February 2012
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“Man, tumblr is blowing up with hilarious animal posts today.”
– Jillian
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“You know, at one time, I used to break into pet shops to liberate the canaries....”
– Harold and Maude, 1971
January 2012
26 posts
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“To me signatures are a pure sign of an amateur”
– Thomas Hawk on photographers who watermark their work.
William Eggleston doesn’t use them. Richard Avedon doesn’t use them (RIP). The Ansel Adams Gallery in Yosemite run by Ansel’s son Michael Adams doesn’t use them. Mary Ellen Mark doesn’t use them.
Is your work so much better than these masters...
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Tulsa Transit
tulsan:
I’m looking at doing a design/research piece on public transit in Tulsa. I’m looking for people:
with experience using public transit in Tulsa. Complaints? Praise? Ideas?
with opinions on the future of public transit in Tulsa and the Tulsa region.
with experience using more successful public transit systems. What made them work well for you?
If you’re interested in contributing just...
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“Spence, 53, has a degree in home economics from the University of...”
– Dave Spence, Missouri Gubernatorial Candidate, Changes College Biography
“May have been misleading”. Lies tend to be.
Modern Nerd: Doing it for a living →
modernnerd:
Imagine a web publishing platform that costs $10 per month.
$5 of that $10 goes to the platform company for the boring stuff.
The other $5 gets split evenly between the writers, photographers, videographers, designers, and other creative people you follow who also pay to use the platform, up to…
This is an awesome idea. Click through and read the whole thing.
December 2011
19 posts
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Blood Bank
Then the snow started falling We were stuck out in your car You were rubbing both my hands Chewing on a candy bar you said ain’t this just like the present To be showing up like this There’s a moon waning crescent we started to kiss And I said I know it well
-Bon Iver, Blood Bank
I’ve always felt sort of conflicted about my affinity for constantly posting song lyrics. I...
“You can be comfortable or outstanding, but not both. Extraordinary begins with...”
– Sally Hogshead (via electrofervor)
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Nobody likes a show off: The excruciating rise of... →
I can’t help but feel like this is my new “least-favorite thing that people do”.
“Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the...”
– Helen Keller (via jmbalfour)
Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
“Ask Osama bin Laden … if I engage in appeasement.”
– President Obama (via nationaljournal)