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Strange day out here at Windswept Fields

Fri, 24 May 2013 09:48:00 -0400

Strange day out here at Windswept Fields

pixiedustparcels: Great animated The Scream by Edvard Munch....

Wed, 22 May 2013 20:01:37 -0400

pixiedustparcels:

Great animated The Scream by Edvard Munch. “Oh the horror, the horror.”

nprfreshair: Hey, Wednesday afternoon, we’re trying.

Wed, 22 May 2013 16:55:32 -0400

nprfreshair:

Hey, Wednesday afternoon, we’re trying.

heylauren: Oh my god, the last one.

Sun, 19 May 2013 22:59:10 -0400

heylauren:

Oh my god, the last one.

wnycradiolab: Isao Hashimoto’s extraordinary musical map of...

Sat, 11 May 2013 13:52:56 -0400

wnycradiolab:

Isao Hashimoto’s extraordinary musical map of every nuclear explosion since 1945.

To the extent there can BE such a thing as an audio infographic, this is it.

This is awful and fascinating all at once.

latimes: hellogiggles: Ryan Gosling won’t eat his cereal...

Fri, 10 May 2013 11:40:29 -0400

latimes:

hellogiggles:

Ryan Gosling won’t eat his cereal (x)

Happy Friday everyone!

That last one

lifeisnotarehearsal: yuuuussssssssssssss childhood over

Fri, 10 May 2013 02:08:54 -0400

lifeisnotarehearsal:

yuuuussssssssssssss

childhood over

motherjones: brain-food: Redesign and illustrations for Judith...

Thu, 09 May 2013 11:36:23 -0400

motherjones:

brain-food:

Redesign and illustrations for Judith Schalansky’s Atlas of Remote Islands
by Trent Edwards.

We don’t see “Island of Misfit Toys” anywhere on here. Is there another volume?

WNYC's Transmitter: The Stool Pigeon Guide to Music Journalist Bullshit

Tue, 07 May 2013 17:07:48 -0400

WNYC's Transmitter: The Stool Pigeon Guide to Music Journalist Bullshit:

wnyc:

Below are just the “S”s — the whole list is brilliant.

Seminal — Uppity tag used to describe records whose dazzling originality the writer thinks will echo, Maximus from Gladiator-style, through the learned cloisters of eternity. Then again, ‘seminal’ can also mean ‘pertaining to or…

npr: With bourbon sales growing fast, small distillers are...

Fri, 03 May 2013 12:47:24 -0400

npr:

With bourbon sales growing fast, small distillers are looking for ways to get their product to market faster. One Cleveland company has come up with a way to shrink the aging process from years to just days, while also cashing in on the craze for all things local.

How A Distillery Ages Bourbon In Days, Not Years : The Salt

Photo: Courtesy of David Kidd

lavanguardia: bezdan: Didn’t know I needed this today but I...

Wed, 01 May 2013 14:23:07 -0400

lavanguardia:

bezdan:

Didn’t know I needed this today but I do.

Reblogged mostly for Cash4Oneness.

Prince on The Today Show ‘96

Wed, 01 May 2013 09:28:40 -0400

Prince on The Today Show ‘96

kylermartz: Kyler Martz. 2013. God damn.

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 07:38:13 -0400

kylermartz:

Kyler Martz. 2013.

God damn.

Photo

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 12:56:00 -0400

futurejournalismproject: Astronaut Wrings Out Wash Cloth In...

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 10:00:30 -0400

futurejournalismproject:

Astronaut Wrings Out Wash Cloth In Space

Astronaut Chris Hadfield of the Canadian Space Agency demonstrates water’s reaction to being wrung from a wash cloth in zero gravity. His video is a response to 10th graders in Nova Scotia who won a CSA contest because of their science experiment with surface tension in outer space.

FJP: If you check out the CSA’s YouTube channel, you’ll find more sweet cosmic how-to’s — like how to clip your nails and how to sleep in space.

And for all my fellow Trekkies out there, this one’s for you: Chris Hatfield’s space convo with William Shatner. — Krissy

OH MY GOD

pitchfork: Daft Punk for Saint Laurent Paris Daft Punk Give...

Sun, 14 Apr 2013 09:27:16 -0400

pitchfork:

Daft Punk for Saint Laurent Paris

Daft Punk Give Interview About Random Access Memories, Share Album Details, New Stage Wear

latimes: kcetliving: ‘El Bandini is El Finito’ — The End of...

