The art of Seo Yound Deok
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Went exploring with the dog at 2am, ended up in front of the carousel at Brooklyn Bridge Park.
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Everything is so much clearer once a world is framed. Maybe it sounds crazy, but with writing it’s infinity that is limiting, and the limited that allows for the truly infinite. Once all those elements are in place in a story, the brain is truly freed up to imagine without end.
…most of the people whose writing I believe will be read in a hundred years are plagued with extreme self-doubt, constant suffering and self-loathing, and are, at their most relaxed, generally fraught and worried.
What I’m trying to say is that a lot that lies behind being able to live the writing life is psychological, and wrapped up in ideas of self-definition. So after you’ve trained yourself to do the work, that is, once you’ve got the sitzfleisch, and the focus, and the skills, and a sharpened pencil, and you’ve pushed a cabinet up against the fridge, and thrown your cell phone out the window, and yanked your router from the wall, there is the issue—and, I promise you, more than any other writing issue, this is the one—of engaging with the work and all that floods into your head that is related to that work, but not truly of the work.
” —btw, Nathan has a Tumblr now.
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Dog Park!
Williamsburg Br.
@noraabousteit @bradyforrest and I. (Taken with instagram)
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…the world is currently run by a generation whose upbringing has left them intellectually unable to be deal with modernity.
This isn’t their fault. For someone to be in charge today, they’re more than likely to be in their 50s or 60s. Which means that when the Berlin Wall fell they were most likely already steeped in an intellectual tradition that had bedded in quite far.
But what happened after 1989 was, as we all know, devastating to that tradition. The end of the bipolar world – the end of history as Fukuyama had it – and the end of the relevance of 50 years of political and military planning.
Instead, things got weird. Germany was reunited in 1990, and a few weeks later, on Christmas Day, the first web server was turned on. Nearly 21 years later, and the internet has destroyed and rebuilt everything it has touched. Hierarchies have been under attack from networks for 20 years now. History certainly didn’t end, much to everyone’s disappointment.
” —Ben Hammersley’s speech to the IAAC (via new-aesthetic)
This is a great talk.
What fascinates me, though, are the people in their 20’s who think this same way because they’ve spent their entire adult lives working for companies that are older than the internet.
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Beverly Drive Chihuahua: A Fan Fiction by Brad O’Farrell for Slacktory.
Really, it’s a whole little story, with lines like “Ryan Gosling waits intensely” and “He feels embarrassed that someone somewhere thought he was the target audience for this kind of thing.” Read it!
nickdouglas: My favorite, metafictional part:
The bit goes on for what feels like forever. Ryan Gosling feels embarrassed to even be there. He feels embarrassed that someone somewhere thought he was the target audience for this kind of thing. Then he begins to lose focus on the dancing dogs and starts pondering who the target audience for this even IS. He’s drawing a blank, and he suddenly becomes mystified with the idea of marketing and story telling in general and he enters sort of a trance.
bradofarrell: Guys. I wrote this last night instead of sleeping. Read it.
READ IT READ IT READ IT!
It’s probably the best thing I’ve ever written.
I just want to quote the final line for you [SPOILER ALERT]:
“No don’t do that. I cannot read. I am a dog. Bark bark this is goodbye, Ryan Gosling, bark bark bark, goodbye, bark bark bark.”](http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzjp3dsjV81qkpoqxo1_500.jpg)
bradofarrell: Guys. I wrote this last night instead of sleeping. Read it.nickdouglas: My favorite, metafictional part:Beverly Drive Chihuahua: A Fan Fiction by Brad O’Farrell for Slacktory.
Really, it’s a whole little story, with lines like “Ryan Gosling waits intensely” and “He feels embarrassed that someone somewhere thought he was the target audience for this kind of thing.” Read it!
The bit goes on for what feels like forever. Ryan Gosling feels embarrassed to even be there. He feels embarrassed that someone somewhere thought he was the target audience for this kind of thing. Then he begins to lose focus on the dancing dogs and starts pondering who the target audience for this even IS. He’s drawing a blank, and he suddenly becomes mystified with the idea of marketing and story telling in general and he enters sort of a trance.
It’s probably the best thing I’ve ever written.
I just want to quote the final line for you [SPOILER ALERT]:
“No don’t do that. I cannot read. I am a dog. Bark bark this is goodbye, Ryan Gosling, bark bark bark, goodbye, bark bark bark.”
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Planck All-Sky Images Show Cold Gas and Strange Haze
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New images from the Planck mission show previously undiscovered islands of star formation and a mysterious haze of microwave emissions in our Milky Way galaxy. The views give scientists new treasures to mine and take them closer to understanding the secrets of our galaxy.
Planck is a European Space Agency mission with significant NASA participation.
“The images reveal two exciting aspects of the galaxy in which we live,” said Planck scientist Krzysztof M. Gorski from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., and Warsaw University Observatory in Poland. “They show a haze around the center of the galaxy, and cold gas where we never saw it before.”
The new images show the entire sky, dominated by the murky band of our Milky Way galaxy. One of them shows the unexplained haze of microwave light previously hinted at in measurements by NASA’s Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP).
“The haze comes from the region surrounding the center of our galaxy and looks like a form of light energy produced when electrons accelerate through magnetic fields,” said Davide Pietrobon, another JPL Planck scientist.
“We’re puzzled though, because this haze is brighter at shorter wavelengths than similar light emitted elsewhere in the galaxy,” added Gorski.
Several explanations have been proposed for this unusual behaviour.
“Theories include higher numbers of supernovae, galactic winds and even the annihilation of dark-matter particles,” said Greg Dobler, a Planck collaborator from the University of California in Santa Barbara, Calif. Dark matter makes up about a quarter of our universe, but scientists don’t know exactly what it is.
(via NASA)
Obama campaign launches Technology campaign office in SF -
The Obama campaign has, for the first time, opened a new type of campaign office in San Francisco: A Technology Field Office. It is believed to be the first such type of campaign office for a presidential campaign.
“We learned from 2008 that using the talents and skills of our supporters was a key to building the most effective organization,” said Obama campaign deputy press secretary Katie Hogan. “We’re taking the next step by providing tools and space for supporters in the technology community to help the campaign extend our current tools like BarackObama.com and our mobile applications.”
Locating the first such office in San Francisco, being the cradle of new tech that it is, was a natural.
So instead of cold-calling independents, a techie who wants to help Team O can come in and help develop something new for the website, etc. There’s only one paid staffer currently in SF for the Tech Field Office and Team O isn’t sure how this office will evolve. Maybe they’ll host mini-hackathons to develop new campaign apps. Maybe it will be something else. They’re open to new possibilities.
back of cab, passing a mini