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Tumblr was an answer on Jeopardy this week

Sat, 17 Dec 2011 10:21:00 -0800

/via Tumblr Staff Blog

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One man's tribute to his mom's Christmas Tree rituals

Sun, 27 Nov 2011 22:08:00 -0800

A couple years in a row I've had to hunt around for this on YouTube. Never again. Here for safe keeping.

Also: Tree.

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Monocle 24 is your post-Internet media fantasy

Mon, 10 Oct 2011 13:12:00 -0700

Monocle animations from graham Lewis on Vimeo.

Monocle is a beefy magazine with at least four kinds of paper in every issue. It charges subscribers more than cover price. It covers global affairs with a focus on multinational business, and hyper-local civic issues. It's growing its foreign bureaus.

It has TV specials on financial news networks.

Despite its wonky domains of expertise, its immersive design makes excited fans react to new Monocle works as if they were new Beyonce videos. #projecting

Monocle pretty much lives on Planet Opposite Direction of All Other Media Properties.

On October 17th, Monocle will launch Monocle 24. It's a radio station that happens to run on the Internet. We don't say Internet radio station coz Monocle wouldn't like that and goes out of its way to reference the Internet medium only as an aside.

Respect.

Monocle and the Internet have a strange relationship.

To position Monocle's relationship with the Internet as a reactive one would be wrong. Launched in 2007, Monocle was born into a media world with the Internet (and even social media) well-internalized.

Monocle is no New York Times or Time or USA Today on the defensive, awkwardly adjusting to a new media reality. It's not disrupted by the Internet BUT it's not molded by the Internet BUT it's not denying the Internet. Monocle gives none of its print content away for free. It offers a single web-only bulletin each day, refusing to call it a blog (it's a Monocolumn, bitch).

It doesn't have Facebook or Twitter or Google+ buttons.

Monocle 24 a post-Internet effort. In the animation above, Monocle shows the listener next to a home stereo, at a club, in the car listening to Monocle 24. The implicit assumption is that these devices are Internet-enabled. But the message is that Internet media is not a style of media. The Internet is invisible to the experience. Monocle publisher Tyler Brule is telling us that Monocle 24 is not your typical thinly streamed .m3u.

Monocle 24 will sound like radio probably used to sound -- it won't be tinny, it's going to be very bassy. I think we've built the two most handsome wool-lined studios in the world."

Monocle makes no Internet concessions. No tweetable headlines, no compressed audio. Even as it undeniably exploits the Internet. After all, its radio station is Internet only.

Traditional media types like to champion Monocle as a victory against the Internet. But they're missing the point. Monocle is post-Internet. Monocle is an example of how purposeful creative work is bigger than its medium.

Monocle 24 is on the Internet coz it's 2011, not coz it's an Internet opportunity.

Who knows how Monocle 24 will do, business-wise. But we can be sure that it won't resemble any terrestrial or Internet radio we've heard. It will just sound like Monocle.

While you wait for Monocle 24 to launch, you can check out Monocle Weekly. It's a weekly podcast with archives as far back as you want.

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Missoni launch crashed Target.com. #Neverforget

Tue, 13 Sep 2011 11:22:00 -0700

The long-anticipated Missoni (fashion) line launch crashed Target.com today. What a fun VelocityConf talk this will be.

(IRL brick + mortar Target did just a little better.)

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Business and Technology

Tue, 30 Aug 2011 20:25:36 -0700

/via commercial

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Bloomberg Businessweek Popularity Issue. And also Bloomberg in general.

Thu, 11 Aug 2011 08:02:00 -0700

A very fun but also seriously intense cover.

I've been meaning to evangelize the entire Bloomberg news empire overhaul. Quickly:

Their TV financial news network (international) is freely streamed on their website. (Unlike CNBC).
The print/text journalism is getting more Economist, and less USA Today
A good interview with new Creative Director Richard Turley

Notes on this cover from Richard Turley's Tumblr

A special double edition of our magazine dedicated to the most popular products, people, and trends in America. Photograph by Corriette Schoenaerts. Styling by Lisa Edsalv. A big shout out is needed for our valiant Photo Editor Emily Keegin for pulling this together. She suffered to bring this cover to life. She suffered a lot.

Each object on her dress relates to a story or theme inside the magazine which- seeing as we werent sure what was in the magazine up to minutes or so before the shoot- was a something of a challenge for Corriette and Lisa.

If you liked our end of year issue, you’ll probably like this edition of the magazine too. I’ll post more about the inside next week. But for now, we’re off to the beach to recover.

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Deerhoof live in Juan's Basement

Sat, 16 Jul 2011 17:58:00 -0700

OH on YouTube:

"This is jazz for punk rock. F---ing godly. I bet they play this shit at the bottom of the Ocean. While your spirit lies in a sunken ship, you listen to this."

