorite women of rock.

(via Kim Gordon Sonic Youth Singer - Sonic Youth’s Kim Gordon Discusses Thurston Moore - - ELLE)

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spiegelman:

The Los Angeles bicycle parking logo is the same as the Portishead logo!

Close.

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nprmusic:

Ever walked into a nearly pitch-black room after roasting on sun-beaten asphalt, only to sweat it out with a host of the moshing unwashed? No? But what if candles were involved — would that make it classier?

Watch experimental U.K. doom-metal band Dragged Into Sunlight’s skin-crawling, multi-sensory set from Maryland Deathfest: The Movie III.

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vicemag:

Cops’ Military Tools Aren’t Just for Catching Terrorists

above: A SWAT tank parked in the Boston Commons on April 16, 2013. Photo via Flickr user Vjeran Pavic

On April 19, a million Bostonians stayed locked down in their homes while 9,000 cops combed the metro area for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the surviving suspect in the marathon bombing. In Watertown, cops went door-to-door and removed homeowners at gunpoint before searching their houses. Tsarnaev was found in that town around 8 PM by the owner of the boat sitting in his backyard that the 19-year-old suspected terrorist had chosen as his hiding place.

The lockdown was something new. Not serial killers, not cop-killing cop Christopher Dorner’s LA rampage, not even 9/11 shut down a city like this. Still, Bostonians seemed fine with staying inside for the most part. Cops found their guy relatively quickly, and the city partied in the streets afterwards. During the manhunt, a tough-looking officer even brought two gallons of milk to a family with young children, serving as a perfect meme to refute any accusations of jackbooted thuggery. Even some normally anti-police libertarians urged restraint in reacting to the manhunt.

What shouldn’t go unmentioned, however, is that while the circumstances were unique, the military muscle displayed by law enforcement is hardly reserved for responding to rare acts of terrorism. Videos from the lockdown—particularly this piece of paranoia-porn, in which a SWAT team orders a family out of their home at gunpoint and one of the officers screams “get away from the window!” at the videographer—either look frightening or grimly necessary, according to your views. But haven’t we seen displays like this before?

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juxtapozmag:

Photographs of an Amazon fulfillment warehouse by Ben Roberts

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early-onset-of-night:

Greetings United States gov,

We are the Internet. Again, you are trying to pass this ridiculous CISPA law in order to control and censor the people. This will not stand. You already control the media, the economy, the criminal underworld, your national plots and our energy. YOU WILL NOT GET OUR INTERNET!

The U.S. law that would turn Google, Facebook, and Twitter into legally untouchable government spies just passed the House.

This bill affects everyone — not just U.S. citizens. Anyone with a Facebook account could now have their data shipped directly to the U.S. government. That’s why Internet users overwhelmingly oppose this bill. Over 1.5 million people signed petitions against it. But Congress didn’t listen. This law broadened the state terror and repression of the people. By allowing corporations to track our every action on the internet the state and corporations will be merged and that we have seen before: it is called fascism.

We are going dark on MONDAY April 22nd at 6 AM GMT for 24 hours to protest your illogical and terrorizing bill against the Internet itself. Even with the whole Internet crying out to stop this BILL, the US House of Representatives failed to do so blinded by lobbyist’s money and cum in your eyes. So we will take action ourselves and open your eyes. Every popular/mainstream websites will be black until you, Mr. DronObama promise us to use your VETO power to stop this bill at Senate. Take this as a protest or a warning, as you wish. One thing is for certain, neither you or anyone else in this world can control the Internet, so don’t even try. Stop wasting taxpayers’ money into doing these kind of shenanigans.

We are Anonymous.
We are Legion.
We do not Forgive.
We do not Forget.
Expect us.

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adamferriss:

accidental program

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Sporting my new Leon Russell tee from @theminorthread.

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nevver:

Dead at 69, Storm Thorgerson

RIP

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thewraithrising:

Springs

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laughingsquid:

Types of Coffee, An Illustrated Guide by Pleated-Jeans

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Me and Laura in Ireland #latergram

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jennylsq:

#peace

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jennylsq:

#peace

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noiseymusic:

We interviewed Nathan Schwartz, the 12-year-old boy-king of Rap Instagram.

Pimp.

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steroge:

Me, My Brother and David Bowie, 1971 by ozoni11 on Flickr.

“This was David Bowie’s first night (ever) in the United States. I am the one waving in the photo. David was great. He went to dinner with me, my brother and my parents. This photo was taken in my parent’s living room in Silver Spring, MD. Later that night he came to my house and spent the evening.”

Just awesome.

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wilwheaton:

GODWIN’D!

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buddyheadtk:

BOWWWWW BOWWWW BOWW

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Very similar to a tattoo I want to get.

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Happy Passover.

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yorkshirepuddingsonmydinner:

Why cant this be the icon for wifi? Life would be perfect

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Swimming upstream.

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KU played like shit, but a win is a win. #rockchalk

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msg:

This is a really impressive recording and visualization of neurons firing in a larval zebrafish brain.

This describes the brain and what’s happening. 

via chrismenning:futurejournalismproject

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sirmitchell:

My friend and super dude Aaron Jackson is the man behind this and I am so stoked about it. 

