July 2010
69 posts
Typography that Sings and Dances →
romancortes.com
best. rick. roll. ever.
World's Longest Pinhole Exposure
“It was captured by the German artist Michael Wesely, who worked with New York’s Museum of Modern Art to photograph the destruction (and subsequent construction) of their building. The shots are ever so ghostly, and are such a terrific souvenir of the MoMA’s heritage.”
The rest of the pinhole gallery
Via Gizmodo
All I can say is that I hope there’s a print I can buy from the MOMA giftshop.
How Women Use the Web [REPORT] →
mashable.com
“As such, in the “Women on the Web: How Women are Shaping theInternet
Via Mashable
“We recorded it on tape, we press it to vinyl, and the digital is the archive of this physical thing that exists in the world,” Mr. Butler said. “We’re preserving it and using digital as a mode of distribution, but ultimately there was something real that was made.”
—The Arcade Fire, a Thriving Throwback - NYTimes.com (via minorjive)
Listen
Empire of the Sun, “Walking on the Sun” (Treasure Fingers Remix)
If this song does not make you want to get down with ya bad self, you must be dead inside. This remix is a total jam.
SHOUTS & MURMURS: CHRISTOPHER NOLAN’S “IMPLEMENTATION” →
newyorker.com
Inception, corporate style.
Via The New Yorker
“According to a new study the psychological profile of iPad owners can be summed up as “selfish elites” while have-not critics are “independent geeks…consumer research firm MyType conducted the study, in which opinions of 20,000 people were analyzed between March and May. The firm’s conclusion was that iPad owners tend to be wealthy, sophisticated, highly educated and disproportionately interested in business and finance, while they scored terribly in the areas of altruism and kindness. In other words, “selfish elites.They are six times more likely to be “wealthy, well-educated, power-hungry, over-achieving, sophisticated, unkind and non-altruistic 30-50 year olds.”
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iPad Owners Are ‘Selfish Elites.’ Critics Are ‘Independent Geeks.’ Discuss. Via Wired
I guess I’d be an independent geek in this study. I think iPads are fairly cool and all but I can’t see the value of one in my life. I have a smartphone and a laptop and that’s enough for me. Any more screens and baby will go blind.
“A 28-year career doing the right things to rise to the top of a major company, and now he’s an anti-leadership case — you have to feel compassion for him,” a reporter said, trying to provoke me. I wasn’t provoked. Compassion is as compassion does. Mine was reserved for the victims, the ones who died in the explosion of the oil platform, the ones whose livelihoods were destroyed with the marine ecosystem, and even, to a lesser extent, the BP employees certain to lose their jobs as the company shrinks or disappears, not to mention the widows and orphans whose BP stock lost half its value. Tony Hayward’s attention should have been first and foremost on all of them.”
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Leadership Tips from Tony Hayward (or Not) Via The Harvard Business Review
Tony Hayward was only CEO I’ve ever referred to as a douchebag in writing. That’s the quite the honor there, Tony.
“Only 1% of consumer tweets that mention a brand are part of an active conversation with that brand, meaning marketers are, for the most part, conducting one-way conversations — the opposite of the way consumers often use Twitter.”
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