Jan
27
min’s 2011 “Hottest Launch of the Year” Award
Mr. Magazine (Samir Husni) and min online selected Untitled as one of their Hottest Launches of the Year for 2011.
BlogWritings, musings and generally lighthearted banter
Jan
27
growhousegrow: Via archiemcphee: Bourrasque in an art…
Via archiemcphee:
Bourrasque in an art installation created by London-based designer Paul Cocksedge. It’s meant to represent a large collection of papers blowing away in the wind. Made for France’s City of Lyon’s annual Festival of Lights, each sheet of “paper” is made from a special conductive material that lights up when a current is passed through it. All are the exact size of a standard piece of printer paper and were formed by hand to obtain their dynamic shapes. Over 200 sheets make up this installation as it stretches over 80ft in length. Awesome!
See more photos of the Bourrasque installation over at My Modern Metropolis!
Jan
27
Notable typefaces of 2011
Typographica shares their favorite typefaces of 2011.The idea is simple: I invite a group of writers, educators, type makers and type users to look back at 2011 and pick the release that excited them most.
Jan
27
theavc: Band claims it costs $100,000 to make it in indie…
In fact, it costs more than $100,000 to try to “make it” today, including $30,000 for “training,” $25,000 for gear, $1,000 to “pay a guy to send email blasts to databases of hip music blogs,”and $18,000 to live in New York City, because shaggy-haired rock guys are required by federal law to live in New York City. Man, were the Ramones actually Rockefellers or something?
We’re going to tread lightly here, because the level of delusion in this story could potentially suck us all into a bottomless vortex of self-entitlement from which no amount of whining to wealthy parents will ever free us.
Yeah. Sometimes you read something that’s so wrong you want to yell everything that is wrong about it all at once, so nothing has enough time to become a fully-formed sentence. This is one of those times.
Jan
26
photojojo: Dennis Maitland figured out how to take…
Dennis Maitland figured out how to take #fromwhereistand to the next level…that level being the top floor of buildings all over Detroit.
Jan
26
EVERY SUPER BOWL LOGO – EVER.
A crowd pleaser for the football freaks out there. While you suffer through this weekend’s Pro Bowl – the appendix of pro sports – take a look back through the Big Game’s logo history. Every one a winner! (Btw, the cost of preferred seats at the first Super bowl? $10.)
Jan
26
"While anxiety is defined by uncertainty, human anxiety is greatly amplified by our ability to…"
“While anxiety is defined by uncertainty, human anxiety is greatly amplified by our ability to imagine the future, and our place in it, even a future that is physically impossible. With imagination we can ruminate over that yet to be experienced, possibly impossible scenario. We use this creative capacity to great advantage when we envision how to make our lives better, but we can just as easily put it to work in less productive ways — worrying excessively about the outcome of things. Some concern about outcomes is essential to success in meeting life’s challenges and opportunities. But at some point, most of us probably worry more than we need to. This raises the questions: How much fear and worry is too much? How do we know when we have skipped the line from normal fear and anxiety to a disorder?”
- Searching the brain and for the roots of fear and anxiety (via curiositycounts)
- Searching the brain and for the roots of fear and anxiety (via curiositycounts)
Jan
25
washingtonpoststyle: The New England Patriots’ wide receiver…
The New England Patriots’ wide receiver Chad Ochocinco discovers John Boehner while watching the State of the Union last night.
View the full Twitter episode (in which Boehner replies).
Jan
25
"So let me get this straight: Newt Gingrich’s wife had a chance to have sex with other people, and…"
“So let me get this straight: Newt Gingrich’s wife had a chance to have sex with other people, and decided she only wanted to have sex with Newt?”
- Chris Rock (via brooklynmutt)
- Chris Rock (via brooklynmutt)
Jan
25
awkwardcampaign: It’s hard to decide which part of this is more…
It’s hard to decide which part of this is more awkward.
(AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
Jan
25
"One sure giveaway of quack medicine is the claim that a product can treat any ailment. There are,…"
“One sure giveaway of quack medicine is the claim that a product can treat any ailment. There are, sadly, no panaceas. But some things come close, and exercise is one of them.”
- As doctors never tire of reminding people, exercise protects against a host of illnesses, from heart attacks and dementia to diabetes and infection. Just why it has such magical properties is, at last, being understood. (via theeconomist)
- As doctors never tire of reminding people, exercise protects against a host of illnesses, from heart attacks and dementia to diabetes and infection. Just why it has such magical properties is, at last, being understood. (via theeconomist)
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