Future President. :)

blackfashion:

Obama

I’ve seen this happen. :)

thehoulywoodreporter:

From Hipster To Hippie: A Cautionary Tale Told In Six Steps. You’ve been warned.

(via chocolatecyanideclavichord:catbird:timothompson:vizualize)

Keep Off the Grass - The Bold Italic - San Francisco

AWSMCon sounds like a good idea to me. :)

misterjt:

Snarking and hating and sniggering, laughing at the naïve and the noobs, the poor and the ignorant, the failed and the freakish — all this plays a huge role in life online. And it’s largely a salutary role. It keeps the Internet weird, it keeps it dangerous; it helps to remind people that whatever Mark Zuckerberg wants you to *think*, the Internet is not a private scrapbook. And when we laugh together at a funny accent or a tone-deaf singer or a baby biting his big brother, we’re having and sharing fun. And it’s a good thing, too!

Don’t get me wrong. I think there’s a place for laughing at crocheted condoms and people falling down stairways and all those penises on chatroulette. And appropriation has a role to play in making culture. But schadenfreude is an awfully shallow source of self-confidence; and it’s neither the be-all end-all of the Internet nor the subversive force that ROFLCon would have us believe. Again and again, speakers and moderators asserted the enduring importance of this facet of Internet culture, its transformative potential, its subversive strength. And yet when pressed to name specific salutary effects, one speaker after another drew a blank.

[…]

Above all, FAIL and ROFL and SRSLY are not the only tags for Internet culture. Not only are hating and snarking not the whole of Internet culture, they’re far from its richest and most important strains. You’re right if you say, “hey — it’s ROFLCon, you highbrow hater. ROFL is what it’s about.”

True enough. We need ROFLCon. But maybe it’s time for AWSMCon as well.

 (via ROFLFAIL | HiLobrow)

danah boyd pictured because I always like when she wears awesome hats. —misterjt

100 Abandoned Houses

From the website:

The abandoned houses project began innocently enough roughly ten years ago. I actually began photographing abandonment in Detroit in the mid 90’s as a creative outlet, and as a way of satisfying my curiosity with the state of my home town. I had always found it to be amazing, depressing, and perplexing that a once great city could find itself in such great distress, all the while surrounded by such affluence.

As the number of images grew, and a documentary style emerged, I switched from mostly black and white, to color, and decided to name the series 100 Abandoned Houses. 100 seemed like a lot, although the number of abandoned houses in Detroit is more like 12,000. Encompassing an area of over 138 square miles, Detroit has enough room to hold the land mass of San Francisco, Boston, and Manhattan Island, yet the population has fallen from close to 2 million citizens, to most likely less than 800,000. With such a dramatic decline, the abandoned house problem is not likely to go away any time soon.

Yay! I’ve always been a fan of perfect imperfections. We’ll see how long this lasts, or how “real” traditional media really wants their women. At least I can send this article to my little sister with a small sigh of relief. Keep being you, girls! Beauty and sexiness radiates out. ;)

tanya77:

We Want Your Lines!

According to The New York Times, Traditional Media now wants to hire women who haven’t cut their faces and breasts up.

I’m not a fan of cosmetic surgery at all, but damn, you gotta do what you want and not do it to please anyone. Because you never know when the people you’re trying to please will capriciously change their minds. (via and Newsweek)

In the future, everyone will have 15 minutes of privacy.

spytap:

stevewoolf:

New Mediacracy

It’s another great evening with independent content creators in downtown Los Angeles. This episode we hang out with Kim Evey, producer of The Guild, Sean Becker, director of The Guild, and Jenni Powell, production maven and associate editor of Tubefilter, along with regulars Chris McCaleb of Big Fantastic, and Zadi Diaz and Steve Woolf of Epic Fu.

There’s a lot of discussion around the Streamy Awards and everyone’s personal experiences around what happened that night, and at the Celebrate the Web event that Kim and Jenni organized later in the week. We touch on the divisions among web video creators and talk about the upcoming new season of The Guild. Come hang out as we chat for over two hours and get more than a little drunky on five (!) bottles of wine.

This is maybe the most important (and entertaining) podcast for anyone working in or around this crazy and unpredictable “new media” world.