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Artisanal GIFs.
With broadband connections and high-definition YouTube and Hulu clips as prevalent as they are, why do people want to watch these relatively grainy, endlessly looping little videos? Part of the answer is that animated GIFs—soundless, coarsely textured, and powerless to describe complex color—appeal to an imperfection fetish like the one columnist Rob Walker recently discerned in the vogue for photographic technologies that simulate the degraded look of Super 8 film and Holga cameras. But the present-day GIF love goes beyond aesthetics and nostalgia. Animated GIFs aren’t just throwbacks—they’re uniquely suited to some very contemporary modes of cultural consumption, and they perform distinct functions that other formats can’t.
—Jonah Weiner
Three Frames deploys art memes. If We Don’t, Remember Me makes them poignant. From Me To You makes them sexy. I’ve been pinning my favorites, anticipating art.
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A continuation of habitable space.
Bridging the line between clothing and architecture, the spacesuit is a portable environment: a continuation of habitable space, safe for human beings, capable of radical detachment from the Earth.
Geoff Manaugh
Based on an interview with the author, I added Spacesuit: Fashioning Apollo to my wishlist.
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Scaffoldage.
I am now subscribing to Scaffoldage.
(via things magazine)
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You are listening to Los Angeles.
You are listening to Los Angeles is an astounding single-serving site. Technically, it’s a cloud-leveraged mashup of a SoundCloud file, LAPD streaming audio, Cabin typeface, and a Flickr photo. As an experience, it’s not unlike a Pandora station started by a fan of Heat.
Self-described in metadata as Ambient music and live LAPD police radio. What’s not to like? It could also work with the Jurassic Park theme slowed down 1000%.
(via BLDGBLOG)
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A Jeopardy drinking game.
(via Christina)
1. Pick a player (last night, it was Sara, since we were at her home).
2. Drink once every time they get a question right.
3. Drink twice every time they get a question wrong.
4. Waterfall when she gets a Daily Double. Start at the Daily Double sound effect, end when Alex deems the answer correct or incorrect.
Optional rules:
5. Having Dan’s knowledge of the categories, we also established a rule that we should drink once every time anyone said the word “Oprah.” Substitute with any word chosen before the show.
6. There is no number 6.
7. I wish I’d thought of this last night: drink every time someone answers with a person’s full name instead of last name only.
I never realized how long Daily Doubles were until I had to drink the entire length of two of them in a half-hour span.
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Urban light.
Why did I only now learn this existed? It’s on my itinerary next time I’m in Los Angeles.
(via GOOD)
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Monster movies.
A couple film-related nuggets I picked up on Clusterflock:
If LeBron James starred in Space Jam 2, he would leave the Toon Squad for the Monstars in the middle of the movie.
Via Clusterflock
“Let’s Enhance” is certainly a direct relative of “You Look Like Shit.”
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A web of yes.
via Kindra
I thought these two were related:
I’ve learned that the web has countless ways to say “no,” or to say “meh.” It has fewer ways to say “yes.” Readability looks like a way to say “yes” to people doing hard work—whether they’re journalists, essay and fiction writers, publishers, editors, fact-checkers, illustrators, photographers, proofreaders, circulation specialists—or the people who write the checks. The web needs more “yes.”
My persistent frustration with most web design is that it doesn’t give me what I want or, for that matter, what the site seems to want to give.
Google ads, tag clouds, and excessive hyperlinks litter the page, forcing type smaller and smaller just so it can “fit above the fold.” Or, worse, the tl;dr Tumblr crowd who present us with nothing but acontextual photos and clever sentences from the first paragraphs of The New Yorker articles in large, bold, sans-serif type.
Fuck the fold. And fuck tl;dr. I like scrolling, I like long reads, and I like large (enough) type.
In case you missed it:
- Kevin Kelly on the seeming inevitability of free Kindles, via kottke.
- Profile of Heather Armstrong of Dooce in the New York Times. Blogging is truly a different enterprise than it was ten years ago.
- I haven’t had a chance to watch the 50 greatest opening sequences of all-time, but I want to.
- Slate’s Farhad Manjoo calls Thunderbolt “the most amazing locomotive,” and not in a thoroughly sincere way. For what it’s worth, high-speed rail is a pretty appealing form of transit in Europe and Asia, and I for one wish it were more widely deployed throughout the States.
- The question isn’t whether or not to support post-production of Urbanized on Kickstarter, it’s whether to fork over the extra $25 for the Blu-Ray version of the box set to come.
- I haven’t read it yet, but God, isn’t this headline amazing? What Happens in Vagueness Stays in Vagueness (by Clark Whelton).
Recent viewing: I can’t more strongly recommend The 39 Steps, which we watched as part of the AFI Silver Theater’s Hitchcock Retrospective. Occasionally slapstick and often disorienting, the whole show is elliptical but rich, especially so for a sub-90 minute feature film.
I also recommend Inside Job. Though the tone gets pushy and the filmmakers do an uneven job of keeping all the facts in order, they are to be credited for getting at the deeper systematic causes of the 2008 financial crisis with an unusually strong indictment of higher education institutions – and perhaps it only seems strong because it is merely present.
Oh, and I have a working television at my residence for the first time in almost six years. What’s everyone doing for Oscar night?
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Savory jams.
You could say it all started last winter when, in preparation for being cooped up for days, I decided to make a meatloaf recipe that called for soffritto. I learned what it was and how to make it for this meatloaf – two parts red onion, one part carrot, one part celery, diced and caramelized in olive oil to a kind of oblivion. I achieved this in a cast iron skillet kept over low heat for around an hour. It smelled wonderful.
This winter, I made the meatloaf again and a little extra soffritto to have around the apartment. And I learned that it’s not all that different from mirepoix, the ingredients of which can be had prepared from Trader Joe’s, so I’ve started to make soffritto-style mirepoix a regular ingredient in my rotation. And having read a bit about Maillard reactions in McGee’s On Food and Cooking, I realized that onions responded to this method with a brilliant and deep caramelization.
So now then. Because there’s just soffrito-style mirepoix laying about, I’ve added it to my sandwiches, which in combination with mayonnaise has to be among the best condiments I’ve accidentally created*. The oil in the mirepoix drains into the mayonnaise, thinning it to the consistency of a dip, but then recombines with the vegetables to form a kind of indescribably aromatic paste – I imagine different proportions and varieties of mayonnaise would be suitable for different applications.
But this is all lead in for the revelation I had last weekend at Shing’s house on Monday:
Caramelized-onion bacon jam.
Cut up a few slices of bacon, pan fry them to a satisfactory crispness (but not too much). Remove the bacon, leave the fat. Put a finely diced onion in the pan. Flatten it out a bit, add oil if there isn’t enough bacon grease to cover the surface of the pan. Cook on low heat for an hour or so, until the onions are sweet and bronzed. Mix the cooked bacon and onions.
Top everything.
*I also accidentally combined sriracha ketchup and have since deployed it as a regular fried chicken topping.
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Not much else.
…certain brands, and bands, can so glammer the market that a mere 10 percent share is nothing short of ubiquitous. Apple is that good, Radiohead is, and not much else.
The Apple Of Rock
While I don’t buy the build-up completely, the payoff is astute. While there may be “not much else,” surely there is something seemingly ubiquitous, operating beyond its milieu, at a grander level of aesthetic criticism.
There is, right?
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In the kitchen.
Back from Houston, with a foundational chunk of literature review written and a substantial amount remaining this evening. In the meantime, I’d like to believe that on the other side of this kitchen is a refrigerator that would give Christina a hug.
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