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Bookmarks for November 11th

By Ed Fladung | November 11, 2009
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Bookmarks for September 24th

By Ed Fladung | September 24, 2009
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Bookmarks for September 13th

By Ed Fladung | September 13, 2009
  • Maureen Dowd – Boy, Oh, Boy – NYTimes.com
    This basically sums up my thoughts on the vast teabagger of this summer right up to Joe Wilson's douchbaggery – "But Wilson’s shocking disrespect for the office of the president — no Democrat ever shouted “liar” at W. when he was hawking a fake case for war in Iraq — convinced me: Some people just can’t believe a black man is president and will never accept it."
  • Mexico Now Enduring Worst Drought in Years – NYTimes.com
    we're definitely feeling the first signs of a drought, here in Nayarit, rain fall is way off. usually we're swimming in rain this time of year. Lately it's been sprinkling every 4 or 5 days. the winter is gonna be rough.
  • Charles Darwin film 'too controversial for religious America' – Telegraph
    "…according to a Gallup poll conducted in February, only 39 per cent of Americans believe in the theory of evolution." and ""It is unbelievable to us that this is still a really hot potato in America. There's still a great belief that He made the world in six days. It's quite difficult for we in the UK to imagine religion in America. We live in a country which is no longer so religious. But in the US, outside of New York and LA, religion rules."
  • YouTube – Deconstructing Sgt. Pepper
    DJs, beatmakers and sound sampling peeps check this out before it disappears, a youtube clip that isolates all 4 tracks on the Sgt. Pepper intro. awesome for sampling and cool just to hear/see the tracks isolated.
  • Jordan : History of Flight
    beautifully done artwork and flash site for the Jordan/Nike brand. this site is awesome. as for Jordan sneaks the III, IV and V were my favorites. the rest became too gimmicky. great artwork on that timeline site.
  • Kid Vlogs From Apple Store, We Smell a New Commercial Campaign
    "Kids. They grow up so fast these days, with the Twitter and the MySpace and Tamagotchi and sports drinks. You've gotta hand it to them, though: they've got their technology and they know how to use it.

    Which is why the dense YouTube account of Nicholifavs, filled with a kid who vlogs exclusively from New York City's Fifth Avenue Apple Store, is merely a natural progression in the realm of Things Kids Do Now." via Beau Colburn

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Bookmarks for September 9th

By Ed Fladung | September 9, 2009
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Bookmarks for August 27th

By Ed Fladung | August 27, 2009
  • IKEA goes with Verdana | Typophile
    the space-time continuum folds in on itself as IKEA switches from everyone's favorite typeface Futura to the ridiculously ugly made-for-small-text-on-monitors Verdana, in the name of style consistency across all countries including asia. Big mistake. This is like IKEA's version of "New Coke". stunningly dumb.
  • three frames
    my new favorite site [via @bigspaceship]
  • Art & Copy Film
    A documentary film about the truth in advertising. A film by Doug Pray, the Director of Surf Wise, Scratch and Hype!
  • YouTube – Tarantino's Top 20 Movies Since 1992
    interesting choices with explanation. Wong Kar- Wai's "In The Mood for Love" is not on the list. major oversight. I really like that "Unbreakable" is on it. I loved that movie and still do. incidentally, is it me or is Tarantino looking a bit like a hot tranny mess?
  • Good Hair ft. Chris Rock- Official Trailer
    now this is.a film i can get behind, hilarious.
  • Giant Waterslide Jump
    I know this is ridiculously old. my links are a bit stale from my trip up north yonder. but… reason 1023 for why the internet is better than tv: so that i can watch beautiful, priceless short clips like this without having to sit the drudgery of an hour long dumb home movie video show hosted by an unfunny stand-up comic and packed with commercials for environmentally insensitive products i don't need. watch the clip. hilarious, yet stunning in its accuracy.
  • Core CMS
    super easy to use content management system for photographers and designers "Core is a Content Management System (CMS) made with the designer in mind, someone who want to show off all their work with an easy updateable and customizable website without having to deal with databases, scripting and extensive php."
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Bookmarks for June 8th

