August 2011
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WatchWhen you’re the most successful book jacket designer of our time, you take the presentation of your art collection seriously. Chip Kidd binds his comics (and their original artwork) in glass.
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WatchFor the record, I’m really good at guessing dog mixes.
“A decade ago, blogging seemed more powerful, more revolutionary, more...”
– “Reclaim Blogging”: Why I’m giving up Twitter and Facebook. | gapingvoid (via arielwaldman)
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What Is Your Thing?
Plenty has already been written about Jonathan Coulton’s Thing A Week experiment, the self imposed journey that forced Coulton to write and post a song a week for 52 weeks straight. It put him on the map, so to speak. Recently my own internet prowling has drawn me back to the idea. Mark Zuckerberg has amusing annual challenges he gives himself (this year he’s slaughtering all the meat...
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WatchThe Trivial Pursuits of Arthur Banks, AMC’s first foray into web series. Some might say that the last thing web video needs is pretension, over-wrought Woody Allen/Wes Anderson homage, and twee affectation (certainly, Mr. Glasses nailed that).
…but I’m a sucker for Adam Goldberg, so fuck it?
Hahahaha, right? Thanks AMC.
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WatchThe triumphant story of an artist who dared to dream… the Lisa Frank story.
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“2. Don’t give me constant updates of where you are eating or shopping. The...”
– Nick Kroll’s #MASTER THE DELICATE ART OF SOCIAL MEDIA ETIQUETTE
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Does the 'Web' in 'Web Series' Keep Mainstream at...
wilsoncleveland:
Interesting question posed on Twitter yesterday by What’s Trending host Shira Lazar:
Lets just stop calling online shows “web series”- instead go with “original series” on x platform - thoughts?
I found after Tweeting an intial response, I had more to say so here goes:
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WatchThomas Knowler convinces us “We must ‘fall in love’ with space again.”
‘Luna’ is a short story about space, romance, memory and progress. Forty years have passed since the Lunar Landing. I believe it is very important we return to space; our home planet is finite. We must continue exploring space.
WatchYou’re an animal. Rock and roll.
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