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Bookmarks for January 9th

By Ed Fladung | January 9, 2010
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Bookmarks for September 29th

By Ed Fladung | September 29, 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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Delroy Wilson – In A Dancing Mood

By Ed Fladung | September 6, 2009

Just the fact that this moment in Jamaican music was caught on film is an amazing thing, but listen to Delroy’s voice, his inflections, his breathing is even melodic and hypnotic. This guy’s voice is charismatic. And a song this prolific, cut in one take in Prince Jammy’s bare-wall shed. classic.

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Justin Hines & The Dominoes

By Ed Fladung | August 31, 2009

file this under: shit I’m diggin’ not now but right now.

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New Kings Of Convenience

By Ed Fladung | August 2, 2009

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New Kings of Convenience. Awesome! The first song is called “Mrs Cold” and it’s everything you hope to hear from these guys. There’s a radio rip floating around the internets. The album is coming shortly, StereoGum has the skinny. Erlend and Erik sent this postcard out to friends on their mailing list, I guess. love it. It’s nice to hear new music from them, it’s been toooooo long.

oh, there’s also a few live shows up on youtube where they play most of the new album. can’t wait.

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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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The Wedge

By Ed Fladung | July 25, 2009

Video from yesterday’s swell hitting The Wedge in Newport, sent in by LA homie John B. He says that there were 12 foot sets at the HB pier and solid 20 foot sets the wedge. insane! Peep the video. The second to last ride is a fearless SUP border with a killer ride, dude deserves props for that.

Incidentally, John also says that a bodysurfer was literally thrown on to the rocks and lost his life. He was 50 years old (?!). Here’s an article. A moment of silence for our fallen brother…

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Bookmarks for July 4th

By Ed Fladung | July 4, 2009
  • The Great American Bubble Machine : Rolling Stone
    required reading for the 4th of July: "Goldman's role in the sweeping global disaster that was the housing bubble is not hard to trace. Here again, the basic trick was a decline in underwriting standards, although in this case the standards weren't in IPOs but in mortgages. By now almost everyone knows that for decades mortgage dealers insisted that home buyers be able to produce a down payment of 10 percent or more, show a steady income and good credit rating, and possess a real first and last name. Then, at the dawn of the new millennium, they suddenly threw all that shit out the window and started writing mortgages on the backs of napkins to cocktail waitresses and ex-cons carrying five bucks and a Snickers bar."
  • Surreality Only Beginning | TPM
    please file this under "batshit crazy": "It looks like a duck and quacks like a duck. Either Palin is resigning ahead of some titanic scandal (which should emerge in short order if it exists) or her resignation was triggered by an even more extreme mental instability than we'd previously suspected."
  • Travelling Surf Enforcer for Hire (Windandsea to O'side Harbor)
    What I'm selling here is one week of regulation at your break. This includes intimidation and violence against the donkeys sporting SUP's, sponges, Stewart longboards, and funboards…. (via @surfysurfy)
  • Ruins of the Second Gilded Age – The New York Times
    Photo essay with captions by Edgar Martins documenting the recent real estate bust in the United States. "People are present in these images, bit not physically. You trace their action, the destruction they left behind." – amazing.
  • "Nearest Tube" Augmented Reality App for iPhone
    We've been hearing a lot about "augmented reality". Here is a perfect video example of how "augmented reality" will help your daily life. think of this as an simple version of how this concept will change our lives in the future.
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Bookmarks for July 1st

By Ed Fladung | July 1, 2009
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Bookmarks for June 23rd

