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Schone Bridal Is Opening a Boutique in Gowanus, Brooklyn!

Tue, 07 May 2013 15:00:16 -0400

Schone Bridal Is Opening a Boutique in Gowanus, Brooklyn!

Imagine a World Without Hate

Wed, 20 Mar 2013 17:36:37 -0400

Imagine a World Without Hate

"I can’t stress this enough: Do what you love…in between work commitments, and family commitments,..."

Wed, 20 Mar 2013 17:23:04 -0400

“I can’t stress this enough: Do what you love…in between work commitments, and family commitments, and commitments that tend to pop up and take immediate precedence over doing the thing you love. Because the bottom line is that life is short, and you owe it to yourself to spend the majority of it giving yourself wholly and completely to something you absolutely hate, and 20 minutes here and there doing what you feel you were put on this earth to do.”

- Find The Thing You’re Most Passionate About, Then Do It On Nights And Weekends For The Rest Of Your Life (via zachklein)

Wealth Inequality in America

Mon, 04 Mar 2013 15:10:31 -0500

Wealth Inequality in America

kenyatta: Mapping Data-Dense Cities as if They Were...

Mon, 04 Mar 2013 10:29:20 -0500

kenyatta:

Mapping Data-Dense Cities as if They Were Mountains

This gave Herwig another idea for how to visualize data points that essentially pile up on a given place. “Why don’t I treat them like elevation?” he says. Dense information has a topology in the same way that physical terrain does.

sunlightcities:

Making more sense of dense data visualizations.

-Source: Atlantic Cities

Deleuze and Guattari would be proud.

Gorgeous.

World’s Most Embarrassing Mom Makes Peruvian Government...

Fri, 01 Mar 2013 15:10:50 -0500

World’s Most Embarrassing Mom Makes Peruvian Government Hunt Down Her Son When He Stops Posting on Facebook

thegetty: In the 1500s, illuminator Joris Hoefnagel rendered...

Fri, 01 Mar 2013 14:50:29 -0500

thegetty:

In the 1500s, illuminator Joris Hoefnagel rendered flowers and plants with a botanical precision unmatched in his day. It’s tempting to imagine each of Hoefnagel’s natural wonders growing in the gardens cultivated at the imperial court of Rudolf II, his patron.

Pages from Mira Calligraphiae Monumenta, one of the Getty’s most precious (and, at 6 9/16 inches high, tiniest) manuscripts:

Butterfly, Snakeshead, English Walnut, and Sweet Cherry

Four-O’Clock, Brown Hairstreak, Herb Robert, and Chanterelle

Martagon Lily and Tomato

Journey To Ixtlan

Tue, 26 Feb 2013 11:49:18 -0500

Journey To Ixtlan

"I have always argued for engaging with technology as conscious human beings and dispensing with..."

Mon, 25 Feb 2013 14:17:39 -0500

“I have always argued for engaging with technology as conscious human beings and dispensing with technologies that take that agency away.
Facebook is just such a technology. It does things on our behalf when we’re not even there. It actively misrepresents us to our friends, and worse misrepresents those who have befriended us to still others.”

- Why I’m quitting Facebook - CNN.com

buzz:

This, more than the typical advertising/privacy concerns, is the thing that really bothers me about Facebook. Over the course of its existence, the way we interact with Facebook has become increasingly disconnected from the way our activities are presented to the network. I remember John Gruber saying that one of the reasons he instantly liked Twitter was how simple and obvious its mechanism was: he typed in the text box and everyone who followed him saw it; when people he followed typed, he saw it. By contrast, Facebook is an opaque algorithmic beast, and I’ve never felt at all in control of how it presents me to the world.

I used to say that Facebook gives you boxes in which to put your stuff, where Tumblr (and Twitter, for that matter) are your stuff. This became less visually true with the introduction of Facebook Timeline, but I think it’s still accurate in a more significant way.

When you add something to Facebook, you’re providing input; it’s largely up to Facebook to determine how, or whether, that input is then offered to other people. You put something in the box, Facebook decides what to do with it.

(via whitneymcn)

God, I love Douglas Rushkoff. So on-point.

slowblog: A few years ago, three friends and I recorded an EP...

Fri, 22 Feb 2013 15:33:38 -0500

slowblog:

A few years ago, three friends and I recorded an EP of instrumental music as Southern. The record didn’t do much in terms of exposure, but a couple of the songs have recently been used in various visual projects. Bicycling Magazine is responsible for the one above. We’re all very happy with how the song works with the content.

Gunnar Johansson: Motion Perception Part 1

Mon, 18 Feb 2013 19:41:29 -0500

Gunnar Johansson: Motion Perception Part 1

Northern Lights over the mountain Spákonufell in Skagaströnd,...

Mon, 11 Feb 2013 14:45:24 -0500

Northern Lights over the mountain Spákonufell in Skagaströnd, Iceland (by David S Kessler)

theatlanticvideo: Good Life Advice From a 6 Year Old Is Even...

