April 2009
50 posts
“We all have the potential to fall in love a thousand times in our lifetime. It’s...”
– Chuck Klosterman (via victoryblues, iguessthatscool & unicornology) (via glynnis)
San Francisco mint painted with 7 HD projectors →
Rhett sez, “This is what happens when you point 7 HD projectors on a building for advertising. Make the real world look like a video game.”
The old mint in downtown SF painted by 7 perfectly…
RED ONE Camera Shoots Esquire Magazine Cover →
I’ve been yelping about photo and video convergence since long before the Nikon D90 and the Canon 5d, so it’s nice to see the support for these claims just keep on rolling in. For…
San Francisco mint painted with 7 HD projectors →
Rhett sez, “This is what happens when you point 7 HD projectors on a building for advertising. Make the real world look like a video game.”
The old mint in downtown SF painted by 7 perfectly…
art
I bought my first piece of original art from a stranger. I almost did it once before, years ago, but I thought the price was too steep, I would totally have bought it now. I can see how this could be addictive. Not only is it fun, but you get a very cool thing that others get to see, that is completely unique, and that gives money to the person who made it (or in this case a tax deduction for the...
Apple and Verizon in iPhone Negotiations for 2010? →
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I don’t get service in my apartment… is it worth the price of a new iPhone for better service…
USA Today revives rumors that Apple is considering bringing the iPhone to…
Great Security!
so, to activate my new Chase card (formally WaMu) I was asked to enter the card number and then the number on the back…
that’s it.
so, if someone took this from the mail, what’s to stop them from activating and using it?*
*the only thing I can think of is if they have my phone number on file and it is cross referenced with caller ID… which, I believe, can be faked...
Looking for a green screen studio in Los Angeles...
New York’s Nether Regions →
Nuts, that’s where I live, in Brooklyn. Dick, I’ve got to go into town for work today. Yup, I’ll be punching in somewhere around the tip of Manhattan… oh man, the fun never ends with this…
hit by a car... again.
This time I was on my bicycle. I was on Santa Monica Blvd. I was in the right *labled* bike lane. It was dark. I had my bike flashy thing and a white shirt and helmet.
Traveling at about 20mph with traffic, the car in front of me had her blinker on for three blocks… I was about to over take her and even tell her that her blinker was on when - BAM sharp right turn directly in front of me.
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“The sound of a car door opening in front of [a cyclist] is similar to the sound...”
– Amy Webster (via simko)
what to do if doored… it’s only happened to me once, it was a kid, and after he did it I was on the ground and I asked if HE was ok because he was scared. Then he said, “can you move, I have to get out.”
reason #538 not to raise children in NYC.
There is over an 80% chance that two people... →
I took statistics in both highschool and college because I didn’t think the other math classes would do me any good. stuff like this is still cool to me.
what's the easiest way to add comments to tumblr?
ok… yeah, figured it out all by my little self. html. crazy
“Even if I hadn’t been starving, I would have eaten the world just to be...”
– House of leaves
“When I was 5 years old, my mom always told me that happiness was the key to...”
– (via talienat)
Time Warner Cable Nixes Billing-by-the-Byte Trial →
Under pressure from New York lawmakers, Time Warner Cable abandons its experiment with charging broadband customers by how much internet they use a month.
Time-Warner bandwidth cap protest this Saturday in... →
Adam sez, “There’s going to be a large protest in Rochester, NY on Saturday to fight the upcoming “tired pricing” aka absurdly-low bandwidth caps. This is not only anti-competitive, but it will cost…
CW-11 news claims clip of them airing YouTube... →
For April Fool’s Day this year, ImprovEverywhere pretended they’d done a flashmob at a funeral, posting a staged video of the prank to YouTube. The Tribune’s CW11 news-team presented the prank as…
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what happens if you go the other way?
A 125 foot hallway - English in one direction / Japanese in the other.
From the Yokohama Triennale 2008.
(courtesy of Hara…
Tweenbots →
Tweenbots is a new project by Kacie Kenzer. She explains:
Tweenbots are human-dependent robots that navigate the city with the help of pedestrians they encounter. Rolling at a constant…
“Everyone who is honest is interesting.”
– Stefan Sagmeister (via simko)
Supporting Photographers on Tumblr and Beyond
funemployed:
i couldn’t agree more. as a content creator, it is incredibly annoying to find my own or others’ uncredited photos making the rounds wily-nilly on the internet. tumblr, please help us photographers get credit where credit is due :)
spaceminer:
Let’s encourage proper photo credits as an internet norm, starting here and now.
I love Tumblr. Since joining in January, I’ve only...
Whew
This is the first real vacation I’ve had in years. Reason is - I can’t use my iPhone during the day and and can’t use my computer at night.
I may miss part of my digital/real life, but it is nice on vacation.
People Food » Blog Archive » Even LeVar Burton... →
yes, believe it or not, LeVar Burton is now following me on twitter.
Actor Kal Penn's surprise suicide on 'House' opens... →
kumar… I am actually impressed… like, really. huh.
Watchthis is what happens in my living room. jenny o will be big.
Best Funeral Ever at Improv Everywhere →
really psyched that my initials are also this... →
