Tumblr (3.0; @tangentialism)http://do.thatthing.org/When I was nine, my parents took me to a holiday fair at the mall, where I had my face painted as a raindeer’s. Very late that night, I refused to wash off the makeup and insisted that my dad take my picture and have the film developed at the one-hour photo in town. If I couldn’t be a raindeer for the rest of my life, I wanted to fall asleep with a picture of my raindeer self and look at it forever, but it was too late for my dad to take the film anywhere, and I remember crying myself to sleep that night. That picture’s in a brown leather satchel in my parents’ living room; I am very happy in it.http://do.thatthing.org/post/133266766http://do.thatthing.org/post/133266766Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:16:00 -0400<object width="400" height="336"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/f-oaGzyL8Mo&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/f-oaGzyL8Mo&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent"></embed></object><br/><br/>http://do.thatthing.org/post/124559582http://do.thatthing.org/post/124559582Tue, 16 Jun 2009 08:56:37 -0400<a href="http://walrusmagazine.com/articles/2009.05-field-notes-chop-chop-square/">Chop Chop Square: Inside Saudi Arabia's brutal justice system</a>http://do.thatthing.org/post/101597005http://do.thatthing.org/post/101597005Wed, 29 Apr 2009 17:38:34 -0400<img src="http://9.media.tumblr.com/A3n54dLyYmw39bl9Y9Ruc645o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://do.thatthing.org/post/101595386http://do.thatthing.org/post/101595386Wed, 29 Apr 2009 17:33:00 -0400Me: for lunch today, did you have a sandwich?<br /> Stranger: No, I did not have a sandwich<br /> Me: seemed like a pattern.<br /> Me: actually<br /> Me: let me see if i can guess what you had for lunch in six questions<br /> Me: game?<br /> Stranger: Alright<br /> Me: ok, question 1<br /> Me: could you eat it while walking?<br /> Stranger: No<br /> Me: does it require a spoon to eat?<br /> Stranger: No<br /> Me: was it primarily meat?<br /> Stranger: Yes<br /> Me: did it once moo?<br /> Stranger: Nope<br /> Me: was it roast chicken?<br /> Stranger: Nope but close<br /> Me: i'll go turkey<br /> Stranger: sorry it was duck<br /> Me: ah, sophisticated<br /> Me: i don't know why i didn't give you credit<br /> Me: i'd have chosen duck too<br /> Me: it's the steak of birds<br /> Stranger: it ishttp://do.thatthing.org/post/91375967http://do.thatthing.org/post/91375967Mon, 30 Mar 2009 19:24:00 -0400<img src="http://8.media.tumblr.com/A3n54dLyYli7e39uFri59Fkpo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>from Mike Rohde’s sketches at SXSWi 2009http://do.thatthing.org/post/89849395http://do.thatthing.org/post/89849395Wed, 25 Mar 2009 19:40:34 -0400<p><img width="300" src="http://tangentialism.com/shares/mugatu/geithner.jpg"/></p> <p><img height="238" width="300" src="http://tangentialism.com/shares/mugatu/ferrell.jpg"/></p>http://do.thatthing.org/post/89099591http://do.thatthing.org/post/89099591Mon, 23 Mar 2009 14:41:18 -0400<img src="http://6.media.tumblr.com/A3n54dLyYl6yreunXAoSfrfpo1_500.png"/><br/><br/>From the now-pretty-much-gone Seattle P-I. Good job, the media business. [via <a href="http://gawker.com/5172776/snarky-farewell-from-seattle-pi-staffer">gawker</a> / <a href="http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20090317/someone-at-the-seattle-post-intelligencer-gets-the-last-word/">all things d</a>]http://do.thatthing.org/post/87459346http://do.thatthing.org/post/87459346Tue, 17 Mar 2009 22:53:31 -0400“Any night of the week, you be drunk and depressed, even like three, four in the morning, you pick up the phone and call me. Even if I’m asleep, I’ll pick up. You say “Yo, it’s Nando.” I’ll be like, “You da best,” and hang up.”<br/><br/> - <em>cool loud dude on NJ Transit</em>http://do.thatthing.org/post/80293864http://do.thatthing.org/post/80293864Sat, 21 Feb 2009 15:06:00 -0500L: Oh, man, you gotta wash that sweatshirt. It smells.<br /> Me: Really? Like what?<br /> L: *sniffs*<br /> L: Ew. Like a lot of people sat on it.http://do.thatthing.org/post/79465280http://do.thatthing.org/post/79465280Wed, 18 Feb 2009 16:47:40 -0500<embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://do.thatthing.org/swf/audio_player.swf?audio_file=http://www.tumblr.com/audio_file/75679807/A3n54dLyYjk0sztlXSHNZRaf&color=FFFFFF" height="27" width="207" quality="best"></embed><br/><br/>Kirshbaum, Bach Suites for Cello, Suite no. 2 in D minor, Courantehttp://do.thatthing.org/post/75679807http://do.thatthing.org/post/75679807Wed, 04 Feb 2009 15:52:20 -0500<object width="400" height="336"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Y3Vcoq-QRo4&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Y3Vcoq-QRo4&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent"></embed></object><br/><br/>Nice Dress. [via <a href="http://coudal.com">coudal</a>]http://do.thatthing.org/post/62804599http://do.thatthing.org/post/62804599Wed, 03 Dec 2008 09:06:48 -0500<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="300" data="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=2233206&server=vimeo.com&fullscreen=1&show_title=1&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF"><param