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This sat on my blog with 400 notes for ten months before...

Mon, 21 May 2012 23:42:00 -0400

This sat on my blog with 400 notes for ten months before exploding with 15,000+ this past week. Sometimes it takes a while for comedy to find its audience.

edit: also it’s funny when people change the click through or source link to their own blog. Does that really get them more followers?

“Who” I’m wearing at #webbys: Armani suit,...

Mon, 21 May 2012 17:35:18 -0400

“Who” I’m wearing at #webbys: Armani suit, Ralph Lauren tie, flying pizza t-shirt by @lulinternet (Taken with Instagram at Hammerstein Ballroom)

Who made this?

Sun, 20 May 2012 18:34:01 -0400

Who made this?

topherchris: I started a new project yesterday. Here we have a...

Sun, 20 May 2012 15:57:36 -0400

topherchris:

I started a new project yesterday. Here we have a demo from a new band I’m organizing, hopefully with professional actor Nic Cage as the lead singer. I put him in this video mockup as a test to show his people that it can work. He doesn’t have to practice or anything. It’ll literally be a couple people playing heavily distorted riffs with him screaming over it. Brilliance. I know.

(This only tangentially has anything to do with my earlier question.)

This looks good in that “the band had promise until the bassist started doing heroin again” sort of way.

Just walked around Fort Greene Park with this stuck in my head.

Sat, 19 May 2012 16:11:51 -0400

Just walked around Fort Greene Park with this stuck in my head.

Troy and Abed shooting lava.

Sat, 19 May 2012 00:49:40 -0400

Troy and Abed shooting lava.

weylandinvestors: NEW viral video - Quiet Eye featuring Noomi...

Fri, 18 May 2012 16:49:28 -0400

weylandinvestors:

NEW viral video - Quiet Eye featuring Noomi Rapace as Elizabeth Shaw.

Methinks somebody over there has been paying attention to James Bridle’s #newaesthetic. (Cool.)

@kenyatta and @patrickdavison’s midtown adventure (Taken...

Fri, 18 May 2012 13:52:19 -0400

@kenyatta and @patrickdavison’s midtown adventure (Taken with Instagram at Grace Plaza)

#beehives #nyc #midtown #architecture

Fri, 18 May 2012 03:16:46 -0400

#beehives #nyc #midtown #architecture

"From there, the conversation took a surrealist twist, when Kenyatta Cheese introduced Toxoplasmosis..."

Thu, 17 May 2012 17:48:00 -0400

“From there, the conversation took a surrealist twist, when Kenyatta Cheese introduced Toxoplasmosis - a disease affecting pregnant women, contracted through cat droppings - as a metaphor for memes. The panel debated the possibility that much like we often see in the animal kingdom, “viral” content has a mind of its own, so to speak, and bends the behavior of internet-users to its will. Put more realistically, the panel raised interesting questions about whether cultural memes affect our behavior - how much control we have over content, and how much control it exerts over us without our knowing.”

- How We Share Content And Why - Adrants

Actually, they’re being waaaaaaay too kind. I wasn’t suggesting toxoplasmosis as a metaphor for memes. I was suggesting that memes are an emergent form of life that use humans to propagate.

We always talk about this stuff with us (humans) at the center. Maybe we’re just nodes that happen to have a flicker of self awareness.

I’m currently infatuated with the new Rye Rye album. This...

Wed, 16 May 2012 14:31:58 -0400

I’m currently infatuated with the new Rye Rye album. This isn’t even my favorite track (I still think Shake It To The Ground is a classic) but this is that rare remake(ish) song that’s better than the original 1999 Vengaboys hook that it’s based on:

Also: this ‘Boom Boom’ shouldn’t be confused with the very similar Paul Lekakis’ Boom Boom (1986) or Outhere Brothers’ Boom Boom Boom (1995) or the non-canon Black Eyed Peas ‘Boom Boom Pop’ (2009).

Also: holy fuck I have a lot of useless knowledge about pop songs that use the words ‘Boom Boom’.

Foggy #TimesSquare (Taken with Instagram at Times Square)

Wed, 16 May 2012 13:02:00 -0400

Foggy #TimesSquare (Taken with Instagram at Times Square)

Our real first gay president anticapitalist: The new issue...

