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Bookmarks for January 13th

By Ed Fladung | January 13, 2010
  • Official Google Blog: A new approach to China
    must read press release from SVP at Google, about China's censoring authorities' organized and highly sophisticated hack attacks on Google's infrastructure as well as 20 other large companies, in various sectors as part of a plan to uncover information on human rights activists in China. This is no joke.

    I repeat, this is a google press release, not conjecture. [via DF]

  • THERES SPACE FOR OL DAT I SEE by @_m_i_a_ – TwitVid
    how crunk is MIA? chick can do no wrong. prepare to have your mind blown. best to watch this with large headphones on.
  • A Torturous Interview: John Yoo Does The Daily Show (VIDEO) | TPM LiveWire
    John Yoo is the legal scholar behind the total crap that Bush/Cheney used to justify torture. this guy is insane. must not miss episode of the Daily Show. In part two Yoo admits that he never met Bush, the guy who he essentially gave Imperial powers too, simply because Cheney asked him to.
  • Robert Hodgin | Portfolio
    generative computational art, you may know him as Flight404. awesome. [via surfstation]
  • Retro Music Posters by Paul Gardner
    absolutely sick design work. i love this style. you will too. something for everyone.
  • Bodhi Oser's new portfolio site
    run. don't walk. to check out Oser's new portfolio site. one word: fuckingimpressive. Oser (working under Tom Adler's Art-Direction), is responsible for almost single-handedly changing the face of how surf culture is marketed. The singular design aesthetic and definitive photo editing used for Quicksilver/Roxy and mostly all of your favorite surf books, Oser's influence in surf culture can not be underestimated or oversold.
  • Surfstation – Joe Klein
    "Over the past 30 years, Republicans fed the delusions that you can have low taxes and world-class public services, and Democrats acquiesced in it. It would be nice if we had an honest national conversation about revenues–and the sun-setting of many of the Bush tax cuts this year provides the perfect arena for it–but don't count on that taking place."

    - Joe Klein

  • James Cameron's Avatar Movie Performance Capture Featurette
    amazing behind the scenes featurette on the wholly new capture tech behind the movie. James Cameron is a genius. He really does get across the "uncanny valley". I loved Avatar.
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Bookmarks for October 30th

By Ed Fladung | October 30, 2009
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Bookmarks for July 31st

By Ed Fladung | July 31, 2009
  • Nick Drake – River Man
    your inspiration for today. beautiful video by Tim Pope.
  • Apple: Secrecy Does Not Scale – Anil Dash
    is Apple slowly self-immolating when it screws over iphone developers with all this secrecy garbage? maven indie iphone devs are fleeing the platform in packs. is the iphone's golden years over?
  • Custom Letter — LetterCult
    holy crapola. so much juicy good typography here. loving it. inspiration for days. [via @Nybe]
  • Scientists Are Concerned About Cancer in Animals
    new nasty, virulent forms of cancer are being discovered in wild animals, that are the result of heavy carcinogenic environmental contamination. are human beings really the top of the evolutionary chain? How did cheap crap from Wal Mart become the thing we collectively care about most? [via @jimmoriarty]
  • Isolator
    my new favorite app. when you need to concentrate on something your doing in a particular application (like writing a blog post in Safari or designing something out in photoshop) just hit the command keys for this app and it hides all your other app windows and the dock and presents your current working window on a black background. hit it again to return the windows. should be built into Mac OS X.
  • Minimal Mac
    one my new favorite blogs. tons of tips on reducing the visual clutter on your desktop (both the virtual and analog ones). less is more.
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Bookmarks for July 28th

By Ed Fladung | July 28, 2009
  • David Byrne: I Have Seen the Future and It Is Broken
    Byrne talks about one of my favorite design subjects that no one seems to talk about, that form and function are interdependent. and when they don't follow each other it's not design, it's something else.
  • Claim Chowder
    this made me laugh just a wee bit, when I read it today: Lewis Samuels from 6 days ago: "Do you believe in South Swells? I don't. In norcal we spot bigfoot cookin meth more often than a South that lives up to the hype."
  • Steven Frank / Internet Garage Sale
    Steven Frank (co-founder of Panic) has created a minimal trust-based online auction system for your no-longer-needed tech gadgets. awesome idea. i'm gonna sell my current mac book pro on this thing in a few weeks' time.
  • Comic Con footage of Tron Legacy
    turn the geek meter up to 11. Can't wait to see this in 3D. and Daft Punk are doing the soundtrack. instant cool points.
  • Daring Fireball: Pay Walls
    "The primary problem with newspaper companies isn’t their revenue. It’s the size and scope of their operations. Again I say: mammals and dinosaurs. Simon, along with everyone else who thinks online subscription fees can save the newspaper industry, is effectively arguing that the world will change to support newspapers. The truth is that newspapers must change to adapt to the world. Just because the extinction of newspapers would be a tragic loss doesn’t mean it won’t happen."
  • swissmiss | Step-By-Step Guide To Getting Shot By The Sartorialist
    Hilarious! I love the Sartorialist. this is spot on. great graphic design as well.
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Bookmarks for July 23rd

