Scrapertown from California is a place. on Vimeo.
this vid documents the scraper bike phenomenon in oakland, CA. scraper bikes are basically tricked out bikes that kids decorate themselves and ride around. sick as.
5.27.2010
scraperbikes
this vid documents the scraper bike phenomenon in oakland, CA. scraper bikes are basically tricked out bikes that kids decorate themselves and ride around. sick as.
let's colour!
super cool video shot over 4 weeks in brazil, london, india, and france. all real people, all real shots, all using a palette of 120 different colours.
5.22.2010
anthem(s) du jour: the i'm fucking old edition
it seems like it was just a week ago that i was still in college. maybe that's because it WAS just a week ago that i was still in college. but let me tell you, a week goes a long way...not only have i been forcing myself to wake up between 8 and 9 am every day (adult), but i've been eating all healthy foods (also adult) with NO chinese food for the last FIVE days (a record). i've also been watching aljazeera, taking french lessons, FLOSSING MY TEETH?!?!, and getting to sleep at a reasonable hour. what is my life? my new and boring life? i don't know what to make of it. ordinarily i'd be posting beatz and bleepz, but i am too lazy to peruse hype machine today. hence these two tracks might be a little subdued, but you know what? it's all in the title. i'm fucking old.
5.13.2010
5.12.2010
5.11.2010
throw back...
so ever since school has stopped and my real life has not started, my friends and i have found ourselves with more free time than we know what to do with. so, i've been scouring the internets to find television shows worthy of my mindless watching. anybody remember rich girls? so so so so so so so good. the youtube quality is not so fantastique, but what can you do? pour vous (i think it should just continue into the next video since it's a playlist, but otherwise look it up. it's worth the hassle.):
5.10.2010
the soundtrack to melting
we've been pretty lucky up here in ohio for the last few days...the weather has been kind of cold, temps ranging from fifty to seventy-five degrees. that's exactly the kind of weather i thrive in. but i know the heat wave can only be avoided a little longer, especially since i'm returning to the humidity of dc in a week. so, in preparation for summer, i've decided to construct a little playlist that i like to call "the soundtrack to melting". because that's exactly what these songs sound like, and that's exactly what i'll be doing for the next few months. unless of course by some miracle i return to buenos aires sometime soon...yeah right...anyway, here's my musical interpretation of melting:
feel it all around-washed out
beach comber-real estate
to the lighthouse-memoryhouse
asleep at the trigger-autolux
kenya dig it?-the ruby suns
i keep waiting-hacienda
terminally chill-neon indian
blessa-toro y moi
dream shake-cool world
sunshine lover-small
coastal brake-tycho
ps you can (i think) download the whole playlist here: the soundtrack to melting
feel it all around-washed out
beach comber-real estate
to the lighthouse-memoryhouse
asleep at the trigger-autolux
kenya dig it?-the ruby suns
i keep waiting-hacienda
terminally chill-neon indian
blessa-toro y moi
dream shake-cool world
sunshine lover-small
coastal brake-tycho
ps you can (i think) download the whole playlist here: the soundtrack to melting
5.09.2010
maybe it's the alcohol talking...
...but i really love this nike commercial. i don't know if i'm supposed to have seen it already, but i haven't until right now. it's so good!
5.04.2010
otra cosa mariposa
happy cinco de mayo betches...in accordance with my usual procrastination routine, i've decided to construct a little playlist for you to disfrutar (that means 'enjoy' in spanish). ps, i realize that not all of these trax are technically from mexico, but they will still add a little latin flare to your day. averaveraver:
eres para mi (sonidero nacional cumbow rmx)-julieta venegas
en la cumbia (dj stuart mashup)-dante vs calle 13
kibose-maria y jose
la burrita-los macuanos
muchachita de chiclayo-hijosnietos
fiesta permanente-pau y amigos
bienvenidos-systema solar
por medio de la lectura-los amparito
and also, here is the opening to my very favourite mexican telenovela. or, it was my favourite until i found out that they stole it from argentina, whose original version is wayyyyy mejor. fun fact: i used to fake sick to get out of high school early so i could watch this show at 3 every day. ahhh the benefits of mononucleosis. and yes, i can still sing all the lyrics to this song. why was this show so great? it's basically a fantastic mashup of degrassi and high school musical. so good. you should try watching it if you speak spanish. or even if you don't, the popular characters frequently bust out english to prove that they are better than everyone else. a+++++.
