this & that

Tame Impala psychedelia + Cocteau Twins-style French vocals =...

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 22:25:18 -0500

Tame Impala psychedelia + Cocteau Twins-style French vocals = dreamlike. Endors toi…

Some music just sounds timeless.

Mon, 14 Jan 2013 10:00:50 -0500

Some music just sounds timeless.

traveling strange

Sun, 13 Jan 2013 10:45:25 -0500

traveling strange:

Atlas Obscura: a kind of wiki/compendium of bizarre places and attractions. Opens your mind to the sheer amount of alien stuff that exists in this world.

Music in plasticine — mindblowing!

Fri, 07 Dec 2012 21:18:44 -0500

Music in plasticine — mindblowing!

annals of hedgehog rescuing

Thu, 01 Nov 2012 16:58:13 -0400

annals of hedgehog rescuing:

Two makes it a trend!

Love those synths! A worthy follow-up to one of my favorite...

Thu, 11 Oct 2012 15:36:00 -0400

Love those synths! A worthy follow-up to one of my favorite albums from 2011. Hear the whole thing at NPR.

the unmetal metal

Sat, 23 Jun 2012 10:39:08 -0400

the unmetal metal:

Justin K. Broadrick’s “pop” remix of jesu’s relentlessly crushing debut. Compare this to the original mix, which almost drowns in distortion. Now you can actually hear the delicate harmonies behind the wall of guitars.

BREAKING NEWS

Fri, 25 May 2012 11:27:16 -0400

BREAKING NEWS:

That’s it; nothing else is happening today in the UK. Today’s cute courtesy Gawker.

Remember those levitating bouncy balls that helped you keep up...

Fri, 18 May 2012 18:32:15 -0400

Remember those levitating bouncy balls that helped you keep up with the lyrics to your favorite children’s show sing-alongs? Much, much cooler in real life, and especially when it’s actually a 3D user interface. (via FastCo)

Four Tet + Explosions in the Sky > Explosions in the Sky.

Fri, 18 May 2012 00:36:34 -0400

Four Tet + Explosions in the Sky > Explosions in the Sky.

Brownstone Brooklyn (plus one of Manhattan) through a lens. My...

Thu, 26 Apr 2012 22:01:00 -0400

Brownstone Brooklyn (plus one of Manhattan) through a lens. My first test roll courtesy my charmingly dated Yashica-A. Is it just me, or does there seem to be a clarity and depth of color that’s lacking from the usual digital JPEGs?

The molten fire flowed up toward ZionFlight of the Nazarene to...

Thu, 12 Apr 2012 14:30:40 -0400

The molten fire flowed up toward Zion
Flight of the Nazarene to seek the Cheribum
Rides out Believer with the spliff aflame
Marijuanaut escapes Earth to cultivate

Epic poetry in green.

Zéro cheezburgers pour lui. (via Jezebel)

Thu, 12 Apr 2012 10:43:00 -0400

Zéro cheezburgers pour lui. (via Jezebel)

Until we hear different, it’s Jersey’s...

Wed, 11 Apr 2012 20:38:07 -0400

Until we hear different, it’s Jersey’s problem.

(I’m only allowed to make light of this because this brush fire in New Jersey hasn’t caused any damage or injury yet. Except to the grass around the Meadowlands, of course.)

Another pair from the archives: skyscrapers of a different sort...

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 20:08:47 -0400

Another pair from the archives: skyscrapers of a different sort than I’m used to, in Zion. On my epic 2009 roadtrip I was lucky enough to see a rare ephemeral waterfall, two thousand feet of cascade so powerful that it exhausts itself just a couple of hours after the wall of rain stops, leaving behind only the curtains of green moss and wildflowers that cling to the crevices in the cliffs.

"In the period from March to August 2011, 90 percent of the defects found by the USDA inspectors..."

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 13:16:32 -0400

“In the period from March to August 2011, 90 percent of the defects found by the USDA inspectors involved ‘visible fecal contamination that was missed by company employees.’”

- One phrase I never want to see in association with food is “visible fecal contamination.” (via The Awl)

Very high on the bucket list: Patagonia represents the other end...

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 23:44:46 -0400

Very high on the bucket list: Patagonia represents the other end of Earth, to me. Another beautiful photoset courtesy National Geographic Traveler.

a phone fit for gumby

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 16:22:11 -0400

a phone fit for gumby:

It’s not true e-paper yet, since you can’t fold it into an airplane and toss a lewd YouTube video at your friend across the classroom. But it’s still pretty damn cool. Next I’ll be posting links about the first äppärät.

watercolor world

Thu, 29 Mar 2012 18:15:06 -0400

A little late to the party on this…but San Francisco’s Stamen Design recently created a beautiful hack of OpenStreetMap, overlaying the entire world with watercolor textures. In this whimsical parallel universe, my neighborhood in Brooklyn looks a little more Bob Ross than usual, Governor’s Island looks even more like an ice cream cone (or maybe sherbet), and Paris’s étoiles twinkle with extra pastel.

Poke around for yourself!

(Discovered via Kottke)

my god, it’s full of tubes

Thu, 29 Mar 2012 14:30:05 -0400

my god, it’s full of tubes:

Apparently it’s an idea that’s been around for a while, but it’s fun to imagine the world’s oceans and intercity expanses crisscrossed by systems of colorful tubes like massive facsimiles of the marble mazes I used to play with as a kid. Also fun to imagine: zipping across the world via a fast medium of long-distance travel without crippling financial and environment costs or endless/useless security institutions. Not that giant pneumatic tubes are necessarily that system. (via Gadling)