December 2010
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Nana Grizol - “New Years Wish”...
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The loneliest IMDB listing ever →
(My IMDB record.) There used to be so many good items in there! Like when I was “Boy with Kite” in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels or “Businessman” in The Pursuit of Happyness. Bah.
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“The minute you think that the past was better, your present is second hand,...”
– Karl Lagerfeld (via lammer)
Many don’t give him much credit, but Lagerfeld is a big reader.
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The secret of "Doing" →
bobulate:
The Do Lectures blog presents “The Path of a Doer,” a pocket guide to helping you to achieve more, to help you understand the ebb and flow of making something happen:Each of us is given the same number of hours every day, but some people make more things happen in the same time. Why is that? Well, they have learnt an important, and yet mostly untaught, life skill. They have learnt how...
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WatchLife as art as life. Or something. (0:27 long)
Video of man with an electronic holiday card Artist as subject, 2010
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“Real artists ship.”
– A holiday reminder to ask yourself where your ambitions lie and what you’re doing right now to have them be more than just “some day” talk.
Have a safe break, everyone. In the new year I won’t have much patience for hearing about people’s ‘big plans’ and...
Is today Wednesday?
Here’s seven great applications I built tonight to help you know what’s going on. They do function as intended, for free, and without ads. Set your favorite day as your homepage and you’ll be delighted when it arrives.
Is today Sunday?
Is today Monday?
Is today Tuesday?
Is today Wednesday?
Is today Thursday?
Is today Friday?
Is today Saturday?
Reblog if you're from Edmonton
pegghetti:
not-sleepy-yet:
I know you’re out there *gives knowing looks*
OH HEY
Getting in on this before it turns ridiculous. Sorry sense of self-respect, see you in 2011.
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“I’m not sure why I’m feeling somewhat indifferent to it. … Do...”
– Me
Our immortal pal Crispin Glover is coming back to town January 8th.
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Kevin Connolly's guide to American culture →
This is after all, the land that gave us prohibition and then invented organised crime to get around it.
Great writing about an ever-changing land.
5 Typical Acts of Politeness That are Inefficient... →
I understand the function of politeness and social conventions: how they make people feel at ease, how they provide a familiar, comfortable context for interactions in which all is not known. I like politeness and social conventions for this, but I think that some are inefficient and should be banned. Here are five.
Please note, especially about long goodbyes. We’re not at an airport,...
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How my mind works
Earlier, while cleaning the apartment, I imagined that I had started a house-cleaning service named Sparkling Bowls and that I had stickers made for it.
After a couple months, teenage kids would approach me to ask for the stickers, and I’d feel pride that my business was so popular with the young folks. Only later in this imagination-state did I find out that these kids were covering up...
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“Seasick, Yet Still Docked” - Morrissey
“Seasick, Yet Still...”
– My imaginary holiday mix album. It really picks up at the end.
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“Black Swan!!!”
– Me
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“Talent is the desire to do something. The rest is sweat and discipline. I am...”
– Jacques Brel in a 1971 interview at Knokke.
— From SF. (via whileyouweresleeping)
Yes.
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“To calculate the price-per-square-inch of a work of art is simple: you multiply...”
– Art Marketing by Chris Tyrell
Holy shit, he actually has to explain to artists how to figure out what “price per square inch” is? Both as a concept and as a “formula”? I’m all for artists getting paid, but if you produce great art yet can’t multiply two numbers...
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“HALP ME. I NEED ALSO TO GET TICKET(S) TO THE NINTENDOS MOVIE FOR MY SON’S...”
– Testing our a new support tool in-house at work. I write the worst (though likely accurate) customer support queries possible.
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