Creative Color Wheels - Tori’s Pics — openarms — mong — minusnmim
I might as well be #33 to ReBlog this color wheel. Because when 33 people ReBlog something, it becomes a Banner as much as a Post.
Voices in my head. Awesome?
The billboard uses technology manufactured by Holosonic that transmits an “audio spotlight” from a rooftop speaker so that the sound is contained within your cranium.
In other news, a good discussion of Pot Paranoia on Ask Metafilter. via µ-slabs, who is baked right now. From commenter mayfly wake:
My personal theory is, like most psychedelics, it overactivates the pattern-recognition part of your brain.
Apophenia! (Or is it? Why is that kid staring at me?)
The State - “Cutlery Barn”
“We are sorry to report The State DVD is now NOT being released this fall. We worked closely with MTV to make a great DVD set with lots of extras for the show, and the DVDs are completed, but they have chosen not to release the set at this time. We don’t know why.”
Most of this ReBlogged post is removed because this is a tangent of that. You can read of its origin on dalas verdugo’s site here. It ends with this:
“I did the same thing on Tumblr when I was close to missing a flight from NYC. Except I was able to include photos. Again, I don’t understand the point of Twitter.”
So, dalas. If you’ll allow me to bastardize Marshall McLuhan’s concepts with my own rudimentary understanding of them, I’ll try and apply the terms ‘hot’ and ‘cool’ used in McLuhan’s template to represent the differences between film and television to similarly define the differences between tumblr and Twitter.
tumblr, as a medium, requires active engagement on the part of the reader. He or she becomes immersed in the central forum of the tumblr Dashboard and actively refreshes at desired increments, scrolls through the latest content, digs deeper into individual posts by enlarging images, following links, playing videos, and even repurposing the Dashboard’s content for his or her own editorial use. tumblr is mostly hot, with occasional shifts into coolness (while skimming, one searches for the next emotional engagement).
Twitter, as a medium, requires nearly no active engagement. It is purely text-based with limited use of linking to outside content or other users within the Twitter forum, it refreshes automatically (with the aid of a desktop-based app), limits itself to palatable bits of easily-ingested vignettes, any of which can easily be missed while still providing the reader with a sense of community and contact with the zeitgeist. Twitter is mostly cool, with occasional bits of hotness (while scanning, the odd tweet may provoke a public or private response at the most, or the marking as “favorite” at the least).
Each has its place. Neither replaces the other.
This whole thing presupposes that you use tumblr and Twitter the way I use them, and I think, dalas, that you find yourself regularly immersed in the tumblr Dashboard. Could it be that Twitter simply doesn’t offer you the immersive experience you crave?
Pucci Wear
You see that oversized t-shirt on Star of Cinema Lou Pucci in this promotional still from the movie “Southland Tales” (2004567)? Well, it can be yours for a nominal opening bid of .99 on eBay. Get your very own Pucci gear before this unheralded crusted poo of a movie becomes a Cult Classic!
via Joseph of bittentongue, who now knows what he’s getting for Christmas
Facebook in 30 years: A Parody from John Cow
From “Time After Time” (2007), a series of floral still lifes mid-explosion, by photographer Ori Gersht.
via Long Views
Bel-Air, 2005
