Kris Lane is conscious

"Among the brand-name French theorists of the mid-20th century, Roland Barthes was the fun one...."

Mon, 28 May 2012 16:59:33 +1200

“Among the brand-name French theorists of the mid-20th century, Roland Barthes was the fun one. Foucault was the tough one, Derrida was the dreamy one, Lacan was the mysterious one — I like to imagine them sometimes as a black-turtlenecked, clove-smoking boy band called Hors de Texte, with the hit album “Discipline ’n’ Punish.””

- How Roland Barthes Gave Us the TV Recap - NYTimes.com

James Victore on Inspiration Part One

Tue, 22 May 2012 12:20:18 +1200

James Victore on Inspiration Part One

Video

Tue, 22 May 2012 12:19:39 +1200

Still awesome – Sasasan Katamari Katamari Damacy Soundtrack

Thu, 17 May 2012 15:07:00 +1200

Still awesome – Sasasan Katamari Katamari Damacy Soundtrack

"Certainly few middle-class people, or at least anyone from any “middle class” that Loman would..."

Thu, 17 May 2012 14:49:42 +1200

“Certainly few middle-class people, or at least anyone from any “middle class” that Loman would recognize, are among the audiences attending this production. What was once a middle-class entertainment has become a luxury item. Tickets for the original run, in 1949, cost between $1.80 and $4.80; tickets for the 2012 run range from $111 to $840. After adjusting for inflation, that’s a 10-fold increase, well beyond the reach of today’s putative Willy Lomans.”

- Death of a Salesman’s Dreams - NYTimes.com

Willy Loman couldn’t afford a ticket to today’s Death of a Salesman

ART THOUGHTZ: The Studio Visit Rulz to live by.

Wed, 16 May 2012 20:55:09 +1200

ART THOUGHTZ: The Studio Visit

Rulz to live by.

"These days, memes spread faster and wider than ever, with social networks acting as the fuel for..."

Mon, 14 May 2012 15:52:57 +1200

“These days, memes spread faster and wider than ever, with social networks acting as the fuel for mass distribution. But it’s possible we may see less mutation and remixing in the near future. As internet usage shifts from desktops and laptops to mobile devices and tablets, the ability to mutate memes in a meaningful way becomes harder.”

- Feels Bad Man: How Mobile Is Stopping the Lulz

Device has the ability to change the Participation Inequality even more.

Welcome to Life: the singularity, ruined by lawyers

Sun, 13 May 2012 18:26:03 +1200

Welcome to Life: the singularity, ruined by lawyers

"You see, all I need to do is be self-referentially about the technology you all use and I’ll..."

Tue, 08 May 2012 07:58:28 +1200

“You see, all I need to do is be self-referentially about the technology you all use and I’ll replicate like the virus in “Contagion,” a movie that, if any of you saw it, will inspire you to now post me to the “Contagion” Facebook page. Look: “The Hunger Games,” “The Smurfs,” “ ‘The Smurfs’ Meets ‘Shame.’ ” This is too easy.”

- Teddy Wayne: I’m an Article About the Internet That You Repost on the Internet : The New Yorker

Winner Winner Chicken Dinner.

"The time to wonder has ended and the time has come to open your eyes and to see the truth, to..."

Mon, 07 May 2012 08:45:34 +1200

“

The time to wonder has ended and the time has come to open your eyes and to see the truth, to discover who has been clicking that which you so often ignore.

It is I who click the banner ads.

”

- McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: I Am the One Who Clicks Banner Ads.

YKK - The mysterious Japanese company behind the world’s best zippers.

Wed, 02 May 2012 12:00:09 +1200

YKK - The mysterious Japanese company behind the world’s best zippers.

"After negotiating your contracts, you both will surely buy a house in an affluent suburb where no..."

Tue, 01 May 2012 13:27:53 +1200

“After negotiating your contracts, you both will surely buy a house in an affluent suburb where no 22-year-old would be happy living. Your new neighbors will be rich as well, facelifted, lipo-sucked, Xanaxed and dripping in diamonds, simply delighted to welcome you to the neighborhood. You will commission an interior decorator, recommended by a neighbor, to furnish your home. This will guarantee it feels nothing like Home. And someday, when all of this is over, you’ll walk through and gaze upon the marble columns and the embroidered drapes like artifacts in a museum, wondering why you ever listened to that woman.”