If you can spare $5-10, head on over to my team page on Crowdrise and help take a stance against a bunch of sad, angry little butt babies. 

AWESOME

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polworld:

William Burroughs

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parislemon:

digg:

buzzfeed:

Whoa, hey there, c’mon. That’s… okay, yeah that’s fair.

What if we show you our Chartbeat stats?

I just don’t respect you.

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Saw a blue heron hanging out on a neigh it’s roof. Snapped a shot before it took off. – View on Path.

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diivnyc:

Hi Austin. Fuck SXSW. There… I said it.

Here, the music comes last. 5 minute set-up, no sound check, 15 minute set.  The “music” element is all a front, it’s the first thing to be compromised. Corporate money everywhere but in the hands of the artists, at what is really just a glorified corporate networking party. Drunk corporate goons and other industry vampires and cocaine. Everyone is drunk, being cool. “Official” bureaucracy and all their mindless rules.  Branding, branding, branding. It’s bullshit… sorry. 

-Cole

Someone didn’t have a good time at SXSW. 

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missing-planet:

black ice?

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kateoplis:

Art Shay, Muddy Waters, 1950

Gotta go see the retrospective at drkrm before it closes.

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Gardens (at Ocean View Farms)

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Evening rainbow. Missed the double. #latergram

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ryanpitchfork:

How Kevin Shields Does It (via Guitargeek)

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Photo by @hilaryhess #nofilter

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confessionsofamichaelstipe:

STUDIO: NEW WORK 2010

A CLOCKWORK ORANGE 

COLUMBIA HOUSE I BELIEVE IN MUSIC

foto by m. stipe

Is it just me or does this look like Isac?

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Some dude I don’t know sent me an IM by mistake.

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Stages of crying

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Someone call the waaaaambulance! #nofilter

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explore-blog:

Kurt Cobain, born on this day in 1967, excitedly shares with Melvins drummer Dale Crover the genesis of Nirvana in this 1988 letter.

Happy birthday, Kurt.

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laughingsquid:

TrustoCorp Installs “15 Minute Fame Limit” Sign in Los Angeles

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Yep, definitely my kid.

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tiffani-thiessen:

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surrogateself:

Star-Rebirth

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Standing skateboarding desk. (at Topspin)

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(via Dangerous Minds | ‘Ziggy played ping-pong’: David Bowie, master ping-pong player (1973))

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Now THAT is a fucking iPhone case.

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wilwheaton:

‘Bring The Noise’ by Public Enemy
One of the greatest, most important records of the 20th century.

100% agreed.

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laughingsquid:

This Sticker Will Last Longer Than Your Band

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no-turn-un-stoned:

I LOVE YOU ALEX GREY 

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What it’s all about.

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spytap:

personalfactory:

“Public Knowledge announces today a new whitepaper: What’s the Deal with Copyright and 3D Printing? This paper is a follow up to their previous 3D printing whitepaper: It Will Be Awesome if They Don’t Screw It Up: 3D Printing, Intellectual Property, and the Fight Over the Next Great Disruptive Technology.

The previous “It Will Be Awesome” focused on the broad connection between intellectual property law and 3D printing. And this one whitepaper, “What’s the Deal?” focuses more on the relationship between copyright and 3D printing.

Public Knowledge is releasing What’s the Deal? as a free PDF download and make it available in html.

Thanks Michael Weinberg and Public Knowledge for the great work.” ~ 3ders.org

This is about to become one of the biggest issues of our time. Like epically big. 

Not sure I agree it will be one of the biggest issues of our time, but it’ll be a big one. Public Knowledge does some really great work. Can’t wait to read this soon.

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successisnotanoption:

OMIGOD JUST DO IT ALREADY!

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explore-blog:

Adam Ferriss uses open-source code to rearrange pixels from old photographs into mesmerizing moving compositions.

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wilwheaton:

theonion:

Nation Would Not Be Surprised At This Point If Chris Brown Allegedly Traveled Back In Time And Punched Anne Frank: Full Story

Chris Brown is a piece of shit, and I can’t wait for him to fade into obscurity where he belongs.

Such a piece of shit.

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nevver:

Policy Advisory

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likeafieldmouse:

Salto - Fast Track (2012) - A 170-foot long trampoline installed across a Russian forest

I want to visit Russia immediately!

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micamica14:

C∆BEZ∆

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seanbonner:

northwestmentality:

ACAB

Yet another reason why putting more power in the hands of the police by disarming citizens is a really terrible idea.

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I can’t move.

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One week. I woke up at 6am (the new normal), walked in and just stared at this little human being for almost an hour.

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Involuntary smile

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laughingsquid:

Spot Check, Animated Light Painting of a Skateboarding Skeleton

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Cassidy and dad.