Tue, 15 May 2012 22:55:00 -0400

**Our real first gay president**

anticapitalist:

The new issue of Newsweek features a cover photo of President Obama topped by a rainbow-colored halo and captioned “The First Gay President.” The halo and caption strike me as cheap sensationalism. I realize airport travelers look at a magazine for 2.2 seconds before moving on to the next one. I grant that this cover will probably get Newsweek a 4.4 second glance. I also understand that Newsweek is desperate for sales. Nevertheless, I doubt that the Newsweek of old, before it was sold for a dollar, would have pandered as shallowly.

The caption is a superficial way to characterize an important development of thought that the president — along with the country — has been making over recent years. It is also entirely wrong. Like the mini-furor a couple of months back about the claim that Richard Nixon was our first gay president, the story simply ignores that the U.S. already had a gay president more than a century ago.

There can be no doubt that James Buchanan was gay, before, during and after his four years in the White House. Moreover, the nation knew it, too — he was not far into the closet.

Today, I know no historian who has studied the matter and thinks Buchanan was heterosexual. Fifteen years ago, historian John Howard, author of “Men Like That,” a pioneering study of queer culture in Mississippi, shared with me the key documents, including Buchanan’s May 13, 1844, letter to a Mrs. Roosevelt. Describing his deteriorating social life after his great love, William Rufus King, senator from Alabama, had moved to Paris to become our ambassador to France, Buchanan wrote:

I am now “solitary and alone,” having no companion in the house with me. I have gone a wooing to several gentlemen, but have not succeeded with any one of them. I feel that it is not good for man to be alone; and should not be astonished to find myself married to some old maid who can nurse me when I am sick, provide good dinners for me when I am well, and not expect from me any very ardent or romantic affection.

“Tsukiji 3”

Tue, 15 May 2012 14:01:27 -0400

“Tsukiji 3”

"Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once,..."

Tue, 15 May 2012 13:06:00 -0400

“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”

- Rainer Maria Rilke

Did Parking Meters Just Get Too Smart? - The Atlantic Cities

Tue, 15 May 2012 09:47:05 -0400

Did Parking Meters Just Get Too Smart? - The Atlantic Cities:

Through the use of parking space sensors, Santa Monica’s meters now know when a car leaves a spot and can automatically reset itself to require whoever parks there next to pay the full price of parking. It’s part of the intelligent parking system that the city has been rolling out, which includes the ability to accept coins and credit cards, send text messages when metered time is running out, and compile information to help the city better price its parking to correspond with demand.

These smart parking spots even know when you’ve outstayed your time-sensitive welcome, disallowing you from putting more time in the meter if you’ve been there too long. Two-hour parking, all of a sudden, really does mean two-hour parking.

These are technological improvements that can have large-scale impacts on the ways cities relate to their parking enforcement efforts. By making parking spaces less of a birthright and more of a product, cities like Santa Monica hope they can get drivers to pay a reasonable, market-determined price for the space they’d like to use – or to let that price discourage them from using that space. Or from driving at all.

"What banking most needs is to become boring, the way the business was before bankers became addicted..."

Tue, 15 May 2012 09:31:00 -0400

“

What banking most needs is to become boring, the way the business was before bankers became addicted to trading profits. Safer banking means lower profits, which means smaller compensation packages. That is precisely what JPMorgan’s London traders were trying to avoid.

Happily, the recent behavior of JPMorgan’s London traders could well cause regulators to put in place a Volcker Rule so tough that it would make banking boring again. One can only hope.

”

- Make Banking Boring - Joe Nocera

I’m reposting @elspethjane’s pic with @mollymeme and...

Mon, 14 May 2012 20:33:19 -0400

I’m reposting @elspethjane’s pic with @mollymeme and I #reinstagram (Taken with Instagram at Internet Week NY HQ)

“intersection” by Kai Ziehl

Mon, 14 May 2012 12:05:56 -0400

“intersection” by Kai Ziehl

The Pitch: Ring the Bell

Mon, 14 May 2012 00:48:00 -0400

The Pitch: Ring the Bell:

rickwebb:

Against my better judgement, I watched another episode of The Pitch tonight.

By the first five minutes of this episode, I realized that were I still in the biz, and this was actually how things went down (which it wasn’t, I’m sure - this is reality TV), I would have declined the assignment:

1)…

Wow — do joint briefs actually happen? That seemed so contrived.

I watched an episode of The Pitch a few days ago and was surprised at how rough the production was.

One “conflict” seemed to be made by cutting a scene out of sequence. Another scene used the same reaction shot three times in a row. Considering how much AMC is promoting ‘The Pitch’, I expected a much tighter show. Perhaps production of the other episodes aren’t so bad.