A House by the Park is a “a first-hand chronology of the design, planning, and construction of a modern home in Seattle.”
The house itself is already finished – who knows weather there will be more posts added to the blog – but as a record of the experience of building a custom designed home A House by the Park has great potential utility for anyone out there about to embark on a similar architectural journey. A near perfect use-case for the blog “form” (if you will).
David McRaney’s You Are Not So Smart is a blog that assails our belief that we are in control of our motivations, thoughts and feelings. But it’s not depressing. No, really.
Engadget has posted their review of Apple’s new iPhone. Better battery life and, at least in comparison to iPhone 3G, a more responsive and less lagg-prone UI coupled with a better (and faster as well!) camera = all I ever wanted in an updated iPhone.
Just as it looked as if AT&T just miiiight be using their brains while making changes to how they charge for data, they reveal themselves to be the same greedy little bastards they’ve always been. At the introduction of the iPad a couple months ago AT&T introduced their much-lauded pay-as-you-go data plan for the device. They just dropped it like a hot rock. Way to stay steady, guys.
When are we going to get a new cell phone company, one that understands that people are willing to pay for value and that shows some respect for its customers? They’re is a gaping hole of opportunity. via Daring Fireball.
A short film – called Cannonball – by “California is a Place” on how skaters are taking advantage of all of the forgotten, dilapidated pools in the backyards of foreclosed homes in Fresno. Some of the narrators’ comments are a little insensitive, some are right on the mark. All of them hurt. Interesting, though, that near the end of the video (and not to give anything away) that it seems “the dream” still lives, even in these guys who see the destruction it can wreak every day they skate one of these pools.
Part of the subject of the film and all of subjects in the film remind me of Dogtown and Z-Boys.
It would be interesting to look at correlative data between the number of empty pools and the current state of the economy. Maybe we could call it “The Empty Pool Index”, cull the data from fresh Google maps satellite images and run some numbers. If only I was better with statistics. (via Daring Fireball)
Jorge Elbrecht of Violens and Caroline Polachek of Chairlift have devised a rather ingenious concept whereby they compose “an original song written specifically to synch into someone else’s video on mute.” The result is a “sgin”, an anagram for “sing.”
Joe Barton (R – TX) apologized to BP’s CEO for what he called the “shakedown” they received at the hands of the Obama administration in the creation of the $20 million fund designed to help those effected by the oil eruption (the best word I have come across, by the way, to describe what has been ineffectively called a “spill”) in the Gulf of Mexico.
Click through via the image. There are many, many more.
In a piece called “The Very Angry Tea Party”, J.M. Bernstein compares the anger displayed by those who count themselves as members of the Tea Party to the sort of anger displayed by a jilted lover:
This is the rage and anger I hear in the Tea Party movement; it is the sound of jilted lovers furious that the other — the anonymous blob called simply “government” — has suddenly let them down, suddenly made clear that they are dependent and limited beings, suddenly revealed them as vulnerable
A fascinating New York Times essay in a section called “The Stone”.
I’ve been visiting The Hype Machine for some time now so I thought I would give it the blog-love it deserves. Full of music culled from the plethora of music lovin’ blogs on the inter-tubes, sites like The Hype Machine: now this is what the internet is for.
Daily Drop Cap is a project I started in September of 2009 in which I illustrate a decorative letter every day (or at least every work day). The project will continue for approximately twelve alphabets and are available for non-commercial use as drop caps on your personal blog. Please visit dailydropcap.com to see the full project.
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