Don't call me Ishmael
Ismael Sobek, 19, student, CMU/PGH. I also blog at Wikiimage, a collection of some of the most beautiful and interesting images in the Wikimedia commons.
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George Takei responds to “traditional” marriage fans.
george takei is gonna die one day
We all are.
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"Welcome to Google Island" Matt Honan at Wired.
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Panorama glitch (at Schenley Plaza)
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#tbt @petrfavazza @jesusoctopus on an overcast, early Spring day (at Flagstaff Hill)
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True story yo
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MOTHER MOTHERLAND, one of the most epic and statues.
(via drugwar)
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Chris printed out a bunch of code to discuss over lunch.
What we learned:
- The loss of syntax highlighting makes it harder to tell what’s going on
- Talking about code at lunch is kind of annoying
- People on tumblr don’t care about shit like this
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So Vampire Weekend penned an anthemic pop song about the unknowable (God) with a title/chorus that plays off of both “Hey Ya” (which, as you know, is an anthemic pop song about breakups, one of the best of the past decade) and also the Hebrew name for the creator, Yahweh, or YHVH, which is today unpronounceable because everyone who spoke the name with any regularity died thousands of years ago.
So…dig this.
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“Disney University” series by Hyung86/Rubén on DeviantArt. I know at least like…5 of these people.
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"Beautiful shirts" Before Ezra Koenig became an (indie?) pop star, he wrote a book of short stories and sent it to Elif Batuman:
The sad thing in these stories is how much the beautiful clothes cost; not just that one can’t afford them, but also that the world order that sustained them was so expensive. Colonialism/ imperialism is always lurking in the background…One feels how sad it is that such an order ever existed, and also that it ended, having produced things of such beauty. Anyway—I read Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa, and even played the CD once on my 10-year-old computer speakers (I liked it); I wrote to young Koenig about his stories that I especially enjoyed the parts about clothes, more so than the drug-trip passages, and wished him “the best of luck,” and thought that would be the end of it.
As it happens, though, Koenig’s band, Vampire Weekend, really took off that summer…I lack the necessary training to describe music, but you can listen to songs on their website. It’s incredibly uplifting, although similar, in certain ways, to that sale table in Brooks Brothers.
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Work from Bloomberg Businessweek’s in-house design team (via Creative Review, who just named them their Design Studio of the Year). I love how BB’s work plays off the strict grids and grotesques of the Modernists without ever feeling stale or lifeless. Every spread is clear and efficient, but still vital and smart and powerful.
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Cover Story: Savages Feature on Pitchfork. Don’t read it for the band, though: check out fancy UI. (The pull-quotes are particularly wonderful.)
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“One could argue that the form taken by Glass offers up a lazy futurist’s vision of what might be — take the trajectory of one product (displays becoming smaller/cheaper/more efficient over time) and integrate it with another (eyeglasses), sprinkle in connectivity and real-time access to content and big-data-analytics. Our expectations of what it could be are raised in part because this join-the-dots vision of the future fits neatly into Western un/popular young-male culture, from “The Terminator” through to Halo. Glass has a certain inevitability about it, like the weight of expectation on of child born to a great composer or, if you will, to a middle-aged suicide.”
