This tree looks like it just dodged a very large bullet. (Taken with instagram)
It‘s true. Read the blog post by Brian Lynch.
Performance #414: Deerhunter at the Showbox Market
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“People who shun new technologies will be viewed as passive-aggressive control freaks trying to rope people into their world, much like vegetarian teenage girls in the early 1980s” — Douglas Coupland, in an article for Canada’s Globe and Mail titled A radical pessimist’s guide to the next 10 years. /via kottke.org
Testing out Instagram with my favorite boy. (Taken with instagram)
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“I’m sick of their crazy stuff and I’m not letting them get away with it in my presence any longer. I’ve got Obama’s back.” —
JCPOK, from his post “I got Obama’s Back at Starbucks this Morning” on Daily Kos, about a confrontation he had with some old, rich Republicans in Oklahoma. Thank Jebus there are people like him still living in Oklahoma.
/via Daring Fireball
Beautiful photo, well-written observations from Merlin:
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Jack Delano - Chopping cotton on rented land near White Plains, Greene County, Ga. (Farm Security Administration, 1941)
A lot of the color photos I’ve seen from before the 1950s strike me as stiff, over-worked, or so experimental as to be a “Hello, World.” They’re cool from a technical standpoint, but they often don’t tell you any more about the subject than a well-produced monochrome image would.
Given the costliness of the film and the complexity of the process, it’s easy to understand why early color photographers had to be choosy about picking the subjects and conditions that their camera could capture well (rather than, as is ideally the case, working the other way around).
But, sometimes, an old color photo brings a distant image to life and produces something kind of special. The best ones make their subjects and their surroundings seem far more real and intimate.
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