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 20:19:16 -0500

theatlanticvideo:

Good Life Advice From a 6 Year Old Is Even Better When Taken Literally

With college graduation looming in her near future, Bianca Giaever, a filmmaker and radio producer, turned to six-year-old Asa Baker-Rouse for some perspective. As it turned out, young Asa had a good idea for a movie and some pretty compelling insights too.

zachklein: The Golden Gate is an electric camper car measuring...

Tue, 05 Feb 2013 20:46:43 -0500

zachklein:

The Golden Gate is an electric camper car measuring 96”x54”x64”. Made with fiberglass, epoxy resin, plywood, glass, bike parts and electric motor. The vehicle can drive 10 miles on a charge and goes up to 20 mph. The interior has a kitchen with sink, stove, cooler, storage cubbies, toilet, a bed and storage below the bed. All of the controls are in the steering wheel. The driver sits cross legged while operating the vehicle.

Need this.

So proud of these guys. Been watching this labor of love project...

Tue, 05 Feb 2013 13:05:57 -0500

So proud of these guys. Been watching this labor of love project (slowly) evolve over the past four plus years. Stoked that it’s getting close to finished!

ftomfilm:

Today, I am so incredibly proud to debut the film’s official trailer!

Many of you reading this were instrumental in FOR THOUSANDS OF MILES reaching this stage of production, and, I hope, that you share in this exciting moment; making a film is a collaborative effort, and I couldn’t have made it this far without your support.

I hope you enjoy the trailer. I hope you find it inspiring and moving. I hope it helps fill in the details of what exactly this film is, and why this project has been such an important project for me personally.

Today, we are also taking pre-orders for the film through our Kickstarter campaign. This campaign will not only 100% complete the film, but it will keep the film 100% independent!

Helping us release the film late-Spring of 2013.

One last special announcement! FOR THOUSANDS OF MILES will feature an original score by the amazingly-talented Eluvium! Eluvium has been our one-and-only choice for the film’s composer during the last few years of post-production, and to now be working with him on what is quickly becoming a beautiful-beautiful score, is a dream come true. You can pre-order the film’s original score on Kickstarter as well.

Please pass along this trailer and let your friends know about the project.

Thank you!

acehotel: Designer, curator, thinker and friend Justin Van Hoy...

Fri, 01 Feb 2013 15:30:08 -0500

acehotel:

Designer, curator, thinker and friend Justin Van Hoy Walking, the Dutch Giant and apple of many eyes, passed away in November after a long battle with cancer. Tonight, please join us in honoring him with Space 1026 in Philadelphia — they’re holding a month-long art auction benefit for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society in Justin’s name, and the opening reception begins tonight at 7pm.

Friends of Justin have donated pieces to the benefit which will be held through February 23 by silent auction, with bidding opportunities in person and online. Pieces included work by Justin Krietemeyer, Leah Mackin, Miriam Singer, Phuong Pham, Revok, Sage Vaughn and Steven Harrington, as well as many more.

Day dreams.

Wed, 30 Jan 2013 09:55:42 -0500

Day dreams.

Extremely Rare Color Photography of Early 1900s Paris

Mon, 28 Jan 2013 15:29:11 -0500

Extremely Rare Color Photography of Early 1900s Paris

"I knew I was in trouble the moment I saw the MGM logo move even before the first frame of the film..."

Wed, 19 Dec 2012 12:41:57 -0500

“I knew I was in trouble the moment I saw the MGM logo move even before the first frame of the film was ever projected. And then I proceeded to spend the first 30 minutes of the film trying to figure out how to describe the “Monday Night Football” viewing experience that was so clearly not cinematic to me…”

- The Hobbit: An Unexpected Masterclass in Why HFR fails, and a reaffirmation of what makes cinema magical « Vincent Laforet’s Blog

sciencesoup: The Illusion of Separation “A human being is a...

Sat, 15 Dec 2012 10:55:08 -0500

sciencesoup:

The Illusion of Separation

“A human being is a part of the whole called by us ‘the universe,’ a part limited in time and space,” wrote Einstein in 1950. “He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separate from the rest—a kind of optical illusion of consciousness.” It’s a brilliant and fascinating perspective, and science tells us that it’s true. Our eyes inform us that there is a definite boundary between us and the world around us, and so we perceive ourselves as entities separate to the wider universe—as individuals just making our home in this vast place. But when we take a step back, we can see that we’re molecular machines built from a specific arrangements of atoms—atoms that existed before we were born and will continue to exist after we die. They were recycled from the dust of dead stars, and we’re only their temporary custodians. Fundamentally, each of us is just a tiny individual expression of an enormous singular entity—so we are the universe perceiving and studying itself. The idea that the individual and the universe are inseparable is a humbling, counter-intuitive and ultimately awe-inspiring idea—there’s a mad kind of beauty in knowing that we do not live in the universe, but rather we are the universe. As Feynman wrote: “I…a universe of atoms…an atom in the universe.”