Friday, July 31, 2009

status updates for mommy

Sometimes, I wish my mom just operated on the basis of status updates. She is slowly getting into texting. She sends me a paragraph and I humbly return her never-ending queries with
" I'm alive."


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Status Updates Since My Mother Became My Facebook Friend.

BY SCOTT A. HARRIS

Scott is making good, well informed decisions.

Scott is going to bed at a very reasonable hour.

Scott is drinking only on occasion, and even then it's just one or two.

Scott quit smoking several months ago without any apparent difficulty.

Scott is in no way involved, currently nor in the past, with a married woman, regardless of what anyone is saying.

Scott is making large, regular contributions to his savings account.

Scott is making yet another home cooked meal, avoiding fast food as usual.

Scott is no longer in debt like he used to be...boy that would be terrible.

Scott is in no way affected by the current economic downturn...everything is a-okay.

Scott is not gaining weight, and his clothes fit just fine.

VIA mcsweeneys



where old meets new



Love how anachronistic this image feels. Created by Emmanuel Polanco.

My flock is awfully writerly

See a tag cloud of your twitterati followers here.

tappening kind of a downer

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These ads are kind of depressing. But I guess, the truth is sort of a downer too. Check out the site here.

feminists don't hate men, housewives do?

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"Our work finds that, indeed, non-feminists believe in traditional gender roles such as men being breadwinners and women being caregivers. At the same time, these non-feminists actually appear to resent the confines of the traditional roles they advocate, which presents a paradox for women and men in traditional heterosexual relationships," says researcher Melinda Kanner.

VIA feministing

Thursday, July 30, 2009

the male oaf is a woman...

...and somehow it just gets sad.

Created by Sean of the blogulator.

Keeping puppies snuggie

Dog-snuggies

O.k., who didn't see this coming?

VIA
adfreak

The Big City and the Endless Net

“ In their scope, both the Internet and New York are profoundly humbling: young people accustomed to feeling special about their gifts are inevitably jarred, upon arrival, to discover just how many others are trying to do precisely the same, with equal or greater success. — Bright Lights, Big Internet - NYTimes.com

VIA highlow

Target women: dating



Sarah Haskins it's been too long, I was starting to miss you.

iSpy a preschool precursor to iPhoning



Start em' early or else they'll go through adolescence as a PC. The horror.

The Hills: a retrospective

artwork

Vancouver artists Karin Bubas solo exhibition "With friends like these..." is a pastel take on the Hills most vacuous residents.

Wednesday, July 29, 2009

accessory to a human

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Shocking and thought provoking photography by Madame Peripetie

iPhone in bed

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"The Passion 'app' uses the phone's motion sensors and microphone to take a series of readings during sexual intercourse.

Users simply start the programme, strap the phone to their arm or belt, and press 'stop' when lovemaking is over. The programme then gives a rating from 'bad' to 'perfect' on three criteria - duration, activity, and orgasm."

My question: do we really need an app for that?

VIA huffington post

lovely and strange.



Fruit by the foot randomness from Saatchi New York.

Solar Parking Lots

sustainable design, green design, solar forest, ev infrastructure, electric vehicle, neville mars, photovoltaic trees

It almost makes too much sense, charging your car while it's parked. Very cool and it looks like an urban jungle.

VIA
Inhabitat

funny because it's true.

This may be one of my favorite new sites.



Check out more here.

coffee cup doodles

henry by Boy Obsolete.sodapop sundays (1) by Boy Obsolete.they killed lucy (3) by Boy Obsolete.

Found this on flickr kind of love it. Want to start drawing on coffee cups too.

VIA Boy Obsolete

Michael Jackson Sneakers

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Is there anywhere his image isn't right now?

Tuesday, July 28, 2009

youtube tees

Shirts Taste Good

In a world, where even ironic t-shirts are fleeting, they are finally make designs for the A.D.D. generation. Youtube tees provide a new pop culturally relevant ( at least for 15 minutes or so) tshirt every week.

emoticons in love, hate, and lust

Emoticon Love Stories - Illustrator Miss Tal Tells the Tale of Our Computer Counterparts (GALLERY)
Illustrator Miss Tal Tells the Tale of Our Computer Counterparts


See the whole love story here.

toilet paper faces

18 Creative Toilet Papers

The faces match the medium? Created by Junior Jacquet.

How Artists Must Dress

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" The artist's sartorial choices are subject to the same hermeneutic operations as are his work. When dressing, an artist should imagine a five-paragraph review of his clothes—the attitudes and intentions they reveal, their topicality, their relationship to history, the extent to which they challenge or endorse, subvert or affirm dominant forms of fashion—written by a critic he detests.

Communicating an attitude of complete indifference to one's personal appearance is only achievable through a process of self-reflexive critique bordering on the obsessive. Artists who are in reality oblivious to how they dress never achieve this effect." - n+1

And How Writers Must Dress.

Awkwardly. That is all.

Balancing your media diet

Balance Your Media Diet via zenhabits

I realize now I may just be socially obese. VIA something changed

Monday, July 27, 2009