"the thing that’s exploding into relevance in our era is not mass culture but the critique of mass culture — the Barthesian dissection of everything, no matter how trivial… the critical analysis of pop culture has itself become a kind of pop culture. We seem to be approaching some kind of singularity — a collapse of creativity and criticism into one."
May 27, 2012
April 16, 2012
April 14, 2012
(Source: urbanizedclass, via fuckyeahwu-tang)
April 7, 2012
"Tetris was invented exactly when and where you would expect — in a Soviet computer lab in 1984 — and its game play reflects this origin. The enemy in Tetris is not some identifiable villain (Donkey Kong, Mike Tyson, Carmen Sandiego) but a faceless, ceaseless, reasonless force that threatens constantly to overwhelm you, a churning production of blocks against which your only defense is a repetitive, meaningless sorting. It is bureaucracy in pure form, busywork with no aim or end, impossible to avoid or escape. And the game’s final insult is that it annihilates free will. Despite its obvious futility, somehow we can’t make ourselves stop rotating blocks. Tetris, like all the stupid games it spawned, forces us to choose to punish ourselves."
— Angry Birds, Farmville and Other Hyperaddictive ‘Stupid Games’ - NYTimes.com
February 21, 2012
February 7, 2012
"There were no stakes left, no victories remaining. Hova the God was safely in the sky. So he trained his gaze towards conquering the oldest, whitest, richest precincts in the world, the last few places on earth where he might receive a less-than-rapturous welcome."
January 17, 2012
January 6, 2012
"In the writers’ room, Louis found the most creative ways to waste time. Once, he started throwing money out the window with notes attached to it, like, ‘You pathetic pig.’ People on Sixth Avenue would pick up the money and read these vile notes, and he’d be looking down, laughing."
— Louie CK_- The Man Who Loves to Hate Himself - Rolling Stone
December 10, 2011
[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]
Helplessness Blues, Fleet Foxes
I was raised up believing I was somehow unique
Like a snowflake distinct among snowflakes, unique in each way you can see
And now after some thinking, I’d say I’d rather be
A functioning cog in some great machinery serving something beyond me
December 10, 2011
"I don’t think education is about centralized instruction anymore; rather, it is the process establishing oneself as a node in a broad network of distributed creativity."
— Joichi Ito - Innovating by the Seat of Our Pants - NYTimes.com
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