posted April 6, 2018 #

@yewknee @milesprice Okay I get it now

posted April 5, 2018 #

@forgetcassettes @yewknee @milesprice Lol beth

Ready Player One's real nostalgia trip is to an era when critics didn't hate pop-culture references

posted April 5, 2018 #

please let this mean the era of nostalgia saturation is over.

posted April 5, 2018 #

read through https://t.co/jEIKVsjVCo

posted April 5, 2018 #

@yewknee @BreakThruRadio @thejlm glad you're getting into them! check out my show tomorrow for an interview and more music from their label, @firetalkrecs ??

posted April 5, 2018 #

We are so super ecstatic to join our pals Pale Houses, Patrick Damphier, and Kyle Andrews at The High Watt on 4/20!!! Celebrating Pale Houses EP Release!!! https://t.co/UUJSjEbXf6

Daniel Rossen - Deerslayer

posted April 5, 2018 #

first new song released in six years

posted April 5, 2018 #

I said I’m sorry I’m just not comfortable posing doing air guitar. Or standing in front of a phone booth. And certainly I’m not jumping in the air. 20 minutes later: https://t.co/Tahl7mUmAE

posted April 5, 2018 #

https://t.co/h6fMI7trFv

Lan Truong

posted April 5, 2018 #

I can't stop staring at the work of Lan Truong, a Portland based illustrator with an obvious skill at texture. Occasionally the work reminds me of Sam Smith or Parra but it's clear that it's largely influenced by 60's and 70's styles and it works.

The official portfolio is augmented well by the Instagram, which manages to show off a bit of process (and a delightful hamburger).

Vox + Zuckerberg

posted April 5, 2018 #

Look, I already did a post about Facebook and some of my thoughts around all that. There's even some pleasant comments on the blog piece; proof that pleasant conversation can exist online. I don't disagree with the comments either - Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, etc are all helping to make advertising a more direct experience on the web. That's not a terribly bad thing on the whole.

All that is to say, please read this Ezra Klein interview with Mark Zuckerberg. It's also a podcast if you want to hear it instead:

I've had this open in a tab for days as I make my way through it. I'm continuously bugged by this comment that Zuckerberg makes in response to Tim Cook about how an advertising business model forces a company not to "care" for its users (emphasis mine):

You know, I find that argument, that if you're not paying that somehow we can't care about you, to be extremely glib and not at all aligned with the truth. The reality here is that if you want to build a service that helps connect everyone in the world, then there are a lot of people who can't afford to pay. And therefore, as with a lot of media, having an advertising-supported model is the only rational model that can support building this service to reach people.

As for the take on advertising, great, fine, whatever. I'm impartial. However, the core goal of Facebook is "to build a service that helps connect everyone in the world" and I can't help but wonder, Why? #1, we already have the Internet. We're all already potentially connected. #2, having run a small social network, I can promise you do not want to connect everyone in the world.

I'm sure it's just marketing and PR speak from Zuckerberg but the idea that their goal is to connect everyone seems asinine. I'm not an isolationist and I'm all for the entire world becoming more aware and socially conscious - I just don't believe Facebook is the way to do it.

Find The Beauty

posted April 5, 2018 #

By complete accident, I stumbled across this 2013 series called Find the Beauty in which an artist is presented with an old, somewhat bizarre, song and asked to rework it in a way that finds the beauty... within 48 hours.

There are only six episodes in total but acts like Fleming and John, Andy Davis and

posted April 5, 2018 #

A Doogie Howser-type show about a teenage lawyer called Retainers.

posted April 4, 2018 #

rosepepper with my besties

posted April 4, 2018 #

ANNIHLATION (2018) https://t.co/PZoeTplERs

posted April 3, 2018 #

If my calculations are correct, biscuits and Triscuits hint towards a mysterious third food called "monoscuits."

Cat Hiccups

posted April 3, 2018 #

brilliant. via @chadsnuts

Vidalotry / The Buckley Debates

posted April 3, 2018 #

The latest episode of Vidalotry, the Gore Vidal podcast, is a lengthy one (40 minutes) that explores the extremely heated debates between Vidal and William F. Buckley, Jr.

It's interesting because, up to this point, Vidal has been extremely progressive in his views and his biting wit has never seemed too mud slinging (more catty than anything) but he seems to reach his breaking point in the debates with Buckley. The debates are from 1968, which was not that long ago but long enough that you'd hope we'd grown up beyond this kind of behavior.

All and all, well worth a listen. Subscribe or just play it now.

Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook’s future

posted April 3, 2018 #

an excellent interview. do read or listen. i think i patently disagree with many of facebook goals but still enjoy the ride here.

Syd Mead

posted April 3, 2018 #

Been taking a bit of a dive into the work of Syd Mead, the graphic and conceptual futurist artist best known for his creations on Blade Runner, Aliens and Tron. There's plenty of info about his work on his official site or Wikipedia of course but I think immersing yourself in the work is really the way to go.

I think my favorite fun fact that I've encountered so far is that his insight on designs pushed movies beyond their look:

What's perhaps most interesting is seeing how these designs influenced more than just how the films looked. In one especially illustrative example, when Mead looked at the script for 2003 disaster thriller The Core, he realized that the drilling machine that was central to the movie's premise had an engineering flaw, and wouldn't actually work in the real world. After heeding Mead's advice, then-director Peter Hyams ultimately changed the script to incorporate these new ideas.

Maybe that's marginalizing his work because The Core is a questionable piece of work at best but it is a nice testament to how Design is more than just a surface level appearance.