Me Old Oy
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Press Pause Play
I'm loving this film Press Pause Play:
"It's that idea of grey goo. This idea that if you have little bitty bio-machines that can replicate themselves, there's nothing to stop the world from being covered in grey goo. These little things are going to replicate themselves until there's nothing left in the world but these little machines. Art and culture potentially might succumb to that same principle. If everybody's a musician, and everyone's making mediocre music, eventually the world is covered with mediocrity. People start to become comfortable with mediocrity." - Moby, from about 28-minutes into the film
He Looks At His Hand To Make Sure He's Doin' It Right #englishman
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[Video] "He Was Buying Doggie Sunglasses" Reaction
Well That's That
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No More Chardonnay To Talk About?
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David Foster Wallace on Watching The Golf Channel in 1996
All of Them
RT @zeldman: Q. Where are the former liberal arts majors who read newspapers and can discuss fiction & the arts? A. In Brooklyn making s ...
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Klosterman on Adness
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That Is Some Mac N Cheese
Stefan Ruiz' 20x200 Edition Appears on "Homeland"
Fun to notice this cityscape of Cairo from Stefan Ruiz appear on the kitchen wall (though slightly askew) of the Claire Danes CIA-agent character in "Homeland". That's Mandy Patinkin in the screen grab.
Scrambled Tebow
Every under-pressure scramble out-of-the-pocket Tim Tebow made, in order, in the Denver Broncos' loss to the New England Patriots on Sunday, November 18th, 2011.
I Asked My Wife to Print Out My Groupon
Best Tweet of All Time?
Yo Yo Ma on the floor of a bathroom, with a wombat. twitter.com/petersagal/sta…
— Peter Sagal (@petersagal) December 14, 2011
Thank You, Mr. Hitchens
iMovie Import: Way Too Slow
When you're running an old Mac Pro, and Final Cut Pro X tells you to upgrade your graphics card, and you've never been happy with how iMovie (the sequels) handles events & projects and you still happen to have iMovie HD installed, you may find that importing your source footage takes way too long -- so long that you're going to take a long walk off a short pier before it completes. Enter this video: a quick and surprisingly easy package-hack to instantly add source files to your old-school iMovie project.
Gourevitch Riff on Sarkozy
No Thanks, We're Cool
Pro iTunes Tip for Future Dads
Blake Andrews' "top ten people taking pictures in a top ten photo"
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Two State Prisoners
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Herman Cain, on Sundays, With Wife
"I said to my wife, 'did you hear that?' I was sitting in my favorite chair, in front of the TV, next to the kitchen. She was in the kitchen, preparing dinner. [laughter] What? [laughter and clapping] That's what we do at our house on Sunday; I sit in the easy chair and she prepares dinner! [laughter and clapping] ...when I'm the President, okay?" [clapping]
From a speech on National Security at Hillsdale College, Hillsdale, Michigan, 11/29/2011.A Favorite From Meggan Gould's Verso Series
Lemond and Freakanomics
Cokesbury?
Until Last Week I'd Never Seen This Mondrian
Same Same But Different
Matt Mullican via SFMOMA Open Space
Jim Goldberg via jmcolberg.com
That Said, Have a Lovely Day
Oh, Stevie
Sign of the Apocalypse
Occupy Studio
Murphys from San Francisco Like Grids of Sky Pictures
Saw Ken Murphy's awesome sky grid project that he made from a year's worth of pictures taken by a camera installed on the roof of the Exploratorium, via kottke.org.
Fun to see how similar they look to my sky grids, shot with a cell-phone while driving around (and getting stuck in traffic in) Atlanta, and first exhibited in a group show at Spruill Gallery in 2009. Interesting too, because my prints were grids of stills - which I'd also processed into video.
I really like Ken's fixed position approach, and the concept and arrangement behind his video is ace. Watch it at 1080p HD! Go Murphys!
Bas Jan Ader film still from 1970
This Round of Stills vs. Video Goes to Stills
From the 1987 NBA Dunk Competition, with Clyde Drexler.
If you look closely, you can see the flash bulbs popping during the first dunk on this video.
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#12 at Southwind with Tailwind
Thanks for clearing that up, Glen!
