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Frightened Rabbit - The Modern Leper

dancewiththegeeks:

Frightened Rabbit~The Modern Leper

Is that you in front of me?
Coming back for even more of exactly the same
You must be a masochist to love a modern leper

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lickypickystickyfree: This is one of Rodrigo Alonso’s stools. It’s part of a series of furniture called N+ew, which stands for “No More Electronic Waste,” the Chilean artist felt the best way to dispose of electronic gadgetry that had fallen by the wayside, was to encase it in epoxy resin and sell it to aesthetes worldwide. The collection has a rare, distinct beauty that recalls Mies van der Rohe’s Barcelona chair and Arne Jacobsen’s No. 7 seat.

lickypickystickyfree:

This is one of Rodrigo Alonso’s stools. It’s part of a series of furniture called N+ew, which stands for “No More Electronic Waste,” the Chilean artist felt the best way to dispose of electronic gadgetry that had fallen by the wayside, was to encase it in epoxy resin and sell it to aesthetes worldwide.

The collection has a rare, distinct beauty that recalls Mies van der Rohe’s Barcelona chair and Arne Jacobsen’s No. 7 seat.

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wired: [via theatlantic]: In Focus: Kim Jong Un Looking at Things Like father, like son. Since the recent death of Kim Jong Il, North Korean state-run media has been releasing a series of images of the “Great Successor,” Kim Jong Un, visiting schools, factories, and military facilities. These visits, which were frequently publicized by his father and his grandfather Kim Il Sung, are called “field guidance” trips — opportunities for the supreme leader to give on-the-spot advice. Based on the state-released photos in this collection, he is following closely in his father’s footsteps, albeit with a touch more visible affection. See more. [Image: Reuters/KCNA] THE LEGEND LIVES ON!

wired:

[via theatlantic]:

In Focus: Kim Jong Un Looking at Things

Like father, like son. Since the recent death of Kim Jong Il, North Korean state-run media has been releasing a series of images of the “Great Successor,” Kim Jong Un, visiting schools, factories, and military facilities. These visits, which were frequently publicized by his father and his grandfather Kim Il Sung, are called “field guidance” trips — opportunities for the supreme leader to give on-the-spot advice. Based on the state-released photos in this collection, he is following closely in his father’s footsteps, albeit with a touch more visible affection. See more.

[Image: Reuters/KCNA]


THE LEGEND LIVES ON!

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Creativity isn’t magic. It starts out simply enough — you’re copying and then you’re fiddling with whatever you’ve copied, and then you’re merging whatever you copied with something else. It’s only over time, with years of practice, that you start to get results that are breakthrough.
Kirby Ferguson, creator of “Everything is a Remix,” quoted in a CNN piece on DJ Spooky (Kirby and I are hosting a panel at SXSW this March)

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Cursive
Wowowow

indierawk:

Cursive - Wowowow.

New song via Stereogum, with a free download. Where ya, been guys?

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I tend to take this latest development as a kind of eager confirmation that they are still apparently dependent on ideas that I had 25 years ago.

ALAN MOORE, on DC’s launch ofSEVEN WATCHMEN PREQUELS (via wilwheaton)

Yup.