February 2009
16 posts
“Our job is no longer to sell folks things they want to hear. They want an...”
– hypebot: Indie Label Asthmatic Kitty Shares “What Is Working?”
I love this quote. It’s from the indie label behind Sufjan Stevens & I Heart Lung. (via bijan)
WatchJudging from the amount of anti-bacterial hand wash that gets used in the infant and toddler section of the Museum, I think most parents would be horrified by this. I love it!
hellopoindexter:
all i’ve been looking for was one little reason…
i think i’ve found it.
Poème Symphonique for 100 metronomes →
(via buchr)
“I’m just completely unsympathetic when people say, ‘Oh my God, times are so...”
– Niko Pfund, publisher of Oxford University Press’ academic and trade division, quoted in an article in the New York Observer touting OUP’s use of smaller print runs and other lean business practices
“Authenticity, for me, is doing what you promise, not “being who you...”
– Seth Godin
“For writers, I think this is where the blog outshines the column form....”
– Ta-Nehisi Coates
“How do you stop the spread of disease (malaria) that is spread by mosquito? Bill...”
– From a great series of posts summarizing this year’s TED talks and ranking them at Who Has Time For This?
Hipster Runoff interview in the Village Voice
From the intro to an interview with Carles from Hipster Runoff:
“The epic post “Animal Collective Is a Band Created By/For/On the Internet” attracted a particularly great deal of both deification and derision. Was its blunt assessment of the self-perpetuating and notoriously insecure Internet hype machine—i.e., the “bros who pretend to only care about judging music based...
“This is very important — to take leisure time. Pace is the essence. Without...”
– Charles Bukowski (via psychotherapy) (via gcn)
as a sidenote, psychotherapy has one of the nicest looking tumblogs I’ve seen. 