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Obama for America: Hi, Tumblr.

Mon, 24 Oct 2011 16:18:14 -0700

Because anyone who feels that the only thing worse than a politician who’s too busy playing the game to give a shit about fixing anything is a politician who talks a big game about how poisonous the game is and how much more important it is to fix things, then goes right back to playing the game, is a troll.

(Hi, Mr. President!)

barackobama:

It’s nice to meet you.

There are lots of reasons we’re excited to be launching the Obama 2012 campaign’s new Tumblr today. But mostly it’s because we’re looking at this as an opportunity to create something that’s not just ours, but yours, too.

We’d like this Tumblr to be a huge…

When Steve Jobs was my age, he made mistakes…

Wed, 05 Oct 2011 23:43:05 -0700

When Steve Jobs was my age, he made mistakes…:

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma—which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

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Wed, 03 Aug 2011 16:29:03 -0700

lxrycht coming eventually

Tue, 17 May 2011 14:34:45 -0700

lxrycht

coming eventually

FUNK FRIDAY IS A THING? WHY WASN’T I NOTIFIED? Parliament,...

Fri, 16 Apr 2010 19:36:28 -0700

FUNK FRIDAY IS A THING? WHY WASN’T I NOTIFIED?

Parliament, “Handcuffs”

Photo

Fri, 16 Apr 2010 19:12:43 -0700

"With the iPad, Apple has come close to realizing its ambition of making the term “computer literacy”..."

Tue, 06 Apr 2010 00:26:11 -0700

“With the iPad, Apple has come close to realizing its ambition of making the term “computer literacy” about as meaningful as “refrigerator literacy.””

- Gary Hamel: 48 Hours With Apple’s iPad (via infoneer-pulse)

Bingo.

theduty: texburgher: jacobjoaquin: This will blow your mind....

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 22:07:07 -0800

theduty:

texburgher:

jacobjoaquin:

This will blow your mind. Seriously.

Bonus points if you wonder which game designers were in the room when cap and trade carbon emission control schemes were designed. Awesome, eye-opening presentation.

(HT lonelysandwich)

boom.

wonderful insight + truly amusing Mitch Hedberg-esque delivery = my head asplode

Rosencrantz: I don't believe in it anyway.

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 17:06:14 -0800

Rosencrantz: I don't believe in it anyway.
Guildenstern: What?
Rosencrantz: England.
Guildenstern: Just a conspiracy of cartographers, then?

Ennio Morricone - The Men from Shiloh

Sat, 20 Feb 2010 13:04:45 -0800

Ennio Morricone - The Men from Shiloh

(via kirstenbecken)

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 10:13:29 -0800

(via kirstenbecken)

tweetmuseum: Have you seen those Lebrons? Not to put too fine...

Tue, 16 Feb 2010 17:09:28 -0800

tweetmuseum:

Have you seen those Lebrons?

Not to put too fine a point on it, but

I LOLD

Anti, Pro, Pre

Mon, 15 Feb 2010 18:03:25 -0800

viafrank:

Time for another 1 + 1 post.
To be different is a negative motive, and no creative thought or created thing grows out of a negative impulse. A negative impulse is always frustrating. And to be different means ‘not like this’ and ‘not like that.’ And the ‘not like’—that’s why postmodernism, with the prefix of ‘post,’ couldn’t work. No negative impulse can work, can produce any happy creation. Only a positive one.

Eva Zeisel
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In eras past, mainstream culture was blandly, blindly complacent, so underground music was angry and dissatisfied. But now, mainstream culture isn’t complacent, it’s stupid and angry; underground culture reacts by becoming smarter, more serene. That’s not wimpy—it’s powerful and productive.

Michael Azerrad from the February 2010 issue of Paste. via stewf
=
Who knew intelligence could be an underground movement? Who knew that it needed to be? For once, do we have an underground culture that isn’t anti, but is rather a reaction that seeks to embrace something positive? Is it a positive movement, choosing a way of thinking or a way of approaching problems for its own merit, rather than the fact that it is not something else? Are we finally post-anti and pro-something?

I’m getting tired of the “Everythingisbroken-Everythingsucksism.” Reading it over and over is harrowing. Listening to bickering doesn’t do anything. Finding scapegoats to blame doesn’t create progress. When we gawk at the illusion of stability dissolving, it’s a reaction to the wrong half of the equation. If things need to change, it means that what we do becomes incredibly more important. Do. Action suddenly becomes more valuable. It means that there is opportunity, if one can perceive everyone else’s blind spot and find some white space for themselves. If everyone is getting together and complaining, it means that there’s a lot of unoccupied space somewhere.

Basically, it means that your contribution matters. And if you can muster up the strength to push against your fear, you might be able to do something that changes the game, just like Eva did. It isn’t about being Anti. It’s about being pro-something-good and making and acting and moving towards Pre-something-incredible.

bestrooftalkever: Awesome new Old Spice commercial I’m on a...

Sat, 13 Feb 2010 00:50:00 -0800

bestrooftalkever:

Awesome new Old Spice commercial I’m on a horse.

I just watched this spot about a dozen times.

