Classic Ralph Lauren
Pentax 35mm & Kodak Tri-X 400
This.
Men who explain things
Classic article by Rebecca Solnit on the societal construct when men explain things to women. Worth a re-read if you’ve read it before; a must-read if you haven’t.
Most women fight wars on two fronts, one for whatever the putative topic is and one simply for the right to speak, to have ideas, to be acknowledged to be in possession of facts and truths, to have value, to be a human being. Things have certainly gotten better, but this war won’t end in my lifetime. I’m still fighting it, for myself certainly, but also for all those younger women who have something to say, in the hope that they will get to say it.
(via tiffehr)
…I’d much rather be someone who tries and fails then someone who makes fun of people because they look funny before they’re good at the thing they are practicing.
Hellbox. Damage. Smelt. Recast.: On Writing (50,000 words in 30 days, this year)
Word.
[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]
Yowza. That is damn near Burial-like. I dig it. Don’t miss the original, though; there’s no denying the F+tM wall of sound. So good.
Zane Lowe just premiered The Weeknd’s take on Florence + the Machine’s new single Shake It Out. It’s very dark and sexy, obviously. No singing from Abel’s part (unfortunately), just additional producing and baller beats by the xo-crew.
Typeverything.com
Initial sketches of the Smidgen font by Ken Barber.
Swoon. Look, look at that G! and the Q! Come on.
Amazon’s Kindle Cloud Reader
Neato. An in-browser reader. Now I can read my Kindle books on every piece of Apple hardware I own.
Dude. (:
“Lego likenesses of the Roman god Jupiter, his sister Juno and the Italian astronomer Galileo will accompany the Juno space probe. Photo courtesy The Lego Group.”
Question: how many requests will The Lego Group have to receive before they make them available for retail?
Do. want.
The bittersweet bridges of Brooklyn
Swoon.
Typeverything.com - The bittersweet bridges of Brooklyn
(via moot-i-am)
Historical Disney Princesses
Definitely worth checking these out. My favorite is Snow White, from sixteenth-century Germany.
I think Ariel’s my favorite of the bunch, but these are all pretty fabulous (don’t miss the info on each).
In [James Blake’s] world, the instruments that play the chords and those that supply the rhythm are the same thing. The melody is the beat. It’s inside of the meter, flitting furtively about, struggling not to be found.
Erik Martz, MFR: The Golden Age: Bleeps and Bloops
I really like the rhythm of that phrase.
James Blake and Jamie Woon go hand-in-hand in so far as I became aware of and interested in both around the same time. I like Blake’s minimalistic production for the same reason I like Woon’s by turns lush and twitchy style: they do it well.
The Shadow Scholar
You’ve never heard of me, but there’s a good chance that you’ve read some of my work. I’m a hired gun, a doctor of everything, an academic mercenary. My customers are your students. I promise you that. Somebody in your classroom uses a service that you can’t detect, that you can’t defend against, that you may not even know exists.
This makes me sad (and feel exceptionally square).
What troubles me most is…how smug Dante is. He “see[s] where [he’s] vulnerable to ethical scrutiny” but it took forty. eight.¹ paragraphs to get there.
It might be too easy to cherry-pick the rejected independent study as the straw that broke this writer-to-be’s back, giving license to embark on a “oh yeah? Well, watch this, motherfuckers” career, but that undeserved swagger must have started there, no?
“Say what you want about me, but I am not the reason your students cheat.” Well, no, but hey, way to be part of the solution!
And now I’m going to go wait for the UPS guy to bring my copy of “The Copyeditor’s Handbook”.
¹ Dude, I counted.
(Source: givemesomethingtoread)
MP3: Levek - “Look On The Bright Side”
I like this tune. Kinda ’70s, modern arrangement; I’m sure you need shag carpeting to appreciate it fully, but still. (:
*MP3: Levek - “Look On The Bright Side”
Levek’s new 7” will be out 11/16 via Father/Daughter.
(Ian Anderson)
