January 2010
25 posts
“This year, I will work with Congress and our military to finally repeal the law...”
– President Barack Obama
“Consulted this app, while trapped under Hotel Montana in Haiti earthquake, to...”
– iPhone user Webguydan’s Review of the app Pocket First Aid & CPR which helped save his life this week in Haiti.
Best. Advertisment. Ever.
Article here.
WatchRethinking Scholarship
This video is to help promote a two-year fully paid $18,000 scholarship for aspiring designers and art directors. They are asked to fill a sketchbook in any way they want, or take it apart and rebuild it into something totally different.”
More info and past videos at rethinkscholarship.com.
via Chad Kouri at The Post Family
Thanks to keeptheballrolling for posting this!
WatchThe Vice Guide to Travel: Liberia
I have always love VBS.tv. These new Liberia episodes are intense.
While Liberia’s former president Charles Taylor’s trial for war crimes and sundry other atrocities continues at the Hague, the ex warlords of Liberia remain in their native country. Some are harassed by cops; others are hunted by vengeful gangs. The lucky few still maintain control over some...
WatchThe EyeWriter is “a low-cost eye-tracking apparatus & custom software that allows graffiti writers and artists with paralysis resulting from Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis to draw using only their eyes.”
I have been following the GRL project to help Tony Quan, aka TEMPTONE, tag again since the beginning and, it still gets me every time I think about it. Such an incredible use of...
“What is needed is a realization that power without love is reckless and abusive,...”
– Martin Luther King Jr., “Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?”, 1967 (via soupsoup)
Come Fly With Me...
The airport near me is notorious for horrible prices but, they have a great deal going this month. Book by the 27th and fly to any of the above cities for roughly $200! This, combined with no longer being tied to textbooks and accounting homework, makes my wallet tremble and the vagabond within scream. Flights have to be taken by the 10th of March.
So where should I go? I bolded my short list....
“I have just had an escapade. Got a f*ck and a suck in a Mexican hoar-house for...”
– JFK, letter to friend Lem Billings, May 1936
I mean, wow. Imagine if there had been a TMZ Telegraph Company in the 1950’s and ’60s. No one would have ever gotten elected!
Vampire Weekend - Giving Up the Gun
Best song...
WatchFraternity by Richard Mosse
This video was shot at Yale University’s infamous DKE fraternity house. The brothers agreed to participate in exchange for a keg of (presumably) natty ice. All they had to do was scream. Scream like animals. They had to scream until they couldn’t any longer. Then they stopped.
This video is so deceptively intense. The last few bros’ ferocity and damn...
WatchMy dad saying FU to Mother Nature. When he wants steak, he will have steak, blizzard be damned!