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"It’s really hard for charity and art to sit side-by-side. So if you’re saving Japan and my project..."

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 12:24:15 -0500

“It’s really hard for charity and art to sit side-by-side. So if you’re saving Japan and my project is right next to you and I’m publishing my first book of poetry, you make me look like an asshole without even trying. And for that reason, we just cut it out because we thought creativity deserves its own space. We already feel too bashful about pursuing what we actually care about.”

- Yancey Strickler, co-founder of Kickstarter (via beautyinbreakdown)

Scaffolding off of Jefferson Market (Taken with Instagram at...

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 15:18:18 -0500

Scaffolding off of Jefferson Market (Taken with Instagram at Jefferson Market Garden)

#guilty

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:23:09 -0500

#guilty

Irony

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:42:23 -0500

newspeedwayboogie:

if i had to pick one statement that to me encapsulates the dilemma the media business is in right now, it would be this

whitneymcn:

The industries that are having the greatest difficulty understanding, and adapting to, an era where the discovery and curation of great content are increasingly important are those that were themselves built on the discovery and curation of great content.

Dream of the 1890s - Portlandia

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 14:51:00 -0500

Dream of the 1890s - Portlandia

Ceci n'est pas un highlighted post

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:48:00 -0500

… and that joke only makes sense on the dashboard.

DonorsChoose.org featured in today’s Doonesbury. Now go...

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:27:25 -0500

DonorsChoose.org featured in today’s Doonesbury.

Now go donate!

“These songs were written from scratch, had nothing to do...

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:03:08 -0500

“These songs were written from scratch, had nothing to do with anyone or anything else but my own expression, my own colors on my own canvas.”

My first car was a 1978 FJ40, same color even. And I’d...

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:14:21 -0500

My first car was a 1978 FJ40, same color even. And I’d kill to still have it.

Wow. Just wow.

Sun, 22 Jan 2012 20:38:32 -0500

Wow. Just wow.

"Those who count on quote ‘Hollywood’ for support need to understand that this industry..."

Sat, 21 Jan 2012 17:18:05 -0500

““Those who count on quote ‘Hollywood’ for support need to understand that this industry is watching very carefully who’s going to stand up for them when their job is at stake. Don’t ask me to write a check for you when you think your job is at risk and then don’t pay any attention to me when my job is at stake.””

- So says MPAA chief, former US Senator, and apparent extortionist Chris Dodd.

MPAA Directly & Publicly Threatens Politicians Who Aren’t Corrupt Enough To Stay Bought | Techdirt

"Really? ‘Nerds’? You know, actually, I think the word you’re looking for is ‘experts,’ to enlighten..."

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 23:36:55 -0500

““Really? ‘Nerds’? You know, actually, I think the word you’re looking for is ‘experts,’ to enlighten you so your laws won’t backfire and break the Internet.””

- JON STEWART, on members of Congress considering the SOPA and PIPA bills exasperatedly calling for “nerds” to help them understand SOPA and PIPA, on The Daily Show.

Why does Congress bother convening at all?

(via inothernews)

Emergency NY Tech Meetup #StopSOPA #StopPipa

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 15:20:12 -0500

@Heif

@Rasiej

@CShirky

@BradUSV

@CNN

Team @Boxee

Emergency NY Tech Meetup #StopSOPA #StopPipa

Maurizio Cattelan @ the Guggenheim (Taken with instagram)

Sat, 14 Jan 2012 13:16:31 -0500

Maurizio Cattelan @ the Guggenheim (Taken with instagram)

Trailer for the new Wes Anderson - Moonrise Kingdom

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 22:18:14 -0500

Trailer for the new Wes Anderson - Moonrise Kingdom

“Witnessing this was a draining feeling being terrified...

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 14:31:40 -0500

“Witnessing this was a draining feeling being terrified for other people’s lives all day long, it’s life or death. Letting go of that rope one time can change your life and not many people will ever experience that in their life.” - Kelly Slater

“The Future Belongs to the Curious” Great work by...

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 10:18:33 -0500

“The Future Belongs to the Curious”

Great work by @Skillshare

"Nicole Thomas, 23, an art director from Brooklyn, said she nearly cried when Timehop reminded her of..."

Sat, 07 Jan 2012 12:33:38 -0500

“Nicole Thomas, 23, an art director from Brooklyn, said she nearly cried when Timehop reminded her of her good fortune in landing a job last year. Austin Sevener, 26, a survey programmer in Fort Worth, said he hadn’t realized that he had bought his wedding ring on the same day as a lunar eclipse.

It is “the same instinct that drives people to write diaries,” said Jonathan Wegener, 26, a Web entrepreneur in Brooklyn, who started the site with Benny Wong, also 26, a programmer. “That desire to sort of capture a moment in time and capture your thinking and your world so that you can look back on it later.”

Unlike Facebook’s controversial new timeline feature, which makes a user’s Facebook history more readily viewable by friends (including those embarrassing old college photos), Timehop is more private, since the e-mails are sent only to the subscriber.

Aram Sinnreich, an assistant professor of media studies at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, N.J., said that Timehop is part of “a radically new moment in our cultural history” emerging around what he called “the quantified self.” A new wave of Web applications, he said, is empowering people to track, sort and analyze their own online behavior — in much the same way that Web sites and advertisers already track and analyze consumers.

It’s also changing how we view ourselves. “We are beginning to see ourselves not just from the inside, as an actor doing something on a daily basis, but from the outside — understanding what we look like to the world around us and developing a kind of hybrid identity,” Dr. Sinnreich said.

David Fraga, a business developer for Shutterstock, a photo agency in New York, said that using Timehop has made him more conscious of the future memories he is creating on social media sites like Facebook. “I’m not just sharing with friends but also with my future self,” he said.”

- Agreed — TimeHop has become my favorite email of the day.

"Right now Congress is considering two bills—the Protect IP Act, and the Stop Online Piracy Act..."

Wed, 21 Dec 2011 09:51:48 -0500

“

Right now Congress is considering two bills—the Protect IP Act, and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA)—that would be laughable if they weren’t in fact real. Honestly, if a friend wrote these into a piece of fiction about government oversight gone amok, I’d have to tell them that they were too one-dimensional, too obviously anticonstitutional.

Make no mistake: These bills aren’t simply unconstitutional, they are anticonstitutional. They would allow for the wholesale elimination of entire websites, domain names, and chunks of the DNS (the underlying structure of the whole Internet), based on nothing more than the “good faith” assertion by a single party that the website is infringing on a copyright of the complainant. The accused doesn’t even have to be aware that the complaint has been made.

I’m not kidding.

”

- MythBuster Adam Savage: SOPA Could Destroy the Internet as We Know It - Popular Mechanics

"And we morph again, from a manufacturing economy to a service economy to a software economy. Again,..."

Thu, 15 Dec 2011 12:32:50 -0500

“And we morph again, from a manufacturing economy to a service economy to a software economy. Again, not everyone will be writing code. But many more people will be ordering it, writing it, managing it, and interacting with it. It makes sense to understand it and to be able to create at least a little.”

- Smart piece from Dan Frommer on why code should be the second language you teach your kids. Couldn’t agree more. (via arainert)