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Bookmarks for January 9th

By Ed Fladung | January 9, 2010
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Bookmarks for November 30th

By Ed Fladung | December 2, 2009
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Bookmarks for May 20th

By Ed Fladung | May 20, 2009
  • Photojournalism – Lens Blog – NYTimes.com
    The NY TImes' new "Lens" blog has the dopest interface for a photo blog ever. Really nicely designed and perfect for viewing several different series of images. This is now one of my daily visits. Check out the Jacob Holdt series, on racism in America. mindblowing. His "American Pictures" book looks sick.
  • YouTube – Gerry Lopez Shaping Demo
    video of Gerry Lopez in the shaping booth from Sacred Craft Surf Expo 09. amazing! I really wish he took the time to explain, more, exactly what he was doing. and I could do without the music, this is school here folks. pay attention.
  • Dan Baum: The Following Account of My Short Career at The New Yorker Ran as a Series of Tweets
    The Following Account of My Short Career at The New Yorker Ran as a Series of Tweets on May 8, 11, and 12, 2009* "People often ask why I left the New Yorker. After all, I had a staff writer job. Isn’t that the best job in journalism? Yes. Nobody leaves a New Yorker job voluntarily. I was fired. And over the next few days, I’ll tell that story here, in 140 " – great story told in 140 chunks.
  • Copyright Critics Rationalize Theft – WSJ.com
    utterly retarded article on how writers, composers, designers and other content creators whose work is easily copied/duplicated need to fight back with copyright against the faceless masses of copyright breakers. Let's get this straight people: COPYRIGHT IS NOT YOUR FRIEND. Copyright is the domain of crumbling, antiquated civilizations. end of story.
  • 007: Daniel Craig | Icon_ology
    some behind the scenes photos of Daniel Craig on the 007 film sets. amazing. dude is classy. definitely Steve McQueen bad-ass style. I think He's easily the best Bond since Connery, maybe better than the original.
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Lovers’ Land

By Ed Fladung | April 19, 2009

I’m not quite sure what Lovers’ Land is. It looks like a bike tour and an art show of the items collected during the trip. The whole thing is very cryptic yet highly inspirational. As far I can tell, Dustin Humphrey and a few buddies, realizing their mutual appreciation of motorcycles, took off on a trip across Australia – on some seriously bad-ass motorcycles – in search of waves and all things artful. They found it all.

The presentation on the blog is beautifully low-tech, filled with photos, videos, illustrations and words – both typed and scribbled. I really like the intentionally undesigned aesthetic. It seems to me that this is the perfect idea for a book.

and this from the “About Us”:

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Excellant project, amazing art. peep it and be inspired to go on your own surf/moto/art trip. Me? Oaxaca is calling my name like a jealous lover….

[via inkawaves]

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Bookmarks for April 19th

By Ed Fladung | April 19, 2009
  • Chávez creates overnight bestseller with book gift to Obama
    "A 36-year-old historical tract attacking the imperialist exploitation of Latin America has become an improbable overnight bestseller after the Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez abruptly presented a copy to Barack Obama." – add Obama's moves to open relations with Cuba and I don't know how much more happier I could be about having Obama in office. This guy has a shopping list of wrongs (our country has done over the past 40 years) and he is righting every one of them. Obama is an inspirational dude. I know I've linked it before, but for a good primer on the subject of exploitation of Latin American read "Confessions of an Economic Hitman".
  • Voules Random
    great indie electronic mp3 blog. tons of great music here. try Wolfy vs. Projections. reminds of the old 'Moon Tribe' years, albeit my kind of electronic music stops at royksopp. if you can dance to it, i probably won't dig it. it took my 10 years to appreciate Daft Punk.
  • Shawn MORTENSEN ::: PHOTOGRAPHY
    amazing body of work by Mortensen who recently passed away at the age of 43 (?!). Mortensen seems to have been at the epicenter of several different underground art movements over his 20+ yrs shooting. His list of subjects is *deep*. more info over at SuperTouch
  • SuperTouch » FIRST LOOK: “McGEE, TEMPLETON, PETTIBON” AT CIRCLECULTURE GALLERY
    McGee, Templeton, Pettibon. curated by Aaron Rose. great photos from the Berlin show. put this show on the very long list of "things I'd do if i had endless loochie"
  • Legwork Studio
    ridiculously sweet website from a design shop in Denver. love the scaffolding content. For extra bonus, peep the "about" video, redonkulous. [via Eli's tweet]
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Bookmarks for April 5th

