March 2009
Aesthetic (is an overused word)
I don’t post things that arouse me; I post things that give me hope.
Hope that the pendulum is swinging away from awful Maxim/Playboy/Cosmo-style photography, away from ham-fisted airbrushing and over-saturation.
I covet idiosyncratic beauty, creativity, inventiveness. I’m tired of average people compiled into portraits that ape beauty like Frankenstein’s monster aped life....
February 2009
“Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt.”
– Richard Feynman
“The only difference between artists making money and artists not making money is...”
– Penelope Trunk
Where's Cool? →
Hipster travel tips and city guides—like Yelp with an age limit. Oh and there’s an ad made on a $5 budget.
here is what industry cocks think is the future of... →
(via alaskamiller)
“The sole purpose of DRM is to maximize revenue by minimizing your rights and...”
– Ken Fisher for Ars Technica
whiskey, 4am, shit we probably all agree on...
(rediscovered this draft from a few nights ago)
so back in the day people would listen to songs on the radio and not pay for them. if a song drove them nuts in a good way they’d go track down the record and buy it.
now imagine piracy as a really good radio station. so good it’s like willy wonka’s chocolate factory, but for your ear holes. pandora/last.fm/etc are for lazy...