Touched
Barbaric
Like Sweet Gasoline
Keegan Bradley Wins PGA Champ, Gets it Rolling On 1st Hole w/ This Birdie
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Radio Open Golf Announcers Discuss "Planking" & "Owling"
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(A stroke-by-stroke account of a four-over par round at Browns Mill golf course on July 10th, 2011)
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Video: A Tribe Called Buffering Michael Rapaport
Two New Videos
New Effort: Fall Line Press
William Boling and I have been working on a new effort; a photobook publishing / photobook reading library called Fall Line Press here in Atlanta. We launch this evening, at our space in the Brickworks from 6-9pm. We'll be debuting the 1st issue of Free Fall, featuring Laura Noel. Hey yeah!
[Video] Seven Seconds of Soul
[Video] Phil Mickelson's Mad Wedge-Fishing Skills
Ruckersville Calls Out All Those SEO Content Farms
[Video] Ben & Jerry's Passive Aggressive "You Lose" Ice Cream Receipt
Bracken Brown Beauty Magnolia
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Plastic Door to the City of Atlanta
Sorry, Ol' Bill
"I forgot to mention that to play the blues..."
Because Every Website Needs a Duplicate Page on Facebook for People Who Never Leave Facebook
Follow While Seated on Facebook
What Forward-Thinking Developer is Turning this ATL Parking Lot into a Solar Energy Farm?
Sky Grid
3 Practice Putts from 10 Feet Ended-Up Like This
The Only Thing I Have In Common With Ben Hogan; Our Nasty Callouses
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Celebrating the Monarchy With Proper TESCO Ice Cubes
It's A Great Day for British Fashion
Nothing Comes Between Sean and Tiger Like A Casio Exilim EX-F1
Sean and Tiger with the fabled 1200fps Casio Exilim EX-F1, an idiosyncratic camera that debuted in 2008 with features that were ahead of their time. Find one on eBay, if you can.
2 Places Called "Ball Ground"? There's So Much I Need To Know... #tornado
How Willem de Kooning's Late Paintings Are Like Golf, via Sidewalk Radio
These days, when the infloglut sandwich is smeared with blase & a soggy side of fried self-promotion, I'm glad to run across gems like Gene Kansas' "Sidewalk Radio" show and podcast, which you can hear on AM1690 in Atlanta, or in your favorite podcast app. Last week, I heard the show from December, "How to See Art" and was amazed by the professional localness of the production; experts-in-Atlanta-talking-about-stuff-that-matters. Interviewing people is hard work, and editing sound for broadcast isn't a walk in the park either. Kudos to Kansas for weaving it all together.
In the "How To See Art" episode, ACAC curator Stuart Horodner recounts a visit to the 1997 de Kooning exhibition at MOMA. While working on writing an article about the show during his visit to the galleries, Stuart is asked by the husband of an artist about The Nature of Art, by way of de Kooning's late abstracts, which is where the story begins:
"This couple comes up to me -- very well-dressed, mid-50s/60 maybe. This man interrupts me and says, 'listen, I don't mean to interrupt you, but clearly you're looking and busy, but I want to ask you something: my wife is an artist; I'm a business man. She takes me to these galleries and museums all the time, and I don't know what the hell I'm looking at. You gotta know something -- you're writing notes -- you look like you know what you're doing. What's this stuff about?' "And his wife looks at me and she's like, 'ah, he's just insufferable -- all he wants to do is play golf -- I'm sorry if he's interrupting you.'" "And I say, 'oh, you play golf?'" "He's like, 'yeah', and I say, 'these paintings have a lot to do with golf.'" "He says, 'what are you talking about?'" "You go play your game of golf, you got your clubs, you're out on the green, you pick-up a particular club, you tee-off. Ball goes where it goes, you follow it, you take a different club outta your bag, you hit it further, you keep doing this to get it into the hole, you play 18 holes, you got a game of golf. Good game, bad game, nice weather, bad weather, it's a process, right? At the end of your game, you have a score, but the score doesn't represent every single aspect of all the different calculations you made to play the game, right? de Kooning's in his studio, he's got a blank canvas, he takes a brush, big brush, mixes some paint, makes a series of gestures, moves back and looks at it. Takes a different brush, a smaller brush, picks some other colors, makes some other gestures. Over the course of a week or two of making these gestures, he comes up with a painting -- that is the result of all these activities, right? It's not a picture of anything, per se; the painting is the score -- you're looking for a picture, look at it as if it's an accumulation of gestures that are more or less refined, coming to be together, to the point where when he was finished it, it was over like your game of golf was over.' And he looks at me, and he looks at his wife, and he hits his wife in the arm and says, 'how come you never explained it like that?'"
