January 2009
178 posts
WHEREWEDOWHATWEDO →
WHEREWEDOWHATWEDO is a community-built visual database of the spaces in which we spend our days, nights or both doing whatever it is we do.
I wanted to start a photo project of sorts this year, but wasn’t sure what to do (I hated the idea of shooting, say, the 365 project - and I loathe the idea of self-portraits in general). Plus I’m not really creative enough to do some of the other more abstract project ideas that have been floating around. So I pretty much abandoned the idea until I came across Amanda of Paper...
Fleet Foxes = Still Indie →
After a Seattle Weekly blog post erroneously reported the Sub Pop folkers had signed to Virgin, Robin Pecknold used his own blog post to squash the rumors: “Fleet Foxes will never, ever, under no circumstances, from now until the world chokes on gas fumes, sign to a major label. This includes all subsidiaries or permutations thereunder. Till we die.”
I freaking love Fleet Foxes,...
26 Years, 85 Notebooks. Bierut. →
teaim:
I use them in order. Tibor Kalman once asked me why I didn’t have a different notebook every project. I have to admit, this would be more useful. But I don’t. I fill each one up and then move to the next one, the projects all jumbled together. Starting with the third one, every one of them is numbered. Except for two at the very beginning that used gridded paper, they have blank, unlined...
Thing I like
Finding a good photo on Flickr which no one else has marked as a favourite, and marking it as a favourite.
(Sorry, tumblr-centric post)
I love new tumblr followers as much as anyone. But the weird, slight-tendency-towards-OCD girl in me can’t stand it if my follower number is anything but an even number or a multiple of five.
I’m like this with the TV volume-control button, too.
Spied on since she was 10 →
How the 'Mouse Man' changed medical research →
Breeders of fancy mice had tinkered with mouse genes for centuries. Seventeenth-century illustrations show how people in Japan bred and collected unique strains, creating albinos and mice with spotted coats. They also bred “waltzing mice” that seemed to dance, a peculiarity later discovered to be the result of an inner-ear defect.
By the 20th century, such breeders had established...
Map My Run →
I finally went for a run today, having put it off for weeks on end. Round the Bays is coming up in a couple of months time and I want to do sub-50 minutes this year.
As soon as I got home and showered I signed up here. I have to admit, something like this actually makes me want to keep running just so I have something else to log. Geek.
I emailed John, the guy who came up with the Urban Gridded Notebook I reblogged earlier today. He gave me the list of cities he included (sorry for the length):
Albuquerque, NM Amarillo, TX Amsterdam, Netherlands Anaheim, CA Anchorage, AK Arlington, TX Arlington, VA Aspen, CO Atlanta, GA Atlantic City, NJ Augusta, GA Augusta, ME Austin, TX Baghdad,Iraq Bakersfield, CA Baltimore, MD Baton...
The following words are all from languages which...
tarts:slightly:
[snip] Xuqu’liilx’aax’ch’kk’sh: Are you going to keep tickling me in the face in the same spot repeatedly? (Eyak, Alaska)
I need to learn how to pronounce this.
Superficiality at its finest
My parents are both successful Chinese physicians who moved here from the Philippines, but my mother earns a little more than my father. My mother is excessively nosy, even for an Asian mom, and likes to constantly shove her payroll and hospital appointments in his face. Consequently, he tries to make up as much work as possible to do while at home, so that he can avoid having any conversations...
Katherine Mansfield Society →
“I’ve read so many posts lately by people searching for their voices, reaching to...”
– Via Okay, Fine, Dammit and Loobylu
Offline Gmail →
YES
On Nationalism
dadsandmice:
New Australian of The Year Professor Mick Dodson brings up some good points about why we celebrate on January 26, and what it means today.
And after reading about the bogans causing havoc on Manly Beach yesterday, it all got me thinking.
Nationalism in it’s present form in Australia makes me shudder, primarily because it is based on the chorus line ‘My Country and My People are...
