February 2012
5 posts
Greg Leuch: iaminlikewithmybike: A jury in a civil... →
Speaking as somebody who was actually run over by a traffic cop on my commute, I can attest to the general antipathy that the NYPD has for cyclists and their limbs. I was raised to trust in the blanket trustworthiness of cops’ defense of rights and laws, but the NYPD, of late, has begun to betray that trust in incremental and worrisome ways.
iaminlikewithmybike:
A jury in a civil trial...
“This is how it works,” he said, as he peeled a yellow sticker with the name of a...”
– Oh, dang, anonymous Teen Vogue editor!
[“The Man Who Says No”, New York Times]
Object Cancers →
In any case, what seems more provocative here, on the level of design, would be to appropriate this protective stance and reuse it in the design of future objects, but emphasizing the other end: to allow for the scanning of any object designed or manufactured, but to to insert, in the form of watermarks, small glitches that would only become visible upon reprinting. We could call these object...
January 2012
7 posts
Open Distribution of iBooks Author Books
From the Terms and Conditions for iBooks Authors, an interesting note on open distribution of books built with the application, so long as you do not charge for them (which opens up a whole possible ecosystem of book sharing/creation/modification):
B. Distribution of your Work. As a condition of this License and provided you are in compliance with its terms, your Work may be distributed as...
“But to eat at Romera New York is to be told repeatedly that you are in the...”
– Pete Wells’ New York Times review of Romera, which sounds like a $245/person Portlandia episode.
AFC on Gagosian's Hirst Spot Drawing retrospective →
There is, we recognize, a historical danger here. Someday, the record of this exhibition might be dug up by a young art historian, or perhaps a blogger like us, or perhaps some sort of future blogger who does things with brainwaves. They’ll see that there was a massive show spread across every location of the most successful gallery of the time, entirely comprised of one of the most successful...
A Nice Note From Senator Gillibrand
For posterity, and the consumption of those who are interested today, a note from Senator Gillibrand explaining why—despite vocal opposition—she nevertheless supports and co-sponsors the SOPA bill:
January 11, 2012
Dear David,
Thank you for writing to me regarding S. 968, the PROTECT IP Act of 2011. I understand your concerns.
I am a cosponsor of this legislation because I...
December 2011
4 posts
My Favorite 20x200 Prints This Year
Jen asked us all at 20x200 to throw in our Top 10 20x200 Prints of 2011 (a list of which I think you’ll all have an opportunity to see soon). We released more prints this year than ever before, and the work—especially considering how much effort was required to release it—is beautiful. In putting together this list, I thought just a little bit about why I picked each print,...
Internet Smart People Aficionados: Nobody Has...
Andy Baio.
Kevin Slavin.
Am I crazy here? Let’s try this again, but use the conference headshots:
Andy Baio.
Kevin Slavin.
Enhance.
Enhance.
Am I right, people? Come on.
November 2011
7 posts
4 tags
Mixel, Flickr, and Playful Creation: Why Amateurs...
In 2004, I was posting about four pictures every day on Flickr. Signs, shoes, people on the street, and buildings were all fair game; I spent hours riding around the city at night taking pictures of bridges and trees to post early the next morning. Before 2004, I hadn’t considered myself a photographer at all—I only took snapshots of friends and family, and the most I expected of any...
Louis vs. Rick : Episode 8 : Grace
This is the most hilarious talking animal Tumblr I have read in the last three and a half weeks. It’s disrupting the Garfield market—huge.
louisvsrick:
3:01 PM LouisTheCat: rick LouisTheCat: rick LouisTheCat: rick RickDickens77: WHAT LouisTheCat: hey how do you make those big letters RickDickens77: Shift key. LouisTheCat: shift wtf is shift RickDickens77: Look at the keyboard,...
October 2011
8 posts
WatchHere’s an experiment in live sketching I did at Ignite NYC XIII at Web 2.0 Expo this Monday. My favorite talks are:
up in the top right, with @nickcrocker’s talk on how to change your behavior (using flossing as an example)
@sarahfeingold’s talk about intellectual property and ring pops (bottom left)
@Shaka_Lulu talking about how much better astronomy is when you apply time as...
Three Years Ago Today
Here’s a story for you. In the year before our wedding, we spent a week out in San Francisco trying out caterers. Now, this is a treat that is really best enjoyed if you are getting married in Marin County, because every caterer gives you a huge free lunch, and you’re surrounded by redwoods and birds and Californians who are serving you food. At the end of it, we went with a guy named...
The Puppeteer and the CEO
When Jim Henson died in 1990, I wore a black armband and brought my stuffed Kermit the Frog to school the next morning. Henson, by way of the Muppets, had been a central ingredient in my (and probably most American children’s) media diet since I was two, watching Sesame Street and marveling at the real-life presence of imaginary birds and mammoths on a street very like the street I lived...
WatchFrom the Wikipedia entry for “Controlled burn”:
Back burning is a way of reducing the amount of flammable material during a bushfire by starting small fires along a man made or natural firebreak in front of a main fire front. It is called back burning because the small fires are designed to ‘burn back towards the main fire front’. The basic reason for back burning is so...
(SL) DISTIN 15: This is what happens. →
sldistin:
Looking, really looking, at art (some might say seeing, some might say feeling) is like this: It is like all the other really amazing things in life. (You know what they are. Everyone has their own. Though, really, there are few things that are exceptionally amazing. This is one of those things.)…
Sara’s distilled, for visual art, one of the things I really love about...
September 2011
5 posts
Biggie Is A Remix
On August 9th, I sampled hip-hop:
Then, on September 16th, Tumblr sampled me:
Long live the remix!
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Milestones
Fast as time seems to pass for me these days, 2001 now feels far away. I met my amazing wife nine years ago, moved to the apartment I live in today a few months later, got married in 2008. I’ve changed jobs four times in the last ten years, was hit by a car once, and mourned the death of each of my grandparents. All of this happened after September 11th, 2001. At the time, I had just moved...
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August 2011
8 posts
Do These Things
Write love letters. Doodle. Eat tasty food. Walk around your town. Ride bikes. Go on long trips to places you’ve never been. Spend time in photo booths. Frequent local businesses. Be a local business. Be honest, but not brutal. Memorize your vows. Sing. Learn letterpress. Publish. Be a regular at a restaurant you love. Speak in person. Go camping. Take a hike. Cook one thing very well. Serve it to...
“It’s a choice whether you, or anyone else, wants to accept the falsehood that...”
– What they’re “protecting” us from - Anil Dash (via jenbee)
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July 2011
6 posts
“You are in the stream of life whether you like it or not. And if you’re going to...”
– Life is not a movie. You build what you can, but you must build.
A note to artists from Lawrence Weiner.
And more about responsibilities from Gina Trapani.
(via sldistin)
