Monthly Archives: June 2009

Characters for wearing, by Robinson [t-shirt fire sale]

My good old friend Robinson is one of those guys who can put pen to paper in an afternoon and make something like what you see here. Imagine having this on a shirt for 10 bucks…. You really can’t beat that. He just started an etsy shop @ mrescobarshirts.etsy.com where you can grab one of these [...]
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Digital documentation [photo #iranelection]

via: digiactive (nytimes photo)
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Stupid Cupid Versions [mp3]

Sakura and The Quests – Stupid Cupid Connie Francis – Stupid Cupid (via Skreemr)
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Flashwalk : Walk 40 miles from Brooklyn to Staten Island Sunday

I really hope it doesn’t rain this Sunday, but even if it does, I plan on joining my friend Matt for the 1st annual Flashwalk from Brooklyn to Staten Island. It’ll be a 40 hour, slow-food style walk during which time I hope to see for the first time–with no sense of haste or pressure–a [...]
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New new fresh fresh: CassandraJenkins.com [design / photography]

Freshly launched, Cassandra Jenkins DOT com
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Atlantic Art Walk 2009

“…the artist as well as the art is present. Each painter guards his own work?appends, that is, to the text of his productions the footnote of his own person. We saw pretty girls chaperoning ugly pictures, and plain girls pretty pictures. We were enabled to associate phlegmatic men with nervous brush strokes, and fragile men [...]
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“They are being crushed into silence, but they won’t be silent forever” [#iranelection]

…we will never forget this event. People will not give up. They are being crushed into silence, but they won’t be silent forever. They have new ways to connect to one another. They, the regime, can block Facebook today but they can’t do it forever. Something has changed in this country, people have been cheated [...]
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Viral denial of service attacks occuring on Khamenei and Ahmadinejad’s sites + links to follow [ #iranelection ]

Update: 2:56p ET... Ahmadinejad's site appears to be down due to the digi-attack. Update: 6:56p ET People are reportedly being shot in the street. It has escalated tremendously. Disrupting propaganda on the realtime web… Here’s a list of resources for learning more about this unprecedented collaborative effort to take down propaganda sites in Iran. It’s a literal battle [...]
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Announcing whatsonyourthing.com

I started whatsonyourthing.com for a number of reasons I find it disturbing when people unwittingly carve out a huge chunk of their day to interact on a small screen, whether it be for text messaging, web browsing, or for playing games. This is a lo-fi behavior in a hi-fi world. We can do better than this. We [...]
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Apartment fire last night three feet from where I lay my head [Gowanus / Brooklyn]

Well… The building next door to me caught fire last night. I awoke at 4am to a huge firetruck crane 3 feet from my 4th floor window. Then firefighters came into my room to see how warm the wall at the head of my bed had become. I think they would have knocked down my door [...]
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