by natecooper | May 24, 2008 | art, cool, culture, media, music
Popped Culture has a post about taking the song “Common People” by Pulp and setting it to Archie comics: “Archie vs. Common People” [link] For a taste check out this youtube video:
by natecooper | May 22, 2008 | aesthetics, cool
[link] Kyouei umbrella holder waters your plants by Mike Chino
by natecooper | May 17, 2008 | culture, digital media, media, politics
I’ve been wary in the past about submitting podcasts as blogs because I know its a time investment but I do listen to a lot of them myself and there are episodes every so often that are simply too fantastic not to put out there in the hopes that someone might...
by natecooper | May 13, 2008 | Brooklyn, cool, digital media, internet, media, new york, technology
Hot damn!! I’m there!! [link]
by natecooper | May 11, 2008 | music
ncooperta.muxtape.com liner notes: Ultra Orange & Emmauelle, Donât Kiss Me Goodbye – I fucking love this song right now. So I first heard it in a movie? Thatâs where I find my best music now adays. Plus I think I’m in love with Emmanuelle...
by natecooper | May 8, 2008 | architecture, Brooklyn, cities, culture, new york, politics
A really interesting article about gentrification and how to confront it in new and interesting ways: [link] (via BLAST) What strikes me most about the article is this conception of the influx of young, middle-class into the neighborhood as somehow devouring the...
by natecooper | May 8, 2008 | aesthetics, architecture, Brooklyn, cool, style
I digs the barrel chair.
by natecooper | May 3, 2008 | aesthetics, Brooklyn, culture, photography
Finally made it to the Cherry Blossom Festival at the Brooklyn Botanical Garden. It was like a festival as to be expected, food, music, tents but I was sort of surprised at how wondrous it felt. I floated from area to area running into kimono-clad Brooklynites and...
by natecooper | May 3, 2008 | digital media, humor, internet, technology
“But a tumble isn’t even the smallest known unit of thought on the Web. You can Twitter, which are notes of up to 140 characters written from your computer or cellphone and sent to your friends as a feed or posted as the “update status” on your...
by natecooper | May 3, 2008 | art, culture, politics
This is a brilliant ad campaign from Surfrider .. those dudes who help protect the environment. Above is pictured “Condom Strips”; condoms found on beaches and packaged as seafood. Ads of the World Describes the project: “To put beach pollution...
by natecooper | May 2, 2008 | art, culture, digital media, internet, technology
Adobe has a new collaborative project to get its flash/air platform on as many devices as possible: [link] Stuff like this makes me afraid that Flash just won’t die. Just when CSS was finally catching up in the designer’s imagination as a solid, and more...
by natecooper | May 2, 2008 | art, culture, digital media, internet, photography
“Any photographer with a website should also have a blog. If you don’t, it’s like playing the PGA Tour without a putter – no serious competitor would ever do so.” [link] I quite enjoy this analogy. I’m no (professional) photographer But I agree...