February 2012
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But if today’s Internet has a Baron Haussmann, it is Facebook. Everything that...
– The Death of the Cyberflâneur. Great article on frictionless sharing. My thoughts: 1) our/my fascination with the Flâneur never ceases to amaze me 2) Second Life
Thanks towerofsleep & standardgrey for sharing this
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What publishers count on from bookstores is the browsing effect.
– Barnes & Noble, Taking On Amazon in the Fight of Its Life
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January 2012
30 posts
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In the last few years, acts like the Weeknd and Salem have benefitted from...
– Lana Del Rey’s Image on “Born to Die” : The New Yorker
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The Nano Story →
Bill Wasik talks about the Nano Story which he covers in greater detail in his book, And Then There’s This
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And so the Lana Del Rey-bashing economy moves faster than the actual Lana Del...
– ‘Born to Die,’ Lana Del Rey’s Debut Album - NYTimes.com
Oh Internet…
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It's A Great Day To Be Alive
For six months in 2010, iTunes played Billboard’s Top 100 tracks from the year of its birth, 2001, on random in an office in Vancouver, Canada 24hours a day seven days a week to discover what songs the software liked most.
Played a total of 279 times, the single most favorite song played by iTunes from the year 2001 was Travis Tritt’s It’s a Great Day To Be Alive.
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John Jeremiah Sullivan: GQ Contributors →
The Rhapsody is not a composition at all. It’s a string of separate...
– Rhapsody in Blue - Wikipedia
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If all else fails, I drink half a bottle of rum and play a Handel oratorio on...
– I am a lousy copywriter - David Ogilvy. There’s also a lot of grammar and spelling errors too. Which makes me feel better about myself for being a “lousy” copywriter too. (and a RUM LOVER)
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The more ubiquitous cameras become, the less we’re aware they’re...
– Webcam Hacker Luis Mijangos: Newsmakers: GQ
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Gaming as cinema.
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The @This_Space project is getting interesting because now they’re into hire a designer phase for the project. Lot’s of great talent! But you should vote Naomi. You might recognize her stuff from the Only Magazine logo, Revelry Society’s Logo, Grant Lawrence’s book cover, Jill Barber’s album cover for Mischievous Moon and all the Vij’s cookbooks just to name a...
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OCTOBER 16TH, 1987 PACIFIC COLISEUM, VANCOUVER,... →
revelrysociety: Vancouver, 7:30 p.m. Sitting backstage yesterday after the Seattle family massacre in Tacoma I was having a few drinks with some girlies and it seems they have some connection to fresh packs of needles so I told them to join me in my room after the show. I snuck an oz and 2 grams of Persian into…
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December 2011
14 posts
The real allure of Instagram was its photo “filters”—and the subsequent rise of...
– Clive Thompson on the Instagram Effect
We hop back and forth between machines and the physical world, constantly...
– Behavioral Blips - Scatter/Gather