zeitgeist on ice

scottwsparks: This music video for ‘Get By’ by Delta Heavy has...

Wed, 23 May 2012 11:27:57 -0400

This music video for ‘Get By’ by Delta Heavy has to be the most creative piece of content I’ve seen all year. I’m now officially a huge fan.

Love this!!! What’s that game with the faces called? I so remember playing it!!

Inspired by this I’m going to change Beta the BSEM...

Tue, 22 May 2012 11:09:32 -0400

Inspired by this I’m going to change Beta the BSEM fish’s water this afternoon

when the skirt I’m excited to try on is actually culottes....

Sun, 20 May 2012 18:28:03 -0400

when the skirt I’m excited to try on is actually culottes.

Or when the short dress I’m excited to try on is a hidden romper.

Or when the maxi dress I’m excited to try on is a jumpsuit.

smart. i need to remember this.

Wed, 16 May 2012 12:31:28 -0400

smart. i need to remember this.

MAGIC CAT!! I admire this level of focus.

Wed, 16 May 2012 12:22:34 -0400

MAGIC CAT!! I admire this level of focus.

oooh pantone waterfall!

Thu, 10 May 2012 15:39:58 -0400

oooh pantone waterfall!

this dude is kind of wimpy for a monster. so i think it’s...

Mon, 07 May 2012 15:21:12 -0400

this dude is kind of wimpy for a monster. so i think it’s GERD or acid reflux not doom he’s breathing

EASTER EGG: Google Translate fun-hack! highly recommend this. //...

Mon, 07 May 2012 12:16:00 -0400

EASTER EGG: Google Translate fun-hack!

highly recommend this. // hilarious. won’t give away what it does, but you should do it!

DIRECTIONS »»> Go to Google Translate; Copy this text:

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Pick German as the ‘from’ language; Press the ‘Listen’-button

take heed. this man is wise and understands something we dont...

Thu, 03 May 2012 11:29:00 -0400

take heed. this man is wise and understands something we dont (or at least I don’t / can’t act on). Very inspiring.

Extremely intense and fiercely real short film for the...

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 22:26:17 -0400

Extremely intense and fiercely real short film for the Spiritualized song “Hey Jane” written and directed by AG Rojas (a young director who I will now be watching closely). It’s beautiful and scary and it totally gutted me. You should watch it.

Storytelling this earnest, layered, and raw doesnt happen enough— there’s something about the way it’s edited too, that builds tension from the start— it’s just so good. It stars Tyra Sanchez, winner of RuPaul’s Drag Race season 2 (shocked at how good she is in this, FTR, I was annoyed when she won, ha). And it’s somewhat violent and NSFW, FYI. The film was made in memory of Mark Stowe, who I haven’t heard of but will be researching shortly, I’m sure. Oh, and (of course) the song is wonderful too.

passionparty: Ghost Loft - Blow Wirklich wunderbarer ‘dreamy...

Sun, 15 Apr 2012 03:58:05 -0400

passionparty:

Ghost Loft - Blow

Wirklich wunderbarer ‘dreamy Downbeat-Pop meets R&B’ aus Los Angeles mit Danny Choi alias Ghost Loft und seinem Track Blow. Auf der offiziellen Website kann man sich seinen zweiten Track Slowdowntime anhören, der mindestens genauso toll ist wie Blow. Überzeugt euch selbst:

♫ Ghost Loft - Blow

S.

LOVE THIS SONG

A 9 year old boy made an arcade out of cardboard. Watch this...

Wed, 11 Apr 2012 17:51:00 -0400

A 9 year old boy made an arcade out of cardboard. Watch this moving short film by Nirvan be inspired to make things. over $90K raised in 2 days. over 1 million views. tons of conversation.

Caine is the coolest kid ever and I hope he becomes a very famous engineer some day. He’s brilliant and his mind is a reminder to me to solve problems and take action. don’t by a claw hand game, make one with a string and a hook. i want to go to his arcade!

// also, storytelling works when you have a killer story*

*and when you tell it this well. [true. updated per darkarfs’ insightful comment.

"We’re not stuck. Even if it feels like we are, it’s not true. We’re the opposite of stuck. As..."

Mon, 09 Apr 2012 22:37:16 -0400

“We’re not stuck. Even if it feels like we are, it’s not true. We’re the opposite of stuck. As twentysomethings, we’re constantly moving — apartments, relationship, cities, jobs. Anything is possible. People are ready for you. They want to hear what you have to say. They look at you and are curious about what words are going to come out of your mouth. You’re the new generation. What do you have to say? Don’t bite your tongue. One day you’ll be pushed aside for a younger “fresher” perspective so you better get it out now. Make a mark. Make a stain. Make something.”

