May 2011
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WatchSleeping Soldiers_single screen (2009) (by Tim Hetherington) “The work was made in 2007-8 while I was following a platoon of US Airborne Infantry based in the Korengal Valley of Eastern Afghanistan.” Via even*cleveland.
Also: this. This. This.
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“A tweet may not look like much, but its value lies in the mental dimension. You...”
– Brilliant economist Tyler Cowen. I quoted him in the blog post I rehashed from every other blog post I’ve ever written up now on NEXTNESS.
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Why we love the internet. | NEXTNESS →
… if companies, clients and campaigns want to properly “leverage” the internet, the first step is to understand that they are completely marginal to it.
‘The Hangover’ and the Age of the Jokeless Comedy... →
… “they have systematically boiled away many of the pleasures previously associated with comedy — first among these, jokes themselves — and replaced them with a different kind of lure: the appeal of spending two hours hanging out with a loose and jocular gang of goofy bros.”
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“… the ultimate goal of technology, the telos of techne, is to replace a...”
– “Technology provides an alternative to love,” Jonathan Franzen NYTimes.com
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“Personally, none of this makes me feel betrayed by Barack Obama. Rather I have a...”
– Ten years after No Logo, Naomi Klein on how corporate branding has taken over America The Guardian
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WatchMuseum of Bellas Artes - Days Ahead (short version) (by Force Majeure Records/here). This is a cool video. No really, it is a really cool video.
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Why white men should refuse to be on panels of all... →
via Jean.
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“In adolescence, I hated life and was continually on the verge of suicide, from...”
– Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness via All trivial fond records.
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“These days, when the job one has or seeks in vain is often no longer what...”
– Luce Giard, The Practice of Everyday Life: Living and Cooking via All trivial fond records
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“The next real literary “rebels” in this country might well emerge as some weird...”
– David Foster Wallace via the ugly earring
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“The most important step in emancipating oneself from social controls is the...”
– Excerpt from Flow (1990) by Mihály Csíkszentmihályi via Fast Company
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“The problem with the dash—as you may have noticed!—is that it discourages truly...”
– Em dashes—why writers should use them more sparingly, Slate Magazine
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“I mean, I think my sound is post-Internet. People my age had the Internet when...”
– Grimes Interview Magazine
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How power corrupts. →
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"I worried about what he would think - because if... →
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“To start with, look at all the books. There were her Edith Wharton novels,...”
– The First Lines of Jeffrey Eugenides’s The Marriage Plot via The Millions
“I grew up knowing I wanted to do something art related for a living but had no...”
– A sweet take on design from Jessica Hische, Method & Craft
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“I actually think I can give up the buying of things so long as I can just pin...”
– Blogger six orange carrots pinpoints an interesting point about services like Pinterest. If you can gather and display things you like, you are 9/10ths towards owning them.
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“Some of the stuff pawned off as freedom of expression, let alone art, is just...”
– Patti Smith interviewed by Thurston Moore, BOMB Magazine (1996)
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