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Hipster-hate is becoming way more obnoxious than hipsters.
June 2013
Most of my friends are in their mid 20s. If there’s one thing I’ve learned from them, it’s just how idealistic they still are and how jaded I’ve become in my mid 30s.
This is probably one of the big reasons why I hang out with them.
There’s a green 1968 VW Beetle for sale for $6500 near the photo lab and whenever I walk by I just want to buy it.
Still I Hear the Word Progress (ft. Styles P)
Lushlife
Listen to: Still I Hear the Word Progress (ft. Styles P) by Lushlife
Great stuff. Listening to the whole album now on Rdio.
“Travel is little beds and cramped bathrooms. It’s old television sets and slow Internet connections. Travel is extraordinary conversations with ordinary people. It’s waiters, gas station attendants, and housekeepers becoming the most interesting people in the world. It’s churches that are compelling enough to enter. It’s McDonald’s being a luxury. It’s the realization that you may have been born in the wrong country. Travel is a smile that leads to a conversation in broken English. It’s the epiphany that pretty girls smile the same way all over the world. Travel is tipping 10% and being embraced for it. Travel is the same white T-shirt again tomorrow. Travel is accented sex after good wine and too many unfiltered cigarettes. Travel is flowing in the back of a bus with giggly strangers. It’s a street full of bearded backpackers looking down at maps. Travel is wishing for one more bite of whatever that just was. It’s the rediscovery of walking somewhere. It’s sharing a bottle of liquor on an overnight train with a new friend. Travel is ‘Maybe I don’t have to do it that way when I get back home.”
—Nick Miller, Isn’t It Pretty to Think So? (via ethereally)
Hey Tumblr.
It has been impossible to post from your iPad app for weeks.
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LOL at people who still put hit counters on blogs.
randygrskovic replied to your post: Wolfgang Tillmans in the April 2013 issue of Art Review
but it’s still mediation. It may not be a complete fraud but it’s still a white lie.
Everything we see is an interpretation of our mind’s eye. Truth is always relative in this sense. And I think that was a poor (Grade 3) interview question. But I did appreciate the part about the absurdity in the world.
Wolfgang Tillmans in the April 2013 issue of Art Review
- Wolfgang Tillmans: I use the digital camera's sensor really as film and I never move pixels around. And I think that's important because people nowadays just expect that something has been altered in pictures. I find that a bit disturbing.
- Interviewer: So this is about truth...
- Wolfgang Tillmans: Yes. In my work various ways of transfer, meaning printing, are possible, because this is how an idea becomes form, in a way. But the world as it passes through the lens and is projected onto film or sensor - I find that shouldn't be tampered with. Because the world already allows for so much absurdity, so many wild conjunctions of events and objects, it would be crazy to think that's not enough. By not doing retouching additions to my work, I insist that what you see somehow was in front of the lens. I want people to trust this as a basic given. That makes it somehow more powerful than all the pixels I can move around.
“Everyone just assumes that, well, the helmet’s gotta be the thing, that’s the way to improve cycling safety. That’s a bunch of baloney. If you look at the Netherlands or Denmark, almost no one wears a helmet and cycling there is almost 10 times safer than it is in the United States.”
—Cycling expert touts Vancouver’s innovation
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- The Guardian: Any advice for a 21-year-old who hates their job and has the possibility of traveling the world? And has a boyfriend that they like. (This is for a friend.)
- Rob Delaney: Go do it. Fuck him. Is he a guy in his 20s? Then he's the least significant type of person on the planet. A male in their 20s? Run in the opposite direction. Nothing he says matters; his fears, his hopes his dreams are garbage. Men in their 20s are the worst thing happening on our planet. Go, go to Uzbekistan, go to South Korea, just go anywhere he isn't because men in their 20s are bad for young women.
- The Guardian: So what do women in their 20s do?
- Rob Delaney: Masturbate. Date other women for a while. Use men sexually for a while but don't ever invite their opinion or be bound to them in any way.
Would I be out of line if I slapped the girl who is using speakerphone in the coffeeshop?
DINER: Downtown Eastside Neighbourhood Council Calls For An End To PiDGiN Protest : Scout Magazine →
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About fucking time. Nothing like misdirected protesting to destroy the credibility of a cause.
Get Lucky (Daft Punk)
Daughter
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damn, this is lovely.
“Adding a twist this year, the Portland Art Museum, a first-time sponsor and the starting point of the ride, offered participants after-hours admission to its new bicycle-design exhibit for an entrance fee of $1 per worn article of clothing.”
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What It’s Like to Join Portland’s ‘World Naked Bike Ride’ - Christina Cooke - The Atlantic
This is awesome.
I don’t see the VAG doing this anytime soon because, well, this is Vancouver. Though with that acronym, I see a huge opportunity.
On William Eggleston Meeting Henri Cartier-Bresson
- William Eggleston: You know, I had a meeting with him [Henri Cartier-Bresson], one in particular, it was at this party in Lyon. Big event, you know. I was seated with him and a couple of women. You’ll never guess what he said to me.
- Drew Barrymore: What?
- William Eggleston: “William, color is bullshit.” End of conversation. Not another word. And I didn’t say anything back. What can one say? I mean, I felt like saying I’ve wasted a lot of time. As this happened, I’ll tell you, I noticed across the room this really beautiful young lady, who turned out to be crazy. So I just got up, left the table, introduced myself, and I spent the rest of the evening talking to her, and she never told me color was bullshit.
