January 2010
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agrammar:
One of the strangest paradoxes of the internet, to me, is that it both encourages and chips away at the foundations of “niche” and “specialized” content. It nurtures the stuff while eroding the category altogether. It’s full of material that is very specifically Not For You, and yet it teaches you to feel that you have access to everything, that everything is for you. All of which is...
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Watchbonertime: Herb and Dorothy
I saw this last night! So so so so so so cute!!!!!!!!!!
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Dubravka Ugresic, The Museum of Unconditional Surrender, p. 4:
7. I sometimes have coffee with Kira from Kiev, a retired literature teacher. ‘Ya kamenshchitsa [I am a pebble lover],’ says Kira. Kira is passionate about every kind of stone. She tells me that she spends every summer in the Crimea, in a village where the sea throws all kinds of semi-precious stones up on to the shore....
“We are no longer just consumers of content, we have become curators of it too....”
– ‘Controlled Serendipity’ Liberates the Web - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com (via interestingsnippets)
Or, as I like to call it, “premasticated content.”
(via megpickard)
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Enough disaster capitalism, I want only beautiful capitalism! That looks like scrapbooks! Via Good Type Bad Type, which I found on things, which very sweetly excerpted some crap I wrote. Am I creating a vicious circle for myself on the internet, filled with feedback loops and echoes that only lead back to each other? Who isn’t? Now if you’ll excuse me, I need to continue furnishing my...
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http://canopycanopycanopy.com/7/the_anatomy_of_ruin... →
This landscape has, in turn, been made into a spectacle of ruin, feeding an infatuation with our own destruction. It can be seen in the imaginary geographies of sensationalized docudramas, action-film backdrops, video-game worlds, and magazine pictorials, where the optics of ruin are harnessed to produce phantasmagorias of the End Times. But behind the veil of pop culture, the image of these...
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Curation Culture
breannetrammell:viafrank:
Jon-Kyle Mohr posted a really thoughtful critique of the online curation culture called A Complimentary Rant on the State of Convenience. (Is curation culture a term? Can I coin that?) Anyway, Jon-Kyle’s central question: Why is it that with the ease of publishing available today people so often choose to re-post content as opposed to create it?
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things magazine has a typically thoughtful post on modern ruins (emphasis mine):
Perhaps modern ruins will become an integral part of the contemporary cityscape, just as parts of rural Spain and Greece are dotted with half-finished quasi-agricultural structures, filling time as storehouses and sheds until their concrete frames can be finished (see the work of Sam Appleby, for example). To think of...
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