and finally, i would like to give a shout out to chepe, the best remis driver in all of buenos aires, wherever he is. did he make several passes at me during the span of the drive from EZE to bsas? yes. was the conversation mostly inappropriate? also yes. was my mom in the back of the car with my sister the entire time, thinking that i was great at spanish and that he was the nicest old man ever but still wary that he was going to sell us into white slavery? also yes. but i chalk all of this up to him being a lonely mexican in a world filled with argentines. argentines who he judged the shit out of. would i ever agree to call him to get coffee like he requested? no, not even in the loneliest of times. but i liked his mustache, and i liked his style. i salute you sir.
eres para mi (sonidero nacional cumbow rmx)-julieta venegas
en la cumbia (dj stuart mashup)-dante vs calle 13
kibose-maria y jose
la burrita-los macuanos
muchachita de chiclayo-hijosnietos
fiesta permanente-pau y amigos
bienvenidos-systema solar
por medio de la lectura-los amparito
and also, here is the opening to my very favourite mexican telenovela. or, it was my favourite until i found out that they stole it from argentina, whose original version is wayyyyy mejor. fun fact: i used to fake sick to get out of high school early so i could watch this show at 3 every day. ahhh the benefits of mononucleosis. and yes, i can still sing all the lyrics to this song. why was this show so great? it's basically a fantastic mashup of degrassi and high school musical. so good. you should try watching it if you speak spanish. or even if you don't, the popular characters frequently bust out english to prove that they are better than everyone else. a+++++.
and finally, i would like to give a shout out to chepe, the best remis driver in all of buenos aires, wherever he is. did he make several passes at me during the span of the drive from EZE to bsas? yes. was the conversation mostly inappropriate? also yes. was my mom in the back of the car with my sister the entire time, thinking that i was great at spanish and that he was the nicest old man ever but still wary that he was going to sell us into white slavery? also yes. but i chalk all of this up to him being a lonely mexican in a world filled with argentines. argentines who he judged the shit out of. would i ever agree to call him to get coffee like he requested? no, not even in the loneliest of times. but i liked his mustache, and i liked his style. i salute you sir.
anthem du jour
so you may have noticed by now that i really like remixes of william fitzsimmons. i'm mostly referring to the george raquet remix of 'i don't feel it anymore', but if there were more remixed versions of his other songs i'm sure i'd be a fan. so here is the pink ganter remix of 'so this is goodbye', available free for download on rcrdlbl.
5.03.2010
5.01.2010
a breakdown of polisci
more or less what i've learned the past four years...
FEUDALISM: You have two cows. Your lord takes some of the milk.
PURE SOCIALISM: You have two cows. The government takes them and puts them in a barn with everyone else’s cows. You have to take care of all of the cows. The government gives you as much milk as you need.
BUREAUCRATIC SOCIALISM: You have two cows. The government takes them and put them in a barn with everyone else’s cows. They are cared for by ex-chicken farmers. You have to take care of the chickens the government took from the chicken farmers. The government gives you as much milk and eggs as the regulations say you need.
FASCISM: You have two cows. The government takes both, hires you to take care of them and sells you the milk.
PURE COMMUNISM: You have two cows. Your neighbors help you take care of them, and you all share the milk.
RUSSIAN COMMUNISM: You have two cows. You have to take care of them, but the government takes all the milk.
CAMBODIAN COMMUNISM: You have two cows. The government takes both of them and shoots you.
DICTATORSHIP: You have two cows. The government takes both and drafts you.
PURE DEMOCRACY: You have two cows. Your neighbors decide who gets the milk.
REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY: You have two cows. Your neighbors pick someone to tell you who gets the milk.
BUREAUCRACY: You have two cows. At first the government regulates what you can feed them and when you can milk them. Then it pays you not to milk them. Then it takes both, shoots one, milks the other and pours the milk down the drain. Then it requires you to fill out forms accounting for the missing cows.
PURE ANARCHY: You have two cows. Either you sell the milk at a fair price or your neighbors try to take the cows and kill you.
