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Serge Gainsbourg & Brigitte Bardot - Bonnie And Clyde Man,...

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 18:39:00 -0700

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.

natgeofound: Daredevil water skiers ride a foamy wake through a...

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 13:37:15 -0700

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

"In the moment an emotion is expressed or an event reported on, I don’t quite feel the emotion or the..."

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 20:15:53 -0700

“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.

Twenty Awesome Covers From The US Space Program

Wed, 03 Apr 2013 14:48:00 -0700

Twenty Awesome Covers From The US Space Program

"The painful and inevitable struggle remains to create in a childlike and openhearted manner, but to..."

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 06:48:00 -0700

“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

minusbaby: “BGM 3” by Hirokazu “Hip” Tanaka [I think] (From...

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 15:49:00 -0700

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

"That’s what we need bots and algorithms for, to watch the videos we can’t watch ourselves and to..."

Wed, 13 Mar 2013 11:20:46 -0700

“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

natgeofound: Portrait of a csikos herdsman seated on his horse...

Tue, 12 Mar 2013 23:08:04 -0700

natgeofound:

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

Postcards from the new School of Life in Melbourne (via The...

Sat, 26 Jan 2013 10:18:18 -0800

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

The movie was just OK, but this particular incarnation of the...

Fri, 11 Jan 2013 15:06:00 -0800

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

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

Thu, 03 Jan 2013 10:36:00 -0800

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

(via jstn)

Mon, 24 Dec 2012 00:07:00 -0800

(via jstn)

thingsmagazine: The Acme Catalogue

Mon, 26 Nov 2012 17:21:30 -0800

thingsmagazine:

The Acme Catalogue

"…life does not consist mainly—or even largely—of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the..."

Mon, 05 Nov 2012 16:34:51 -0800

“…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

Couple things. First, this is really amazing cover art. Second,...

Sat, 27 Oct 2012 13:22:00 -0700

Couple things. First, this is really amazing cover art. Second, this album has some really great songs on it. That’s all.

“They called it major, which is to say, it’s important....

Tue, 02 Oct 2012 18:25:00 -0700

“They called it major, which is to say, it’s important. It’s a conservative viewpoint—things are fine as they are. For me, as a fairly depressed child, that attitude didn’t reflect my melancholy outlook.”

That’s Jason Beck aka Chilly Gonzales, as quoted in this interesting little New Yorker post. I’m loving this album so damn much.

Bill Clinton's Democratic Convention Speech: Conversations With a Teleprompter

Fri, 07 Sep 2012 22:23:00 -0700

Bill Clinton's Democratic Convention Speech: Conversations With a Teleprompter:

Part of the reason he talks back so much (nearly doubling the initial length of his speech, in this case) is that he likes the sound of his own voice. But there is something else: Clinton is such a master of rhetorical strategy—he commands such innate and reflexive mastery of what makes the spoken word resonate—that he cannot help but improve his speech as he gives it. He doesn’t ad lib in the sense that extras in a movie have a restaurant conversation. He improvises, in the sense that Miles Davis or Beethoven would come up with an enduring work of art on the spot.

And from there it goes into a nice play-by-play showing exactly how Clinton played off the teleprompter during different parts of the speech. Great piece about a great speech, and a truly gifted public speaker. If you haven’t seen it yet, do.

Bonus: Hendrik Hertzberg agrees.

Pretty clever stop-motion work from Part and Parcel. (via Design...

Fri, 31 Aug 2012 18:05:00 -0700

Pretty clever stop-motion work from Part and Parcel. (via Design Envy)

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Tue, 29 May 2012 19:58:05 -0700

The great Milton Glaser on failure. Basically success can be...

Fri, 23 Mar 2012 16:31:00 -0700

The great Milton Glaser on failure. Basically success can be limiting, and failure helps you learn. Watching this, and this documentary, Glaser seems to have attained a unique mix of playful curiosity, calm deliberation, emotional awareness, and a little bit of the rascal. I hope to be so cool (without caring at all about being cool, which is kind of the same thing) when I’m older.