January 2012
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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...
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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.
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WatchJeff Harris is absolute magic. His perspective and approach to life is moving, beautiful, and inspired.
December 2011
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I’ll go through it all again, watch their...
October 2011
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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.
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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:...
September 2011
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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.
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.”
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)
August 2011
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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...
July 2011
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June 2011
6 posts
From the New York Times:
Crowds gathered,...
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 ...
Birdman
rjmickelson:
“The Birdman” at Washington Square Park.
ONLY IN NYC!!
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?
May 2011
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The Many Moons of Digable Planets →
GOOD LORD I am seriously vibing this mixtape of so many of the greatest songs from Digable Planets. STRAIGHT HIP HOP PEOPLE! So good and lovingly compiled and offered free of charge by Electric Adolescence.
WatchThis video brought to you by the letter C.
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Are you a comic sans criminal? →
You might be one of those people who doesn’t know when it’s appropriate to use this vile font. This little tool will help you.
April 2011
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Shopping by Color →
Love this!
“In uncertain tribute, we stayed longer than we needed to, waiting for any...”
– Geoff Dyer eloquently describing his departing process at Spiral Jetty. It very much reminded me of the feeling I had each time I visited and contemplated leaving Marina Abromovic’s performance piece at MoMA last year.
“Right now, I have zero competition. That’s how new it is.”
– Bladie Flowness, hip hop ice dancer, explaining his unrivaled place in the world of hip hop ice dancing
March 2011
7 posts
NYTimes Puts Up a Paywall (Finally!) →
I will gladly be among the first digital subscribers to the NYTimes. Because let’s face it people: unless we start paying for it, quality journalism will cease to exist. Great reporters and photographers have a skill that deserves monetary compensation, and I’m more than happy to suppor their work.
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PERSONAL MOMENT
It is 9:10pm on a Wednesday night. I am currently:
Listening to Gangstarr
Amending code and CSS stylesheets for a client’s site
Drinking a Ginger Gold Rush
Feeling pretty good about my current situation
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“Producing is about discouraging creativity. … You’re grateful to...”
– Tina Fey on what she learned from Lorne Michaels and working on SNL. This is the sad fact of my life: I get shit done, but have to constantly balance encouraging ideas and tamping them down. It’s a hard dance and I often step on people’s toes during the routine.
Why Do People Like Stories?
wwnorton:
John Edgar Wideman explains in The New York Times:
“Because they’re like maps. We use a story as a kind of piece of information to orient ourselves, make sense of the loneliness, make sense of what we’ll never be able to decipher: the enigma that surrounds us.”
From the article ‘All Around Town, Stories Well Told’ by Kathryn Shattuck.
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“Scraping this barnacle off your hull is going to be difficult.”
– Joe Berkowitz at The Awl helps you figure out how to end a conversation.
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There were hundreds of them walking on the sand...
February 2011
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“Masculinity” is as damaging to men as “Femininity” is to...”
– Molly Lambert in her supremely smart (and funny) essay titled, “In Which We Teach You How To Be A Woman In Any Boys’ Club” or “How To Be the Best Kind of Woman in This Currently Fucked-Up World” (my translation).
The essence of the quote is something that I’ve...
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Never look back, never look back. - Yellow Ostrich
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Irina Werning's Back to the Future →
Photographer Irina Werning invited people to re-create photos from their past. The results are touching and hilarious. See them all here.