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Does the ‘Why’ Matter?
Check out this interesting article about writing. Excerpt: "If you think of Groundhog Day -- the only whys that are ever explored is the whys behind the individual choices Bill Murray makes during his endlessly repeating day. What you are NOT ever given the why answer...
Moon
Just saw Moon with Sam Rockwell. Just as awesome as I had hoped. I was very much anticipating the movie already -- almost simply because everything Sam Rockwell does is gold. Then I found out that the movie's director is non other than the son of David Bowie! This, of...
Found Appealing
FOUND Magazine's Denim and Diamonds Tour 2009! last night at ICE in lower Manhattan, was quite enjoyable. Though I had heard of the concept of Found and seen an issue here and there, I did not know quite what to expect. If you're unfamiliar, Found is a yearly...
Billboard Art
Living in New York, one's mind might be lent to wonder about the legality of street advertisement. They are literally everywhere. I'm not just talking about billboards (though their omnipresence is also very hard to dismiss), but on every barricade, construction site...
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What the hell is going on here? Hrrrthrrr posts a Tumblr linking back to what is seemingly a one off from davidhorvitz. A simple query to google turns up this article which just brings me further down the rabbit hole. Watch this TED talk video: That lady is crazy....
Print’s Influence on the Web
SVA Dot Dot Dot Lectures: Jason Santa Maria from MFA Interaction Design on Vimeo. Jason Santa Maria lays out some very interesting queries here, but seems to lack answers. Here he speaks to why visual appeal is very much alive in print media, but lacking in online...
Be Cool
Eclectic Method - The Tarantino Mixtape from Eclectic Method on Vimeo. I'm amazed that it's possible to be more meta than a Quentin Tarantino film. If for some reason you thought that Tarantino's movies dragged or could have used faster cutting, this mash-up is for...
Literary Map of the Village
Though I'm sure it must be an incredibly difficult job for only the top in the field, I can't shake the impression that the people who work for the New York Public Library, must sit around coming up with truly nerdy things to do and then execute them. Take this as...
If it Doesn’t Work, Burn it
Take some practical tips about writing by the illustrious Mark Twain. The secret is to share your work with a large cross section of people (listed one by one in this video), then, if a book fails to please, burn it. For some reason this video is also narrarated by...
Information Nintendo
Wow. If you like Nintendo and public transit you must see this video about subways. ExciteBike references, among many other old school NES games abound in this informative video about world transport systems. (via good.is)
Auto-Tune the News
Somehow makes Katie Kouric more bearable. I love how terribly done the green screen effects are also. If you watch only one remix of news clips this week, let this be the one! (via Jordan Harper)
Small Art: WebUrbanist
WebUrbanist has a great collection of art projects involving the miniature from sculptures carved into needle eyes to tilt-shift photography.
Fucking Hipsters
Though tumblr has more than it's share of hipsters (see thundrrr and hrrrthrrr ), look at this fucking hipster is an entire tumblog devoted to pictures of hipsters. (via Allen099)
Welcome to Manhattan, Poser
And Brooklyn cheers (though the sign equally applies to Williamsburg). (via eyeonspringfield)
Kern that Shit!
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Twitter Smitter
A few weeks ago I wrote about seeing Geoff Manaugh speak. I noted Geoff's excellent defense of Twitter as a medium and utter confusion at its critics. Jason Kottke's In defense of Twitter published today with a link to Manaugh's own post both carry on in that great...
The Twitter Spread
Spreadtweet is a Twitter application that mimics the design of a spreadsheet. My first reaction was "whahuh? Why?" Then I realized that unlike most of the rest of the civilized world I do not work in an office full of prying eyes. So for all you wage-slaves in your...
Wolf and Pig
This video really illustrates the line between a photograph and motion pictures -- a line of topical interest to me. There's a magical wonder that happens with an object in motion. Even with the jerkiness of the low fps our mind wants to believe that there is a...