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Am I doing it right?

new-aesthetic:

The New Aesthetic isn’t Tupac doing it, the New Aesthetic is everyone doing it.
TLC plan to resurrect Lisa ‘Left Eye’ Lopes as hologram for 2012 reunion tour | Mail Online

Digital zombie celebrities.
Digital. Zombie. Celebrities.
There’s a mess of sci-fi stories about this but for the moment I’m drawing a blank.

The New Aesthetic isn’t Tupac doing it, the New Aesthetic is everyone doing it.

TLC plan to resurrect Lisa ‘Left Eye’ Lopes as hologram for 2012 reunion tour | Mail Online

Digital zombie celebrities.

Digital. Zombie. Celebrities.

There’s a mess of sci-fi stories about this but for the moment I’m drawing a blank.

your work is your life part seven

“We’re all going overboard (regarding vintage “clicky”-style keyboards)… we spend eight, nine hours a day using the things… of all the things we obsess over that we only use a few minutes a week, why not get obsessive over something you use eight or nine hours a day? I used to be a real cheapskate on office chairs, but I think it actually makes sense to splurge, even if you’re a generally frugal person, it might make sense to spend a lot of money on an office chair.” — John Gruber, The Talk Show

This was my reasoning behind switching from PCs to a much slower, much more expensive Powerbook. Compare the (then) $500 premium to the thousand bucks people will throw at some meaningless feature of an automobile.

“It’s highly possible you might spend more time with close workers than with your spouse” — @robrob

Same thing. Being in a job you hate or having co-workers whom you’re personally incompatible with is as bad or worse than being married to someone you hate.

This is most of your life we’re talking about. This should be a big deal to you.

svpply:

The Svpply iPhone app is here!

We know a lot of you have been waiting for this, so we’re excited to announce that our new Svpply iPhone app is available for download in the App store.

We’re super proud of this one. With robust categories, a beautiful custom feed of products, super fast search, and some new interactions that we think suit us well, we put a lot into making this the best possible mobile shopping experience out there.

Speak up if you’ve got any suggestions, we’ll be watching Twitter and Tumblr closely in the coming weeks.

Next up, iPad App!

Get the Svpply iPhone App here

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The Svpply iPhone app is available for free download from the iTunes App Store, and is compatible with the iPhone 3GS, iOS 4.3 and up. Let us know if you find any bugs or have any comments! support@svpply.com

like 2600 got guest-edited by McSweeney’s

I taught myself how to read on those strips.

(via The Official K Chronicles and (Th)ink Website)

People in technology need to understand the creative process — how art is made — and vice versa. The two worlds are in a collision course, and they’re not necessarily going to break each other, one or the other won’t win, but they’ll fuse into something that isn’t recognizable to other at the moment.

‘Real artists ship,’ that’s a saying that Jobs uttered, but it actually came from Hollywood. Real artists weren’t people who stared at their navels, they were people who shipped a product and got paid for it. That was considered a virtue and that’s what Hollywood did to the envy of everyone.

— terrific episode of Horace Dediu’s Critical Path podcast

My father was very sure about certain matters pertaining to the universe. To him all good things—trout as well as eternal salvation—come by grace and grace comes by art and art does not come easy.

— Norman Maclean, via Best Made Co. (via viafrank) via via via

one of the more interesting spam messages I’ve seen in a while

barelysarcasm:

melancholyjen:

mydrunkkitchen:

I super don’t even need to read this article…

and nor do i.

AND ME EITHER!

One of the reasons I like Svpply so much is I have found it to be helpful in buying fewer, but better, things. One way I use Svpply is to find high-quality merchandise from small businesses that manufacture goods in the US. When I actually buy something I find there, the digital shopping that takes place on Svpply is still helping to contribute to real-world consumerism, but perhaps a less-bad variety.

— Chris Tackett, The Atlantic. This was exactly my goal for Svpply: to assist in what I hope becomes a broad cultural shift where people acquire fewer, nicer things.

Creatives have an inherent affection for every process involved in realizing their creative vision. No one that likes to design for the web hates code; they hate the pain associated with not knowing how to code.

— (via fieldstudy)

The grass roots they can generate is, frankly, concerning.

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Cary Sherman, RIAA. Please pause for just a moment, and reflect. Have you ever said something massively, callously, inappropriately stupid? If not, I would suggest that perhaps you are lacking in self-awareness. Think harder.

If so, did you immediately realize how stupid you were at that moment, or did it take a while before you processed that?

Cary Sherman either does or does not realize that he has a fundamental misunderstanding of Western Civilization.

George Lucas has decided to devote the rest of his life to what cineastes in the 1970s used to call personal films. They’ll be small in scope, esoteric in subject and screened mostly in art houses. They’ll be like the experimental movies Lucas made in the 1960s, around the time he was at U.S.C. film school, when he recorded clouds moving over the desert and made a movie based on an E. E. Cummings poem.

— NYT. I will show up for every goddamned one of these navel-gazers.

I would say [Buffy the Vampire Slayer] is the Gen Y equivalent of modern myth to Gen X’s Star Wars “fighting Daddy” obsessions.
— Jacob Clifton

Darth Vader tells Skywalker he has to made a decision: He can keep fighting a war he will probably lose, or he can compromise his ethics and succeed wildly. Many young adults face a similar decision after college, and those seen as “responsible” inevitably choose the latter path. However, an eight-year-old would never sell out. Little kids will always take the righteous option. And what’s intriguing about Gen Xers is they never really wavered from that decision. Luke’s quandary in The Empire Strikes Back is exactly like the situation facing Winona Rider in 1994′s Reality Bites: Should she stick with the nice, sensible guy who treats her well (Ben Stiller), or should she roll the dice with the frustrating boho bozo who treats her like crap (Ethan Hawke)?
— Chuck Klosterman

There’s a slightly embarrassing reptile-like part of my brain that would be perfectly happy if I strapped myself to an IV and just consumed cultural criticism for the rest of my life.

You have too many principles.
— a friend, a couple days ago