January 2011
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guy:
A short video about Oliver Jeffers, a most excellent artist and children’s book creator. We have a couple of his books (our library has more) and we dig them lots. This iPad app of one of his books looks excellent also. /via
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‘The best research has failed to show that people who stutter, as a group, are...
– Jonah Lehrer on Stuttering in “The King’s Speech” - Ideas Market - WSJ (via ayjay)
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You’ll miss having the knowledge that it will all eventually end. All of this...
– “Things You’ll Miss About College” from Thought Catalog
A life bummer that I definitely didn’t need to be reminded of in the dead of winter in Chicago.
(via britticisms)
lol, bummer indeed…
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The twentieth century inculcated in us “the myth of the audience,” the notion...
– Shirky, Clay. Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age. London: Allen Lane, 2010. (via carvalhais)
Woo looks like carvalhais is taking notes again.
(via tristn)
I need to read this book but my copy has vanished. Bah!
If what Shirky’s saying has any merit, the implications...
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Leave Chillwave Alone →
Earnestness is one of the defining attributes of “digimodernist” culture identified by the theorist Alan Kirby—other hallmarks are “onwardness” and “endlessness.” On Altered Zones and its constellation of blogs, the flow is relentless: What matters is always the next new name, the latest micro-genre, another MP3 or MediaFire. Artist careers likewise are a...
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..he reminded me of a lot of street dudes I’d known: he had a great memory, kept...
– Jay-Z on Russell Simmons, from Decoded. (via pieratt:texturism)
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Brian Eno on Nothing →
human-voices:
“What would be really interesting for people to see is how beautiful things grow out of shit… Nobody ever believes [that it happens that way]. Everybody thinks that Beethoven had his string quartets completely in his head, that it somehow appeared there and formed in his head, and all he had to do was write them down… What would really be a lesson that everybody should...
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I wanted to stop acting. I hated it. I really hated it. I remember when I was...
– Jessica Alba about acting
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RKTR - Dead.Alive
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Adele - Lovesong
mu-sique:
El disco de Adele sale a finales de este mes, ya muchos hemos escuchado “Rolling in The Deep” y el remix que hizo Jamie XX, pero 21 está lleno de joyas, una de ellas es “Lovesong” original de The Cure. Acá se las dejo.
♩ Adele - Lovesong
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Please welcome Ashton Kutcher’s dad, Bruce Willis!
– Ricky Gervais (via popculturebrain)
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WHEN SHIT BRINGS YOU DOWN, JUST SAY ‘FUCK IT’, AND EAT YOURSELF SOME...
– David Sedaris (Me Talk Pretty One Day)
ka-BOOM!
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