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2087:

I’m a slave to the grid

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Cassidy Jay Barrish. Born on 01/16/13 at 5:05am PST. She weighed in at 7 lbs. 13 oz. and is 21.25" long. Mom and daughter are both healthy and mom is recovering well. (at Saint John’s Health Center)

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theonion:

SPONSORED: The Taliban Is A Vibrant And Thriving Political Movement: Full Story

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

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theminorthread:

Nylon decided to do a post on my today her eis a rare picture of the elusive torso WITH a head.  soak it in…

nylonguysmagazine:

MINOR THREAD

In July of 2010 Isac Walter decided that he would embark on a journey. This venture was one that set forth with the idea that Walter would wear a different T-shirt every single day for as long as he could. About 99 percent of these shirts are vintage tour T tees. He decided to chronicle the project, which you can follow on his website Minor Thread. It’s been 553 days!

photo: Emily Shur

King shirt.

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Yeah, that’s about right. #notmylatinodoppleganger #flashbackfriday

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Me, dad and Henry. #latergram

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wilwheaton:

arcaneimages:

Eric Joyner

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Happy New Year. I decided I care more about contributing a few photos amongst friends than I do about Facebookstagram’s privacy policy. I plan to post more on Flickr though, so follow me there too.

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Pool vacuum on Flickr.

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jukeboxgraduate:

yerawizardmary:

yerawizardmary:

Dying right now.

I cannot believe this got so many notes. But this is the continuation.

THIS WOMAN IS MY  NEW HERO.

Can’t wait to see how this turns out. 

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photojojo:

The legendary notebook makers Moleskine are teaming up with MILK Photo Books to offer a new product that look pretty rad.

The books will be designed with the traditional moleskine aesthetic and combined with MILK’s expertise in photo printing. 

Moleskine Teams Up With MILK Photo Books For New Product

via Pop Photo

I may have to do this.

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wilwheaton:

steal your face

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Happy coffee mug

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laughingsquid:

Music History in Animated GIFs

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My gorgeous wife.

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36w4d on Flickr.

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2012-12-20 on Flickr.

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newspeedwayboogie:

Beautiful pictures.

xzyoe:

These photos were made in the Camden (N. J. ) Music Fair. Joan Baez was the only performer on the billing; but she invited Bob Dylan up to perform with her, and their joint set occupied about 1/3 of the entire concert. These pictures are scanned from Ektachrome slides (hence some blurriness and dust); the personal computer had not yet been invented.
I shot these witha Contax IIa or IIIa; the lens was either a Zeiss or a Nikon lens with a Contax mount.

-John Rudoff

Gorgeous.

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taylordavidson:

What I use for phone photography.

I’ve dug pretty deep into iPhone photography the last couple months after being an Android photographer for quite awhile (and featured in Gizmodo). Here’s what I’m using these days to create, edit, and share photos on the iPhone.

Taking Pictures

Camera. I use the native camera app and focus on composition first, editing second. I have started testing Top Camera and Average Camera Pro for long shutter speed and multiple exposure, but for the moment, still use the native camera app for the vast majority of the pictures I take.

Average Camera Pro. Testing. Takes multiple images over a period of time (both variable can be set manually) to be used for multiple exposures, noise reduction, slow shutter effect, and more. Ben Lowy takes some of the best photos with Average Camera Pro (see more on Instagram under #avgcampro). (download Average Camera Pro)

Camera+. I don’t use it too much, but it’s a great combination camera + editing app deservedly loved by tons of people. (web / download Camera+)

Editing

VSCO. Simple and beautiful. Works as a camera and an editing app, although I use it strictly for editing. The filters are modeled after classic film types (“digital film emulation”), fitting with VSCO’s popular filters for Lightroom, Adobe Capture RAW and Aperture. Find VSCO pictures on Instagram under #vsco. (web / download VSCO CAM)

Afterglow. New, launched in Nov 2012. Simple to use, has a wide range of editing and filter options (including many “guest” filters from photographers popular on Instagram). I find the horizon adjustment to particularly slick and powerful, as I often take pictures with the horizon slightly off. Find Afterglow images on Instagram at #afterglow. My current editing fave. (web / download Afterglow Photo Editor)

Filterstorm. Closest thing to Photoshop on the iPhone (and better than the Photoshop Express App). Great for multi-layer editing, dodging and burning, cloning, etc. Essentially, use it to cut out unwanted parts of an image: a bird in the sky, a spot, etc. Also available for the iPad. (web / download Filterstorm )

Tilt Shift Generator. Adds Tilt Shift effects. The free version is fully featured, but will only save low-res images. (download TiltShift Generator - Fake Miniature)

Over. Text over photos. Easy, powerful, beautiful. (web / download Over)

Publishing

Instagram. Obviously. Note that amidst the misplaced debate about Instagram, I think of it as a publishing platform first and foremost. (me / download Instagram)

Tumblr. My blogging engine of choice at the moment, it’s also an incredibly easy, beautiful, and clean way to share photos that taps into a great community. (me / download Tumblr)

Photoset. So easy to use. Made by Tumblr, although it doesn’t require you to use Tumblr. Allows you to easily create multi-photo photosets to share by web, email, or Tumblr. No account required, and a joy to use. (web / download Photoset)

Flickr. I could wax on for hours about how I wish Flickr had led the innovation in web and mobile photography. Alas, they haven’t. But I still use it to store high-res images, and it’s still powerful for me, even though the community has moved on. (me / download Flickr)

EyeEm. Testing. (me / download EyeEm - Photo Filter Camera)

Vimeo. Videos, of course. (me / download Vimeo)

