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Jan 31st

I cast the men in this photo shoot for New York a couple...

Jan 31st

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First peek of the new Vampire Weekend song, White Sky, that they debuted at their crazy packed shows...

Jan 31st

(stereo)typical

me: well, does it cost less if we don't have dessert?
adam: that was my halftorah portion.

Jan 31st

Kanye Universecity

Jan 31st

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Watched Squid + The Whale for the first time in a year last night and realized how well written it...

Jan 31st

Untitled, Christian Vincent (2007) I wish I had money to...

Jan 31st

Drunk History vol. 2 - Featuring Jack Black...

Jan 31st

a thought.

I was talking to my dad recently—who has now been a surgeon for 25 years—about how he...

Jan 30th

I agree with Jorg that photog Victoria...

Jan 30th

Amy Arbus. Puddle, New York City. “When I ask to...

Jan 30th

hopefully this photo cancels out the tone of the last post. ...

Jan 29th

“Anne Sexton killed herself because it is too painful to live...”
— Erica Jong, the New York...

Jan 29th

I love tumblr. I put up an x-processed photo and immediately...

Jan 29th

from whence my knack for terrible puns...

My mom: I’m supposed to be productive today but I am just uninspired. I think I will go home...

Jan 29th

Hela Polka, from The Ones We Love project. Cross processing...

Jan 29th

how jews im.

Adam: eh
me: dont eh me
Adam: i will eh you all i want

Jan 29th

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Laura Marling - Ghosts I love love love this girl. She is absolutely the real thing.

Jan 29th

Paul McDonough, Women in Fur Coats, 1974.

Jan 29th

erica shire

so clearly, i am obsessed with photography lately and have been posting a lot of it. this has a...

Jan 28th

Agreed.

zachklein: I’m looking for an extraordinary place in NYC to hang out with a friend and...

Jan 28th

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Vampire Weekend - A-Punk Is anyone else going to VW’s record release show in NYC tomorrow...

Jan 28th

Sara Remington mostly shoots food in natural light for...

Jan 28th

Tomer Hanuka, Kent Avenue. I want a print of this! Good...

Jan 28th

portraits of samuel beckett by richard avedon, taken in...

Jan 27th

Speaking of Alaska, Jesse Chehak’s photos of the place...

Jan 27th

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Eddie Vedder - Rise (from Into the Wild) Went to see Into the Wild again last night for some reason...

Jan 27th

lazy sunday.

Jan 27th

“Danielle Levitt’s photographs are like the third...

Jan 26th

Understanding Art for Geeks

Jan 26th

Manifest Destiny (or when I start to...

I have been thinking a lot about “the West” lately. I guess it’s in my...

Jan 25th

Bruce Nauman Chosen for Venice Biennale

Jan 25th

META! — suwaowalog

Jan 25th

“We might hope to find the three activities—poetry,...”
— Adrienne Rich, from...

Jan 25th

“Though my subjects seem unassuming, they are my...

Jan 25th

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Josh Ritter - Wolves Josh is probably my favorite singer/songwriter of the last five years. There...

Jan 25th

Untitled, Susan Egan (more photos here) Susan lives and...

Jan 25th

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OMG I can’t take it. ADORABLE OVERLOAD - CollegeHumor video— jendunlap Some of my friends...

Jan 24th

My friend Emily says this graphic sums up her goals for...

Jan 24th

Petya & Ilusha, Evgenia Shibanina The photographer is...

Jan 24th

“I would describe this day as effervescent. I fell out of my...”
— Diablo Cody on her Oscar nod.

Jan 24th

Colin, Chelsea Ivan.

Jan 24th

“Obama spoke for only twenty-five minutes and took no...”
— George Packer, The New Yorker....

Jan 24th

Because, Katie West Katie is from Ontario and sells...

Jan 24th

Illustration by Lucinda Rogers. The Heart Agency (where I...

Jan 24th

Newark #2, Kevin Cooley. From his Nachtflüge (Night...

Jan 23rd

Frederick, South Dakota (1972) “I stopped taking...

Jan 23rd

Dessie Higgenbottam, David Plowden. 1974. Interview below...

Jan 23rd

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Lisa Cholodenko’s High Art is one of my all time favorite movies and is showing on what seems...

Jan 23rd

“West of the Mississippi it’s a little more look, see,...”
— F. Scott F.

Jan 23rd

Book in Mouth, Jeff Mermelstein. New York, 1993.

Jan 23rd

100 Best Companies to Work For '08

Jan 23rd

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For Emma - Bon Iver Bon Iver made NPR’s Song of the Day today, which is great. My ears have...

Jan 23rd

Last night Justin and I got to talking about Todd Hido, and...