By Ed Fladung | June 23, 2009
  • SHANE LAVALETTE / JOURNAL
    Lavalette is a wicked photographer and independent publisher of a fine-art photography zine called Lay Flat. His blog is mostly about photography, fine art and self-publishing. a great resource and seriously inspirational.
  • YouTube – BooneOakley.com – Home Page
    BooneOakley, a relatively small new ad agency, doesn't have a website. they put their whole site on YouTube. the whole site is in video, scribbled with a dry, hilarious, well-written voice-over. awesome!
  • mañanarama: luz del mundo
    awesome post on the atrocious church architecture of scientology-esque Mexican corporatocratic religion called "Luz del Mundo" or "Light of the World".
  • Urban Outfitters LSTN
    Urban Outfitters has a pretty cool music download thingy happening on their site. it's called "LSTN" and each volume has over 20 free tracks packaged individually (versus dl'ing as a mix). Tons of great artists and there are 5 volumes already. time to find some new music…. Incidentally, why iz everyone hatin' on vowels?
  • beck :: "sunday morning" (velvet underground & nico cover)
    Beck is insane! He has a new feature on his site called "Record Club". Where he and musician friends of his including Devendra Barnhart record covers of classic songs. The records are to be very minimal in production and done in under a day from start to finish with little to no rehearsal. Awesome idea! The first song to come out of Record Club is Beck's cover of "Sunday Morning (Velvet Underground & Nico). and I gotta say it's probably my most favorite VU cover ever. Beck kills it.
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Bookmarks for June 18th

By Ed Fladung | June 18, 2009
  • How to Quiet Your Mind | Think Simple Now
    quick tutorial on quieting the internal chatter that ruins your peace of mind: "If you observe our problems, you will notice that most problems are rooted in the mind. The basic premise is the same: some external event happens, we choose to see only one side of the story, and then interpret the situation such that it causes some form of mental conflict, resulting in some form of emotional suffering." [via @nybe]
  • Know your type: Futura: idsgn (a design blog)
    The "Know your type" series is for all of you aspiring typography nerds that haven't reached "nerd" status quite yet. you know you love type, but you don't know why. Futura is the first in the series. You may have seen Futura from Stanley Kubrick and Wes Anderson movies. It was also the first and only font on the moon.
  • Fever° Red hot. Well read.
    damn! for those of you that are heavy RSS readers, this is a new hosted RSS reader application called "Fever", from Shaun Inman, creator of Mint. Fever rethinks how you group rss feeds and does away with "information glut, un-read item guilt and un-Bold elbow", basically your rss reading experience no longer has to be primarily about changing feeds from unread to read, you don't ever have to worry about that little unread count ever again. awesome idea.
  • Clay Shirky: How Cellphones, Twitter, Facebook Can Make History [VIDEO]
    must watch! – While filmed in May, his points are brought into sharp focus by recent developments in Iran (see #iranelection), as social media tools prove their power to change the world. Shirky explains: “Media is increasingly less just a source of information; it’s increasingly more a site of co-ordination, because groups that see or hear or watch or listen to something can now gather around and talk to each other as well…members of the former audience can now also be producers and not consumers.” [ via @jdotsmith]
  • Moray Eel eats Thumb | quietube
    this week on "that's fucking amazing": Diver messes with Green Moray Eel and gets thumb bitten off. Thai doctors create new thumb from toe and it works!
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Bookmarks for June 15th

By Ed Fladung | June 15, 2009
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Bookmarks for February 24th

By Ed Fladung | February 24, 2009
  • cody simpkins & gato heroi | video
    really nice video of cody simpkins rocking a gato heroi. the soundtrack is worth it alone. the surfing is stellar. if there was a bar that projected this video on to a large wall and put it on repeat all night, well, I'd go to that bar. and not talk to anyone. just sip my drink and watch this.
  • Your Mom's In My Business: A New Show By Kevin Lyons | Kitsune Noir has photos of a Kevin Lyons show from last year. Amazing show. Kevin combines nerdy new york intellectualism with hip-hop and reggae vernacular and lyrics. The results are hilarious. Dude has a *good* sense of humor. Kevin, if you're reading this: I got a new copy of that Beatsie Shake Your Rump 12 inch, after I played yours out. I'm sorry, you can have the new one, 10 years is better than never.
  • YouTube – Did You Know?
    the progression of information technology. great animated statistical presentation on how fast the world is either growing or getting smaller, depending on how you see a thing. one thing is certain: the American Empire is most certainly now over. Hat tip to Josh and Jocelyn
  • iamnatasha
    now this is a slick resumé site. so miminal yet so nice. the scaffolding content is beautagious. designed by Eli Horne the king of "scaffolding" content.
  • YouTube – Joaquin Phoenix Odd Letterman appearance – 02/11/2009
    absolutely hilarious interview. Joaquin is reverberating at a completely different wavelength than the required wavelength for being interviewed on a tv program. i understand why he seems so out of it. He just refuses to change his wavelength. good for him.
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