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“Milton Glaser Draws & Lectures,” a short film...

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 07:20:40 -0800

“Milton Glaser Draws & Lectures,” a short film by C. Coy. (via kottke)

Decor in the bathroom of an (East) German restaurant in San...

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 21:15:49 -0800

Decor in the bathroom of an (East) German restaurant in San Francisco (detail).

Ferris wheel at Disney’s California Adventure.

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 07:14:22 -0800

Ferris wheel at Disney’s California Adventure.

merlin: How to play piano like Philip Glass I so love this...

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:37:24 -0800

merlin:

How to play piano like Philip Glass

I so love this guy.

Yup, that’s Philip Glass alright.

View from the house, Lake Tahoe.

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 15:54:03 -0800

View from the house, Lake Tahoe.

That’s a husky alright. Woof. bruisr: Big Muscle...

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 10:06:08 -0700

That’s a husky alright. Woof.

bruisr:

Big Muscle Siberian Husky

kottke: “10/GUI is a new proposal for a way of interacting...

Sat, 17 Oct 2009 15:22:15 -0700

kottke: “10/GUI is a new proposal for a way of interacting with personal computers using all ten fingers in a multitouch scheme. Very Minority Report.” I’d really like to play with it.

Neato: Pomplamoose covers — and deconstructs —...

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 21:04:05 -0700

Neato: Pomplamoose covers — and deconstructs — Beyoncé’s “Single Ladies” (via kottke)

blaaargh: (via brouillon) I don’t smoke but I want a...

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 21:30:49 -0700

blaaargh:

(via brouillon)

I don’t smoke but I want a jewel-encrusted cigarette holder.

Carl Sagan feat. Stephen Hawking, “A Glorious Dawn”...

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 21:22:22 -0700

Carl Sagan feat. Stephen Hawking, “A Glorious Dawn” If you’re of the generation whose concept of the universe was in large part shaped by Carl Sagan, you’ll appreciate this auto-tuned tribute. Sublime.

"I’m going to skip right to the heart of what I want to say about this city: if you’ve never lived in..."

Sun, 11 Oct 2009 17:42:57 -0700

“I’m going to skip right to the heart of what I want to say about this city: if you’ve never lived in a major city before, you’ll probably like San Francisco. However, if you’re coming from another notable city, you may be disappointed.”

- Twitter’s Alex Payne (@al3x) nails why San Francisco just ain’t what it’s cracked up to be.

mejoe: astronaught: applesandmustard: if i ever got the urge...

Thu, 08 Oct 2009 15:14:00 -0700

mejoe:

astronaught:

applesandmustard:

if i ever got the urge to be in a relationship with a 42 year old man

he would be THE one

I second that. Well, AC would be the one after John King, oh, and maybe Joe Solmonese.
Opps.

repete is so hot

Now cut that out!

Super-Social Networking: Superhero Facebook Status Updates

Mon, 05 Oct 2009 17:00:16 -0700

Super-Social Networking: Superhero Facebook Status Updates

merlin: amandaleedotorg: Unproductive Creatives (via D. Keith...

Sat, 03 Oct 2009 21:20:19 -0700

merlin:

amandaleedotorg:

Unproductive Creatives (via D. Keith Robinson)

"Austin didn’t know what to wear to his first gay dance last spring. It was bad enough that the..."

Sat, 03 Oct 2009 21:17:21 -0700

“Austin didn’t know what to wear to his first gay dance last spring. It was bad enough that the gangly 13-year-old from Sand Springs, Okla., had to go without his boyfriend at the time, a 14-year-old star athlete at another middle school, but there were also laundry issues. “I don’t have any clean clothes!” he complained to me by text message, his favored method of communication.”

- I love this story. Coming Out in Middle School (NYTimes.com)

"Seen in that light, what’s needed for a non-profit news plan to work isn’t an institutional..."

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 08:45:53 -0700

“Seen in that light, what’s needed for a non-profit news plan to work isn’t an institutional conversion, it’s a rescue operation. There are dozen or so reporters and editors in Columbia, Missouri, whose daily and public work is critical to the orderly functioning of that town, and those people are trapped inside a burning business model.”

- Rescuing The Reporters: Clay Shirky on the necessity of turning newspapers into nonprofit news-gathering organizations.

merlin: jasonpermenter: D&D camp, c. 1982 (via...

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 20:42:37 -0700

merlin:

jasonpermenter:

D&D camp, c. 1982

(via rpg.brouhaha.us; found at BoingBoing)

Yeah, what’s your point?

mejoe: cjuk: Anderson Cooper is that @repete? I have fewer...

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 20:41:15 -0700

mejoe:

cjuk:

Anderson Cooper

is that @repete?

I have fewer wrinkles.

Art Ferrante, Pop Pianist in Famed Duo, Dies at 88

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 09:59:51 -0700

Art Ferrante, Pop Pianist in Famed Duo, Dies at 88:

Another Times obit today for another space-age legend. My dad loved easy-listening music, so the local easy-listening FM station was always his first choice in the car or the living room (usually both). Montovani, the 101 Strings, and Ferrante & Teicher comprised much of the soundtrack of my early childhood.

madmenfootnotes: Illustrator Bernie Fuchs, who’s work I only...

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 09:31:20 -0700

madmenfootnotes:

Illustrator Bernie Fuchs, who’s work I only recently came to know about and adore, has died.

Here’s a snippet from The Awl piece where we talked about Bernie:

Illustrator Murray Tinkelman, who also worked at Cooper’s Studio, gave an interview about the first time he saw Fuchs work: “It was gorgeous” he said. He conferred with the other two superstars of Cooper Studios, Joe Bowler and Coby Whitmore. Bowler and Whitmore arrived together to inspect the new painting. Whitmore was “speechless,” Bowler said: “I don’t know who the hell did this, but the business is never going to be the same.”

And here is the NYT obit.

One of the great illustrators of the 20th century. Go read the Times obit.