By Ed Fladung | June 8, 2009
  • Ayalon on speech: The new "axis of pragmatic forces" | Israel Policy Forum
    amazing analysis of Obama's middel east speech by Isreal's Mahjor General Ami Ayalon. a great read. – Ayalon: We are witnessing the beginning of new American diplomacy in the Middle East whereby it will no longer appear to be very, very pro-Israel, but, as was obvious in the speech, it will be more balanced. Israel has to now understand that this president really believes that there is a common denominator of moderate Arabs, Americans and Israelis. It is a new phenomenon in Middle East diplomacy because we have long believed that the US and Israel represented one side of the conflict and the Arab world and Muslims the other side. But unlike previous administrations where the world was divided by an axis of evil, particularly that of President Bush, Mr. Obama divides the world by an axis of pragmatic forces. [ via TPM]
  • Castles In L.A. | SurfingMagazine.com
    oh snaps! new movie from Taylor Steele and Dustin Humphrey: "“This is my passion project,” said Taylor Steele who was sporting a solid gash in the head from stitches he picked up during a recent trip to India. “These trips and these movies [Sipping Jetstreams and Castles in the Sky] are the films that we get to see the world in a whole new way. We take risks in making them. Travel long distances on a whim. Say yes when strangers invite us over for tea. That’s what makes them so special."
  • YouTube – Bookcast: Author Don Thompson and his new book
    Author Don Thompson in an interview with National Post talks about his book "$12 Million Stuffed Shark: The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art" – if you don't catch the shark reference, about Damien Hirst. [via @longdrivesouth]
  • View Master: Diorama Photography by Lori Nix, Jonah Samson and Grace Weston
    very cheeky sex-driven diorama photography from Jonah Samson. Love the top one, of the swimming pool.
  • Seth Godin's Blog
    Amazing reading on entrepenurship, marketing yourself and generally how to navigate the choppy waters of transitioning business to the internet. Godin's blog posts are prescient, witty and full of good advice. on publishing: "Mark this down as another job for the new economy: someone who can collate, amplify and leverage the work of writers and turn it into cash. I don't believe that there's one solution, not this time. But I'm confident that around the edges and deep into niches, there's money being made."
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Bookmarks for May 17th

By Ed Fladung | May 16, 2009
  • Photography bloggers panel at New York Photo Festival
    hot off the press, video of the blogger's panel at New York Photo Festival with photo blogger heavyweights Jeorg Colberg, Cara Phillips, Andrew Hethrington, Laurel Ptak, Brian Ulrich. great panel and very informative on the current state of blogging, photo blogs, photography and blogging photos and photography. got that?
  • We Love You So
    Spike Jonze has a blog and surprise surprise it's quite good. well, actually, it's not just Spike's. It's a collective blog form a bunch of artists involved in the making of Where The Wild Things Are. It's supposed to be a peak into the influences and inspirations that helped make the movie. So far some great posts! very tender.
  • Pitchfork: The Shins news
    tiny tidbit in this wonderfully weird spat of news about new Shins music: James Mercer worked with Modest Mouse on the 180 Degrees South soundtrack (the new Malloy Brothers film). I'm really feeling the two songs featured in the trailer. can't wait for the soundtrack. In other news, James Mercer picks band mates for The Shins albums based on how he wants the records to sound (sonically speaking). Interesting way to go about a band, but sucks to be the guys who got booted.
  • White House Czar Calls for End to 'War on Drugs'
    "In his first interview since being confirmed to head the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, Gil Kerlikowske said Wednesday the bellicose analogy [of the drug policy to a war] was a barrier to dealing with the nation's drug issues." – I just had a "halleluja" moment, are the Reagan years finally over?! [via gancho]
  • The Specials 30th Anniversary
    The Specials are reuniting for their 30th Anniversary and going on tour! minus Jerry Dammers. also Fred Perry issues three special edition shirts to celebrate. awesome. I'll take the middle jammie.
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Bookmarks for May 6th

