September 2010
41 posts
Hot Tang Redesign
via The Dieline
Ah yes, I remember the days of drinking Tang after school, and occasionally spiking it in college. I would prefer more of an homage to the orangutang, the kind that makes me think, we are not so different, you and i. we both enjoy tart, sugary orange drink.
WatchDan Huiting and the MPLS.TV crew made this in only 2 days.
mplstv:
City of Music: Gayngs
Idiot Quest Taste Explosion and Memories
My hilarious friend Jason wrote a blog post about a night we made stir-fry at his house. I did not remember that this happened. Looks like fun. Also, it reminded me how much I love his bf Jordan.
Sometimes Jordan likes things on Facebook and I laugh.
i also don’t remember buying Twizzlers, but whatever. That’s a hilarious picture of me.
Also sometimes Facebook summarizes my...
Tao Lin - "Richard Yates"
I finished “Richard Yates” by Tao Lin, and I’ll share some talking points.
1. Richard Yates, Dakota Fanning and Haley Joel Osment
Ah, a novel named after the author of book-turned-reunion-of-Titanic-lovers film “Revolutionary Road,” starring two child actors whose respective puberties are attractive enough to keep them relevant. Most hip books need a gimmick, and...
i’m going to enter another story contest now, upon the suggestion of my former editor Michael. maybe i’ll win all kinds of money and fame. but most likely i will not.
a fun fact: 96% of people who say they are “writers” really suck at writing. always fear that you are one of them.
other fun facts:
i’ve never had a nosebleed
johnny lang is not my brother
S.O.S.
“Designed by Turkish designer Tamer Köşeli ”I got bored from sauce packages all around me in Turkey. I want to create more enjoyable and sustainable package. I designed them as a toy with baby pacifier in its mouth.”
-via The Dieline
Menganito
“In Spain when somebody doesn’t know the name of someone we say that he is Menganito, or when we talk about some person in general. That’s why we used a portrait of a fresh and young person hidding his face as an anonimous person. “
-The Dieline
moodboard
by thegoodok
becky book club
“She seemed okay with Ana,” said Dakota Fanning. “I keep staring at Richard Yates’ face on the back of The Easter Parade but not having any reaction to it. Just looking.” Haley Joel Osment said “Party girl” which was a term they had for people who did not speak in a quiet monotone and were not severely detached. Inanimate objects and situations and animals and boys could also be party girls....
About that Best Coast review
(photo by Eric Hess, City Pages)
I’ve been asked to respond to this, presumably because of my special knack for snark smackdown, and maybe also cuz I like Best Coast and did indeed go to their show at the Triple Rock.
Here’s the excerpt that probably made a bunch of kids annoyed at some guy named Jon Schober, one of the fleet of people willing to write a City Pages blog post for...
The Lokoettes
Yes people do hide drugs in their orifices
I think this is a good thing to explain to children at a young age so they can understand the important contrasts in life, like between sobriety and the many messy ways to leave reality.
Lorem Ipsum: the source of dummy text
Apparently dummy text is a slightly scrambled version of this text from Cicero:
In English: (1914 translation by H. Rackham)
But I must explain to you how all this mistaken idea of denouncing pleasure and praising pain was born and I will give you a complete account of the system, and expound the actual teachings of the great explorer of the truth, the master-builder of human happiness. No...
Halski Studio
Halski Studio
Play Condoms
More at The Dieline
how people write about dating people
agrammar:
I think the crux of most relationships is less about broad types of people and more about issues like “you talk slightly faster than I form responses” and “you have ideas about where we should eat and I don’t really care” and so on. Also one that gets me is that some people are really into arch, coy, television-style banter, and some people are not, and you need a workable match on...
moodboard
had a big crazy oven fire in my house the other day. now we all smell barbecued.
A.J. Fosik
Cardboard Cameras
Chinese Bikers
Buffalo Poontang: the hipster manifesto →
buffalopoontang:
of course it’s blogged, headlined in lower case, and with no real focus
So, at the house show we played in Oakland I was called a hipster. Nothing new - I’ve been called a hipster before, and it’s probably because I am a hipster. But this time it was different. Prior to Oakland (especially…
juicebox
skipped a movie to lay in bed and make cubic snack art.
i think i’ll give this one a deep name: “can you change your subconscious?”
City of Music Screening
This Friday at Red Stag Supperclub. Here’s the actual poster I made and here’s a link about the event. Yes I dooo plan to be there.
tuned
“Tuned Pale Ale is a product by Philadelphia based designers Matt Braun and Chris Mufalli that explores the musical affordances in everyday objects and promotes social spontaneity. While drinking beer, people become musically encouraged and often start making start making music with objects around them. This product aims to promote more of this type of social interaction. Tuned Pale Ale...
4 loko
playing with cubes and drop shadows to make a new 4 loko logo. not what i set out to do, but i’m in a cubey mood.
“it makes bums go crazy!”
new age burger
i decided to try to make a crazy flying cubic burger while designing a flier for mpls.tv
i haven’t been that artistic lately cuz i’m all busy.
hipster watch
i’m basically copying l’etoile’s Weekend Twitterings, but just about my own friends, or people who i know sorta kinda but stalk anyway.
rapey
that was me
your life is like “beauty and the beast”
can you talk TO jihad? nvm, the point is that ula is a terrorist.
that was me
kara’s going to be brald (blonde/bald)
nerd alert
sohail gets artsy...
BIRTHDAY
Today is my 23rd birthday. The best present I got was a new nephew, who was born yesterday afternoon. His name is Levi Quentin Smith. That’s my sister’s new picket fence family.
More American English Online
I put up a new post on my English language blog.
This is part of AT&T’s No Txting and Driving campaign. I saw it flashing around on my tv and thought, do they really have to be all cute about it by getting rid of that “e?” It’s like, “You have to listen to us, because we are savvy. We know you. We know your habit of “e” elimination.”
But linguistically, what is happening here?
Another...
SE Como "Free Store" needs donations →
freshmn:
A combination of positive press from the Star Tribune, neighborhood word-of-mouth, and the state of the economy has all but overrun our MIMO (Move-in/Move-out) neighborhood free store. This is a temporary “store” set up inside the UofM Reuse Warehouse at 883 29th Ave Se. We had a decent amount of inventory at the start of this 10 day event on Tuesday from neighborhood donations, but...
hair by drunk jason
today i celebrate my birth.