Surgery Purgery
tess08:
So, I am sick. So sick, in fact, that I have to have surgery in a few weeks to get my gall bladder removed. I found this out last night after a weekend filled with the worst pain I have ever had in my life. This happened to my Mom, my Aunt, and my Grandma. My Mom told me that gallbladder attacks are worse than childbirth. Which sucks, because I went though all that and all I got was my...
douchebag
karenique:
i met a sad guy the other night. not sad as in pitiful, but sad as in pathetic. he’s Malaysian and has only been in NZ for 5 or 6 years and he couldn’t even remember where he used to stay in Malaysia. i was like ‘wtf..?’. when asked which part of Malaysia did he come from, he went “oh, erm.. i can’t really remember ay… some place called se.. se… Selangor or something”. oooh,...
Duel To The Death On 8 Sampsonia Way →
pterodactyls:perpetua
If you click on only one link today, click this one.
What is that, a samurai battling a Roman warrior?
THE CAMERA PROJECT →
I wanted to take on a photography project this year, but was at a loss as to what to do. There were a few ideas floating around but none of them really appealed to me, so it’s kind of gone by the wayside.
So, I have decided to make the rules less about the subject and more about the equipment. The Camera Project will challenge me to use all the cameras sitting on my camera shelf collecting...
I never feel quite right buying books brand-new; they must be secondhand or a million per cent off. There are already so many books out there, languishing on dead peoples’ bookshelves and second-hand stores that it seems like a crime to ignore them.
1000 novels everyone must read: the definitive... →
tarts:
buyhercandy:
Apparently, I’ve only read 23 (and a half) of the books on this list. I’m horrified.
I managed 38; there’s an enormous pile of mentioned books that are lying around my room half-read, stacked up next to my to-read pile. That doesn’t excuse the fact that of the number of books from this list that I’ve completely read I only managed double digits, oh poo
I’ve read...
Cheap Seats - Alex Ross →
“They can afford to attend because classical events aren’t nearly as expensive as most people assume, especially in comparison with the extravagant pricing schemes for élite pop acts.”
Student rush tickets = bargain.
Vozrozhdeniya Island →
“It was here, according to just released documents, that anthrax spores and bubonic plague bacilliKantubek, which lies in ruins today, but once had approximately 1,500 inhabitants. were made into weapons and stored. The main town on the island was Kantubek, which lies in ruins today, but once had approximately 1,500 inhabitants.
[snip]
Many scientists fear that animals will move to the...
Urban legend shorts.
guy:
Wouldn’t it be great if Snopes was on Twitter? I picture Tweets like this invading my Twitter feed …
A distant relative of a prominent politician was a horse thief and train robber. False. More at http://snurl.com/ap8ry.
Cosmetic manufactures will be giving away free product in a settlement of a class action lawsuit. True. More at http://snurl.com/ap8xd.
Little bits of debunking. I...
“How beautifully
your fingers interlock: how
decorously decorative.
Must you...”
– Love Pome, by Hone Tuwhare
The boy sent this to me while he was living and studying in another city. At the time I’d just come across this image (ink on paper by NZ artist Ralph Hotere, who was incidentally a friend of Tuwhare’s).
it will stop raining* →
My new favourite “what I ate today, in photo form” blog.
Theme issues
I’m changing my tumblr theme and want to reduce the amount of space between the actual post content and the disqus comments link. Can anyone please help?
ETA: and how do I make the “Notes” for each post drop down instead of linking to another page? I am using instructions from matthewb, but have stuffed up the CSS somehow.
Leopard Seals →
Fascinating National Geographic video.
HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR
So our family mixed up the dates and accidentally celebrated Chinese New Years Eve last night. It was a pretty casual affair anyway; Dad used his new BBQ.
Today is the actual New Years Eve and a few friends and I went to yum char. Tasty, tasty yum char.