By Ed Fladung | May 6, 2009
  • Juxtapoz – Meet MYMO's Monsters
    MYMO is a Berlin/NYC-based street artist. Her characters and hand-drawn type are beautiful and freaky. I love the her paper-mache heads. very inspirational work.
  • 10 QUESTIONS: ZACH KEENAN | SURFLINE.COM
    great interview with Zach Keenan who is a pro surfer and strict vegan. the interview details his raw food diet and how he prepares for travel. very interesting read. the one important thing that never gets brought up, is that if you travel with your food, and it's raw, most of it doesn't need prepping. you eat and go. I can't tell you how many trips I've been on, where I've eaten dodgy food, simply because that's all there was to eat. some people may think Keenan's diet is picky. I think it's smart! [via surfy surfy]
  • 180 South trailer – Woodshed Films
    oh snaps! the trailer for the new Malloy Brothers film due out later this year. gonna be good. very exciting! great cinematography. (and unreleased Fleet Foxes on the soundtrack?). also check the site.
  • Phil Coffman on Neill Blomkamp's District 9
    District 9 is a raw and gritty cgi filled movie about aliens moving into the slums of Soweto, based on the short film Alive in Joburg. The movie is produced by Peter Jackson and is one of his marquee non-directing projects, so the story should be killer. Mix that with Blomkamp's visual style and a heavy dose of politics, weaponization, alien metaphors, poverty, and ecological issues and you have one f*cking good movie. If this movie isn't good, I'll eat my surfboard. Incidentally, Blomkamp was supposed to direct Halo 3, before the studio put the kibosh on it.
  • Honda Ruckus | Uncrate
    put a surfboard carrier on this "urban scooter", and I am good to go. 1.5 gallon fill up and at 2,000 bucks this thing costs less than a new computer. and how dope is the style?! semi-matte black. i'll take one, please.
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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 25th

By Ed Fladung | March 25, 2009
  • U.S. to blame for much of Mexico violence: Clinton | Reuters
    damn. Hillary speaks to the truth of the matter: Mexico's drug violence is a direct result of American's voracious appetite for illegal drugs. So when people like Glenn Beck knock Mexico, it's kinda like saying "why aren't you doing anything about this massive problem we're creating for you?"
  • Apple – Movie Trailers – "Where the Wild Things Are" in HD
    i've never been this excited for a trailer. and the movie looks so good! love the visual look of the film. total goosebumps.
  • Walk This Way: making the right choices to reduce your water footprint
    an awesomely illustrated infographic that visualizes your daily actions, your energy needs and the things you eat and how much water consumption they each use. Everything from toilets and showers to te, soda, meat and nuclear energy. Synopsis: try not to each so much beef and nuclear energy is a water suck.
  • Auto Tuning on Vimeo
    hilarious office video made by the folks at vimeo. these guys can make good short form clips. this one rips on autotune (that tech that helps singers sing better, or in Kanye West's case, helps him create new genres of music).
  • Simple elixir called a 'miracle liquid' – Los Angeles Times
    "It turns out that zapping salt water with low-voltage electricity creates a couple of powerful yet nontoxic cleaning agents. Sodium ions are converted into sodium hydroxide, an alkaline liquid that cleans and degreases like detergent, but without the scrubbing bubbles. Chloride ions become hypochlorous acid, a potent disinfectant known as acid water."
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Time, Love and Memory

By Ed Fladung | March 9, 2009

I’m been listening to the soundtrack for Wong Kar Wai’s 2046, which is the third movie in his informal trilogy of Days of Being Wild, In The Mood For Love and 2046 – a cinematic remembrance of the 60’s and a meditation on time, love and memory. If you haven’t seen these films, do yourself a favor: go out and buy the dvds. I try not to condone the unnecessary purchase of plastic discs encased in more plastic and wrapped in plastic and stickered with more plastic. But these films are worth it.

Wong Kar Wai is a true master.

Here’s the theme song from ‘In The Mood’: Yumeji’s Theme and bonus song from 2046: Adagio.

