Pinboard: bookmarks for saranrapjs tagged 'culture'

I love that that playing laser instruments is treated as an unquestionable given...each segment is uniquely perverse and unreal; it is difficult to choose a favorite (via binaryrobot)

surreal magazine ridiculous youtube video culture laser music
april 2008 by saranrapjs

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riaamix.com

promoting the inadvertent RIAA-produced remixes on file sharing services

noise sound art music culture corporate RIAA
january 2008 by saranrapjs

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I Can Has Rezearch Papar? by Cyle Gage

via binaryrobot

culture meme internet
january 2008 by saranrapjs

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YouTube - Northern Soul - This England

northern soul

soul dance britain music youtube video culture city
december 2007 by saranrapjs

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Giampietro+Smith: Writing

deconstructing two "black face" typefaces; via marisa olson

culture race typography politics design history aesthetic
october 2007 by saranrapjs

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770

from a while ago, photos of a widely copied jewish house design that originated in brooklyn

architecture culture judaism photography patterns
september 2007 by saranrapjs

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How Did Elvis Get Turned Into a Racist? - New York Times
elvis nytimes culture music race
august 2007 by saranrapjs

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The Laptop Who Came to Dinner

I am glad that someone came out and wrote this down, since it seems so surreptitiously commonplace now

culture technology via:gothamist
july 2007 by saranrapjs

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Wouldn't You Like to be a Pepper Too...

great generic dr. pepper links (riding the wave)

pop drinks generic culture
july 2007 by saranrapjs

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Generic citrus sodas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"Mountain Holler"

internetsleepover pop drinks culture
july 2007 by saranrapjs

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Usman Haque - I Hate Technology

usman haque on technology

usmanhaque technology art culture essay
july 2007 by saranrapjs

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Reason Magazine - Generation Dobler
later culture economics
july 2007 by saranrapjs

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Upgrading Jamaica's Cultural Shareware: Trojan Records at 40
dub reggae music later culture
july 2007 by saranrapjs

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Kilroy was here - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
culture graffiti later wikipedia doublehappiness
july 2007 by saranrapjs

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Visual communication crash course | creativebits

interesting notes on visual culture in the middle east

advertising culture design middle_east
july 2007 by saranrapjs

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A Reporter at Large: The Interpreter: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker

new yorker piece on the Piraha, a tribe who don't seem to exhibit recursion (an essential part of the minimalist program)

newyorker linguistics cognition language culture science longform piraha
july 2007 by saranrapjs

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double happiness » Blog Archive » Desktop Paralysis Exposé

nerd machismo

macos technology culture images doublehappiness
may 2007 by saranrapjs

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Sustainable Interaction Design

the idea of "re-direct practice," wherein artists awkwardly make things as outsiders in other insider disciplines

art theory architecture culture sustainability
may 2007 by saranrapjs

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The Morning News - Lawrence Weschler by Robert Birnbaum

great interview on things

interview literature culture humanities nyu
may 2007 by saranrapjs

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Cabinet Magazine Online - On Acronyms

I guess it was about abridgement, but here is an article about how Acronyms can lead to disinformation

words culture politics doublehappiness
may 2007 by saranrapjs

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Dennō Senshi Porygon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

pokémon episode which caused widespread seizures; "Japan's Fire Defense Agency reported that a total of 685 children (310 boys, 375 girls) were taken to hospitals by ambulances." (via deeper wizardishungry link)

wikipedia culture television tv health japan medicine science pokemon
may 2007 by saranrapjs

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Bill Watterson's Private Hell

hey Bennett, this is the specific meta-calvin-peeing I was referring to (I must have seen it on this site)

real_life copyright image culture
may 2007 by saranrapjs

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Jean-Christophe Bailly sur remue.net

walking as a grammatical act

theory writing culture later
may 2007 by saranrapjs

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19th century paris

some info here on french physiologies

later culture france
may 2007 by saranrapjs

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Chindōgu - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Chindōgu are sometimes described as 'unuseless' - that is, they cannot be regarded as 'useless' in an absolute sense, since they do actually solve a problem; however, in practical terms, they cannot positively be called 'useful'.

design culture technology tools wikipedia japan
may 2007 by saranrapjs

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collision detection: "Aesthletics", or, why don't people invent new sports? My latest Wired News gaming column

the development of new sports

later culture sports games
may 2007 by saranrapjs

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VnnMALL.com - Vietnamese Movies, Music, DVD, CD, Hai Kich, Cai Luong

vietnamese dvd images

dvds vietnam culture cinema music music_videos doublehappiness
may 2007 by saranrapjs

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Dave J: Legacy

my friend dave's cumulative paper titles...he is quite the will smith expert

friends cinema culture writing
april 2007 by saranrapjs

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village voice > music > Mims's "This Is Why I'm Hot": A Graphical Dissertation on America's Number One Song by Rob Harvilla

I thought this song was genuinely clever, if lazy (hotness as given as opposed to as proven) but this sardonic village voice article would tell you otherwise

criticism culture hiphop
april 2007 by saranrapjs

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bjork swan - Google Image Search

a cultural moment

images gallery culture
april 2007 by saranrapjs

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wayneandwax.com

ethnomusicology via mbs

music blog culture
march 2007 by saranrapjs

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U B U W E B :: Gene Youngblood

"Expanded Cinema"--started reading this in the real world, gotta finish it on the net

books video media theory culture
march 2007 by saranrapjs

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Down the Tube in a T-shirt - Conselle

There are many hilarious conclusions in this "analysis" of casualization: "we find an overabundance of fast-food chains, video arcades, and shoddy backstreet theaters presenting low-quality or questionable musical and theatrical performances."

fashion culture
march 2007 by saranrapjs

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D.A. from Law and Order (on television) courted as presidential candidate (real life)
law_and_order real_life culture politics tv
march 2007 by saranrapjs

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Eurozine - Articles

geert lovink on blogging as nihilism, internet cynicism via rsg

blogging theory technology psychology culture criticism
march 2007 by saranrapjs

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WTFCNN?
culture media news cnn cnn_headlines via:kottke
march 2007 by saranrapjs

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bubblegum machine

"If it features hand claps, cow bells, syrupy orchestration, walls of sound, wrecking crews, sha-la-las, toothy teen idols, candy-based metaphors for carnal acts or lyrics about hugging..."

music culture mp3 blog
january 2007 by saranrapjs

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RIAA: Dirt Bacharach

some interesting, non-standard mashups

music culture via:wfmu
january 2007 by saranrapjs

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The New Yorker: David Denby Film article

"Format always affects form, and the exhibition space changes what’s exhibited." Predictions for new cinema (business) come fast and furious

film cinema economics business media culture technology movies
january 2007 by saranrapjs

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The Morning News - The Omarosa Experiment by Keith Hollihan

In depth Reality TV analysis