February 2012
12 posts
I am sure every girl can recall, at least once as a child, coming home and telling their parents, uncle, aunt or grandparent about a boy who had pulled her hair, hit her, teased her, pushed her or committed some other playground crime. I will bet money that most of those, if not all, will tell you that they were told “Oh, that just means he likes you”. I never really thought much about it...
Hey SF, LA, CHI, DC —> looking for experiential field producers for hire through June. Know someone? Are you that someone? DM me.
“The best feature is that it works” explains Systrom. “You compare our history to other social media startups and it’s been very good. We’ve been very careful about scaling.”
And to that end the team has spent much of the last year planning for growth. Because they don’t want to revamp the system while its under load, that’s meant doing things like...
January 2012
40 posts
Miike Snow, Black Tin Box ft. Lykke Li
Pixies, Where Is My Mind
“I have the sensation, as do my friends, that to function as a proficient human,...”
– n+1, sad as hell (via ninakix)
Nicolas Jaar, And I Say ft. Scout LaRue &...
Pentagon Scientists Use 'Time Hole' to Make Events... →
What?
The Rapture, Sail Away (Cut Copy Remix)
25 Teeny Tiny Ways To Be A Lot More Fabulous →
Joe Tex, The Love You Save (May Be Your Own)
The 45 Places to Go in 2012 →
This is one reason Mr. Brûlé has no plans for a Monocle magazine app yet: on an iPad, no one can see you reading Monocle.
“So many media companies these days forget the power of the brand, of people actually displaying, and wearing, the media brand,” he said. “In public circumstances where you have to choose a seat, you can look at a person’s shoes, you can look at their luggage, and oftentimes,...
it’s like a jungle sometimes.
“‘For instance,’ [Meryl Streep] says, forking at a bread-crumbed oyster, ‘we are...”
– “Meryl Streep: Force of Nature,” Vogue | [via thatluciegirl]
“Masculinity” is as damaging to men as “Femininity” is to women. Neither is something to aspire to. Women who understand this are called feminists. Men who understand this aren’t called anything yet, but maybe they can just be called feminists too.
- This Record, In Which We Teach You How To Be A Woman In Any Boys’ Club
As though I didn't love 'Haiku for the Single... →
“The schism between content creators and platforms like Kickstarter, Tumblr and YouTube is generational,” he wrote in an e-mail. “It’s people who grew up on the Web versus people who still don’t use it. In Washington, they simply don’t see the way that the Web has completely reconfigured society across classes, education and race. The Internet isn’t real to them yet.”
- David Carr, The Danger of...
The urgency of slowing down — to find the time and space to think — is nothing new, of course, and wiser souls have always reminded us that the more attention we pay to the moment, the less time and energy we have to place it in some larger context. “Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for our miseries,” the French philosopher Blaise Pascal wrote in the 17th century, “and yet it is...
