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Sat, 02 Feb 2013 02:53:12 +0000

transfergallery:

Exhibition planning with Rollin Leonard.

^ That’s me

No matter what Bill Cosby says, don't hold down 'alt' and click reblog!

newsweek:

Unless you want to.

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Mon, 26 Mar 2012 00:44:50 +0000

rollingstone:

Designer Rob Ricketts has created an amazing series of posters displaying notable drum sequences from classic electro songs programmed on the Roland TR-808.

The crappiest word in a content strategist's vocabulary

“Tags” (for a lot of reasons).

Second crappiest: “Keywords” (mostly because of search engine spammers).

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Sat, 07 Jan 2012 16:02:16 +0000

lionskeleton:

Dunja Jankovic

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Sun, 27 Nov 2011 02:22:13 +0000

Reblogging because: awesome.

Partial rant about the verb “to be”

I was thinking recently about how I talk in text.

(Wait, back up: I’m one of those people who likes to send text messages instead of talk. My “phone” is really a wireless telegraph. Okay? Okay.)

Anyway. When I text, I drop the verb “to be.” Viz.:

“I here”
“You pretty”
“That crazy”

Now: I am not one to be sloppy or slangy with my text messaging. I don’t say “LOL” or “OMG.” I typically correct typos before I hit “Send.”

So I started thinking about why my text messaging lacks what we’ve been taught to believe is a key verb. I mean, seriously:

“I am”
“You are”
“That is”

These are expressions of a fundamental concept, right? And there must be something deficient in my written expression if I’m omitting them.

Or maybe not. Maybe the idea is so fundamental that it’s always already implied. That is: if we can speak (write, text, etc.) about something, it must already be — at least in concept, if not in material fact.

And so maybe the semantic ROI on “to be” has been overstated.

Maybe it really not worth typing.

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Sun, 16 Oct 2011 17:12:00 +0000

Perfect time for some Nam June Paik.

Sunday morning

Perfect time for some Nam June Paik.

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Mon, 03 Oct 2011 02:02:02 +0000

(This movie is the jam, btw.)

More high-contrast serifs, please

(This movie is the jam, btw.)

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Thu, 22 Sep 2011 15:25:25 +0000

Possibly hard to believe: this was radical once.

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T-800: The system goes online August 4th, 1997. Human decisions are removed from strategic defense. Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 AM Eastern time, August 29th. In a panic, they try to pull the plug.

Sarah Connor: Skynet fights back.

T-800: Yes. It starts a badass faggy electronic punk band.

Watch it at:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F21aifX0lZY

Art & copy

Ladies and gentlemen, the future of advertising.

Another textual nit-pick, this time with implications for humankind's perceived dominion over the fish in the sea

Seen recently on Design Observer:

Presented at a recent edition of ArtVerona in Italy, their installation proposes a form of floating and vertical bio-desalination machine. “The object proposes a kind of neo-nature” says Studiomobile, in which “an autonomous living organism is put to practical daily use.”

But to be clear: we’re talking about a formerly-autonomous living organism.*

* And, again, to be clear: this isn’t an animal rights post. I’ve eaten way too much beef and poultry to even start to stand on that leg. And I’m all for solutions that address the all-too-real water crisis that’s staring us down. But let’s not pretend that the capture and exploitation of jellyfish represents environmentally-conscious design (or, as it’s so heroically put above, a “kind of neo-nature”).

Corporate record store in shopping mall vs. Apple iTunes Store

Corporate record store

Me: “Do you have E2-E4 by Manuel Göttsching?”

Corporate record store employee: “What? Um… let me look. Huh. Um. No. But we do have the new LCD Soundsystem record.”

Apple iTunes Store

Me: “Do you have E2-E4 by Manuel Göttsching?”

Apple iTunes Store: “Your search had no results.”

Music

(This is what music would be like on television if you were deaf. So maybe stop complaining all the time.)

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Mon, 01 Mar 2010 02:09:00 +0000

I call this the “Sober Up Combo”. (I think there’s some corporate synergy here.)

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Public Image, Ltd.

Has ever a band looked more bored? Has ever an audience looked like they were trying this hard to care? Has ever a frontman tried less hard to pretend they were not lipsyncing? Has ever anyone danced this bad?

Way to make a mockery of American Bandstand. Punk as fuck.

Watch it at:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdYevkJf--M

The best interface copy I've seen in a while

There’s a new (I think) website/service/whatever called Fav4 (which by the way you should check out).

Their “About” section has this killer ~~interface~~ copy:

Which I totally love.

Because: it’s clever and unexpected. Also because: despite the persistent myth of Digital Youth, Old People* are actually really good at using the Internet now. And your Mom and Dad might actually like using this service.

* No offense, Mom and Dad. But in Internet Years, you’re hella old.

My current Top 5 (Mid-February 2010)

Been a while, but whatevs.

No particular order, subject to change, &c.

Slates, The Fall
1981, Rough Trade

“The Wehrmacht never got in here” has to be the most defiant Britpunk line ev-uh.

Taro Tarot, These Are Powers
2008, Hoss Records

Everything you love about Sonic Youth and Jane’s Addiction, without the stuff you don’t love.

Comfort Eagle, Cake
2001, Columbia Records

This record makes me wish I’d been paying attention in 2001.

Heavy Deeds, Sun Araw
2009, Not Not Fun

Bass/chill/funk/lysergic-etc/cool-yo.

Vladimir Horowitz At Carnegie Hall - the Private Collection: Mussorgsky & Liszt, Vladimir Horowitz
2010, SONY CLASSICS

Before The Quine Tapes or Cornell ‘77, Vladimir Horowitz bootlegged himself live at Carnagie.