Other

Instatags. Easy, powerful way to add hashtags to photos. Helps you figure out which tags are popular and trending in your area, at that moment. (web / download Instatag - Hashtags for Instagram)

Cinemagram. The best shot at “Instagram for Video”. I use it very lightly, but like the idea and it’s a fun toy. (download Cinemagram)

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Photojojo Fisheye, Telephoto, Wide-Angle lenses. Great for adding a new perspective to the standard iPhone lens, they attach easily to most cell phone cameras (they worked for my HTC Android and my iPhone), and help you take great pictures. (buy at Photojojo)

Snapseed. Loved by many, I can’t get the handle on the editing workflow. The first update post-acquisition by Google that integrates Google+ into Snapseed is an interesting feature… if you use Google+. (download Snapseed)

Great list from Taylor. I know a few people that swear by Snapseed as well and I just can’t get a handle on it. Gonna have to try a few of these that I didn’t know about. Always love seeing how people use their iPhone. 

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First Tonx shipment! on Flickr.

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1000scientists:

The Moon, 2012
36” x 32” Woodcut Print on White BFK Paper
Valerie Lueth and Paul Roden

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Cyclocross (at Griffith Park Trail)

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1000scientists:

Stig de Block

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Never been more excited about a debit card. Thanks, @simplify!

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verybusyandimportant:

the gpoy to end all gpoys

Martin

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fascinated:

Really proud to have this out. The app has been rewritten and redesigned from scratch by Hjalti and Dóri, and it is amazing.

Get it.

Congrats. I finally ponied up for it. Sorry it took me so long.

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Disaster.

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theminorthread:

Day: 500!

Shirt: Descendents - Bonus Winter 86’ Tour

Color: Red

Brand: Hanes Fifty-Fifty

Source:  First off.  let me say a big Happy Birthday to my Japanese buddy Takashi.  He lives in Japan so he docent give a fuck about thanksgiving, but his birthday happens to be today, and without very supportive dudes like him, i would have quit long ago.  So todays post is dedicated to you buddy.  

With that said i could have planned this day any more poorer.  I mean for 500 to land on a day when people are doing nothing but watching sports, parades getting drunk with their family and then feeding their faces till they cant eat anymore is just sad.  so HI!! to everyone outside of america who will be reading this.

I’m surprised i really made it this far.  not for lack of shirts but for lack of being diligent about writing  every day.  lemmie tell you it is hard.  hard to write and be creative , funny or interesting.  Hard sometimes to get inspired or motivated.  but i really do enjoy the process of documentation.  that is kind of my biggest motivation around this blog.  I liek that at least my shirt collection is out there and you can google it.  look back and see if that weird old Dag Nasty shirt was printed on a Fruit Of The Loom, or some random cheap shirt the band was not concerned with quality only wow $1 shirts, they are quire shaped though?  fuck it.  NOFX i’m looking at you.  I think i own more NOFX shirts that are the same size wide as they are tall.  its as if they were purchased from the Hobbit Shire (theres a plug for the new movie for you Peter JAckson, you’re welcome.)

Things i thought were inevitable but never happened.

1.  I was sure you would watch be get fatter and fatter over the 500 days.  grow tittys and a giant belly.  suprinsignly this never happened and i owe it all to my breakfast of champions LIFE cereal and a glass of Iced Coffee.  If Bill and the band had discovered the potency of Cold Brew coffee back in 85’ i bet there would be way more metal shredding riffs on the records.  It is sometimes so strong it makes me vomit.  

2.  I never though it would get this big.  as of today i have 17, 635 followers on Tumblr alone and who knows how many more for people who just go to the website.  that is a lot of shirt nerds.  So thanks to all of you who read it.  I read everyone of your comments and appreciate all of them whether or not i write back or not.  thanks for the support.  When i used to put on shows for MySpace i could be at the best show of my life, and because of show problems be stressed and grumpy and not enjoying it.  I put a lot of love into making the Secret Show Series, and sometimes you asked your self “why do i bother?” Then as the show is letting out and i’m handing out the posters there would always be the one kid, the one person who just experienced the best show of his or her life and they just look at me with the biggest smile in the world and say THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! and there it is.  The reason i did it.  just to give back the same feeling i got as a kid when i went to the show of my life.  

Enough Rambling.  will i keep doing it after today?  probably.  

Considering i have at least 500 if not 1000 more shirts in my closet i need something to do with them.  

Will i write these marathon posts? Prolly not.  well never say never, but i will keep it to when only the bug strikes me.  I dunno.  maybe not i’m conflicted  what i do know is one way or another you can expect a pic of the shirt i am wearing each day.  that i promise.  till i run out.  

And those of you who were wondering what the 500th shirt was and you didn’t see a Descendents shirt coming, i’ll let you in on a little secret.  you ever see that movie the Six Sense?  Bruce Willis Is Dead the whole time.  This blog started with the band that inspired me ALL and will end or was going to end with the band that inspired them DESCENDENTS.  

It’s thanksgiving and i’m hungry. so i m outta here.  but to all of you in the US Happy Thanksgiving.  be thankful for everything and nothing all at once.  Today i am thankful for the Descendents record ALL.

He did it. 