name="quality" value="best" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="scale" value="showAll" /><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=2233206&server=vimeo.com&fullscreen=1&show_title=1&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF" /><embed src="http://www.vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=2233206&server=www.vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF&fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="300"></embed></object><br/><br/>from <a href="http://www.basedesign.com/sections/basemotion/perspectives/index.html">Perspectives</a>, looking at the meaning in the spaces between words. [via <a href="http://swissmiss.typepad.com/">Swissmiss</a>]http://do.thatthing.org/post/61548975http://do.thatthing.org/post/61548975Tue, 25 Nov 2008 15:56:09 -0500<object width="400" height="336"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ewalHF0T0GY&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ewalHF0T0GY&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent"></embed></object><br/><br/>http://do.thatthing.org/post/58366758http://do.thatthing.org/post/58366758Thu, 06 Nov 2008 15:54:30 -0500<img src="http://18.media.tumblr.com/A3n54dLyYfwexfkmFxeW4ka4o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://do.thatthing.org/post/57952647http://do.thatthing.org/post/57952647Tue, 04 Nov 2008 13:22:06 -0500<p>Last night, I watched as Barack Obama—who I hope will be the first black President of the United States—shed tears onstage as he talked about the death of his grandmother, who is white. On the eve of the election, it was incredibly hard for me to see; I lost both my Chinese grandparents last winter, and my mother’s mother, who was Irish-American, died a few years ago. We heard a lot in the last year about whether or not Obama is or isn’t “black enough”, assuming that a prominent figure NEEDS that sort of racial quorum—to be black, or white—to win the presidency. He has to fall on one side or another of that fence, but what would that have meant to his grandmother?</p> <p>As an American of mixed race, I’ve floated between two cultures my entire life. Ostensibly, it’s what America is about, but you couldn’t tell by watching this election. Barack Obama is black, to be sure, and it’s amazing that we could have our first black president by tomorrow; but he’s incredibly special to me, not just because He’s Mixed Like Me, but also because I treasure the complicated road that a leader of mixed race will have walked. Obama is black, white, Indonesian, Kansan, Hawaiian; and while he’s not quite any of those things completely, he has had to synthesize an identity from all of that—a consensus identity. Being mixed race doesn’t give you the confidence of being any one thing, which can be hard, but it also frees you from some of the dogma and prejudice; you have to figure out the best things to take away from your cultures and embody those things in your life. Rather that being part of any ethnic group, those groups become part of you.</p> <p>At my wedding last month, all but one of the five babies running around the venue were of mixed race—Korean, Egyptian, Texan, Mexican, Indonesian, Jewish. It’s not nearly as rare as it seemed to be when I was a kid; rather, it’s become a common expression of what it means to be American. America looks like this now—we all look like this now, to a certain extent—and the look comes with a deeper understanding of diversity—of race, religion, politics and opinions. Barack Obama grew up thinking about these things, and he brings them—for the first time—to the front door of the White House. That’s why, a few minutes ago, I walked into an elementary school (Puerto Rican, Jewish, Dominican) and voted for him.</p> <p>Whatever drives your decision, please take the opportunity today and vote.</p>http://do.thatthing.org/post/57952476http://do.thatthing.org/post/57952476Tue, 04 Nov 2008 13:21:32 -0500<img src="http://16.media.tumblr.com/A3n54dLyYe5lqxk8EwmKNW5jo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>Finding something inspiring to talk about at our wedding. Noted: writers generally bearish on marriage.http://do.thatthing.org/post/51134406http://do.thatthing.org/post/51134406Sun, 21 Sep 2008 15:23:00 -0400<img src="http://11.media.tumblr.com/A3n54dLyYdpmj7o93z72qKOS_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://do.thatthing.org/post/49568363http://do.thatthing.org/post/49568363Wed, 10 Sep 2008 11:01:12 -0400<img src="http://13.media.tumblr.com/A3n54dLyYdn3pxdkA356SWEw_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>the Esquire e-ink insert, removed from the magazine and connected to the board that rotates the text highlights.http://do.thatthing.org/post/49307140http://do.thatthing.org/post/49307140Mon, 08 Sep 2008 16:39:00 -0400<img src="http://20.media.tumblr.com/A3n54dLyYdn3p3f4d51Ffjqb_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>the Esquire e-ink insert, unplugged from power and the sequencer.http://do.thatthing.org/post/49307070http://do.thatthing.org/post/49307070Mon, 08 Sep 2008 16:38:21 -0400