Where MySpace became overloaded with design elements, SoundCloud keeps it simple. This simplicity suggests SoundCloud less as a place and more as a form of infrastructure—if MySpace was a city that never slept, SoundCloud is the Department of Public Works.

The Procedural Hows and Theoretical Whys of SoundCloud.com, by Marc Weidenbaum

Departments of Public Works make the internet go. Fun formulation by my friend Marc. (Related: his Disquiet Junto project on SoundCloud is not to be missed.) 

Food videogames often represent the halo of activities that surround the consumption of food, like recipe scouting, shopping, and cooking, without embodying the consumption itself (unless you count Pac-Man as a kind of avant-garde eating game).

Why Food Isn’t the Point - Kill Screen, via Christina, I think

Love the idea of Pac-Man as an avant-garde eating game.

new-aesthetic: “Cities” series by Atelier Olschinsky (via Atelier Olschinsky’s Cities Series | Magical Urbanism, submitted by drcabl3) Motion.

new-aesthetic:

“Cities” series by Atelier Olschinsky (via Atelier Olschinsky’s Cities Series | Magical Urbanism, submitted by drcabl3)

Motion.

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track Dive - How Long Have You Known?

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artist Now, Now
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fluorescentskies:

Now, Now - Thread 

Yearning, harmony. I’ve been listening all week.

Asked together: What do you need? What do you want? How can I help — those three questions are about all you really need to lead and manage people.

John Lilly

I keep coming back to these, too.

rookiemag: How to Look Like You Weren’t Just Crying in Less Than Five Minutes This article is genius. Love Rookie, a magazine for teenage girls + all women.

rookiemag:

How to Look Like You Weren’t Just Crying in Less Than Five Minutes

This article is genius. Love Rookie, a magazine for teenage girls + all women.

There is a world of great sci fi titles that are effectively forgotten by fans of the genre, by publishers, and sometimes even by the authors who wrote them…Singularity&Co. is going to untangle that mess, sleuth out the rights and rights holders of these great, neglected works, and in doing so make it possible to bring them into the 21st century while at the same time respecting the rights of their authors. Even better, once we’ve got the methodology down, we’re going to share it so that sci fi books are not the only ones that get rescued.

Once we’ve got the methodology down, we’re going to share it. Music to my ears.

Singularity & Co. on Kickstarter

“The beautiful woman, cooking with power tools, is a vaporous role model. Her occult powers—the ability to stop time, to do everything, and to look good while doing it—are terrifying and alluring. She does not wear safety goggles. She does not need to.” from “Instructions for Everyday Life: Pornographies of Comfort and Instruments of Hope in Homecraft Magazines, 1945-2006,” a paper I wrote in 2008. One in a series of curious research projects I undertook during college.

“The beautiful woman, cooking with power tools, is a vaporous role model. Her occult powers—the ability to stop time, to do everything, and to look good while doing it—are terrifying and alluring. She does not wear safety goggles. She does not need to.”

from “Instructions for Everyday Life: Pornographies of Comfort and Instruments of Hope in Homecraft Magazines, 1945-2006,” a paper I wrote in 2008. One in a series of curious research projects I undertook during college.

Whether made of concrete, steel, wood, or dirt; whether buried in the backyard, or tucked away in the basement, the basic premise of the fallout shelter was that it would protect families from deadly radiation and shrapnel in the event of an atomic attack. Between 1950 and 1961 the government, the media, and eager companies sold Americans on the idea of fallout shelters—not only as concrete commodities, but also as vessels for safety, family solidarity, and, above all, consumer goods…

Your Life May Depend On It: Selling Americans on Fallout Shelters, 1950-61, a paper I wrote in 2007.

One in a series of curious research projects I undertook during college.

(Source: dianakimball.blogspot.com)