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"Technically, these photographs are beautifully constructed and each one shows us a distinctive human personality underneath the costumes. Does the objective gaze of the camera necessarily leave us trapped outside or is it possible for us to see some of ourselves in these people? Do these images estrange us from these Furries (featured today) or Cosplayers (featured next time)? Or do they allow us to recognize the creativity and craftsmanship of their work, the ways that they draw together personal mythology to move beyond the more mundane aspects of their everyday lives? What do you see when you look at these images?"

"The NATO phonetic alphabet, more formally the international radiotelephony spelling alphabet, is the most widely used spelling alphabet. ... The paramount reason is to ensure intelligibility of voice signals over radio links.

Check out the "Hobo Code" page.

A hobo is a migrant worker in the United States. Hoboes, tramps and bums are generally regarded as related, but distinct: a hobo travels and is willing to work; a tramp travels, but avoids work if possible; and a bum neither travels nor works.

Stylistic changes in the Obama White House. "I've got to do something about these plates. I'm not really a plates kind of guy."

Pretty muted colors and textures. "When texturizing an image, I usually play with a few layers of different textures. These are some of the base textures I use along with other stock textures."

"The art of Robert Boynes has often used the city as its source. The urban environment has spawned a variety of images and themes from the beginnings of the artist’s exhibiting career in the mid-1960s to his most recent work as evinced in the present series."

A heady analysis of Greg Gillis' place in the musical landscape.

"We had an idea. Go to a place. Ask fifty people the same question. Film their responses."

If you reverse 73, which is Obama's rating for today, you get 37, which was Bush's rating for much of last year. And that's disgusting.

This video is my favorite thing ever. This song is my favorite thing ever. I am not joking at the moment.

Merlin thinks Barack has the cojones to tell us all to grow up, and I think he's right. "Thing is, I’m supporting an honest, level-headed man who seems to care about doing a good job and telling people the truth. But, I’m not supporting a poster. It’s posters we need a shit-ton less of right about now."

A huge mural of candid portraits at a train station.

I knew this was inevitable! "We aim to re-start production of analog INTEGRAL FILM for vintage Polaroid cameras in 2010. We have acquired Polaroid's old equipment, factory and seek your support."

"I wrote the words 'a grain of sand' upon a grain of rice/She baked a pie of very shy laboratory mice."

Basically: It's sometimes amateurish, and there's troubling misogyny, but is that so bad? I say, and I think this is what Kevin is getting at, is that the age-old paradigm of adults worrying about young minds being influenced by media is a bit more complicated -- I think more than a new idea being introduced and etched onto a young mind by 'Twilight', the more likely circumstance is that the ideas therein subtly reinforce existing ideas that the child is already exposed to.

"Transform your photos into tilt-shift style miniatures."

What will call these new forms, these non-books, these "texts"? Hmm, that could work.

Excellent pieces on Deerhunter's Microcastle, M.I.A.'s "Paper Planes", and Wale's "Mixtape About Nothing." Easily one of my favorite music writers. I think it's the ethnomusicology background.

How a school like Yale fails to teach a person how to want to think for themselves and be true intellectuals, how to interact with people from other walks of life.

How young and recently-laid-off media workers are forming mutually beneficial networks of small companies and doing well, considering the ongoing blunders of the new-media-misunderstanding companies they left behind.

From New York/French architecture firm Planda, a house for the duo. Fictional, thankfully.

"Adaptable, minimalist interfaces." Oh. My. God.

Looking good.

How to set up Photoshop so this will never happen again.

What to do. Illustrations by Gorey.

A very focused blog that ruined/made my evening.

Simply a collection of beautiful book covers.

"My wifesd*porcupine hot pix for u."