- Thought Catalogue

Make something.

THIS!!!!!!

(via bbbrad)

I want to enjoy this matrix by the writers of The Decision Book,...

Mon, 09 Apr 2012 11:48:00 -0400

I want to enjoy this matrix by the writers of The Decision Book, but I cant. It may have jumped the shark, with too many things lumped in: cultural elements, behaviors/ actions, and brands. Meet ain’t spelled that way and I’m pretty sure that anyone who says Marriage has jumped the shark is just trying to be salacious.

But there are probably lessons here. Beyond any assessed items, this makes me want to create matrices like these more often. Or to make sure my some of my team does (I’m specifically looking at you R.G., Rosie, Gabe, & Nicole)! Also, it makes me want to jump to the defense of the jumped elements above. And, more pragmatically —to suss out an individual’s internal process of sorting out what feels fresh or tired and figure out how that ladders up to a collective view.

The consumer journey might flow something like this: discovery (of an element) — acquisition — (purchase or trial) — evaluation (does it have a place in the consumer’s life or not, if so what is that place?).

Zooming up to a meta assessment of how or where these things fall might fall on the zeitgeist quadrants of sharkjumpery is fun and possibly insightful but also borderline ludicrous. There’s probably a legit way to get there via research, but this quick drawing doesn’t pay off its assertions with any methodology. Still, there *is* something classic and eternal about cooking, vinyl, Ray-Ban, and Mark Rothko, so maybe there’s a grain of insight here afterall?

"The world, the universe, confronts us every day with a vast complexity that we can not hope to..."

Sat, 07 Apr 2012 08:35:14 -0400

“The world, the universe, confronts us every day with a vast complexity that we can not hope to understand. One purpose of mediated objects is to give us an edited and abbreviated version of that complexity which our very limited perceptions can comfortably grasp. Films and books that tell limited stories which we can understand. Fashion that makes the world coherent enough that we can adopt a role within it. Visual imagery with a finite grammar that remains somewhat familiar. The New Aesthetic are the mediated objects which in one way or another return us to the actual complexity of reality. As such they become once again frustratingly impossible to grasp through the limited construct of I.”

- The New Aesthetic and I | Damien G. Walter (via new-aesthetic)

Anyone want to trade this beautiful Monday for a rainy Sunday?

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 12:28:56 -0400

Anyone want to trade this beautiful Monday for a rainy Sunday?

Because everything tastes better in a mason jar! // Kountry...

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 18:54:04 -0400

Because everything tastes better in a mason jar!

// Kountry Krystal stemware. no joke, i think i want a pair of these $15 fancy thangs.

Rest in poetry, incredible lady. Above, I placed my favorite...

Wed, 28 Mar 2012 18:43:00 -0400

Rest in poetry, incredible lady.

Above, I placed my favorite photo of her by one of her most powerful more recent pieces — which has been cited by many in the Occupy movement as an inspiration.

Adrienne Rich, a pioneering feminist poet and essayist who challenged what she considered to be the myths of the American dream, has died [of complications from rheumatoid arthritis]. She was 82.

She came of age during the social upheavals of the 1960s and ’70s and was best known as an advocate of women’s rights, which she wrote about in both her poetry and prose. But she also wrote passionate antiwar poetry and took up the causes of the marginalized and underprivileged.

From her first book of poems in the early 1950s, Rich, a Baltimore native who attended Radcliffe College, showed her feminist bearings. Twenty years later, her image was set when universities began introducing courses in women’s studies and Rich was among the most likely writers to be included.

Selected for the National Medal for the Arts in 1997, the highest award given to artists, Rich refused it.

“The radical disparities of wealth and power in America are widening at a devastating rate,” she wrote in a letter addressed to then-President Clinton. “A president cannot meaningfully honor certain token artists while the people at large are so dishonored.

- LA Times

oh my, this is the ultimate postmodern solution to bring the...

Tue, 27 Mar 2012 21:26:54 -0400

oh my, this is the ultimate postmodern solution to bring the tropicale to a city dullened structure. love love love

Still so obsessed with the Scout Willis debacle. Whether it was...

Tue, 27 Mar 2012 21:09:00 -0400

Still so obsessed with the Scout Willis debacle. Whether it was a pastiche for a creative class as she claimed or more likely, a real life reflection, she’s obv super witty / self aware in a rare way for a celebrity offspring.