Hostile, Ugly, Sexist

“Movies, and what women do in and to them, are better than the Academy seemed to realize. The same could be said about a lot of women in a lot of jobs. And women can’t forget it.” –Amy Davidson

Baby Elephant Tee

babyelephant

Love this baby elephant tee I found over at Fancy.

Be the Worst You Can Be

31j8NiFbGqL

Ernest Hemingway’s tips for writing fiction: “Don’t describe an emotion–make it.”

LukeW’s notes on Zeldman’s talk “The 10 Commandments of Web Design”: “Don’t just test your designs and sites, also test your assumptions.”

Beautiful GIFs at Head Like an Orange

tumblr_mhctxvLB5l1r4zr2vo1_r1_500

Head Like an Orange

Stump’s Faerie’s Aire and Death Waltz

2013-01-31-difficult-music

Stump’s impossible piano composition happens to look beautiful on paper. Here’s an estimation of what it should sound like … and a particularly talented human making an attempt. No one knows much about John Stump, reach out to me if you have any leads, I’m fascinated.

Observations on Why Facebook Makes Us Miserable

So there is this, which is sort of explaining with a study what we already know from experience: Facebook makes us miserable. But I have a couple observations. 1) Germans. 2) Of course someone else’s raise, beautiful baby, weight loss, vibrant social life, amazing vacation, or pseudo-intellectual tidbits make us sick. But it’s not because we’re jealous or exhausted by someone else’s success. It’s because there’s a quiet understanding (or maybe an assumption) that it’s not real. Read more…

LEIF’s Imbiber Mugs

object_and_totem_imbimber_mug_alt_1024x1024

I love these Imbiber mugs from LEIF – they’re sold out at the moment but hang tight, they should return. Or check out the rest of LEIF’s coffee and tea accessories for the home: everything is amazing.

LBJ’s Love Letters to Ladybird

r-LBJ-AND-LADYBIRD-LOVE-LETTERS-large570

I love presidential history, and I love letters. I love having access to anyone’s correspondence, I suppose I’m a snoop in that regard. I don’t care who wrote it or to whom, I just relish that moment of intimacy that’s observable within the experience of reading someone else’s correspondence. I’d snoop through almost anyone’s email. Not for information or gossip, just to catch that glimpse of how a person writes to another when they think they’re alone. It’s completely fascinating. Read more…

If you’re working on a campaign in China, you should read this (and get your mobile house in order).

Shugo Tokumaru “Katachi”

Marc Johns

Mark Johns

I absolutely love the drawings of Marc Johns. I also love that he makes his own sketchbooks.

Advice on the Art of Writing Short Stories

bolano shrtstry advice

By Roberto Bolano via D Berman.

I’ll just put this right here: Designing for the Modern Web.