February 2012
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Cindy Sherman talks to Simon Schama - FT.com →
The American photographer on capturing the masquerade of daily life
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“To me Facebook already feels over. I really don’t feel like I’m missing...”
– - Dave Winer, Scoble: I’ll go down with the ship via Scripting News
Facebook is the new AOL, despite the market cap. But it’s headed for a hard landing for other reasons that Winer is pushing. Facebook will fail because of the imminent rise of social operating systems — future versions of iOS, Mac...
January 2012
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Priceonomics Blog: The Fixie Bike Index →
priceonomics:
“Messengers are big fixie aficionados, but more and more fixed-gear bikes are being ridden by nonmessengers, most conspicuously the kind of younger people to whom the term “hipster” applies and who emanate from certain neighborhoods in Brooklyn.”
- New York Times, 2007
According to our data, Manhattan is actually more hipster than Brooklyn. Short of surveying the snugness of...
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Photography and Trust →
Joerg Colberg on photography and trusting in one’s work
If a photographer mistrusts her or his photographs, a gap seems to appear - the gap between that which the photographer wants to express, and that which the photographers perceives as expressed. Attempts to bridge that gap almost always involve artistic overcompensation: The photographer will over-apply her or his craft, for example...
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Galaxy Note S Pen makes sense for larger screens,... →
if you see a stylus, they blew - Steve Jobs
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One more whiskey before calling it quits
…I think I’ve just found my epitaph
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“Wherever you go, go with all your heart.”
– Confucius (via kari-shma)
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The Facebook Eye - Nathan Jurgenson - The Atlantic →
Nathan Jurgenson showing us how far we have gone, or is that fallen…
The photographer knows well that after taking many pictures one develops “the camera eye”: vision becomes like the viewfinder, always perceiving the world through the logic of the camera mechanism via framing, lighting, depth of field, focus, movement and so on. Even without the camera in hand the world...
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I feel like a lizard shedding its skin
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Dining in NYC...
Going to be in nyc for a 3 day/4 night jaunt…I do prefer more low key, smaller and out of the way kind of bistros…also adventurous enough to eat mostly anything…
One place I do feel like trying out at least is Tertulia near Washington Square Park.
Any suggestions tumblrs?
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“Electronics are our talismans that ward off the spiritual vacuum of modernity;...”
– Fever Dream of a Guilt-Ridden Gadget Reporter (via aisforayla)
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The problem with job titles →
tacanderson:
My favorite job title I ever had was El Presidente.I think we should all just make up our own job titles. With the people I’ve managed we have internal job titles that fit into HR’s system to make raises and promotions easy but on their business cards I let them put whatever they feel best describes their job.
My official job tile is useless in describing what I do but this was a...
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“And don’t worry about losing. If it is right, it happens — The main thing is not...”
– John Steinbeck on falling in love, a wise, heart-warming, and timeless letter to his teenage son circa 1958. (via curiositycounts)
Had to tell myself that recently as well…
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