Jan 23rd

Love this. (and thanks MSG)!

Jan 22nd

bacchanalia (or what we talk about at...

Adam: so, the new plan
is to rob some banks or steal some art
so we can eat wild boar and huckleberries every night

Jan 22nd

Portrait II, Elizabeth Weinberg. (Thanks Jstn for pointing...

Jan 22nd

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Luke Temple - Saturday People Elz pointed me towards this lovely little song, which is both...

Jan 21st

the ones we love, via abstract the day. i’d like to...

Jan 21st

“Frankly, I adore Eloise.” — Noel Coward ...

Jan 21st

Cottonwood, Aubrey Hays.

Jan 21st

oh my lord.

due to our crazy radiators (and even crazier super), our apartment without windows cracked is now...

Jan 18th

Washington Square Park, 1924.

Jan 18th

Life After People

Jan 18th

we're seeing it tomorrrow.

me: so, cloverfield.
me: EW says its great, the NYT says crap. slate says...meh.
me: but either way i feel like it will be entertaining. or at least zeitgeist-worthy.
adam: hey, i like when things go boom.
adam: live free or die hard was the last great american film.

Jan 18th

Searching for Bobby Fischer

Jan 18th

“In other words, our ultimate goal is not finding, filtering,...”
— Andrew Taylor, whose...

Jan 18th

tgif.

Jan 18th

Doris Salcedo at Alexander and Bonin — cashgifts

Jan 17th

— nic i have to go to a party tonight and it’s brrrrr...

Jan 17th

New Yorker: Goings On

Jan 17th

Andre noted that the below photo is like a modern day...

Jan 17th

Wii the People, Anil Cherukupalli (taken in Edinburgh). ...

Jan 17th

The Ferrell Project

Jan 17th

I love the opulent design of this book jacket (for a new YA...

Jan 17th

Remembering Yves, Ingo Maurer. On display now at the...

Jan 17th

Library of Congress Teams with Flickr

Jan 16th

i have comments now.

all thanks to daniel ha! everyone give props to disqus. and don’t be a stranger - i’m...

Jan 16th

Omar is in deep cover! — sharingtime Love this.

Jan 16th

um wow.

me: i had the most disconcerting thing happen just now in my head
i was thinking of a movie plot
it was animated
that i saw when i was little
Emily: ok
me: and wanted to invoke it for a story i was telling someone
and i realized after some googling
it was
THE CATHY COMIC MOVIE.
that may be the most embarrassing BS to know ever
Emily: HAHAHA
me: it was about a woman who opened a box of chocolates and ate the whole thing and then passed out

Jan 16th

THEY’RE COMING BACK!

Jan 16th

john.

“Just when I thought there wasn’t room enough for another thought in my head, I had this great...

Jan 16th

i would like to take a soujourn to rural pennsylvania....

Jan 16th

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— justin This is in every way why CHTV is my preferred “video snack” at lunch hour. 

Jan 15th

“And I have to tell you something, I really,...”
— Is this….a)...

Jan 15th

Justin Ouellette, aka chromogenic.net

Jan 15th

on getting old

Arthur Laurents, who wrote West Side Story and Gypsy, is overseeing (read: directing and producing)...

Jan 15th

so i want one. i would consider myself a 7 on a 10 point...

Jan 15th

“But trying on identities is, in the fluid environment of the...”
— From this New Yorker piece on...

Jan 15th

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Miracle Fortress-Next Train I have been listening to Five Roses non-stop. It’s like the Beach...

Jan 15th

Promenade, Francesco Arresta. (via photorama, a site about...

Jan 15th

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Whenever I am “one or two notches away from losing it” (as a bud just IMmed me to say),...

Jan 14th

Zooey Sings

Jan 14th

the mean reds

emily and i decided that the way we are collectively feeling today (a little on edge,...

Jan 14th

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Cat Power - Sea of Love A Honeydrippers cover. Cold weather appropriate. This song made its way...

Jan 14th

Shouting Across the Divide

Jan 14th

Cafe, Bernard Bailly. (from Bernard’s really...

Jan 14th

Has Gawker Jumped the Snark?

Jan 14th

Jan Von Holleben, The Superman From Dreams of Flying, my...

Jan 14th

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I’m reading Edith Wharton’s autobiography, A Backward Glance, with amazing little lines...

Jan 13th

got a new nano. and i’m really f-ing into it. 

Jan 12th

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this is probably one of the dopest things on tv ever — antiocharonow (aka elliot) the number of...

Jan 11th

Trey Ratcliff, Stuck in Customs. I’m not usually drawn...

Jan 11th

my mom IMs.

