December 2009
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November 2009
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October 2009
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September 2009
5 posts
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The Evolution of the Modern Blockbuster →
“At a time when summer movies seem uniquely capable of consolidating the cultural discourse, our Evolution of the Modern Blockbuster series looks back to the summers, and summer movies, of 1984 and 1989, when MTV editing, post-Boomer cynicism and other cultural sea changes converged to shape the summer blockbuster we all know and can’t avoid.” (via kottke.org)
August 2009
18 posts
Hospital design: Same-handedness is important →
“This costs $10,” [Administrator Dan Aten] says, pointing to a traditional design with opposite room layouts. “This saves 10 lives, potentially,” he said of the identical-design concept.
Ars Magna →
Short film on anagrams. By the way, Paige Calvert = Cleavage Trip.
For SEC, tech-savvy fans might be biggest threats... →
“The SEC sent to its 12 schools an eye-opening new media policy… includ[ing] rules for fans in the stands. No updating Twitter feeds. No taking photos with phones and posting them on Facebook or Flickr. No taking videos and putting them on YouTube.”
This is stupid.
While My Guitar Gently Beeps - The Beatles - Rock... →
McCartney’s own musical beginnings weren’t too different from picking up Rock Band and pretending to be a star, he pointed out. “I emulated Buddy Holly, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis, Elvis. We all did.” The group might have kept going that way, he said, except that they’d find themselves backstage, “and we’d hear our complete set being played by the band before us.” That’s the reason, he said,...
The Only Competition For Web Series Is UNawareness →
MERRIme.com, y’all.
Serendipity is not randomness, not noise. →
It’s stumbling across something accidentally that is nonetheless of interest to you. The web is much better at capturing that mix of surprise and relevance than book stacks or print encyclopedias. Does everyone use the web this way? Of course not. But it’s much more of a mainstream pursuit than randomly exploring encyclopedias or library stacks ever was. That’s the irony of the...
“New Yorkers, known historically for their toughness and resilience, have built,...”
– Book Excerpt: ‘Automats, Taxi Dances, and Vaudeville’ by David Freeland
“This is morning in America in the Internet age. After six to eight hours of...”
– For Families Today, Technology Is Morning’s First Priority
“What information consumes is rather obvious: It consumes the attention of its...”
– Herbert A. Simon, 1971 (via designtumblelog)
Why Van Halen hates Brown M&Ms →
It’s rather clever.
Watchitsthemusic:
Noisemakers on Noisevox
Jay-Z (covering Beastie Boys) at All Point West Music Festival.
Nice high quality audio and video of the Jay-Z/No Sleep Till Brooklyn performance that’s been making the rounds.
Excerpt - ‘Wrestling With Moses,’ by Anthony Flint... →
“Without knowing it, Jane had alighted in the heart of Greenwich Village, the place she would call home for decades to come. As she emerged, she immediately noticed that the streets ran off at odd angles in all directions… She gazed at shopwindows full of leather handbags and watches and jewelry, strolled past barbershops and cafés… Everywhere she looked she saw people — people talking to...
Tumblr Takes Over World: 255,000,000 Pageviews in... →
July 2009
14 posts
Gizmodo 79 →
The Power of the Brand as Verb →
“In the past, Xerox ran a very expensive campaign in places like Editor and Publisher that said don’t use xerox as a verb… What people know from marketing experience now and what people now understand as a practical matter is that it is very good when people use your name as verb.”
In Which Wes Anderson Breaks Down His Perfect... →
"Virgin America understands the promise, prospect,... →
During one flight, a woman who just graduated medical school to become a doctor, had tweeted her excitement about graduating and also flying @virginamerica. Instead of simply responding with a congratulatory Tweet, Porter and her team retweeted and asked someone on the flight to buy her a drink (the benefits of offering inflight wifi). To her surprise, Porter triggered an immediate response, “Row...
Walking out on Bruno...
Amir:
Searching for “walked out” and “bruno” on Twitter is almost as fun and hilarious as the movie itself.
“On the Web, producers have this delicious freedom to produce content as long as...”
– Dina Kaplan (blip.tv) on the Rise of Web Video, Beyond 2-Minute Clips
McSweeney's Internet Tendency: Welcome to Our... →
“We’re post-Internet web strategists. And we only use Macs. We’ve got one PC, spray-painted silver. While working, we wear earphones and listen to post-stringed guitar neo-punk by an obscure meta-artist.”
June 2009
10 posts
“My excitement is that more people paying attention to ‘Less but better’ could...”
– Dieter Rams
What does Born Digital mean? →
Comment from Alan Wolk: “My kids are ‘Born Digital’… They don’t see the difference between screens… TV is time-shifted and downloaded-the notion of ‘here’s what’s on now’ is pretty alien to them… They don’t get the notion of ‘we can’t connect here’… The rest of us can understand this stuff and interpret...
Space Station Movie Log →
iamdanw:
The activity log of the ISS keeps track of movies the astronauts watch to relax between work. It’s kind of weird to think about watching pirated mpeg copies of 2001: Space Odyssey whilst actually floating in space
“Scalejacking. Dave Balter coined this great term. It describes the quest of...”
– Seth Godin
“In America today, even people without street addresses feel compelled to have...”
– On the Street and On Facebook: The Homeless Stay Wired
WatchSong of the Week
Wham! - Everything She Wants
it’s been awhile, huh?
WatchA 1956 interview with the Eames.