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Haitian girl by David Choe

Haitian girl by David Choe

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YES! Good call.

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The Talking Heads - “This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody)”

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Powell Peralta Future Primitive 1985.

Pretty awesome skate scenes throughout the city.

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Hilarious!

Hilarious!

Stussy & Stones Throw Records have partnered for Raph Rashid’s classic pic of J Dilla on a limited-edition Stussy Tee. This will be released Feb. 13, 2010 in White and Black, available at stonesthrow.com and Stussy locations.

Stussy & Stones Throw Records have partnered for Raph Rashid’s classic pic of J Dilla on a limited-edition Stussy Tee. This will be released Feb. 13, 2010 in White and Black, available at stonesthrow.com and Stussy locations.

Freeway & Jake One went all out with this package: 4 Freeway Bills, 4 Jake One Bills, with lyrics and liner notes on the backsides, a wallet to stuff them into, plus a download card with the Instrumentals. This unique package was put together by Hip-hop’s Iconic Designer, Brent Rollins.

Find A Way by J Dilla, Orchestration by Carlos Niño & Miguel Atwood Ferguson. The whole album is stunning, but I love, in particular, the last movement in this song.

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We have to plan for the future.

And the future is that clean energy — cleaner forms of energy are going to be increasingly important, because even if folks are still skeptical in some cases about climate change in our politics and in Congress, the world is not skeptical about it.

If we’re going to be after some of these big markets, they’re going to be looking to see, is the United States the one that’s developing clean coal technology? Is the United States developing our natural gas resources in the most effective way? Is the United States the one that is going to lead in electric cars? Because if we’re not leading, those other countries are going to be leading.

So what I want to do is work with West Virginia to figure out how we can seize that future. But to do that, that means there’s going to have to be some transition. We can’t operate the coal industry in the United States as if we’re still in the 1920s or the 1930s or the 1950s. We’ve got to be thinking what does that industry look like in the next hundred years. And it’s going to be different. And that means there’s going to be some transition. And that’s where I think a well-thought-through policy of incentivizing the new while recognizing that there’s going to be a transition process — and we’re not just suddenly putting the old out of business right away — that has to be something that both Republicans and Democrats should be able to embrace.

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President Barack Obama
Jan 29, 2010

In response to the question by Congresswoman Capito from West Virgina during the House Republican Caucus.

SyncLost is a multi-user installation for immersion in the history of electronic music. From a complex timeline, rhythms and sub-rhythms merge to create new sounds.

The project’s objective is to create an interface where users can view all the connections between the main styles of electronic music through visual and audible feedback. The choice is individual and leads to a collective consequence in the spatial visualization of information.

Sync/Lost

Fuck. Yes.
SYNC/LOST

Fuck. Yes.

SYNC/LOST

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And one day, a ladder appeared. Julien climbed with guarded optimism; could this be the way out for which he’d been searching all these weeks?
(Dwell, January 2010)

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unhappyhipsters:

And one day, a ladder appeared. Julien climbed with guarded optimism; could this be the way out for which he’d been searching all these weeks?

(Dwell, January 2010)

hahahaha

Facebook Is Working On A Foursquare-Killer

For his part, Foursquare cofounder Dennis Crowley told us he fully expects Facebook and others to launch “check-in” functionality, making it “commodity by the end of the year.”

Dennis says Foursquare’s survival depends on providing “the most incentive for a user to check-in.” Right now, Foursquare awards frequent users badges and calls the users who check-in at certain venues the most to become their “mayor.”

“I think we’re doing this better than anyone else and I think we’ll continue to do so. We have so much stuff on the whiteboard that we haven’t even touched yet… we’re really just getting started.”

Here’s who Dennis and company are going against:

Yelp

  • Advantages: Scale, brand, ardent community, large app install base. More money from investors like Elevation Partners.
  • Disadvantages: Not your real friends. It’s a site for writers.  No Foursquare-like gaming element.

Gowalla

  • Advantages: Closer to mainstream than Foursquare. Has more money than Foursquare, from sexy investors like Greylock. Not based in New York so it’s closer to “real” America.
  • Disadvantages: Not based in New York, which is the perfect city for this kind of software.

Facebook

  • Advantages: Huge scale. Has tons of engineering talent. Like with Foursquare, Facebook friends are your real friends — the kind of people you want to join you when you go out.
  • Disadvantages: Unlike Foursquare, Facebook can afford to fail.

Potential rivals also include Twitter and CitySearch.

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