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April 25, 2013

Serge Gainsbourg & Brigitte Bardot - Bonnie And Clyde

Man, this song. I heard it for the first time on this week’s Mad Men, liked it, thought maybe it was Gainsbourg and also felt like I’ve completely failed at this music listening thing to be only hearing it now, via a TV show no less. Or maybe it’s just that stumbling on something new, music-related and fantastic via completely unpersonalized mass media (as opposed to hyper-curated content drips like Twitter, Rdio or This Is My Jam) feels pretty unfamiliar at this point, and my age.

Or maybe I’m just a snob who thinks he’s cooler than the snobby TV show he’s watching, and isn’t.

Anyway, I was mostly just excited because it’s great, and I’m glad I found it, and I’m surprised it has a music video, and here is the music video.

Also, the majestic, crescendo-that-never-ends vibe of this reminds me of the tail-end of Deerhunter’s “Desire Lines” — right about here to be exact. If I still played records in public I would totally mix the former into the latter. And those would be 10 totally sublime minutes.

April 24, 2013

natgeofound:

Daredevil water skiers ride a foamy wake through a rock tunnel off St. George’s Bay, Beirut, Lebanon, April 1958. Photograph by Thomas J. Abercrombie, National Geographic

natgeofound:

Daredevil water skiers ride a foamy wake through a rock tunnel off St. George’s Bay, Beirut, Lebanon, April 1958. Photograph by Thomas J. Abercrombie, National Geographic

April 22, 2013

“In the moment an emotion is expressed or an event reported on, I don’t quite feel the emotion or the event; the names for things partially and temporarily replace their actuality. The need for this relief may explain the desperate quality of my and perhaps your online reading, and of much that is written online or said into TV cameras. Language in the utterance is some escape from what it says. But then the world that is not bits or syllables resumes its undeflected course.”

Benjamin Kunkel on the Boston Marathon bombings, thoughtful and thought-provoking.

April 3, 2013

Twenty Awesome Covers From The US Space Program

Twenty Awesome Covers From The US Space Program

March 19, 2013

“The painful and inevitable struggle remains to create in a childlike and openhearted manner, but to be un-wistful and cruel when judging one’s creation.”

Christoph Niemann

March 18, 2013

minusbaby:

BGM 3” by Hirokazu “Hip” Tanaka [I think] (From “Mario Paint” [1992])

The best SNES tune.

Are we sure Boards if Canada didn’t write this? Cause you totally could’ve fooled me. #toadstandingalone

March 13, 2013

“That’s what we need bots and algorithms for, to watch the videos we can’t watch ourselves and to tell us what’s important in the moments we weren’t concentrating on when they happened.”

HAUTE POP 

March 12, 2013

natgeofound:

Portrait of a csikos herdsman seated on his horse in Hajdu, Hungary, 1930.Photograph by Hans Hildebrand, National Geographic

natgeofound:

Portrait of a csikos herdsman seated on his horse in Hajdu, Hungary, 1930.
Photograph by Hans Hildebrand, National Geographic

January 26, 2013

Postcards from the new School of Life in Melbourne (via The Design Files)

Postcards from the new School of Life in Melbourne (via The Design Files)

January 11, 2013

The movie was just OK, but this particular incarnation of the poster is just really pretty. (via Adrian Curry)

The movie was just OK, but this particular incarnation of the poster is just really pretty. (via Adrian Curry)

January 3, 2013

Really loving these new George Orwell covers, designed by David Pearson for Penguin.

Really loving these new George Orwell covers, designed by David Pearson for Penguin.

December 24, 2012

(via jstn)

(via jstn)

November 26, 2012

thingsmagazine:

The Acme Catalogue

thingsmagazine:

The Acme Catalogue

November 5, 2012

“…life does not consist mainly—or even largely—of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thoughts that is forever blowing through one’s head.”

Mark Twain, as quoted in this article about the em-dash