It makes me consider writing something about how I’ve used Old Spice deodorant for years because I prefer their snap-to-dispense solid despite how abhorrent I find their Axe-esque product line to be, a conflict that typically results in me staring blankly at a wall of antiperspirants in the personal grooming aisle attempting to determine which of their cryptically named scents will suck the least. I find that fact especially interesting considering how much I’ve loved all their ads in this vein since the first one with Bruce Campbell in 2007. It makes me wonder if they contribute at all to my brand loyalty, because I feel as if I consider the two totally independently of each other.

It also makes me want to write about a quote from Banksy which scares the hell out of me:

The thing I hate the most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright, creative and ambitious young people, leaving us mainly with the slow and self-obsessed to become our artists. Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say so little.

My own aspirations to work in the field are sufficient for that observation to give me pause, but work like this seems to give his argument even more credence. Had the teams at W+K Portland who created this ad (and its predecessors) been born in a parallel universe where they engaged in the only slightly artsier career of comedy, or more specifically tv/film comedy, I’m convinced they’d have solved NBC’s late night woes three times over. And it’s not just the writing, although the whole damn thing is so funny that it’s not even worth trying to choose which quotes to pull. Let’s take art direction; the inexplicably soapy bottle only gets funnier when you consider that the best explanation is a self-referential gag about over the top product depictions in ads. Then there’s the perfectly plopped breton sweater, the endlessly flowing diamonds, and so on. And of course, the casting, which has been consistently awesome throughout the campaign—but holy fuck is this guy good. “I’m on a horse” is terrific, of course, but check out the delivery on “you’re on a boat” and, my personal favorite, “the tickets are now diamonds.” Absolute murder. I can’t find a single frame, a single line, a single inflection that doesn’t seem perfect.

Anyhow, I’m too tired to do a better job of composing my thoughts, so just watch that funny thing and be glad that there are people out there who work hard to make awesome stuff that makes us all laugh, whatever their intentions (though I will note that the cool kids at W+K don’t lie awake at night wondering if we’re going to purchase Old Spice brand products; they already know they did good work and P&G has long since paid them anyway).

"According to Schick’s marketing research, during the Valentine’s season, U.S. pubic hair..."

Fri, 12 Feb 2010 22:25:25 -0800

“According to Schick’s marketing research, during the Valentine’s season, U.S. pubic hair removal rates briefly approach those of Brazil, traditionally the smoothest country on the planet. While Americans seem willing to chop it all off for their annual celebration of romance, personal trimming still varies by season, and plummets to levels almost as low as Greece’s during the week of Thanksgiving.”

- 20,000 Tons Of Pubic Hair Trimmed In Preparation For Valentine’s Day, The Onion

perpetua: Boney M.“Rasputin”Why did everyone stop writing...

Fri, 12 Feb 2010 14:37:00 -0800

perpetua:

Boney M.
“Rasputin”

Why did everyone stop writing danceable songs based on the lives of historical figures? Why isn’t there such a thing as Wikipedia House? Biography Beat? Fact Step? (“You’re my fact steppin’ cuz!”)

It’s all Ælectro from here on out, folks.

asdlkjgf: never mind that thin mint noise. GIMME DAH...

Fri, 12 Feb 2010 13:19:36 -0800

asdlkjgf:

never mind that thin mint noise. GIMME DAH SAMOAH

WORD TO THE ⁿTH.

Thin Mint zealots can take their anti-Samoa bigotry and suck one.

Stages of Alexander McQueen grief:

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 21:30:28 -0800

See his Spring 2010 collection online last night; Think to myself, “those shoes are fucking hideous.”
Feel a bit insecure about my inability to “get” the designs of an apparent fashion genius.
Wake up this morning to find he’s taken his own life.
Feel guilty about my dislike of his collection and any subsequent bad cognitive juju I may have directed toward him, given the circumstances.
Come to the realization that due to his unfortunate demise, the entire 2010 fashion season will be held in his honor, with his final collection at the forefront.
Further realize that said collection will be held up as the last opus of a fallen legend—a pure expression of artistic genius and yet more fuel to fire the minds of those predisposed to believe in the false corollary between brilliant art and depressed/otherwise psychologically imbalanced artists.
Ultimately realize that any attempts on my behalf to express my personal distaste for the line or my concerns regarding its supposed implications will cause me to appear to be, as they say in the biz, a total dick.
Feel significant guilt about having turned this thought process into a meditation on how Alexander McQueen’s death may negatively impact me, as opposed to his family and those who loved and were inspired by him.
Wonder briefly what it would have been like to have hated Heath Ledger’s Joker performance.
Write this.
Feel guilty about the possibility of having trivialized the death of someone who was by all accounts a brilliant and lovely man by having written it.
et cetera ad nauseum

(Having said all that, Bohemea has been killing the McQueen tribute game all day. Definitely worth a look.)

“That’s important”…”to be...

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 17:19:51 -0800

“That’s important”…”to be tasteful.”

adamiss: Probably, no, definitely my favorite hedcut of all...

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 17:13:38 -0800

adamiss:

Probably, no, definitely my favorite hedcut of all time.

Tastefully done.