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nevver:

Generation X

Awesome.

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prostheticknowledge:

HOLO Magazine 

Kickstarter project to fund publishing of premium-quality Arts + Tech magazine, by the people behind the excellent Creative Applications site:

HOLO is a new magazine that explores the convergence of art, science and technology, brought to you by the team at CreativeApplications.Net (CAN). An extension to one of the most authoritative art and technology blogs, HOLO is dedicated to rich, detailed stories that demand time and attention. With HOLO we are committed to telling these stories – attentively and expertly – in a patient, spacious medium that does them justice.

Published twice per year, each issue of HOLO will be comprised of 150-200 pages and provide intimate views into fascinating studios, workshops, galleries and institutions around the world, seen through the eyes of stellar photographers and talented writers. The pace, depth and sensibility of print allows us to invest heavily in each story, and craft months of research, travels and conversations into nuanced portraits you won’t find anywhere else. In addition to extensive artist features, each issue will contextualize current trends and topics in visual essays, sweeping surveys, theory, opinion and experimental formats big and small. Each issue’s carefully curated cast of interdisciplinary artists, scientists, technologists and toolmakers will help us map exciting new territory that doesn’t need to be covered faster, but captured better.

You can find out more at the project’s Kickstarter page here

Looking forward to this!

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explore-blog:

Patti Smith’s favorite books, including a volume of Allen Ginsberg’s poetry, Sylvia Plath’s Ariel, and William S. Burroughs’s novel Queer. 

Required reading. All of them.

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hilaryhess:

Niagara Falls.

My sister is a stellar photographer.

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seanbonner:

Kurt Cobain’s top 50 albums

Damn good list. No surprise though.

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nevver:

Nowhere

oh, la.

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spytap:

beta57:

abbyjean:

ro-s-aspa-rks:

buzzfeedfood:

This is not a drill people! Hostess might be going out of business and if they do, all of these will be a thing of the past.

SHIT.

more accurately: workers at hostess are currently striking and hostess is threatening to go to bankruptcy court and file for liquidation unless they immediately stop striking and return to work.

Aw shit, a bunch of processed, manufactured, partially baked goods filled with shit that barely qualifies as food might not be available if the company that makes them decides that paying their employees decent wages is just too unfair, man. I guess we can’t support worker’s rights any more after all.

And nothing of value was lost.

Can’t wait to see companies like Hostess go out of business. I feel awful for the people that are going to suffer from losing their jobs though.

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explore-blog:

The efficiency of various natural health remedies, in an infographic.

(↬ Chartporn)

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radiomonkeys:

Tame Impala in a nut shell.

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rickwebb:

slicingeyeballs:

On this day in 1988, R.E.M. released its sixth album, ‘Green.’ The band’s first for a major label, it featured the singles ‘Orange Crush,’ ‘Stand,’ ‘Pop Song 89’ and ‘Get Up.’

I still think of this as “the new REM album.”

This was my initial introduction to R.E.M. and I remember the moment I heard it. 

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nevver:

“God is an ever receding pocket of scientific ignorance.” ― Neil deGrasse Tyson

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How long will it be before humans opt-in for bionic legs? In my lifetime, to be sure.

(via Man climbs Chicago skyscraper with bionic leg)

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nevver:

Become the music

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nevver:

Escher

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I’m the only one on this beach. (at Mahaulepu Beach)

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Me and my surf instructor, Mike. If you need one in Kauai, he’s your man. (at Waioli Beach Park Hanalei)

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First wave caught. One of many, I’m sure. What an awesome experience. (at Waioli Beach Park Hanalei)

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Tunnels Beach. A day of a whole lotta nothing. (at Tunnels Beach)

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Good evening. #nofilter

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View from the St. Regis balcony. Just visiting. #notleaving

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Happy birthday, @boomcat (Taken with Cinemagram)

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Good evening.

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Waves. (at Ke'e Beach)

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End of the road.

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Vote!

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Happy birthday, @boomcat (Taken with Cinemagram)

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thedailywhat:

Dear Ann Coulter of the Day: After Ann Coulter referred to President Obama as a retard in a tweet during Monday night’s presidential debate, Special Olympics athlete and global messenger John Franklin Stephens penned her this open letter:

Dear Ann Coulter, 

Come on Ms. Coulter, you aren’t dumb and you aren’t shallow. So why are you continually using a word like the R-word as an insult? 

I’m a 30 year old man with Down syndrome who has struggled with the public’s perception that an intellectual disability means that I am dumb and shallow. I am not either of those things, but I do process information more slowly than the rest of you. In fact it has taken me all day to figure out how to respond to your use of the R-word last night. 

I thought first of asking whether you meant to describe the President as someone who was bullied as a child by people like you, but rose above it to find a way to succeed in life as many of my fellow Special Olympians have. 

Then I wondered if you meant to describe him as someone who has to struggle to be thoughtful about everything he says, as everyone else races from one snarkey sound bite to the next. 

Finally, I wondered if you meant to degrade him as someone who is likely to receive bad health care, live in low grade housing with very little income and still manages to see life as a wonderful gift. 

Because, Ms. Coulter, that is who we are – and much, much more. 

