studio (via hitomi-murakami むらかみひとみ)
Bradley Allen
“
We are in close orbit
you and I
circling one another
gravity tugs us tighter
towards one another
then looses it’s grip
momentarily
love takes a breath…
now renewed
we turn again and face one another
arms reaching, yearning
we spin again and again
our endless, lovely patterns
keep our bodies in motion
magnetic
Epson R-D1 Review Here’s another pic of this amazing camera. Okay, time to let it go now.
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Pere Ubu - Final Solution
Due to either my own limitations or the Tumblr interface, I’ve been manually coding in the amazon links for these audio posts. Yeah, kinda sad, but that’s how much this stuff means to me. If you like what you hear, please support your local record store (if the people are cool) and maybe get this music for yourself. I’m just trying to turn you on. Thanks!
“ Oh shit? Why did I have to go and make it about gender? Because it is about gender. Do you really think Dressner would walk into some dude’s wine shop and hassle a wine rep, in front of that shop’s customers? Do you think he would say the same kind of vaguely threatening, overtly aggressive bullshit to one of Neil Rosenthal’s wine reps? Do you think he would even say that kind of thing to a male rep? No, no and no are my answers to those questions.
— Grocery Guy Okay, folks… when do I play the gender card? Pretty much never - except when it is about gender. I’ve experienced this kind of stuff and worse in the workaday world, and gleefully went down fighting rather than pretend things didn’t happen. Much respect to A-Train for speaking up.
de Young Museum (via Bradley Allen)
Every time I walk by this building, I see something new and delightful.
If only all new architecture in this city could be like this.
Epson R-D1 Time marches on, but wow. What a camera.
Sure, I drool over the Leica M8 and think of all sorts of ways to justify such a purchase. Though it seems like there’s something missing (a soul?) compared to their previous rangefinders. I wish I could articulate what it is, but I do know it’s not because it’s digital.
And it irks me that Leica’s marketing copy refers to it as a ‘future proof investment’. That may be, but it needs more time in the field, and then back to the drawing table, please.
Flickr: The Retro Kid Pool
Great design inspiration from retro designs for kids’ stuff!
Exactly. I’ve been frog-leggin’ it in this pool for a couple of years now. Always something new from the old days, and one of my favorite groups on Flickr. Vintage Childrens Books is a good one too.
“ Ah, at last we have reached the end of this Newsletter and that of course means that we have come to the now-famous SECRET WORD. To those who are new the SECRET WORD is a chance for you to try a sake of note for half of that sake’s original price. Just for reading this Newsletter. It is our way of saying thank you for trying to understand the wonders of sake. And in this regard we typically select a sake with a story, and this month’s story is macro brewery! There is such a drive towards small artesian sake breweries that sometimes people forget the big boys. Both have their strengths and weaknesses, but let’s not forget that all major breweries were once microbreweries! As such I have selected a brew from a very large kura in Kobe called Hakutsuru. If you ever have a chance do visit the Hakutsuru Museum - do so! It is brilliant and it is free.
— Newsletter - True Sake Getting people to read and respond to email newsletters can be hard. I usually equate newsletters to spam. But not with True Sake. Their newsletters are informative and fun.