Pinboard: bookmarks for ignatz tagged 'culture'

So: rising in social class through the use of labor and capital. Sticking together as a family. And the struggle for black identity in America. If I had to capture the opposite of those three concepts in a single symbol, it’d be a North Carolina hipster playing a trombone on his iPhone.

culture doh failure politics popculture race usa
august 2009 by ignatz

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Skeuomorph

"a derivative object which retains ornamental design cues to structure that was necessary in the original"

art termsofart terminology meta culture
june 2009 by ignatz

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Sisyphus Office Exhibition, Houston 2009. on the Behance Network

Art done at and about work. I WILL CONTINUE TO MICROWAVE HALIBUT...

art culture officelife exhibition ha
june 2009 by ignatz

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Cultural Dictionary of Punk

promising, a big historical collection of punk stuff

punk history reference music culture
june 2009 by ignatz

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American Airlines Web Site: The Product of a Self-Defeating Design Process | Design & Innovation | Fast Company

one perspective on why big corporate websites are useless and painful

design failure culture commerce usa
june 2009 by ignatz

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Hot Stuff in a Squeeze Bottle - NYTimes.com
via:deusx food chilis hotsauce usa spices culture
may 2009 by ignatz

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Google Street View blurs face of Colonel Sanders at every KFC - Telegraph

"The company says it took the decision because he is 'a real person' - despite him passing away in December 1980 aged 90."

via:regine ha kfc advertising privacy google googlestreetview geo culture mapping
may 2009 by ignatz

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Look at this fucking hipster

photos of jerks, annotated. fish, barrel, blam.

photography blog culture fashion mockery hipsters has
april 2009 by ignatz

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Jesus People

Waiting For Guffman meets The Office meets every Christian music ministry ever.

christianity churchianity ha religion culture popculture usa movies film via:positivejeff
april 2009 by ignatz

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The No Cussing Club Let's Chill on all the Profanity, Cursing, Swearing, and Cussing

Ya Wanna Hang with Us? Don't Cuss!

wtf culture language curses cussing foullanguage
march 2009 by ignatz

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Nick Cohen: Why the Tate's posing curator is so passé | Comment is free | The Observer

Yet even the most tolerant journalist would be hard-pressed to deny that Bourriaud is the type of French intellectual who makes the English wish the Channel was a thousand miles wide.

art culture via:regine criticism london tategallery
march 2009 by ignatz

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Girls force-fed for marriage as old traditions take grip in west Africa | World news | The Observer

Campaigners in Mauritania accuse the new military regime of turning a blind eye to a cult of obesity among young girls being groomed for suitors

sex culture via:regine gender bodyimage beauty mauritania
march 2009 by ignatz

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Notional Slurry » Personal brand: red hot, with a smell of burnt flesh

Branding is not for people. Branding is for cattle. Branding is for slaves. Do you imagine it’s a coincidence that branding is for property?

failure culture via:britta marketing business newspeak
february 2009 by ignatz

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Principles of the American Cargo Cult

list of bad thinking, some of it particularly American

curmudegon usa failure cognition culture society trainwreck grumpy
february 2009 by ignatz

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Orwell: Politics and the English Language

Read this at least quarterly to remind yourself of what you're exposed to every day.

politics culture writing orwell language english
january 2009 by ignatz

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Pinakothek
art blog culture literature lucsante
january 2009 by ignatz

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Donkeylicious: Nigerian Weregoats And Malaysian Weretigers

men who accidently get caught in tiger traps are often regarded with great suspicion, because of concern that they may be weretigers.

religion culture law magic
january 2009 by ignatz

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Thomas Kinkade's 16 Guidelines for Making Stuff Suck: Culture and Celebrity: vanityfair.com

our foremost painter of light has guidelines on how to make movies

art film ha kinkade culture failure
november 2008 by ignatz

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If Charlie Parker Was a Gunslinger, There'd Be a Whole Lot of Dead Copycats
blog art culture photography retro popculture
october 2008 by ignatz

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BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | NZ judge orders 'odd' name change
news bbc culture names ha
july 2008 by ignatz

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A mind dismembered: In search of the magical penis thieves—By Frank Bures (Harper's Magazine)

You might be Nigerian if you say: "Where's my penis at?"

psychology culture society sorcery failure doh ha genitalia penis
july 2008 by ignatz

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Clay Shirky on how TV sitcoms are analogous to gin

Television isn't gin, nerds shouldn't be allowed to use analogies without supervision, and people who did a thing with a computer once are not universal experts. SHUT UP.

internet pundit failure television tv alcohol gin history analogies hardware culture no shutup solarlander
may 2008 by ignatz

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webs of influence :: hyperexperience

timelines/evolutionary diagrams of various art, culture, tech phenomena

art history culture maps timelines webofinfluence
march 2008 by ignatz

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Lapham's Quarterly
magazine blogs periodicals lewislapham literature art culture quarterly
february 2008 by ignatz

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Who wears the pants? - Opinion

"Modesty is essential to feminine virtue, and the lack thereof implies a state of whorification... The androgynous masculinization of the modern woman...has led to the slow whorification of ladyhood."

via:ethan_t_hein wtf politics gender no usa culture
january 2008 by ignatz

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substitute: Not in the stars, but in ourselves

Please don't be prescientific; you'll die.