After I saw your tweet, I realized you just wanted to belittle the President by linking him to people like me. You assumed that people would understand and accept that being linked to someone like me is an insult and you assumed you could get away with it and still appear on TV. 

I have to wonder if you considered other hateful words but recoiled from the backlash. 

Well, Ms. Coulter, you, and society, need to learn that being compared to people like me should be considered a badge of honor. 

No one overcomes more than we do and still loves life so much. 

Come join us someday at Special Olympics. See if you can walk away with your heart unchanged. 

A friend you haven’t made yet, John Franklin Stephens Global Messenger Special Olympics Virginia

[specialolympicsblog]

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laughingsquid:

Magician Rich Ferguson Scares People With His Head Drop Trick

Boo!

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Melting butter again #mirrorgram

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Brian Campbell moves (Taken with Cinemagram)

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I love butter #mirrorgram

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Glasses and tea cups #mirrorgram (at Osteria Mozza)

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davidajohnsonart:

“The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That’s what poetry does.”

— Allen Ginsberg

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Proof. I think I’m 14 in this photo, but not totally sure. #bonesbrigade

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xoxco:

Inspired by Peter Saville’s incredibly famous album art for Joy Division’s Unknown Pleasures record, last night I made this JavaScript powered, touch-reactive  ”pulsar simulator.”

Click (or touch) and drag to create spikes in the graph to emulate the last gasps of a dying star. Or, just watch it as it creates a randomized, wobbling, moving homage to one of my favorite bands.

OMG. Love this.

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laughingsquid:

Binders Full of Women

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Mmmmm #mirrorgram (Taken with Instagram at Café Gratitude)

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Am I getting annoying yet?#mirrorgram (Taken with Instagram at Hotel Cafe)

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Light brain #mirrorgram (Taken with Instagram at Hotel Cafe)

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Butter in a pan 2 #mirrorgram (Taken with Instagram)

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Butter in a pan #mirrorgram (Taken with Instagram)

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nevver:

The Last Shuttle

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Moulding #mirrorgram (Taken with Instagram at Wilshire Ebell Theatre)

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robsheridan:

Space Shuttle Endeavour on the streets of Los Angeles, 10.12.12. iPhone photos by Rob Sheridan.

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2020:

The beginning of an era of digital medicine: Digestible microchips embedded in drugs are the first ingestible devices approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

WHERE DO I SIGN UP?!!

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(via FFFFOUND! | reblog - DJ Bety.  vía> retrogasm)

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tuneage:

WWTB

Another light-in-number but heavy-with-awesome week.

• Black Moth Super Rainbow - Cobra Juicy (buy the CD/buy the MP3s)
• Tame Impala - Lonerism (buy the CD/buy the MP3s)

Two albums I’ve been looking forward to for a while. 

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Great photo from the We Got Power closing ceremony this past weekend, courtesy of @telephonostereo (Taken with Instagram at Track 16 Gallery)

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The Bones Brigade film pre-order went live today. It was one of those days. The kind of day when you feel most proud of what you’re doing in life. I feel like one of the luckiest guys on the planet.

Now, how I convince my wife that buying $600 worth of reissue skateboards is ok?

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merlin:

grantimatter:

Springsteen wrote “Hungry Heart” for the Ramones?

Oh. Dude.

One of the good things about being home sick was I got to finish reading Will Hermes Love Goes To Buildings On Fire: Five Years In New York That Changed Music Forever.

Hermes spent years researching the New York music scene from 1973 to 1977.  He covered not only punk, disco and hip-hops beginnings (three genres that have so many books about their start already), but also lesser talked about 70s New York genres like Salsa, minimalism, loft jazz, opera and conceptual-performance music. Musicians like Patti Smith, Philip Glass, Bruce Springsteen, David Johansen, Willie Colon, Kool Herc, Grandmaster Caz, Laurie Anderson, Lou Reed, Richard Hell, Steve Reich, Lenny Kaye, Wayne County, Handsome Dick Manitoba, David Bryne, Rasheid Ali, etc all get the spotlight as Hermes shows how they were essential to the New York scene. 

Hermes shows the relationships and rivalries these musicians had with each other: How Springsteen and Smith were friends, how Debbie Harry couldn’t stand Patti Smith as a person, how Wayne County and Dick Manitoba got into a fistfight on stage once, how Joey Ramone begged Bruce Springsteen to write a song for the Ramones to play so they could have a hit like Patti Smith did with “Because The Night” (he did, but Springsteen’s management forced Bruce to keep “Hungry Heart” for himself), how the Sugar Hill Gang stole Grandmaster Caz’s lyrics for “Rappers Delight”, how Wynton Marsalis essentially coerced Ken Burns to keep 1970s jazz out of his Jazz documentary because he simply didnt like it (well, I guess thats just a sentence in the epilogue, but still, thats messed up), etc etc etc.

It’s a great read, and I recommend it to anyone interested in New York City history and music history.

(also, the backcover has endorsements from Sarah Vowell, Chuck Klosterman and Luc Sante….that alone will get me to read this).

[via tristn:dontcookbilly]

Just downloaded the iBooks sample. Can’t wait to read this.

I just downloaded a sample as well. Looking forward to digging in.

