July 2011
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HIPSTER RUNOFF's Carles on the lessons of Friday... →
Alright, not that I hadn’t decided this already, but I definitely need to start watching Friday Night Lights.
June 2011
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How your tiny whims tell a whole lot more about...
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May 2011
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April 2011
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“The short answer is, with a great deal of hard work and exploring. I always...”
– Hin Chua via contact blog (via photographsonthebrain)
March 2011
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WatchJohn Wooden on the difference in success and winning. What an amazing man - feel like I should watch this every single day.
“In restaurants he feels responsible to read every word of the menu. He calls the...”
– Incredible Esquire piece about Ray Towler, wrongfully imprisoned for nearly 29 years, and his wonderful appreciation for all things after finally being acquitted.
January 2011
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“Photojournalists are yesterday’s heroes. True, there are still some big names...”
– Jed Perl, The New Republic, Yesterday’s Heroes: Can we rescue great photojournalism?, a review of Susie Linfield’s The Cruel Radiance: Photography and Political Violence. (via futurejournalismproject)
November 2010
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“Since an encounter with an advanced interstellar intelligence would be...”
– Finally, I get a straightforward explanation of the ending of 2001: A Space Oddesy from Stanley Kubrick himself. Always interesting to note intent vs. critical perception of something.
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“According to Peter Jackson, who knows a little something about making Lord of...”
– The most bizarre thing I read all week: Kubrick directs The Beatles in Lord of the Rings? Mind grapes = blown.
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“Unsurprisingly, falling asleep can take some getting used to. Just as you are...”
– From a really, really fascinating piece on what it’s like on the International Space Station.
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“Trapped in our own private prisons, we get one day of parole each year, and that...”
– From the always interesting musings of Jonathan Harris.
October 2010
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“Two problems with whining: The first is that it doesn’t work. You can...”
– Great, great advice from Seth Godin
“2. You have little interest in getting clear on what exactly is the position...”
– Robin Hanson lists 20 reasons why your opinions “function more to signal loyalty and ability than to estimate truth”.
(Via Kottke)
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“Guess this is the last of the wine.”
– Last line of a note from Harper Lee to the CEO of Harper Collins bemoaning the end of books. Whether you scoff at the premise of the letter or not, that line is so, so beautiful…
Via letters of note
“The biggest challenge – and I think sometimes we fall so in love with our words...”
– Vanity Fair’s Bryan Burrough over at the Nieman Storyboard on writing narrative - good stuff.
Watchputthison:
Kanye and the G.O.O.D. Music clan brought their Dior Homme suits to the BET Awards.
September 2010
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“The more we got to meet people [in the media], it was—‘Oh! You’re f***ing...”
– From “America is a Joke,” NYMag’s excellent profile piece on Jon Stewart and his guidance of the Daily Show into a political and cultural powerhouse. Absolutely love Stewart and think he’s particularly right on in a lot of things he says about the media.
Console jocks →
A fantastic article by Patrick Hruby on the origins of Madden - a must read for anyone interested in sport, gaming, tech and especially the intersection of all three.
Sarah Palin: The Sound and the Fury →
Great Vanity Fair piece on Sarah Palin that proves you can still write something terrific even if not many sources will talk. More and more I am changing my stance on Palin from eye-rolling to genuine fear of her influence on our country - the woman is inauthentic, uncompassionate, and maybe worst of all, a bad tipper. Bad tippers are almost universally horrible people.
August 2010
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“Twitter would be so much better if there were no public (or private, even)...”
– Me, just now. (via leitch)
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“During the heyday of Life magazine, every editorial photographer wanted to shoot...”
– Some good thoughts from Jim Pickerell over at Black Star, where he’s predicting a rise in the demand for multimedia and video stories.
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WatchNice little mini-documentary from the guys over at Nice Kicks about what “For Love of the Game” means to a lot of the biggest stars in the NBA. Melo’s answer, about waking up and having a court on every corner that he could play on, is one of the things I honestly miss most about the US these days….
“This is what we do, humans. We tinker, and change, and endlessly imagine a more...”
– Ira Glass (speaking about factory farms) from s1e6 of This American Life, the television show. (via spaceminer)
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