Ain't No Method

fly for freedom painted hawk

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 02:09:27 -0400

fly for freedom painted hawk

dataJocky: self portrait of the artist at work.

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 01:09:34 -0400

dataJocky: self portrait of the artist at work.

learned a couple of things today: 1) the bay used to be wider 2)...

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 01:09:31 -0400

learned a couple of things today: 1) the bay used to be wider 2) the garden is haunted

Get Psyched! (via flickr)

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 01:02:00 -0400

Get Psyched! (via flickr)

“Things are really bad when secessionism is the only...

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 20:33:28 -0400

“Things are really bad when secessionism is the only freely available form of decent entertainment. It remains unclear how serious the clamour for Absarokan statehood really was, or when and how it ended.”

“Charles Johnson’s term “fauxtography,” of course,...

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 17:33:00 -0400

“Charles Johnson’s term “fauxtography,” of course, suggests that there is something “true” about photography, at least photography that isn’t posed or Photoshopped. And in recent years, the mainstream press has embraced this orthodox view. The principle is straightforward. Zero tolerance. Allow no digital manipulation. No posing. If a photographer uses any one of a variety of Photoshop tools, fire him.” (via Photography as a Weapon - Errol Morris - New York Times Blog)

"In the 1990s, a flurry of academics and journalists wrote books lamenting the decline of community..."

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 20:01:28 -0400

“In the 1990s, a flurry of academics and journalists wrote books lamenting the decline of community and predicting that it would reappear in some fashion in the new century. I think that is beginning to happen now in the downtowns of America, and I believe, for all its imperfections and inequalities, that the demographic inversion ultimately will do more good than harm. We will never return—nor would most of us want to return—to the close-knit but frequently constricting form of community life that prevailed 50 years ago. But, as we rearrange ourselves in and around many of our big cities, we are groping toward the new communities of the twenty-first century”

- Demographic Inversion

"Aside from the matter of actual violence, drugs, and squalor, there was the fact that in the 1970s..."

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 20:52:08 -0400

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Aside from the matter of actual violence, drugs, and squalor, there was the fact that in the 1970s New York City was not a part of the United States at all. It was an offshore interzone with no shopping malls, few major chains, very few born-again Christians who had not been sent there on a mission, no golf courses, no subdivisions.

…[now] the city has changed in ways I could not have pictured. The tenements are mostly still standing, but I could not afford to live in any of my former apartments, including the ones I found desperately shabby when I was much more inured to shabbiness. Downtown, even the places that used to seem permanently beyond the pale have been colonized by prosperity. Instead of disappearing, local history has been preserved as a seasoning, most visibly in names of bars. The economy has gone bad, but money shows no signs of loosening its grip. New York is neither the Wonder City nor a half-populated ruin but a vulnerable, overcrowded, anxious, half-deluded, all-too-human town, shaken by a cataclysm nobody could have foreseen. I don’t live there anymore, and I have trouble going there and walking around because the streets are too haunted by the ghosts of my own history. I wasn’t born in New York, and I may never live there again, and just thinking about it makes me melancholy, but I was changed forever by it, and my imagination is manacled to it, and I wear its mark the way you wear a scar. Whatever happens, whether I like it or not, New York City is fated always to remain my home.

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- Luc Sante — My Lost City

"When I was born, humanity was 95 per cent illiterate. Since I’ve been born, the population has..."

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 02:51:27 -0400

“When I was born, humanity was 95 per cent illiterate. Since I’ve been born, the population has doubled and that total population is now 65 per cent literate. That’s a gain of 130-fold of the literacy. When humanity is primarily illiterate, it needs leaders to understand and get the information and deal with it. When we are at the point where the majority of humans them-selves are literate, able to get the information, we’re in an entirely new relationship to Universe. We are at the point where the integrity of the individual counts and not what the political leadership or the religious leadership says to do.”

- Buckminster Fuller

My Mom with Tom Servo

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 12:04:32 -0400

My Mom with Tom Servo

"Graphic design. This one’s dead easy. You just compare the entire set of pixels on a projected..."

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 02:26:35 -0400

“Graphic design. This one’s dead easy. You just compare the entire set of pixels on a projected page of Wired to the entire set of all pixels of all paper pages ever scanned by Google. Set the creatometer on stun and generate the ultimate graphic image. Oh, and the same goes for all that music digitized in your iPod, only much more so. Why mix songs on “random” when you can tear songs down to raw wavelengths in an awesome petabyte mash-up? Then you can patent that instead of just copyrighting it.”

- Greg Sterling

Would you trade your car for a bike?

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 12:57:54 -0400

Would you trade your car for a bike?: Hell yes!

CamSpace: image tracking game controller

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 16:22:11 -0400

CamSpace: image tracking game controller

Zoomii: Tiled Amazon UI

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 15:13:59 -0400

Zoomii: Tiled Amazon UI

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Sat, 14 Jun 2008 17:30:20 -0400

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Sat, 14 Jun 2008 17:00:11 -0400

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Mon, 09 Jun 2008 15:15:16 -0400

Achewood - June 5, 2008

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 03:31:40 -0400

Achewood - June 5, 2008

American Drivers: A menace at home and abroad The 28-year-old...

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 15:12:03 -0400

American Drivers: A menace at home and abroad

The 28-year-old driver was apparently drunk and fell asleep when he crashed into the race Sunday, police investigator Jose Alfredo Rodriguez said Monday.

NX7X7028 (via vw74karmann)

Fri, 30 May 2008 18:32:32 -0400

NX7X7028 (via vw74karmann)