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nevver:

Dead at 89, “Family Circus” creator Bil Keane

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laughingsquid:

Photos: XOXO, An Arts and Technology Festival in Portland Celebrating Disruptive Creativity

There are some terrific photos in this collection. Man, I miss being able to share my photos like I used to on Flickr. Le sigh.

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benjamingrimes:

Took a trip up to Point Reyes national park. California really has some beautiful spots.

Added it to my list.

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nevver:

“Beware the lollipop of mediocrity; lick it once and you’ll suck forever.”
— Brian Wilson

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Well, that made my day! Thank you so much, @kelseykopecky. Love to you and @kopeckyfamily ❤ (Taken with Instagram at Topspin)

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gizgagz:

OUT TODAY! “Monster Wizard” 7” on Tubesteak Tuesday Records. Limited to 300 copies. Double sided fold-over sleeve.

It’ll be around at select shops in LA this week, but you can grab a copy at our release show on Thursday or order it on our Big Cartel site: http://zigzags.bigcartel.com/

Also available on iTunes: http://bit.ly/SZQNAT

LOVE

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It was 2 years ago today…

I love my wife. I love my wife. 

(via FFFFOUND! | DeadFix)

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brokemogul:

John Bonham (Led Zeppelin) - “Fool In The Rain”

Unreleased drum outtake.  For the producers and drummers.

DOWNLOAD

Posted by @TheRealAqua

God damn!

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newyorker:

The Toronto trio METZ is rude, severe, and excellent. They make rock music, all of it loud, most of it precise without feeling checked. It’s raucous stuff, heavily indebted to music recorded for the Chicago label Tough & Go in the eighties, and recordings made in the nineties for the D.C. label Dischord. We are happy to be streaming their self-titled début album, exclusively, for one week. A few days ago, I spoke on the phone with the band’s guitarist and singer, Alex Edkins.

Click-through to hear the album, and for more from Sasha Frere-Jones on METZ: http://nyr.kr/PoslIw

Photograph by Robby Reis.

Quickly becoming one of my favorite albums of the year. Listen up!!

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What you can’t see is that @tmorello and @waynekramer on on stage with @riseagainst doing “the Ghost of Tom Joad” by Springsteen. (Taken with Instagram at Honda Center)

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kirklove:

Fantastic tips from a fantastic person.

khuyi:

Advice I wrote a long time ago for a friend who was starting a new job. I think I may have been wiser then…most of it still resonates. Also interesting - was written for corporate environment but applies to startups too.

Great list.

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nevver:

Carmageddon II, The Sequel

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moviebarcode:

A Bug’s Life (1998)
Each frame reduced to one color, then sorted by hue

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Bros /via @clcmusic (Taken with Instagram)

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nevver:

Tools of the Trade

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Today is National Voter Registration Day. If you aren’t registered to vote, today is a good day to fix that. 

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nevver:

The last shuttle

Hell of a photo!

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barackobama:

Time to choose.

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nevver:

Black

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gregcohn:

parislemon:

If true, that’s total bullshit.

Update: Drew Olanoff has the note from IFTTT CEO Linden Tibbets:

In recent weeks, Twitter announced policy changes that will affect how applications and users like yourself can interact with Twitter’s data. As a result of these changes, on September 27th we will be removing all Twitter Triggers, disabling your ability to push tweets to places like email, Evernote and Facebook. All Personal and Shared Recipes using a Twitter Trigger will also be removed. Recipes using Twitter Actions and your ability to post new tweets via IFTTT will continue to work just fine.

In other words, anything syndicating tweets out elsewhere will stop, but recipes for posting new tweets will still work. So it’s half bullshit, but still bullshit.

in but not out is exactly the definition of all bullshit.

Bullshit. I am getting so tired of reading these stories. My tweets are mine and I want to save them to MY archive. It’s really difficult for me to imagine not using Twitter, but this kind of thing is really making me consider it. I wish they would stop being such dicks. 

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gregcohn:

barackobama:

Don’t boo—vote.

Says it all.

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Cold brewin’ at @topspinmedia (Taken with Instagram at Topspin)

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Kickstarter’s @ystrickler at #xoxofest (Taken with Instagram at YU Contemporary Arts Center)

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Pavement Joint (Taken with Instagram at Morrison Bridge)

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Hot dogs against @maxtemkin (Taken with Instagram at Dig A Pony)

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10 at Dig A Pony (Taken with Instagram at Dig A Pony)

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Balloon (Taken with Instagram at Wieden + Kennedy)

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Skate or Die (Taken with Instagram at Ground Kontrol Classic Arcade)

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#xoxofest @roblord (Taken with Instagram at Panic, Inc.)

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House of Panic (Taken with Instagram at Panic, Inc.)

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packlite:

Traveling light with a GORUCK GR2

You pretty much need to be able to afford the Eames Lounge Chair to afford a GORUCK GR2, but a man can wish, right? 

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jonathanmoore:

Midtown Cloud

“I snapped this from the window seat as my plane was approaching LaGuardia Airport. The cloud is over Manhattan, while Brooklyn and Queens are visibile in the foreground, separated by Newtown Creek.”

Captured by Jeff Weston

Wow.