- Future Football Stars: The NFL Is About To Destroy Your Life

Damn you interior designer.

Best PS1 game ever. Radiohead was always a hard CD to play.

Sun, 29 Apr 2012 10:36:00 +1200

Best PS1 game ever.

Radiohead was always a hard CD to play.

Enthusiasms: Coming to Terms with the Present

Fri, 27 Apr 2012 14:47:05 +1200

Enthusiasms: Coming to Terms with the Present:

dailymeh:

I refuse to jump on the latest bandwagon, which appears to be The New Aesthetic. I’ve been ignoring it, waiting for it to go away, but it appears it’s here to stay. Bloggers are falling over themselves trying to have an opinion on it, desperately trying to cover up the fact that they didn’t see it coming. I’m here to admit that I didn’t see it coming. The reason is that it never arrived. I’m looking at the same things James Bridle is, and I do not see a movement, an aesthetic, or any sort of common cultural tendency. I see a bunch of neat stuff. Bridle’s blog is full of neat stuff; I commend him for it. But the successful memeification of his blog, the way a collection of disparate things has gained the veneer of a movement, like Modernism or Romanticism or Abstract Expressionism, doesn’t mean that there is anything that connects the dots in anything but the vague sort of way lots of things are connected.

"The twenty-first century is invisible. We were promised jetpacks but ended up with handlebar..."

Fri, 27 Apr 2012 11:34:09 +1200

“The twenty-first century is invisible. We were promised jetpacks but ended up with handlebar moustaches.”

- Kenneth Goldsmith (via inky)

"The reason for designing new media is simple — to subtly and quietly change the world."

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 09:17:13 +1200

“The reason for designing new media is simple — to subtly and quietly change the world.”

- Hillman Curtis (via russianpencil)

The Hillman Curtis video portraits were always thoughtful and beautiful. It was sad to hear of his passing.

"Since Zupan’s research, a few new behaviors have come on the scene. One behavior pointed out to me..."

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 07:48:09 +1200

“Since Zupan’s research, a few new behaviors have come on the scene. One behavior pointed out to me by traffic engineer Sam Schwartz is people pausing before they enter the stairs of a subway station to check their mobile device one last time. Who knows what this social hiccup does to the overall efficiency? Recent research by the New York City Department of Transportation has found that when walkers talk on the phone, they walk more slowly, and when they wear headphones, they actually walk faster. As Zupan told me, “There are a lot of really microscopic dynamics—as Yogi Berra said, ‘You can see a lot just by observing.’ ””

- Walking in America: What scientists know about how pedestrians really behave.

"They also claim “there were no LGBT characters in any of the Star Wars movies”. I don’t know which..."

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 11:31:17 +1200

“They also claim “there were no LGBT characters in any of the Star Wars movies”. I don’t know which wacky re-cut version of Star Wars they’ve been watching, but I saw the original when I was about six years old and even then I was struck by how outrageously camp C3PO is. He was a gilded John Inman in space. And what about Luke Skywalker? Apart from briefly kissing his own sister, he shows no interest in women whatsoever. The first film is a tender gay parable in which Luke falls in love with Alec Guinness and gradually “comes out” as a Jedi. The final scene oozes symbolism: having penetrated the Death Star’s trench in his phallic spacecraft, he closes his eyes, submits to his true inner instinct and triumphantly blasts his X-Wing’s seed into an anus-like aperture, causing an orgasmic eruption that changes his universe for ever. It’s hard to see how they could make Star Wars any gayer, unless they gave the Millennium Falcon a handlebar moustache.”

- Charlie Brooker: Some people are gay in space. Get over it. /via nedhepburn

Damien Hirst vs Noel Fielding - The First Look presented by...

Sun, 15 Apr 2012 09:02:03 +1200

Damien Hirst vs Noel Fielding - The First Look presented by Channel 4

Trailer: The Pitch (by amc) I want to take one of those...

Fri, 13 Apr 2012 14:51:11 +1200

Trailer: The Pitch (by amc)

I want to take one of those trophies, put it up my nose and whisk my brain.