Mama circa 1970.
luff you.
Also just an FYI. This movie made 100 times what the budget was. #tmnt (Taken with instagram)
donatello stand up.
in my happy place. (Taken with Instagram at Basin Harbor Club)
one month and two weeks until this.
“The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.” — Thoreau (via zachklein)
(Source: washingtonpoststyle, via zachklein)
“Okay. that was exhausting. Sorry. I didn’t even ask you how you are. How are you? Oh yea? Oh good. That’s great. What? Oh man. That’s tough. I’m sorry… Oh well that sounds like you handled it well, though. So. Yeah. Yeah. I know. I know that’s… yeah. Well… Just remember, time will go by and that’ll just be on the list of shit that happened to you. You’ll be okay. Yeah. Huh?… Oh. Really? HE DID? Oh my GOD! hahaha!! That’s CRAZY! No. no. I won’t tell him you told me. Of course not. Alright well… uhuh? Oh wow. yeah. Alright well.. I really gotta go. Thanks for listening. I’m glad you’re basically okay. Stay in touch.” — louis c.k.
“When people talk of gift economies, often they talk about them as a replacement for the market economy. But gift economies and market economies have operated side-by-side for much of history. Child care, until recently, was exclusively a gift economy — neighbors would babysit one another’s kids. The creative arts and science have historically been gift economies, and to a large extent they still are. And today, free, open-source software sits alongside ad-supported and paid software.
To me, the most interesting examples of gift economies are when they exist alongside money economies within the same organization. I think this points to where the world is headed. Craigslist doesn’t charge for any of its services other than job postings. Google places advertisements on a small fraction of its result pages. Both companies understand that gifting most of their services leads to short-term costs, but long-term viability. But to think about it this way doesn’t do justice to the real story.
The real story is that their founders thought of the gift first, and the means of supporting it second.”
— Sep Kamvar, The Farmer & Farmer (via christmasgorilla)
eric shared this. nice reward/find for staying up late on a school night.
(Source: instagr.am)
The Awl intends to encourage a daily discussion of the issues of the day—news, politics, culture (and TV!)—during sensible hours of the working week.
We believe that there is a great big Internet out there on which we all live, and that too often the curios and oddities of that Internet are ignored in favor of the most obvious and easy stories. We believe that there is an audience of intelligent readers who are poorly served by being delivered those same stories in numbing repetition to the detriment of their reading diet. We believe that there is no topic unworthy of scrutiny, so long that it is approached from an intelligent angle, but that there are many topics worthy of scrutiny that lack coverage because of commercial factors. We believe that the longform essay has a home on the Internet, and that the idea of “too long; didn’t read” is exactly as shortsighted as its TL;DR acronym.
This does not mean that we eschew frivolity; far from it. Who doesn’t enjoy a funny video, a current meme, or anything about bears? We love bears. And Science!
In the end, however, we return most frequently to New York City and its self-centered, all-consuming industries: media and publishing, finance and real estate, politics and capitalism and gamesmanship.
i post shit from the awl all the time. if it’s not some painful, overreaching pull quote from the new york times magazine (i used to be such hot shit b/c the RSS feed for the mag would hit friday afternoon) - i’m probably posting something that i wish i had found before the awl wrote about it.
i’ve been an awl reader since day one and whilst waiting for my pot roast lean cuisine to heat up for dinner (how GIRLS of me), i sat in my den (yeah, i have a den) full of remorse about how i only read my RSS feeds - essentially - once a quarter. fuck, i must be missing such good shit on the awl.
so, i pull it up and read the first page. then, i admire how they’ve grown to have a network of sites and good for them on how they’re using money. i click on the “about” section wondering if there is synopsis about how this network is a major global content conglomerate aimed to slay the wits of america. ::beep:: oh shit, frozen food no more.
i sit my ass on the couch, tee up last nights chopped (watch food while you eat) and then remember i was doing something in the den.
i come back and, refreshingly, read the awl’s “about” page. thinking about all the blogs i grew up on that i still read today and how about i agree with everything on this page i just read.
then, i started typing.
The best reason to ask a question is to contribute to the quality of the discussion that has already begun. You can do this if you can draw something more and perhaps unexpected out of the speaker you are addressing. “Mr. Rasputin, I admire your tunic. Do you consider fashion to be a revolutionary statement?”
Think of yourself as someone who seeks to enhance the occasion, rather than as an opportunity to show yourself to advantage. “Mr. Darwin, your description of odd wildlife in the Galapagos Islands is fascinating. Do you think evolution works differently on large continents?”
You have not been invited to give a speech. Before you stand up, boil your thoughts down to a single point. Then ask yourself if this point is something you want to assert or something you want to find out. There are exceptions, but if your point falls into the category of assertion, you should probably remain seated. “Mr. Nixon, you are unworthy of being president,” is not a question. “Mr. Nixon, what else would you have done as president if Watergate hadn’t gotten in the way?” is a question.
Question periods are not really the right time to ask for factual details. You are not interviewing the speaker. “Mr. Hillary, what brand of shoes were you wearing when you topped Everest?” is a real question but not one that is likely to enhance the discussion. There are exceptions to this, as when the fact you ask about evokes a larger meaning. “Mr. Hillary, what do you consider was the most important piece of equipment you carried in your assault on Mt. Everest?”
Wonderful.
The George Gerbner collection consists of personal correspondence, research and administrative materials, reports, publications, news clippings, photographs, and memorabilia related to George Gerbner (1916-2006) and his work as a world-renowned media scholar and dean of the Annenberg School for Communication (1964-1989). The collection is rich in material concerning the Cultural Indicators Project, Gerbner’s pioneering analysis of television violence and cultivation theory, and the Cultural Environment Movement, a media advocacy organization founded by Gerbner in 1991
awesome.