January 2009
41 posts
“There are roughly three New Yorks. There is, first, the New York of the man or...”
– E.B. White, Here is New York
Schools Phasing Out Cursive →
menstrom:
It’s about damn time. I never understood why such emphasis was put on an arcane form of penmanship. They may as well teach architectural lettering… at least it is legible. (via thedw)
I don’t know what it is, but I can’t feel comfortable with this. I think handwriting is a healthy way of organizing thoughts and presenting them. Cursive is never used professionally, maybe it...
“I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been...”
– Isaac Newton, From Brewster, Memoirs of Newton (1855)
Animal Collective Live at Manhattan Center Grand... →
Bob Boilen chats with Animal Collective about... →
The biggest thing that Facebook is lacking that Myspace had was being able to comment with pictures or video on people’s profile. I think Tumblr does a great job of substituting that urge.
Just a thought.
Big Week Ahead...
Andrew Sanford’s Toga Birthday Party (Today)
Flight of the Conchords Season 2 Premiere (Today)
President Obama’s inaguration (Tuesday)
Animal Collective’s “Merriweather Post Pavilion” drops (Tuesday)
LOST Season 5 Premiere (Thursday)
My Graduation Performance (Thursday-Sunday)
2009 is off to a bang.
WatchMy brother is playing at this installation with this band. The artist, Alex Itin, made this video as a promo and also made all the art you see in the video. He’s getting this installation ready to show at the end of January. Cutting edge stuff. This is the first example of on-purpose video lag I’ve seen, and I’m definately going to go check out the installation.
Song: Pink...
Immuzikation’s mash-up of Justice’s...
MGMT remixed with Daft Pank!
