Happiness Takes (A Little) Magic | The Wirecutter
Informationally, we are becoming lard-asses. In the pageview and ratings driven media economy, too much of the content these days is designed to be just like junk food to quickly boost quantifiable viewership. If you make content that is the intellectual equivalent of gummy bears, your site will appear to grow quickly
This is the best thing I’ve read about Path, and it perfectly articulates something I’ve thought not only about Path, but also a lot of other exemplars of the fussy, post-Apple wave of “high design” in tech products. Khoi Vinh has written about the same phenomenon, arguing that the obsessive design polish we in the industry have come to fetishize can lead to products without the “breathing room” to feel truly lived in by users.
(via buzz)
Analog (Taken with Instagram at New Monkey Studio)
Save a dime a day for a Gretsch (Taken with Instagram at New Monkey Studio)
Bahamas performing in the Brushfire Records studio (Taken with instagram)
Oscillator (Taken with Instagram at Brushfire Records)
Controls (Taken with Instagram at Brushfire Records)
MURK AVENUE: I FOUND ICE CUBES 'GOOD DAY'
CLUE 1:
“went to short dogs house,
they was watching Yo MTV
RAPS”
Yo MTV RAPS first aired:
Aug 6th 1988
CLUE 2:
Ice Cubes single “today was a good day” released on:
Feb 23 1993
CLUE 3:
”The Lakers beat the Super
Sonics”
Dates between Yo MTV Raps air date AUGUST 6 1988 and the release…
BRILLIANT!
Thanks Sticker Robot! (Taken with Instagram at Topspin)
NEWT: MAN IN THE MOON
photo via Vanity Fair
Alabama Shakes (Taken with Instagram at The Troubadour)
Hold On (Taken with Instagram at The Troubadour)