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SILENT LIGHT at Film Forum

By Ed Fladung | February 5, 2009

SILENT LIGHT at Film Forum in New York City

Hey fellow New Yorkers, one of my favorite films is playing at Film Forum right now, until Tues. Feb10th. I’ve written about SILENT LIGHT before, it’s set amongst the Mennonites in Chihuahua, Mexico, written and directed by Carlos Reygadas. Most of the film is dialogue-less, with long panning landscape shots and long, quiet interior shots. The movie starts with a near real time sunrise and ends with a real time sunset. Couldn’t be more awesome. I have no idea why this film isn’t nominated for a foreign film Oscar, my guess is that they couldn’t get a run in the US in 2008, so hopefully it will be up for an Oscar next year. This is exactly the kind of film that needs to be seen on a big screen, surrounded by people who can appreciate subtle beauty:

From the acclaimed, provocative director of JAPON and BATTLE IN HEAVEN. SILENT LIGHT begins with an unforgettable sequence – a slowly unfolding, time-lapse shot of daybreak over a rural Mexican Mennonite community, whose inhabitants speak an archaic form of German (Plautdietsch) and wear traditional attire. Johan (Cornelio Wall Fehr) is a married farmer who, against the laws of his faith and traditional beliefs, falls in love with another woman, Marianne (Maria Pankratz). His conflicted behavior threatens to destroy the soul of his wife, Esther (Miriam Toews). This tale of profound love and conscience casts a spell, evoking the eerie religious tones and rigor of Carl Theodor Dreyer.

and

“I was amazed by SILENT LIGHT – the setting, the language, the delicacy of the interactions between the people on screen, the drama of redemption. And most of all by Carlos Reygadas’s extraordinarily rich sense of cinema, evident in every frame. A surprising picture, and a very moving one as well.” – Martin Scorsese

NY Times review | official website | trailer

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Bookmarks for January 30th

By Ed Fladung | January 30, 2009
  • The Place We Live
    amazing web presentation of people talking about the neighborhoods they live in. really nicely done interactivity.
  • The Photo Marketplace That Never Launched: Flickr Stock
    awesome article with screenshots of Flickr Stock. I can't believe they torpedoed this project. so dumb. prolly the dumbest thing flickr has ever done – and I love Flickr. there must be some business reason behind it. like dealing with a million people trying to sell their dumb camera phone shots or royalty licensing or payments or something. The getty thing makes me a bit uneasy.
  • FlippingBook
    pretty nicely done flash page flipping thingy. something like 50 Euros.
  • :: The Playlist ::: Will Smith and Steven Spielberg remaking "Old Boy"
    "Spielberg and Smith were operating from the graphic novel source, which, without spoiling things, doesn't feature the absolutely demonic twist of the film, and is considered by manga fans to be significantly weaker than the movie it inspired. In other words, Smith and Spielberg are near-guaranteed to be ditching one of the greatest endings of any recent film in favor of a pedestrian chase story." – in case you haven't seen it, "Old Boy" has one of the rawest, most non-Hollywood endings of any movie I've ever seen. Great film, but definitely twisted.
  • the wonderful world of angie rex
    this blog is super nice for an occasional dose of visual art inspiration. it's curated by Sunshine Fox and has a fashion slant to it, but only slightly so. it's like peeking into where high-art fashion designers get their inspiration. i hope i didn't butcher that description. just got check it out. it's a nice change up.
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Dear & Yonder

By Ed Fladung | June 15, 2008

New homie John-the-irish-mexican turns me on to Allan Weisbecker and his wicked newsletter, who in turn, turns me on to:

Dear and Yonder, An Ocean Odyssey of the Female Kind. A new surf film coming out in ‘09. No trailer quite yet, but an impressive list of surfers are captured in celluloid, including Kassia Meador, Prue Jeffries and Sofia Mulanovich. And it’s directed by Tiffany Campbell (wife of one TMoe Campbell).

Could it have been Tiffany shooting Kassia that day, out at Burros, a few years back?

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