December 2010
66 posts
xkcd: Audiophiles →
don’t you want to be able to hear the sweat dripping from the vocalist’s face?
i read a forum post not too long ago where someone said they could hear, through the amped bass of one particular set of headphones, the footfalls of people walking across the studio floor and the rumbling of passing cars outside. it wasn’t a technically perfect recording, i guess. (i still go through...
latest robot unicorn attack-like addiction
L: the last hour is a blur to me
L: WHAT HAPPENED, I WAS SOMEWHERE ELSE
L: I was a gingerbread man collecting jellybeans
Godzilla Haiku →
for J: how did i not find this before?
Pop Loser: Tron Guy reviews Tron Legacy. Perhaps... →
poploser:
Tron Guy reviews Tron Legacy.
Perhaps the emotional ending influenced my final reaction. As the credits rolled, I had to fight off tears. I would have been deeply honored and pleased to have my name associated with Tron: Legacy in some way, even if the sequel had stunk up the theater. With…
i have to watch the original, and i dearly hope i wring some enjoyment out of this...
Word Lens augmented reality app instantly... →
hello, future!
Apple - Apple Battery Charger - The... →
WHY?
“Arriving in Japan, by contrast, involves only the most necessary exchanges with...”
– Private Worlds | Adbusters Culturejammer Headquarters
One of the few things that drives me crazy about Japan. Even in big cities, when there are so many people, it’s eerily quiet and well-behaved.
(via meltingnoise)
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interesting. and now i’m thinking of how to describe other places…
Art - Abdi Farah’s Bravo TV Prize Is a Brooklyn... →
ouch — but i’m still glad he won.
last paper. i wish i could string cohesive...
i am writing about ambition.
“It is precisely laughter that destroys the epic, and in general destroys any...”
– Mikhail Bakhtin, on the epic v. novel. (via Taylor Adkins)
interesting, though i think comedy has its own distancing effect, too, in its subjectivity.
mono: “life in mono”