By Ed Fladung | July 23, 2009
  • 100 Things Your Kids May Never Know About | GeekDad | Wired.com
    my favorites:
    - #18: Computers and Videogaming: Wires. OK, so they’re not gone yet, but it won’t be long
    - #45: Not knowing exactly what all of your friends are doing and thinking at every moment.
    - #81: Han shoots first.
  • YouTube – PS22 Chorus "JOGA" by Bjork
    inspirational. the kids go full emo on Bjork's track. this is passionate teaching and engaged students. Apparently this class does several popular songs. and this one the kids learned in one day. I'm sending Luca to this school, where is it? more on their blog
  • Dicks of the World | Arkitip Intel
    I'm really digging this new board graphic by my old school homie Michael Leon. The United Nations erm, um, Johnsons
  • "We Bring Fear" | Mother Jones
    understanding Mexico's drug war: "There are two Mexicos. There is the one reported by the US press, a place where the Mexican president is fighting a valiant war on drugs, aided by the Mexican Army and the Mérida Initiative, the $1.4 billion in aid the United States has committed to the cause. This Mexico has newspapers, courts, laws, and is seen by the United States government as a sister republic. It does not exist. There is a second Mexico where the war is for drugs, where the police and the military fight for their share of drug profits, where the press is restrained by the murder of reporters and feasts on a steady diet of bribes, and where the line between the government and the drug world has never existed. The reporter lives in this second Mexico." [via Intersections]
  • Some E-Books Are More Equal Than Others – Pogue’s Posts Blog – NYTimes.com
    This is why DRM is evil: Amazon intentionally deletes Kindle owner's copies of George Orwell's 1984: "This morning, hundreds of Amazon Kindle owners awoke to discover that books by a certain famous author had mysteriously disappeared from their e-book readers. These were books that they had bought and paid for—thought they owned…. it’s like Barnes & Noble sneaking into our homes in the middle of the night, taking some books that we’ve been reading off our nightstands, and leaving us a check on the coffee table." – the biggest screw up in the history of digital distribution.
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Bookmarks for April 25th

By Ed Fladung | April 25, 2009
  • How to: Make a Hand-Drawn Font | BittBox
    good little tutorial on getting your hand-drawn type into the computer. for all you hand-written script surf logotype peoples. hint hint.
  • Ryan Alaia Sequence | Nathan Oldfield
    how dope is this Alaia sequence? i haven't seen much Alaia sequences (film or video) so this is the first time I've seen what it takes to turn these finless wooden boards. You can see the wood flexing in his backside turn. amazing. I would love a 20×30 inch print of this sequence image from this post
  • MUJI
    Muji has some amazing products both residential and commercial (clothing, interior design, furniture, etc..). they seem to be all about dope, minimal user experience. beautiful stuff. and very playful. Marcia says the dresses look like extras from the compound on "Big Love".
  • Teehan+Lax UX Fund
    this is very interesting. these guys set up a fund of 50k and pick stocks whose companies excel at "user experience". Companies like Apple, Google, Nike and Jet Blue. I'm gonna plug these picks into google/finance and see what the charts say. Very interesting.
  • paul isakson: Hitting Reset
    "In this video, Emily Haines touches on one of the major themes felt around the world right now – a large cloud of uncertainty and doubt hangs over many people's heads. I know that on a personal level, I've never talked with so many people asking the "what do I want to do with my life" question before. People are questioning much of what they felt good about before. They are considering giving up on things they've been doing for years. They're not sure where to go or what to do next. They are searching for answers and help."
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Bookmarks for April 11th

By Ed Fladung | April 11, 2009
  • Baracknophobia – Obey | The Daily Show | Comedy Central
    "it's supposed to taste like a sh*t sandwich… You guys have been out of power for 10 f*cking weeks!… I think you might be confusing ‘tyranny’ with ‘losing’"
  • Print Liberation / book
    pretty cool book on how to start screenprinting with the barest of materials. I've been screen-printing since a wee lad in high school. I had all the crapola in my basement and i used to make dumb little designs and wear them. Now that I'm a grown man, I wanna make dumb little designs and wear them. again.
  • Dr Bronner's Magic Peppermint Soap label
    i love this soap/shampoo. the label is a stone cold classic. pinnacle of 20th century design. and a fun read. the medium is the message.
  • Jaws Maui
    wicked quicktime VR (you can scroll around the image) taken above Jaws in Maui on a smaller day, I think. You can see two dudes dropping in the wave. Gnarly coastline. wow, I wouldn't want to see this spot on a big day. Perfectly executed QT VR file.
  • sick design from Emil Kozak
    a little late on this one, but it's the pdf catalog for Emil Kozak's Fall and winter 2008/2009 clothing line. Awesome collection of graphic design applied to cool arty shit. inspirational.
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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 5th

By Ed Fladung | March 5, 2009
  • Seahuggers: Wood is Good
    Seahuggers has collected all 4 parts of the Tom Wegener / Patagonia film on one page. If you don't know who Tom Wegener is, he makes sustainable wood surfboards and he specializes in making finless surfboards called Alaias, which were the first surfboard planks used by Polynesians to surf waves. Wegener is partly responsible for the Alaia's strong comeback and surfing's renewed interest in alternative materials and shapes.
  • Patagonia – The Tin Shed
    Amazing website documenting all the cool things going on, over at Patagonia. really nicely executed flash website with a ton of video and other goodies. I wonder who created this site. definitely worthy of some heavy time wasting. plus there is a hidden discount code in the site, so keep your eyes peeled.
  • Puerto Escondido Beach Cam Show From Hotel Santa Fe
    did you know that there is a live web cam in Puerto Escondido? file this under: things I did not know.
  • Mark Batty Publisher
    This book imprint publishes some really nice titles. I was turned on to them by the "Mexican Blackletter" book and pleasantly surprised to find all of their titles are just as interesting. a heavy slant towards design, typography and street art. and all of their titles are moderately priced. definitely worth a look.
  • A Photo Editor – PDN 30 Photographers To Watch- 2009
    all the photographs linked up. some insane photography here. prepare to lose valuable work time.
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