March 2009
The Generational:Younger Than Jesus ::... →
“The Generational: Younger Than Jesus” will be the first major international museum exhibition devoted exclusively to the generation born around 1980, tapping into the different perspectives, shared preoccupations, and experiences of a constituency that is shaping the contemporary art discourse and prescribing the future of global culture.
Racked: Police officers in Berlin have been banned... →
Police officers in Berlin have been banned from wearing labels “deemed to be popular among neo-Nazis”. The ban includes popular brands Ben Sherman and Fred Perry, which though “sometimes popular among right-wing extremists…have done a lot to distance themselves from such groups, by restricting outlets and publicly objecting to extremist ideology.”
“~ thx to memefactory for giving props to @knowyourmeme & ichc. Otherwise we...”
– Jokes I kept myself from tweeting tonight but will post here.
“I’m going to start gauging how right or wrong things are going in my life...”
– Twitter / kenyatta cheese
It's the 80's All Over Again and Everything's...
youngmanhattanite:
The problem with Tumblr, the New York Media Scene, Spencer Morgan’s NYO profiles, most personalities in Caroline McCarthy’s reporting, Guest of A Guest, party photographers far and wide, and anybody else who contributes to the totally unmerited fame of those lacking any discernible talent isn’t that they contribute to the totally unmerited fame of those lacking discernible...
Watchanil:
Hey, there’s me on TV for 10 seconds. Late Night with Jimmy Fallon: Bud Light Green Room: DiggNation Guys
Anil and Gary both make a cameo on Late Night. All is right with the world.
sevensixfive: (at least) Four kinds of Time in... →
The measured time for completion: How long does it take to have (and execute) a good idea? Billable hours vs. bustop insights, see also: Northcote Parkinson and the Cult of Done … The narrative time of composition: an object as an order of conceptual operations. eg: ‘first there was a surface that was pushed up and pulled down to create space, apertures were sliced at three locations...
WatchMy Damn Channel » Playing The Bitch
This clip is very funny.
Free hours at museums, gardens, zoos for Spring... →
NewYorkology’s comprehensive list of free hours at some of the best cultural institutions of New York
The free hours are in addition to the museums that are always free, or operate under a not-well-advertised “suggested donation” policy. For example, at the Met Museum, you’re required to pay only a penny for full access, but their website does carry this request: “To help cover the costs of...
Do You Remember - Jill Scott
Another day, another...
From what I'm gathering from various Saturday and...
baxterp:
….If I ever want to be happy (i.e. find a man… duh…because what else is there, amiright ladies?) I will have to give up my big city ways, somehow find myself in some quaint little town in some remote(ish) part of the country (or England) where somehow I will meet-cute and/or butt-heads with (which is more likely since I have a thing or two to learn) the only remotely attractive eligible...
WatchThe Dodos Blogotheque (Extended Version)
The first five minutes are brilliant.
At Powerhouse Arena in Brooklyn, Graffiti Artists... →
As the evening wound down, attention was drawn to the fact that along with all the other people videotaping the event, there were some large men stationed across from the front door of the bookstore, taping it for themselves: current members of the police’s anti-vandalism unit. Mr. Maridueña called it a waste of taxpayers’ money and asked why it was happening.
“Do you fish?” Mr. Mona asked him.
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United Farm Workers Say “No” to White House Garden... →
It appears that the United Farm Workers Union is pretty upset with the Bancroft Elementary School 5th graders planting a garden at the White House. According to a post over at ScrappleFace, the UFW is raising questions about whether or not the project is a violation of existing child labor laws and - get this - a violation of “the spirit of collective bargaining upon which this great nation was...
“I think it hangs together better than it has any right to. I do feel good that...”
– RDM Q&A on the Battlestar Galactica finale
Girl: (on cell) "I just can't take any more stupid...
askvero:
Overheard in Chicago
The Madness of March.
The demise of the New York City NBA player →
We like to think of ourselves as the center of the basketball universe but the days of the league being dominated by great New York City players are a thing of the past.
Where have you gone Lew Alcindor? And where are you headed Lance Stephenson?
We just don’t make them like we used to. Spain and Argentina have a more impressive list of current NBA players. And let’s not even...
GeekTool - PrefPane for System Monitoring →
GeekTool is a PrefPane (System Preferences module) for Panther or Tiger to show system logs, unix commands output, or images (i.e. from the internet) on your desktop (or even in front of all windows).
Use File mode to monitor MacOS X activity with /var/tmp/console.log or /var/log/system.log, or Shell mode to launch custom scripts or commands like “df” to check space left on...
Linkbloggers and Curators con't.
brianvan:
It’s a bit sloppy of me to accuse Kottke of being a “first poster”. I don’t think that’s his goal at all. However, the whole “curation” thing… well, when I brought up the whole cocktail party simile, I wanted it to be clear that Kottke, as well as a lot of other smarty-pants blogs, like to put themselves out there as a proposed starting point for ideas and discussion (and...
This is why Jason Kottke is turd. (Really?)
brianvan:
ninety9:
He tells people he ‘curates’. That’s like saying people with iPods are DJs. He links to this, with a comment that it is a ‘map of independent bookstores’ which is demonstrably not the case (it is a walking tour of admittedly circumscribed scope, but is as mediocre as his ‘curating’ — it leaves off two essential, old school independents: Revolution Books and Academy, both...
The Christopher Walken Twitter Account Is The Work... →
Although I, too, love the Christopher Walken twitter account, a simple google search would reveal that it’s a fake.