From the New York Times.
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Saturday, September 12, 2009
All these changes I'm going through!
Soul searing:
When you see a little boy or a little girl running down the street, running to meet the popsicle truck and all of a sudden you got to turn around and say, "Man I'll be glad when this cat gets here! All these changes I'm going through!"
Thursday, September 10, 2009
Sunday, July 26, 2009
Thursday, July 16, 2009
Single Ladies, Beyonce
Whatever, this video is just rad genius. The new wave of arty hip hop videos are killing. Obviously:
Heartless, by Kanye West and Hype Williams
Heartless, by Kanye West, video by Hype Williams.
WTF this video is like Patrick Nagel meets Cowboy Bepop.
Thursday, July 9, 2009
Norman Mailer and Marshall McLuhan, 1968
Debate between two great men of the 20th century. They agree on many things and obviously have respect for each other. The argument revolves around moralism and judgment. McLuhan refuses to pass moral judgment on technology and society, while Mailer claims it's absolutely necessary.
Mailer at 24:05:
"The Alienated Man in relation to his new environments which alienate him further from himself. What does it mean to be an Alienated Man? It means to be a man who does not have a clear notion of himself, but rather contains two opposed notions of himself:
'I think that I am smart, and I think that I am dumb. I think that I am good, and I think that I am evil. I think that I am strong, and I think that I am weak. I think I'm a tough guy, and I think I'm a coward. I think I'm a great lover, I think I'm not...
He cannot define himself in any environment which has been programmed for him. He can only define himself by getting into situations that are brand new for him. Because when situations are brand new for him, his obsessions can cease for a moment. He can stop thinking of himself at the one moment as being either this or that, because he can be one thing at the moment...
It's a profoundly existential situation for him, because he doesn't know how it's going to turn out... Because he does not have time to evaluate it.
Whenever a man engages in a value judgment, he is either suffering profoundly from alienation or finding his way back out of alienation.
Thursday, May 21, 2009
FreeDarko does Adidas
FreeDarko offers postmodern analysis of the NBA, it's culture, it's industry. They have brilliant illustrations by Bethlehem Shoals, a.k.a. Jacob Weinstein.
Boxing Cats, 1894
The Edison company produced stuff like this when they were, uh, inventing the medium of film. Just for point of reference, this film of boxing cats was made 111 years before YouTube was invented.
The Library of Congress has a vintage film archive on YouTube. They also have a vintage photo archive on Flickr.
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Pupusa del Coyote, by Irvin Morazan
From Bartered States: Contemporary Art from El Salvador at the Bronx River Art Center.
Images lifted from Tattfoo.
The end of the world
Clive Thomson writes for Wired sometimes, and his blog Collision Detection deals with science and culture, with an emphasis on technology. Here is his review of the end of the world (sort of).
He drops a couple of $5 words:
He drops a couple of $5 words:
eschatology: a branch of theology concerned with the final events in the history of the world or of humankind
ludology: the study of games and other forms of play. More specifically today, the study of video games, in an academic or critical light.
Friday, May 15, 2009
David Gentleman
Illustrator/designer David Gentleman, from the New Penguin Shakespeare series in the 70s.
Some close ups (from Tolstoy2007's archive of paperbook covers):
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Electrostatic interface
3D interface based on electrostatic fields, developed by students at Northeastern University in Boston.
Monday, May 11, 2009
Shuttle Launch
The launch of the shuttle Atlantis, in Cape Canaveral, FL.
...from the New York Times.
Photo by Matt Stroshane/Getty Images.
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
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