April 2010
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The Interesting Gizmodo iPhone Battle →
Paying for stories smells slightly rank, but it doesn’t mean it’s illegal. Can Gizmodo Win The Iphone Legal Battle? The story is of particular interest to anyone; blogger, writer, photographer, illustrator who uses their home as an office and might be subjected to a search warrant and/or the idea prohibiting government search and seizure of both “documentary material” (explicitly...
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MIT Technology Review Names 10 Technologies That... →
Each year, Technology Review selects what it believes are the 10 most important emerging technologies. The winners are chosen based on the editors’ coverage of key fields. The question that [they] ask is simple: is the technology likely to change the world?
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theglitterkeepsfalling asked: what is the favourite record you have ever brought or some of your fave records? :)
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David Byrne 03.25.10: Out of Context →
“Recontextualizing work is a savvy strategy these days. In an extreme view it might appear that some folks simply move the exact same work around to different kinds of venues until it clicks — and the money magically starts to flow. Some see any presumed cleverness or market savvy on behalf of an artist or performer as distasteful. They feel that serious work should be driven primarily...
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ICyte →
” iCyte (icyte.com), a smarter way of compiling data from the Web. Rather than relying on live URLs, this tool saves a Web page’s content, just as it looked when you first saved it, even if that Web page later shuts down or is no longer retrievable. It also saves any highlighted markings you’ve made on a page. ICyte is a free Web browser add-on that, once downloaded, works...
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Anatomy of a Scene: Time Square ‘Time Capsule' →
Lisa Hostetler, curator of photography at the Milwaukee Art Museum, narrates a look at a rediscovered short film by the photographer Louis Faurer. See also, The Streets, Frozen in Neon.
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How to Opt Out of Facebook’s Instant... →
Facebook deems connections to interests, businesses and content to be public information, along with your name, profile picture, gender and friend list. It intends to make them very public through new “social plugins” and “instant personalization” here’s how to privatize.
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Cassette Tapes Are The New Vinyl →
“Tapes blast a sound that’s just as warm as the crackle and pop of vinyl…Sure, digital music is convenient, portable and pretty much free for the pilfering, but where’s the fun in scrolling through lines of song titles listed alphabetically in the same font on a LCD screen? It doesn’t pack the same visceral punch as crate digging. A backlash to the über-utilitarian...
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Photographers Prepare for a Moment in May →
“Journalists are often at their worst when trying to predict the future. But it seems safe to say that many hundreds — if not thousands — of shutters will be released simultaneously on Sunday, May 2, as photographers around the world help [New York Times] Lens create “A Moment in Time”; one single moment in the life of the planet.”
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WatchPart 13 from Rhian Sheehan’s album Standing in Silence. Video by Gareth Moon/Nektar.
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WatchCommercial for Leader Bike featuring Massan. Shot on location in SF. Seriously this is the shit.
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He Was Literally Kicking My Ass →
“Young people today (and by “young”, I mean anyone who uses a cell phone) have as much verbal dexterity as your average goat. Not that I have anything against goats: they’re really cute and if they didn’t insist on shitting all over my living room floor, I’d adopt one. But I prefer goats that are…well, goats. Not humans. Human goats are a plague on our society that must be stopped. ...
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Famous Thinkers and Their Daily Rituals →
“Winston Churchill would rise at 7:30 and stay in bed until 11:00 where he would eat breakfast, read several newspapers, and dictate to his secretaries. When he finally got out of bed, he would bathe, take a walk outside, then settle in to work with a weak whisky and soda. Lunch began at 1:00 and lasted until 3:30, after which he would work or play cards or backgammon with his wife. At...
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Mark Rothko and Selling Out In The Art World. →
“When Mark Rothko committed suicide in 1970, he left behind hundreds of unsold paintings. Partly, he didn’t want to flood the market, but he also found it hard to part with them. Rothko considered his artworks to be his children, and he didn’t like to send them off to live with just anybody. So he auditioned his patrons. In the early ’60s, when Jean Kennedy Smith, a sister...
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A Surprise Cache of Marcel Duchamp's Urinals? →
“Critics tend to declare that Marcel Duchamp’s urinal, entitled “Fountain” is the most important artwork of the 20th century. Yet its standing as a collectible object has always lagged behind its value as an idea. The work questioned notions of authenticity when Duchamp first purchased the mass-produced plumbing fixture and signed it “R. Mutt” in 1917. Now, ...
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“When I became a fashion designer, I was helping Malcolm [McLaren] do something —...”
– Vivienne Westwood quote from the article Causing Outrage.
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