Still with us? This next song's instrumental, and they have way too much fun playing it:

Deerhoof is unique in that it's experimental and challenging, but not sterile. Math rock with a heart of gold.

Both songs are from Milk Man.

Anyway... was just talking about them with two separate people. Thought I'd document. Bon Appetit, etc.

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Admits he threw a pinecone

Wed, 13 Jul 2011 21:37:00 -0700

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Quick document of similarities between Beyonce's I Was Here + Social Network OST Hand Covers Bruise

Sun, 03 Jul 2011 21:06:00 -0700

111_-_I_Was_Here.mp3 Listen on Posterous

This week Beyonce's 4 came out. (Her new album. I love it, etc.)

One part itched my brain a way I couldn't figure out. Why did the cello + piano in I Was Here feel so familiar?

Total Social Network soundtrack moment.

Social_Network_OST_-_Trent_Reznor_and_Atticus_Ross_-_01_-_Hand_Covers_Bruise.mp3 Listen on Posterous

Social_Network_OST_-_Trent_Reznor_and_Atticus_Ross_-_16_-_Hand_Covers_Bruise,_Reprise.mp3 Listen on Posterous

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White Rainbow: Hermeto Swang

Sun, 08 May 2011 21:08:00 -0700

&amp;lt;a href="http://whiterainbowpizza.bandcamp.com/track/hermeto-swang" _mce_href="http://whiterainbowpizza.bandcamp.com/track/hermeto-swang"&amp;gt;HERMETO SWANG by WHITE RAINBOW&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;
Had to share this. Hermeto Swang from the new White Rainbow mixtape, From Now On Let's.
Give it 'til :37. Then you can click what you need to click. :D
You can download the whole mixtape from the generous + prolific White Rainbow who's letting us name our own price.

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Skype 5 collage

Tue, 19 Apr 2011 16:53:00 -0700

Artist David OReilly has collected some Skype 5 draw errors.

/via @muckp

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Google employees dress up in Gaga-inspired costumes during Q&A whatever normal

Thu, 24 Mar 2011 02:22:00 -0700

There's lots to say about Lady Gaga's incredibly informative Google Q&A (Really. Regardless of your interest in Gaga, if you're interested in creativity or self-confidence/ insecurity or business or fandom, you will like this video).

But for now... screengrabs of the Google employee Gaga fans. They did a good job.

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What is Littlecosm?

Mon, 21 Mar 2011 21:29:00 -0700

I only gave Littlecosm a lil screenshot earlier. Here I explain a bit more.

Check out the game here: http://littlecosm.com.

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Forward

Wed, 09 Mar 2011 04:32:00 -0800

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Luhrmann gaze

Sat, 05 Mar 2011 21:06:00 -0800

In Luhrmann's reality, getting lost is getting found.

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A scene from Littlecosm

Thu, 03 Mar 2011 03:14:00 -0800

Today my Twitter client turned into a massively multiplayer game.

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You should take @selenamarie's online PostgreSQL class

Wed, 02 Mar 2011 04:01:00 -0800

What a special time for you! My friend Selena is teaching an online PostgreSQL class with CodeLesson.

It starts soonish, March 7th.

Lucky for you, it's not sold out yet. You can still learn PostgreSQL from not just a contributor to the project, but a gifted, fun teacher.

But who am I to pressure you? It's not like working with data is important or topical right now.

J/K.

DO IT.

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AirBnB and peer-to-peer economies

Wed, 23 Feb 2011 03:45:00 -0800

This video interview with AirBnB CEO Brian Chesky from GigaOm is 80% about the history of AirBnB to this point. But what got me most excited was the small bit about emerging peer-to-peer economies. Clearly AirBnB sees a whole new economy based on more direction transactions between individuals, and even explicitly said that AirBnB will likely enter an unrelated, non-living space market by the end of the year. He also referenced UberCab multiple times, and had an interesting thought about whether the amateurization of travel and hospitality services was really all that new: it's not, he says. It's the way travel used to be.

For some reason the embeddable video isn't showing up here in Posterous, but click the link above for a fun 20 minutes.

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Input

Sat, 19 Feb 2011 03:42:00 -0800

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You Break the Ice at Parties

Wed, 16 Feb 2011 04:46:00 -0800

I know nothing about this band, this song is a old, and probably not very known even its own time.

I heard it in a set by a great DJ last week... everything sounded super even and punchy. It was a sound I could barely describe. The horns were so crazy... After I dug up what it was, an 80's band with only one release... the track from vinyl (!?), I was at first bummed. It sounded quieter, less intense. But as soon as it got going, I was feeling it again. Tthe girl vocals will kill you. Muy defiant.

It's less than two minutes, and gone just when you start to get it. So hit replay, doy.

02_Break_the_Ice_at_Parties.mp3 Listen on Posterous

The Tesco Bombers. Break the Ice at Parties.

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