LIBERTARIAN/ANARCHO-CAPITALISM: You have two cows. You sell one and buy a bull.
SURREALISM: You have two giraffes. The government requires you to take harmonica lessons.
FEUDALISM: You have two cows. Your lord takes some of the milk.
PURE SOCIALISM: You have two cows. The government takes them and puts them in a barn with everyone else’s cows. You have to take care of all of the cows. The government gives you as much milk as you need.
BUREAUCRATIC SOCIALISM: You have two cows. The government takes them and put them in a barn with everyone else’s cows. They are cared for by ex-chicken farmers. You have to take care of the chickens the government took from the chicken farmers. The government gives you as much milk and eggs as the regulations say you need.
FASCISM: You have two cows. The government takes both, hires you to take care of them and sells you the milk.
PURE COMMUNISM: You have two cows. Your neighbors help you take care of them, and you all share the milk.
RUSSIAN COMMUNISM: You have two cows. You have to take care of them, but the government takes all the milk.
CAMBODIAN COMMUNISM: You have two cows. The government takes both of them and shoots you.
DICTATORSHIP: You have two cows. The government takes both and drafts you.
PURE DEMOCRACY: You have two cows. Your neighbors decide who gets the milk.
REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY: You have two cows. Your neighbors pick someone to tell you who gets the milk.
BUREAUCRACY: You have two cows. At first the government regulates what you can feed them and when you can milk them. Then it pays you not to milk them. Then it takes both, shoots one, milks the other and pours the milk down the drain. Then it requires you to fill out forms accounting for the missing cows.
PURE ANARCHY: You have two cows. Either you sell the milk at a fair price or your neighbors try to take the cows and kill you.
LIBERTARIAN/ANARCHO-CAPITALISM: You have two cows. You sell one and buy a bull.
SURREALISM: You have two giraffes. The government requires you to take harmonica lessons.
this is so spot on...
Random thoughts from people in their 20’s (i especially agree with number 22):
1. I hate leaving my house confident and looking good and then not seeing anyone of importance the entire day. What a waste.
2. How the hell are you supposed to fold a fitted sheet? (Is there anyone out there who can do this successfully? I damn well can’t!)
3. I would rather try to carry 10 plastic grocery bags in each hand than take 2 trips to bring my groceries in.
4. Do you remember when you were a kid; playing Nintendo and it wouldn’t work? You take the cartridge out, blow in it and that would magically fix the problem. Every kid in America did that, but how did we all know how to fix the problem? There was no internet or message boards or FAQ’s. We just figured it out. Today’s kids are soft.
5. You never know when it will strike, but there comes a moment at work when you’ve made up your mind that you just aren’t doing anything productive for the rest of the day.
6. Have you ever been walking down the street and realized that you’re going in the complete opposite direction of where you are supposed to be going? But instead of just turning a 180 and walking back in the direction from which you came, you have to first do something like check your watch or phone or make a grand arm gesture and mutter to yourself to ensure that no one in the surrounding area thinks you’re crazy by randomly switching directions on the sidewalk.
7. Why is a school zone 20mph? That seems like the optimal cruising speed for paedophiles…
8. I think part of a best friend’s job should be to immediately clear your computer history if you die.
9. More often than not, when someone is telling me a story all I can think about is that I can’t wait for them to finish so that I can tell my own story that’s not only better, but also more directly involves me.
10. Nothing sucks more than that moment during an argument when you realize you’re wrong.
11. There is a great need for sarcasm font.
12. “Do not machine wash or tumble dry” means I will never wash this ever.
13. Sometimes, I’ll watch a movie that I watched when I was younger and suddenly realize I had no idea what the f was going on when I first saw it
14. I think everyone has a movie that they love so much, it actually becomes stressful to watch it with other people. I’ll end up wasting 90 minutes shiftily glancing around to confirm that everyone’s laughing at the right parts, then making sure I laugh just a little bit harder (and a millisecond earlier) to prove that I’m still the only one who really, really gets it.
15. How many times is it appropriate to say “What?” before you just nod and smile because you still didn’t hear what they said?
16. I love the sense of camaraderie when an entire line of cars teams up to prevent a dick from cutting in at the front. Stay strong, brothers!
