my findings!: Archive

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Long-Distance Romance

A love letter/request from my boyfriend who lives 6,843 miles away from me. He’s so romantic.

May 24th

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May 18th

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All we have are our love and our guts baby. All we...

May 17th

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RYE RYE

I’ve been tracking this chick for four years and am SO excited about Rye Rye’s impending debut album. Good lahd it’s gonna be good. http://www.blackbookmag.com/music/go-pop-bang-signals-rye-rye-s-imminent-sonic-explosion-1.48244

May 11th

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RIP Adam Yauch →

The New York Times has a thoughtful and touching obituary for Adam Yauch, founding member of the Beastie Boys. I always appreciated deeply how they transitioned from party-hungry kids to socially conscious, feminist men and music-makers. Ill Communication was the first compact disc (!!) I purchased and I would sit for hours in my room, reversing and fast forwarding and reversing and fast...

May 5th

“I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able...”

– Simone de Beauvoir

May 4th

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May 2nd

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May 2nd

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Tuesday 17 April at 3:23pm

Apr 19th

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Apr 18th

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Windy Wavy US →

This is a map that displays the current wind patterns happening all over the United States. It’s mesmerizing.

Apr 13th

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The Painted Land

Gorgeous (and totally functional) watercolor maps using the Google API. Not the most useful version of a map, but certainly the most lovely to look at and explore. Designed and built by stamen.

Apr 13th

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Some very good jazz for you

Apr 11th

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Why Pinterest Bums Me Out

Schmutzie puts into words my feelings, that I could never quite articulate, towards Pinterest. “In this light, a large portion of Pinterest’s content starts to look largely like the great, white, suburban dreamscape of the 1950s pathologized, now crowd-sourced to showcase today’s insecurity with the messier, dirtier, and much less wealthy lives we actually lead. It’s an...

Apr 3rd

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Apr 3rd

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Watch

Flex Is Kings is a gorgeous indie doc directed by Deidre Schoo that showcases jaw droppingly beautiful/inspired/crazy dance scene in East New York, Brooklyn. All footage for the film has been shot, and now they need your help and financial support to get through post-production and to cover the costs of shooting the film. I got to see the initial rough cut teaser of this documentary about 9 months...

Mar 30th

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Mar 28th

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Missy Prince | Photographer →

Found this chick’s work through Photojojo tumblr and really liked it. It’s a mix of Stephen Shore and maybe a little Eggleston.

Mar 24th

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Mar 17th

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Mar 17th

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Mar 15th

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“… it is precisely because women are on the ascendant in the public sphere...”

– Margaret Talbot, in New Yorker’s Talk of the Town, writing about the contraception “debate” currently going on in the U.S. Republican party. While she goes on to say that this deep systemic rift is not likely the reason behind the Republican’s anti-contraception campaign...

Mar 15th

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Jan 27th

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Hidden Message?

I was perusing the LL Bean site looking for great deals on quality footwear and came across what is, perhaps, the strangest product review I’ve ever read. I really don’t know what to make of it but can’t help but imagine it’s some (not very) subtle message to someone in the reviewer’s life. The larger and more interesting question is why they felt that the LL Bean...

Jan 24th

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Advice to Young Photographers

I feel like the advice contained in this column is useful for anyone, aspiring photographers or not. Alec Soth, the creator of this collection, says it best: “If in your heart of hearts, you want to take pictures of kitties, take pictures of kitties.” A visual guide to the advice column. (On Eric Kim’s blog.) The original column on Magnum’s website.

Jan 19th

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Jan 8th

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Watch

Jeff Harris is absolute magic. His perspective and approach to life is moving, beautiful, and inspired.

Jan 8th

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I’ll go through it all again, watch their...

Dec 12th

Oct 11th

Supersonic

Today three fabulous, brilliant women were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Somehow, I immediately thought of JJ Fad. I suppose it is pretty supersonic.

Oct 7th

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Spare the Rod: A New Yorker in Miami

I know, you’re a world-weary traveler who has seen it all. So I already know that you’ve been to Miami, already explored its beaches and dove into its mythical pools, but cut me a break, will you? I am not nearly as cosmopolitan as you and just made my first trip to that southern-most tip of this fair country’s only peninsula (is it?). Here’s what I’m dying to know:...

Oct 4th

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Two birds, one stone →

This was kind of an obvious (and yet somehow not super tacky) grab for page views on 9/11, and luckily it’s also pretty interesting to see how much the web has changed in ten years.

Sep 12th

Learn to F&!*ing Spell →

This is the kind of passion I can rally behind. As Paddy says in this handy guide, “Spelling is fucking easy.”

Sep 9th

The Cycle of Revenge →

“When we act out of revenge, revenge is what we will receive in return. The wheel of violence and counterviolence spins without end and leads inevitably to destruction.” A heartbreaking and thoughtful opinion piece by Simon Critchley on the ethics and consequences of revenge as it relates to September 11. (link)

Sep 8th

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Aug 28th

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Aug 25th

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Aug 23rd

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Photographs: Women Posing As...

I once had the idea of photoshopping images from conflicts and war zones to make them appear as fashion shoots. It was a sophomoric concept to highlight the absurdity and banality of high fashion as it relates to the real-world issues most people face. Thankfully Yolanda Dominguez had a more refined approach to the idea. She’s re-created fashion magazine spreads and poses in real life...

Aug 20th

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Jul 17th

From the New York Times: Crowds gathered,...

Jun 25th

Tonight No Poetry Will Serve

wwnorton: Saw you walking barefoot taking a long look at the new moon’s eyelid later spread sleep-fallen, naked in your dark hair asleep but not oblivious of the unslept unsleeping elsewhere Tonight I think no poetry will serve Syntax of rendition: verb pilots the plane adverb modifies action verb force-feeds noun submerges the subject noun is choking verb disgraced ...

Jun 23rd

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Birdman

rjmickelson: “The Birdman” at Washington Square Park. ONLY IN NYC!!

Jun 15th

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Jun 15th

Museum of Me →

I think that we have, collectively as a species, jumped the shark. Are we so self-obsessed and narcissistic so as to believe that we all need museums dedicated to us?! A space in which visitors are implored, nay required, to navel gaze right alongside us?

Jun 15th

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May 25th

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Watch

While we’re on the topic, this here is a beautiful video for Shabazz Palaces’ latest single, “Belhaven Meridian.” Shabazz Palaces is fronted by Ishmael Butler who you might recall was one-third of Digable Planets. More backstory here. Shabazz Palaces official site.

May 16th