Mindy Kaling launched her new website/blog. Fabulous, although I also get bewildered as I often do when I look at consumerist blogs (a pair of shorts that cost $248!). But then you get this:
When I was in my 20′s I thought, okay fine, I’m pushing it, but pink is still technically age-appropriate. Then when I turned 30 I thought: “Oh shit, I love pink so much still. I have to trade this out with tartan plaid or something”. That never happened.
All via The Morning News:
- T.C. Boyle says a few people may have to die before you can get your work into The New Yorker. Or anywhere, since editor turnover is inevitable. But is the rate fast enough?
- Daniel Soar on Google.
- Pictures of the Familiar: tourists take pictures of famous things to make them real. I’ve often thought about this since I like taking pictures of things, famous and not so famous, and I like traveling, and I like sightseeing, and I like mementos and documentation, but why? My current camera is significantly nicer than what I’ve used in the past, so I feel that it’s different, that my pictures are nicer and not so throwaway. But I still end up taking boring and generic pictures of places that are much more interesting once there’s people in them; that doesn’t stop me from taking pictures without people, however. I just think, maybe this time will be different, maybe this time this angled shot of the glass and the tree and the sunlit leaf will look awesome once I load it up on the computer. A lot of the time, it doesn’t look awesome. But I regret it much more if I go somewhere and I don’t take any pictures, because it’s almost like I wasn’t there, even though I was. Picture as placeholder, picture as artifact. Picture as virtual map. I was here and I was here and I was here. And then there’s the issue of the video being a better picture, a better record of space and sound and movement.
Also, The Wirecutter. Not that I needed a reminder of how my T2i is already old…
