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Wood Casting by Hilla Shamia: Made of wood and molten metal.
No More Harvard Debt (by NoMoreHarvardDebt)
Photojournalist Aaron Huey is quite the traveler. In fact, in 2002, he and his dog walked 3,349 miles from Encinitas, CA to Coney Island, Brooklyn, taking photographs along the way. The shot above is a fitting opening to his series American Ocean, which chronicled the journey.
Via: Aaron Huey
The Jig Is Up: Time to Get Past Facebook and Invent a New Future - The Atlantic
After five years pursuing the social-local-mobile dream, we need a fresh paradigm for technology startups.
"Best Advice - Dont’ lie - you have to remember it! The single best thing about honesty is that it requires no follow-up. Every lie is something you’re responsible for as long as you want to keep it going, and few of them merit the mental storage space.” - Rachel Maddow"
I heart this show big time. Think it is hitting its stride.
Looking like a likely Who Won TV? contender right here.
Anne Lindberg Installation Timelapse (by theBemisCenter)
This is just one of the twenty old bikes that were broken down, fixed up and reimagined by twenty artists for Orto.si—you can watch the transformation and see a ton of cool details in Orto’s video.
MoveOn’s list of top POTUS achievements. What’s your vote for #1?
R. Kelly's "Trapped in the Closet" Returns
Stop the presses: R. Kelly’s unending music video drama series “Trapped in the Closet” is coming back. The next installments of the epic R&B musical will be broadcast on IFC “this year,” according to a post on the network’s website. Th…
"The way people release media is so far behind the way people actually consume it. There’s so much frustration. I mean, I get frustrated. I want to watch Game of Thrones. I’d love to see it before it comes back. Is it on iTunes? Do I watch it on HBO On Demand? What’s going on? What do I do? I bought the DVD, but I can’t watch it on my iPad? This is $5, and you have a video file that you can watch anywhere. I think people like the simplicity. Many surveys have people who stream TV shows or steal content saying that if it was available at a fair price and in a convenient form, they wouldn’t steal. And I believe that. Let’s say you hear that show Homeland is great, and you don’t have Showtime. You want to buy it. You go to Amazon, it’s not there. You go to Netflix, it’s not there. OK, fuck it, you’re just going to steal it from a torrent. But if you saw that it was $10, you could get all the episodes and watch it on anything, wouldn’t you do that?"
Sounds like he’s been reading The Oatmeal. Please take note of that first sentence, it’s the key to how things are changing.
(via yewknee)(via yewknee)
Project Re: Brief by Google
In a beautiful collision of minds and media, Project Re: Brief is a grand experiment whereby Google partnered with five of the brightest “old-school” legends from advertising to re-imagine their most iconic creative work from a half-century ago for the modern web