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 22:45:04 -0400

latimes:

kcetliving:

‘El Bandini is El Finito’ — The End of Great Taco Hunt

For many curious taco lovers in Los Angeles, the site GreatTacoHunt has been a bastion of knowledge and insight into the untold number of trucks, tables, stands and storefronts that dot the city. Run by a shadowy figure known only as El Bandini, Great Taco Hunt was a home for focused discussions about neighborhood tacos, including a proprietary taco ranking system, photos from the front lines and dispatches from across the internet that always helped to fill in the blanks.

The site began in 2005, with the simple mission of documenting as many L.A. tacos as possible. Since then, El Bandini has reviewed, mapped and photographed hundreds of locations, plus helped to put together the influential yearly Taco Madness tournament. Now, after seven years of tasting and talking about tacos, El Bandini is calling it quits. KCET got in touch with the mysterious eater to discuss his decision to pull out of the taco game after all this time, and to look back on his own influence in the food blogging culture that has pervaded this city.

Farley: You’ve always been known as El Bandini online. Are you comfortable giving us a little bit of information about the man behind the taco blog?

El Bandini: I’m Andy O’Neill and I’m a recovering taco-holic. And I’m almost 40. But I’ve never lived in a van down by the river.

Read more here.

A reblog for all other taco-holics out there.

Memory laning. DC tacos don’t hold a flame to LA. I miss legit tacos!

photojojo: These are so good! An anonymous photographer avoids...

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 22:37:39 -0400

photojojo:

These are so good!

An anonymous photographer avoids boredom on his morning commute by holding newspaper photos up to other passengers’ bodies.

Creativity = the best solution for boredom.

How to Avoid Boredom on Your Commute

via Laughing Squid; Daily Mail

micropolisnyc: There are around 900,000 buildings across the...

Fri, 05 Apr 2013 08:35:37 -0400

micropolisnyc:

There are around 900,000 buildings across the five boroughs, and you’ll find a few dozen of them in James Gulliver Hancock’s new book of illustrations, “All the Buildings in New York (That I’ve Drawn So Far).”

These range from iconic structures like the Guggenheim and the UN to nondescript homes on the Lower East Side.

Hancock is originally from Australia, and has been here for just 3 years. I first spoke to him a couple years ago, when he was still relatively new to the city.

“Being an outsider, being Australian, coming here was kind of amazing,” he said. “You’re in this set you’ve seen in so many movies, like West Side Story. Rear Window is always coming to mind, you know, the backs of brownstones and the fire escapes.”

What I really enjoy about the illustrations is how tactile they are. Hancock says he was trying to de-mystify the city.

“Initially it was me trying to get over that sensation of seeing it as a movie set. It wasn’t more about, ‘Hey, I want people to see these buildings and how I think they’re beautiful.’ It was more like, by drawing them I might make them real, I might make them more friendly to me. Less like movie stars and real people.”

Check out Hancock’s blog here. Or buy the book.

"If the cellphone’s legacy is convenience and mobility, maybe the legacy of the land line is..."

Thu, 04 Apr 2013 08:00:36 -0400

“If the cellphone’s legacy is convenience and mobility, maybe the legacy of the land line is punctuality and commitment.”

- On the 40th anniversary of the first cell phone call, Dan writes a love letter to the landline. (via washingtonpoststyle)

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Strange day out here at Windswept Fields

pixiedustparcels: Great animated The Scream by Edvard Munch....

nprfreshair: Hey, Wednesday afternoon, we’re trying.

heylauren: Oh my god, the last one.

wnycradiolab: Isao Hashimoto’s extraordinary musical map of...

latimes: hellogiggles: Ryan Gosling won’t eat his cereal...

lifeisnotarehearsal: yuuuussssssssssssss childhood over

motherjones: brain-food: Redesign and illustrations for Judith...

WNYC's Transmitter: The Stool Pigeon Guide to Music Journalist Bullshit

npr: With bourbon sales growing fast, small distillers are...

lavanguardia: bezdan: Didn’t know I needed this today but I...

Prince on The Today Show ‘96

kylermartz: Kyler Martz. 2013. God damn.

Photo

futurejournalismproject: Astronaut Wrings Out Wash Cloth In...

pitchfork: Daft Punk for Saint Laurent Paris Daft Punk Give...

Daft Punk Give Interview About Random Access Memories, Share Album Details, New Stage Wear

latimes: kcetliving: ‘El Bandini is El Finito’ — The End of...

‘El Bandini is El Finito’ — The End of Great Taco Hunt

photojojo: These are so good! An anonymous photographer avoids...

micropolisnyc: There are around 900,000 buildings across the...

"If the cellphone’s legacy is convenience and mobility, maybe the legacy of the land line is..."