I don't think I've ever encountered a better description about the relevancy and intent of abstract art (or any art?) before. Sure, Stuart's spun the longest extended analogy for golf I've seen in awhile, but the fact that it's about how golf is like art, and art is like golf is too rich for me these days.
Another echo inside the story is that golf, like art, is a process. Eldrick Woods knows it, at least, and if you tune-in to hear any PGA-Tour cookie-cutter driving-range-practice-round interviewee - they'll agree, and add that "it is what it is", for an extra-added dose of insightful athletic wisdom. Stuart (taking Eldrick's cue) could have just as easily soft-pedaled and answered that de Kooning's paintings 'are what they are', which is also true -- but the fact that one more person came away from MOMA understanding a bit more about de Kooning and art and the connection between both and one's own struggle to consistently hit a 4-iron 235 yards leaves me feeling an extra bit thankful; for the story and its teller. Thanks, Sidewalk Radio! Story excerpted below. Please listen in full at 1690.Can't Watch Charlie on My Phone = Unsubscribe
[Video] Greens
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Mobile Live-Fire Shooting Range
Late to the Doom Party
A few years ago, I was in the audience at this ill-fated MF Doom show. I knew a bit of his work, but then tonight, I heard "More Rhymin'" from "Born Like This" for the first time and I couldn't believe my ears. Wow.
More rhymin', pure diamond, tore hymen, poor timing
Raw lining, Paul Simon touring, I'm in
Boring typing, snoring pipe when hyper than four hype men
Excited writing, trifling times ten
Long stay, songs play, gone haywire, wrong way
on the interstate, integrate all day
It's just a small phase, that's what them all say
Then fall prey in a mini-mall hallway
Meant to be sold, not told to friendly enemies
Remember these intentionally, empathy please
Silent moaning, violent prone atonement
Miles a minute on a microphone, on rent, loan spent
No debt, has bet, fast get, cast jet
Master McSmash, Asterix stashed it last
Not least, pasta pile to hot grease
Geese shot, not easily spotted plot, cease snot release
Hold your insulting tongue and mark his words well
or end up to the curb and shocked by third rail
Get the message by bird mail or turds flail
Villain man, best nerd male, you heard well
an absurd tale of books, nooks and crannies
Before she look me, how this fancy? Hooks and them granny panties
Or plan B, when in Rome go back home
and get real dome from a well-known crack gnome
He talk to himself when he need someone to hate on
The black-McCain campaign, negative debate-a-thon
Gone wrong on the song, who's zooming who?
Knew it was you Doom all along
Ever he first started the art, it's been worth it
Soon to charter a stint on part of the Chitlin' Circuit
Word kid, get your ticket from the telepath
"Wicked, wicked, wicked" on electroencephalograph
Matt is a Very Good Player in His Own Right
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Quick Cell-Phone Vid of "I Go Humble..."
March 21st, 2001 - One Day Only
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I Go Humble... (One Day Only - Monday, March 21st)
Hop Vines Bustin Up Through the Weeds
That Time of Year Again
HI HATERS
Taken at Downtown Connector
Google Map of Japan Tsunami Video Locations
I created this Google Map to help geographically contextualize a few videos of the tsunami that have appeared online. If you have better (or more specific) locations, or would like to add a video to this map, please let me know.
UPDATE: As of Tuesday, March 15th, there are 19 locations now on the map, with more conclusive locations than ever thanks to collaborators Phil and Shades.
The locations are now ordered from North to South. There are multiple videos from adjacent locations (see Kamaishi Harbor) and each listing has a screenshot of the first frame of the video, for reference. The biggest surprise is the staircase in Kessenuma where this video (posted to Facebook) was filmed, appearing in Google Street View.
Not Necessarily Earth Art, But Still...
He's Staying With His Parents This Week...
