February 2012
12 posts
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WatchI’m building this playlist on Rdio called Hip Hop Singles. It includes 1 song per artist and I’m up to 129 songs.
“Times are changing. These nerds threaten our way of life.”
– Stan Gable, Revenge of the Nerds (1984)
Watchmotherphokingburgers:
Nas Performs With The Roots On Fallon
All kinds of dope.
whaaaaat?
live to paint
“Simply put: we don’t build services to make money; we make money to build better services. ” - Mark Zuckerberg.
“I don’t paint to live, I live to paint” - de Kooning.
Shot Caller by French Montana so many classic hip...
January 2012
7 posts
“I’m not worried about the country’s long-term future,” Mr. Jobs told Mr. Obama,...”
– NYTimes
sunsetwebbeach:
Macklemore - Otherside.
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December 2011
8 posts
“The radical decline in ocean freight rates during the nineteenth century, the...”
– from The Box: How the Sipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger by Marc Levinson
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“it’s only human to express the way you really feel but that same humanity...”
– The Roots, “I Remember”
November 2011
14 posts
1 tag
1 tag
My latest foursquare badge
Some Foursquare badges we all get… some actually say something about you and your interests. This was a fun one to earn today.
“Isn’t life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves?”
– Andy Warhol
October 2011
24 posts
It is so easy to love art
It is so easy to love art these days.
An aspiring Swedish art critic was couchsurfing at our place when she mentioned that the de Kooning exhibit at MoMA was worth checking out. I knew very little about de Kooning but I decided I would go see it! So in preparation I turned to the web.
1) The Willem de Kooning Wikipedia page is great.
2) de Kooning was a leader in the Abstract expressionist...
“I don’t paint to live, I live to paint”
– de Kooning
Aspects of Robinson by Weldon Kees
Aspects of Robinson by Weldon Kees
Robinson at cards at the Algonquin; a thin
Blue light comes down once more outside the blinds.
Gray men in overcoats are ghosts blown past the door.
The taxis streak the avenues with yellow, orange, and red.
This is Grand Central, Mr. Robinson.
Robinson on a roof above the Heights; the boats
Mourn like the lost. Water is slate, far down....
Creativity through gaming
I joined some friends for a drink last night and when I arrived they were deep in a discussion about creativity and the future of our country. I completely agreed with my friend Oskar’s main premise that to solve the world’s hard problems it requires creative thinkers. Yet with budget cuts to the arts in education and an emphasis on standardized tests and subject matter that is often...
“I don’t care what my friends are listening to. Because I’m cooler...”
– Trent Reznor on Spotify’s FB integration
“You’re blowing it with Fox News, the axis today is not liberal and...”
– Steve Jobs to Rupert Murdoch