17. What would happen if I hired two private investigators to follow each other?
18. Shirts get dirty.. Underwear gets dirty. Pants? Pants never get dirty, and you can wear them forever.
19. I can’t remember the last time I wasn’t at least kind of tired.
20. I’m always slightly terrified when I exit out of Word and it asks me if I want to save any changes to my ten page research paper that I swear I did not make any changes to.
21. I hate when I just miss a call by the last ring (Hello? Hello? Dammit!), but when I immediately call back, it rings nine times and goes to voicemail. What’d you do after I didn’t answer? Drop the phone and run away?
22. As a driver I hate pedestrians, and as a pedestrian I hate drivers, but no matter what the mode of transportation, I always hate cyclists.
23. Sometimes I’ll look down at my watch 3 consecutive times and still not know what time it is.
24. I keep some people’s phone numbers in my phone just so I know not to answer when they call.
25. I wonder if cops ever get pissed off at the fact that everyone they drive behind obeys the speed limit.
1. I hate leaving my house confident and looking good and then not seeing anyone of importance the entire day. What a waste.
2. How the hell are you supposed to fold a fitted sheet? (Is there anyone out there who can do this successfully? I damn well can’t!)
3. I would rather try to carry 10 plastic grocery bags in each hand than take 2 trips to bring my groceries in.
4. Do you remember when you were a kid; playing Nintendo and it wouldn’t work? You take the cartridge out, blow in it and that would magically fix the problem. Every kid in America did that, but how did we all know how to fix the problem? There was no internet or message boards or FAQ’s. We just figured it out. Today’s kids are soft.
5. You never know when it will strike, but there comes a moment at work when you’ve made up your mind that you just aren’t doing anything productive for the rest of the day.
6. Have you ever been walking down the street and realized that you’re going in the complete opposite direction of where you are supposed to be going? But instead of just turning a 180 and walking back in the direction from which you came, you have to first do something like check your watch or phone or make a grand arm gesture and mutter to yourself to ensure that no one in the surrounding area thinks you’re crazy by randomly switching directions on the sidewalk.
7. Why is a school zone 20mph? That seems like the optimal cruising speed for paedophiles…
8. I think part of a best friend’s job should be to immediately clear your computer history if you die.
9. More often than not, when someone is telling me a story all I can think about is that I can’t wait for them to finish so that I can tell my own story that’s not only better, but also more directly involves me.
10. Nothing sucks more than that moment during an argument when you realize you’re wrong.
11. There is a great need for sarcasm font.
12. “Do not machine wash or tumble dry” means I will never wash this ever.
13. Sometimes, I’ll watch a movie that I watched when I was younger and suddenly realize I had no idea what the f was going on when I first saw it
14. I think everyone has a movie that they love so much, it actually becomes stressful to watch it with other people. I’ll end up wasting 90 minutes shiftily glancing around to confirm that everyone’s laughing at the right parts, then making sure I laugh just a little bit harder (and a millisecond earlier) to prove that I’m still the only one who really, really gets it.
15. How many times is it appropriate to say “What?” before you just nod and smile because you still didn’t hear what they said?
16. I love the sense of camaraderie when an entire line of cars teams up to prevent a dick from cutting in at the front. Stay strong, brothers!
17. What would happen if I hired two private investigators to follow each other?
18. Shirts get dirty.. Underwear gets dirty. Pants? Pants never get dirty, and you can wear them forever.
19. I can’t remember the last time I wasn’t at least kind of tired.
20. I’m always slightly terrified when I exit out of Word and it asks me if I want to save any changes to my ten page research paper that I swear I did not make any changes to.
21. I hate when I just miss a call by the last ring (Hello? Hello? Dammit!), but when I immediately call back, it rings nine times and goes to voicemail. What’d you do after I didn’t answer? Drop the phone and run away?
22. As a driver I hate pedestrians, and as a pedestrian I hate drivers, but no matter what the mode of transportation, I always hate cyclists.
23. Sometimes I’ll look down at my watch 3 consecutive times and still not know what time it is.
24. I keep some people’s phone numbers in my phone just so I know not to answer when they call.
25. I wonder if cops ever get pissed off at the fact that everyone they drive behind obeys the speed limit.
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