August 2010
85 posts
Tactical Briefing - #NOSTARBUCKS | Adbusters... →
Between November 22-28 the whole world will light up with seven days of Carnivalesque Rebellion!
Think of it as an adventure, as therapy, as Buy Nothing Day times a hundred … think of it as the World Cup of global activism – a week of postering and pranks, of talking back at your profs and speaking truth to power. Some of us will poster our schools and neighborhoods and just break our daily...
A dandy's guide to girl-watching. - By Troy... →
It's A Pantone Party! →
I want everything on here.
Israeli rabbis clamp down on burka - Telegraph →
um, what?
“There is a real danger that by exaggerating, you are doing the opposite of what is intended [resulting in] severe transgressions in sexual matters,” Shlomo Pappenheim
“At first, I just wore a wig,” one burka-wearing woman told the Haaretz newspaper. “Now when I see a woman with a wig, I pray to God to forgive her for wearing that thing on her...
American Psychosis | Adbusters Culturejammer... →
July 2010
55 posts
Now This Is How You Ask Someone Out! →
Graffiti Artist Dain Teaches the French About...
Brooklyn-based graffiti artist Dain’s opening his first solo exhibition at the Lebenson Gallery, in Paris’ hip Marais district tomorrow.
Entitled ‘Born Again’ as a nudge to his use of old-school icons, the show presents pieces made exclusively for the occasion. The artist’s style is deeply cross-genre: he mixes street art references and graffiti with drawing, collage and varnish. Some...
Wi-Fi Coming to New York City Subways
If the city’s willing to go to the trouble to go wireless, why do I have to take a shuttle nine weekends out of 10 because they’re “doing repairs on the tracks”? But I digress…
There goes my phone’s battery life…
Cap 21 breaks down NYU schools a la Chicago →
I wonder what the New School version would be…
You Are What You Read [Good]
http://www.good.is/post/you-are-what-you-read/
What it says: ORGANIC You think it means: Heaven-sent manna, completely devoid of any synthetic or artificial substance It actually means: Not as artificial as it could be The standard: Organic food is grown without pesticides, hormones, synthetic fertilizers, artificial flavor enhancers, or genetically engineered organisms. The U.S. organic...
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[mashable] freedom of information &...
WikiLeaks is currently in the news because its Afghan War logs comprise one of the largest and most controversial intelligence leaks to date. But while WikiLeaks is relatively new to the public, it is actually a product of a long-established culture. That culture has already had a banner-bearer; a quintessential exemplification of its values — The Pirate Bay. WikiLeaks is akin to The Pirate...
Death of the mouse: defended [tech crunch] →
If companies like Apple listened to some of these short-sighted demands from users, we’d have an uglier and bulkier iPhone with a keyboard. It undoubtedly wouldn’t be as good. That’s because most users have no imagination. They want what they know. When they say they want the future, what they are really saying is that they want a moderately updated version of the past.
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Watch@CraigyFerg
Is there an abbreviation for when I’m actually laughing out loud and embarrassing myself? LOL just doesn’t seem to cut it.
Has a Secret Pool Been Discovered in Williamsburg?... →
4nyc:
image via NY Times
Between info received from NYCtheblog and some suspecting images via Google Maps, there appears there may be a secret pool in Williamsburg, Brooklyn!
This is completely uncalled for. Clearly some hipster’s parents went to the trouble of either building their undeserving son/daughter a pool or they just sent numerous checks to them and indicated in the memo line...
I'm in a Cut Copy mood...
http://t.opsp.in/JORi
Wikileaks Afghanistan war logs: →
ilovecharts:
Interactive map of incidences
intense, in every sense of the word
'Mad Men': The Promiscuous Mingling of Art and... →
Flavorpill should pay me for the amount of their things I post…
The 5 Best and 5 Worst Music Biopic Casting...
1. Amy Adams as Janis Joplin
We recently learned that Amy Adams, whose sweet, girlish film persona could not be farther from the gritty, hard-drinking, raspy-voiced rock legend’s, has landed the role of Janis Joplin in an as yet untitled biopic. Though we’re excited to see a movie about the Texan crooner who died too young, we just can’t picture this doe-eyed leading lady in the starring...
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Nerdy Mixtape: Songs Inspired by Modernist... →
“If feminism is about social change, white feminism — a feminism of assimilation,...”
– On Prisons, Borders, Safety, and Privilege: An Open Letter to White Feminists | Reproductive Justice | AlterNet (via vladislava) (via first-taste) (via ihatethismess) (via robot-heart-politics) (via witchwife) (via lookuplookup) (via funkyfest)
90 Typographic Posters →
designnewssource:
The web is just now beginning to try to start catching up to print in terms of designing with cool typography in mind, but for now, print mediums such as poster designs remain the place to find the best typographic inspiration. This collection features everything from clean and simple typography to crazy and complex typography treatments that must have taken hours upon...
stereotyping people by their favorite indie bands →
precociousferocious:
my dad sent me this. awesome. please read parts 1 and 2.
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I need to stop geeking out
All that I have done since reinstating internet into my life is read Mashable & Flavorpill. Right now all I can think is how awesome it would be to work for either site (you reading this out there?).
And after commandeering an iPad for the day my Apple love has been fully renewed. I don’t care about the bumpers or Droid’s new FlashTime - Apple is the sexier product. period.
But...
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Apparently, Bushwick is the coolest place on earth →
Open Education Resources - 10 years later... →
the atrocity of sunsets: Percentage of male... →
Percentage of male artists at NYC galleries: Tony Shafrazi 95% Rare Gallery 89% Leo Koenig 87% John Connelly Presents 86% Anton Kern 86% Marlborough 86% Matthew Marks 85% Mary Boone 83% Derek Eller 82% Gagosian 82% Team 81%
Percentage of male artists in major museums: National…
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Boardwalk Empire What is it? Okay, if you haven’t heard about this show yet, we hope you’re sitting down. Martin Scorsese and Sopranos writer Terence Winter have combined their gangster-loving chops to create a series set in 1920s Atlantic City. It stars the wonderful Steve Buscemi as Enoch “Nucky” Thompson, a crooked politician-cum-mobster. Why we’re excited: Aside from the...
WatchBilly Bragg singing Joanna Newsom for the Voice Project. Check it out if you haven’t already (http://www.voiceproject.org/)
Some other highlights: Joe Purdy, Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros, Dawes, Peter Gabriel and Andrew Bird
The Old Spice Social Media Campaign by the Numbers... →
The last couple of days have been an Old Spice explosion, as one of the most popular viral campaigns in recent history — in which the Old Spice Guy made personalized videos for fans, randoms and prominent bloggers alike — has taken over the social media realm. But how popular was it really? Visible Measures has some nifty numbers for us.
First, here’s the basics:
Number of videos made:...
Weekend in Bushwick →
If only I had a bike
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WatchCan’t wait.