By Ed Fladung | April 5, 2009
  • Mexico Law Blog | mexican law and news for business and investors
    one of my new favorite blogs. an excellant peek into the powers that run Mexico and their relation to the US. english language blog.
  • but does it float
    "an ongoing visual conversation curated by Folkert and Atley." – amazing collection of photography. mostly architectural and landscape.
  • Kanye West sneakers for Nike and Louis Vuitton
    i could totally rock some kanye west louis vuitton sneakers. look at those things. that tongue in the back. perfect. relatedly: i want some air yeezies these things are like Nike Frankenstein sneaker boots very Back to the Future inspired. The nikes are slightly more affordable.
  • OSK DESIGN
    going on the complete opposite side of some of the links I've posted lately, this guy OSK is one some other shit. I love his aesthetic. gorgeous, artful stuff, and intentionally lo-tech. I'm really feeling his design sense.
  • Matt Reeves bites into 'Right One' – Variety
    the director of 'cloverfield' is going to remake "Let the Right One In" (a movie I loved). why do american directors remake near perfect foreign films, why not go remake Apocalypse Now or Scarface or something more challenging?
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Bookmarks for March 18th

By Ed Fladung | March 18, 2009
  • ad agency shop "Modernista" just launched their blog!
    i really dig Modernista's work. and their blog looks great and random and sprinkled with a cuss word or two. I have a soft spot for curmudgeonry.
  • Nathan Kensinger Photography: Coney Island – Under the Boardwalk
    gorgeous photos taken underneath the boardwalk at coney island. I especially dig the abandoned entrance and storefront ones.
  • Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable « Clay Shirky
    "The problem newspapers face isn’t that they didn’t see the internet coming. They not only saw it miles off, they figured out early on that they needed a plan to deal with it, and during the early 90s they came up with not just one plan but several."
  • doubleTwist
    "All your stuff, on all your devices, with
    all your friends — in seconds" – nice lifestream app. watch the demo.
  • TPM Photo Features | Talking Points Memo | Just Say No Yes to Earmarks
    "When the 2009 spending bill passed last week, Republicans on the Hill– and the stray Dem — were united in a chorus of earmark-bashing. In the words of Sen. Jim Bunning (R-KY): "Cut 'em all out." But it turns out that while the senator from Kentucky voted against the bill, he had $10.6 million in earmarks — 13 separate earmarks, to be exact — in the bill. And he is by no means alone. Several members touted their opposition to the bill and then voted against it, even as they tucked in earmarks for their own districts (thanks to Taxpayers for Common Sense). Oh the shame." – I guess it's useless to question why we're getting stuff like this from TPM and not CNN or NBC?
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Bookmarks for March 11th

By Ed Fladung | March 11, 2009
  • Wildlife thrives at Chernobyl – Telegraph
    Awesome photo series with nice, short descriptions. Synopsis: major nuclear meltdown at Chernobyl. Everyone evacuates. 20 years later, wildlife is thriving and returning back to their normal hunter/prey routines. Go nature!
  • How To Develop A Facebook Page That Attracts Millions of Fans
    if you're a small business that sells a product or service directly to consumers Facebook should definitely be one of your major focus points along with Twitter. This articles helps you understand the why and how.
  • Product Planner – View and Create User Flows, Viral Loops, and More.
    ok, so you have a great idea for a website or web application and you have to organize it out so other people can understand your genius. Your now in the area of flow charts and site maps. This is called "Information Architecture" and it's language, unfortunately, you don't speak this language, and the tools are confusing. Product Planner is a site that not only helps you create these things, but they show examples of popular services you probably use every day. amazing! [via Konigi - the ux mastah]
  • userfly — instant web usability testing
    amazing web app that records your users' movements. simply by cut n pasting their js call into your page header. super simple. and the user playback is smooth fast and insanely addictive. This is a great tool for larger sites. for blogs like mine, it's painful watching a bunch of people come in to the site, scroll up and down and then close the page in 10 seconds or less. But still, very addictive. and you get 10 free captures. great way to hook you into the paying service.
  • WHAT THE FUCK HAVE YOU DONE?
    iconic photographer/artist/writer/documentarian Glen E. Friedman started a blog not too long ago. and as to be expected, it's an awesome read. time to go to school, kids.
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Bookmarks for March 8th

By Ed Fladung | March 8, 2009
  • Saltwater by Carsten Jamrow
    great "on the road" blog by another designer/photographer. occasional surf related photos and lots of urban photog stuff. great style.
  • Bruce Haley's Tao of War Photography
    Bruce Haley is one of the masters of war photo journalism. Here he runs down 63 worrisome/funny/disgusting/hilarious ruminations on death, god, photography, war, famine etc… definitely worth a sunday read. his sense of humor is – how would you say, um "colorful" or better yet "baroque". This guy must be a total trip at dinner parties.
  • SpaceCollective
    stunning web design. well executed. peep the different view modes in "new posts". we're gonna start to see a whole lot more of this kind of thing.
  • World Builder on Vimeo
    stunning short film in which man builds a virtual world using "minority report" style holographic tools for the woman he loves. – awesome. stick around for the ending.
  • Drum Set
    making your own electronic music. total time waster. click the robot head for more fun.
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Kanye West has a blog

By Ed Fladung | September 30, 2007

Kanye West has a blog and he posts 2 to 3 times a day?! unbelievable.

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30gms

By Ed Fladung | September 29, 2007

30gms has a really gorgeous top navigation going on. Weighted color bars for the various tags used on each post, like a weighted tag cloud without the visual affront to the typographically inclined. nice color choices too. i wonder what they’re using to generate this. [via CP]

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