JoycePhil: Hi Rach..how's your Friday? Shabbat shalom.
JoycePhil: Love, Mom
...and she signs off on all of them all like letters. I think this is a quirk I might embrace in my own correspondence.

Jan 11th

White Whine

Jan 11th

Samantha Lamb’s new photo series makes me want to pick...

Jan 11th

i did it.

i finally registered to vote in this state (sure, NM needs my blue absentee, but i live here now and...

Jan 11th

slowly caving in.

So do I want one? Or maybe one of these? Please advise. And no, I don’t think anything can...

Jan 11th

Barbara Bloom, Goethe’s Hall, 1998.

Jan 11th

“The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with...”
— Nabokov, Lectures on Russian...

Jan 11th

good morning.

Jan 11th

my new roommate sarah is hilarious. and she happens to be...

Jan 10th

waiting for the thaw (or how some of my...

adam: i want to sleep for a week
adam: and when i wake up it will be late may
adam: and we can drink pinot grigio on a sidewalk somewhere
adam: and i can walk home and kick pebbles and listen to dusty springfield and sleep with the windows open
adam: i am already so in the mood
adam: for coney island and baseball on the radio
adam: and a sunburnt nose

Jan 10th

Turns out Glynnis (who I first found through tumblr) is a...

Jan 10th

“You meant to knock me out With your vivacity. I remember...”
— Ted Hughes, St....

Jan 10th

The german fabric site volksfaden features, among other...

Jan 10th

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Foals - Brazil Is Here I’ve totally fallen for this ragtag crew of Oxford dropouts who make...

Jan 10th

albuquerque, aubrey hays yep, that’s what it looks...

Jan 10th

“Louis Pasteur said, ‘Chance favors the prepared...”
— Michael Chabon (I’m...

Jan 10th

what “neu york” might have looked like had the...

Jan 10th

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TechCrunch posted this yesterday and it’s been out forever in web world (aka 2 weeks), meaning...

Jan 9th

The Guardian: Owned by no one (thanks to browneyes and...

Jan 9th

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The Onion’s A.V. Club just posted a great round-up of movies anchored entirely by the music of...

Jan 8th

sorry tumblr

been sick/busy/grumpy all day today. will be back in full force a little later.

Jan 8th

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I LOVE LOVE the new site, Big Think,  which launched today and which the Times calls a “You...

Jan 7th

New Art TV

Jan 7th

— planettampon i’ve seen this photo online about...

Jan 7th

i plan to live out the rest of my days in tashkent by...

Jan 7th

so true.

Emily: you know whats sucks?
Emily: being 24 and having heartburn

Jan 7th

The $99 music pass

Jan 7th

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Santogold - Shove It Getting into Santi lately. The M.I.A. comparisons are valid but she’s...

Jan 7th

Central Park,  1942. Raise your hand if this makes you...

Jan 7th

Shins' Crandall, Girlfriend Arrested for...

Jan 7th

Julie Blackmon, Rooster. Julie is one of my favorite...

Jan 7th

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kid harpoon - late for the devil. sweet ‘n’ fancy little song for a sunday from...

Jan 6th

The Rolling Exhibition

Jan 6th

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I think I am going to try to write one letter or long-form correspondence per month to someone out...

Jan 4th

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Kate Nash - I’m Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance With You (Black Kids cover) ...

Jan 4th

FourFour's Year in Dance

Jan 4th

Because I can never resist a good lunchtime break...

Jan 4th

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Vitalic-Birds (still one of the coolest music vids I’ve ever seen, by French collective...

Jan 4th

“To get to the heart of things, I believe we must...”
— Pierre Bayard

Jan 4th

…who doesn’t heart xkcd?

Jan 4th

“Oh, both my shoes are shiny new, And pristine is my hat;...”
— Dorothy Parker, Autobiography

Jan 4th

sunflow - pfnphoto (a 22-year-old from germany who is...

Jan 4th

“I live in America. I don’t have to love it.”
— Belize, Angels in America...

Jan 3rd

Em's New Years Resolutions

Jan 3rd

art imitates photography?

Maira Kalman, “Blue Wall/Red Hair” (2004), New Yorker Alec Soth, “New...

Jan 3rd

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spiral beach - pedestrian why does all of my new favorite music seem to come from toronto? this...

Jan 3rd

“New technologies now allow people of varying levels of...”
— Whitney photo curator Sylvia...

Jan 3rd

Frame Not Included is a group photoblog by three Norweigan...

Jan 3rd

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“All My Exes” is genius, ingenious. Thanks Chelsea P.

Jan 2nd

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the ting tings - that’s not my name. for some reason i can’t stop listening to this uk...

Jan 2nd

January 29, 1924 (via). the best way to travel.

Jan 2nd