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hypem:

NEW: HMTV

We’ve teamed up with VHX.tv to create playlists of music videos being shared by bloggers around the world. Watch and find something new!

Nice.

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raincoaster:

They all look like they’ve been kidnapped and are making a ransom film while being held at gunpoint.

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Here, in a hummer. Holy shit. (Taken with Instagram at Slickrock Bike Trail)

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Bela Fleck and the Marcus Roberts Trio. Incredible show, even if it did storm. (Taken with Instagram at Red Cliff Resort)

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Tie dyes and coffins. (Taken with Instagram at Eagle Truck Stop)

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Fuelman (Taken with Instagram at Eagle Truck Stop)

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We were just talking about this in the office today.

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jukeboxgraduate:

I NEED THIS MUG

SO DO I

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nevver:

Footprint

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suicidewatch:

Here’s a little ghost for the offering.

R.I.P., Neil.

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barackobama:

Neil’s spirit of discovery lives on in all the men and women who have devoted their lives to exploring the unknown—including those who are ensuring that we reach higher and go further in space. That legacy will endure—sparked by a man who taught us the enormous power of one small step.

—President Obama on the passing of Neil Armstrong

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RIP Neil. 

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Robot hallway (Taken with Instagram at Alliance Entertainment - Distribution Center)

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fascinated:

Twitter’s developer policy (Taken with Instagram)

Knives out.

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redboy:

Roll the Dice.

aconversationoncool:

“If you’re going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don’t even start. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives and maybe even your mind. It could mean not eating for three or four days. It could mean freezing on a park bench. It could mean jail. It could mean derision. It could mean mockery—isolation. Isolation is the gift. All the others are a test of your endurance, of how much you really want to do it. And, you’ll do it, despite rejection and the worst odds. And it will be better than anything else you can imagine. If you’re going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It’s the only good fight there is.”

~Charles Bukowski

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Just landing a rover on Mars. No big deal. (Taken with Instagram)

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Brand new board. Newest Powell Peralta deck design, first batch of mini-logo trucks ever produced and Powell Peralta wheels. (Taken with Instagram)

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Pulled over on PCH (Taken with Instagram)

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Factory (Taken with Instagram at SkateOne)

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Riiiiiiiiiip (Taken with Instagram at SkateOne)

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Doggy bag (Taken with Instagram at Rave 18)

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Public service announcement (Taken with Instagram)

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suicidewatch:

listening to.

One of my favorites. Played the hell out of this at KJHK back in the day. Gonna put this on now. 

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Definitely one for the wall. Wow. My childhood captured in a single photo. #skateordie (Taken with Instagram at Topspin)

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nevver:

Hoochie Koo

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letsdolaunch:

godspeed, sally. thank you for inspiring generations of girls to reach for the stars.

sally kristen ride

1951 - 2012

Fucking Pancreatic Cancer. 

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parislemon:

It’s truly hard to fathom just how fucked up this is.

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iheartmyart:

MiRon

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climateadaptation:

“Crowds at the Kumbh Mela await their turn to bathe in the Ganges. Allahabad, India. Photo © Steve McCurry/Magnum Photos”

McCurry, in my opinion, is the world’s greatest living photographer. More from his Simple Act of Waiting series.

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leteti:

Over Denali (explored 12/18/11) (by Mitch Seaver)

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robsheridan:

Stunning photo of earth from space. CLICK TO ENLARGE! Makes a great wallpaper.

EDIT: The photo is a composite of two photos. Still makes a great wallpaper though.

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Hard boiled eggs for the @topspinmedia office. @iancr buys. I cook. (Taken with Instagram)

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steroge:

Teenage Fledgling, 1957, by Esther Bubley

Rock ‘n’ Roll 39-59

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mrdiv:

the_eye

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Not bad. (Taken with Instagram)

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Snoring (Taken with Instagram at Gate 36)

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…and he’s out. Again. (Taken with Instagram)

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Let the snoring commence! (Taken with Instagram at Home For The Week)

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Quite a view from the office. See All you UK people at the meetup tonight! (Taken with Instagram at Topspin UK)

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The crosswalk (Taken with Instagram at Abbey Road Crossing)

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Abby Road. Check. (Taken with Instagram at Abbey Road Studios)

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This isn’t getting old. (Taken with Instagram at St John’s Wood)

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All he needs is a robe. (Taken with Instagram at St John’s Wood)

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Been a hard day’s night (Taken with Instagram at Home For The Week)

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Cheat death (Taken with Instagram at Cargo)

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Stops rust (Taken with Instagram at Cargo)

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There’s no place like home. (Taken with Instagram at New Oxford Street)

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Crewe stairs (Taken with Instagram at Crewe Railway Station (CRE))

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English countryside (Taken with Instagram)

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It sure does seem like @boomcat gets a lot of sleep, doesn’t it? (Taken with Instagram at The Midland Hotel)

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Katie (Taken with Instagram at Mam Logistics)

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High viz Skype call with the US (Taken with Instagram at Mam Logistics)

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What’s funny is @boomcat isn’t the one that got 3 hours of sleep last night. (Taken with Instagram at Mam Logistics)

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Watching @boomcat try his first e-cigarette (Taken with Instagram at Mam Logistics)