March 17, 2010 – 10:44 pm
I feel like I’m just marking memorials these days. First singer Kate McGarrigle (RIP post here), now Big Star frontman Alex Chilton.
A couple of years ago I wrote a post about my surprise at learning that the Alex Chilton I knew for “Thirteen” and “The Ballad of El Goodo” had been a teen idol [...]
Hark! A Vagrant. Very entertaining webcomic. Currently a bit more Canada-focused than usual, following the Olympic hockey gold.
via my bro
January 30, 2010 – 1:47 pm
“Personal biospheres” by Seattle artist Vaughn Bell.
So great – I need one of these for my living room. Or better yet: a cafe filled with multi-person versions.
via A New F*cking Wilderness
January 27, 2010 – 12:58 pm
As a former management consultant at a firm that specialized in scenario planning, I love reading the sweeping statements and predictions people have made that have turned out to be wildly wrong.
“I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.”
– Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943
“There is no reason anyone would want [...]
January 23, 2010 – 12:36 am
She seemed so happy: she was going to put the situation out of her mind and drink up the world to her fullest. She travelled back and forth to Europe, she saw my and Martha’s shows, she went on a grand tour of the world, she swam in lakes in the country. She was a [...]
January 22, 2010 – 11:30 pm
Who’s excited for Feb 2? Flight 815 crash in real time (via maxistentialism).
January 20, 2010 – 10:09 pm
The wreck of the cruise ship World Discoverer, Solomon Islands
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January 18, 2010 – 4:45 pm
The Third & The Seventh from Alex Roman on Vimeo.
A gorgeous, meditative tour through imagined spaces and structures. What struck me most was not that it was full-CG — which, yes, is amazing — but that here, at the beginning of 2010, an immersive virtual world like this can be produced by ONE GUY.
December 20, 2009 – 5:04 pm
Rare early footage of my favorite Aretha Franklin song, “One Step Ahead.” She must be about 20 years old here. The video is from before she signed with Atlantic Records, when she was still with Columbia, in the early ’60s.
Mos Def sampled “One Step Ahead” in 1999 for “Ms. Fat Booty” – a bit different [...]
December 18, 2009 – 12:28 pm
When I lived in Mumbai, it took me months to figure out how to navigate the city. Rickshaws, trains, and taxis were easy enough — it was how to communicate where I wanted to go that was the problem.
People didn’t pay attention to addresses – they knew building names. They didn’t say “the intersection [...]
