February 2012
9 posts
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"I want to see dead people"
blasian:
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, directed by Stephen Daldry and based on Jonathan Safran Foer’s type-experiment novel of the same name, starts with 9 year old Oskar Schell selling us a solution for the problem of housing the dead. With so many people inhabiting the world there will soon not be enough room to bury all of them, he thinks, and offers a solution whereby we visit them in...
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Watching television (sic) in the New Broadcast...
Something interesting is taking place in broadcast media today, and it has to do with the consequences of declaring video the heir apparent of our future.
Video is the future.
If I never heard it again it’d be too soon. As a web-consumer of course I realize the salience of video, youtube, chatroullette, gimmicky memes… As a marketer, however, I worry all the hype around...
WatchMovie from my recent trip to Tokyo.
Blasian.: Rest in Peace, Whitney Houston →
blasian:
I’m dumbstruck by news of Whitney Houston’s death. I’m not shocked by what’s probably an overdose everyone could have predicted, but I’m actually dumbstruck because her death represents the final canonization of my own adolescence.
She was the inspiration behind at least my first two spiral perms…
Three Situations in Which You Should Not Brag...
1. If you’re over 30.
2. Ever.
3. Anywhere.
Jeremy Mother Fuckin' Lin →
Blasian:
“I defended China because no one at the basketball court ever called me “Taiwanese”, they called me a “chink”. I was Chinese whether I liked it or not. In America, it really doesn’t matter if you think you’re Taiwanese, Colombian, Peruvian, Dominican, Vietnamese, Korean, or Japanese: we’re all chinks and Mexicans to the untrained eye. I had no choice or way to reason because there were...
Wonton Cruelty: Mongolia: Day 1 →
wontoncruelty:
Transmission to Captain Mark Meadows:
Definitely not dead! Alive and well in Darkhan! Had a grueling flight here - 24+ hour delay in Moscow, but killed time with a Dutch pilot, and lots of rad random Mongolians who helped me keep in the know about our flight, quiet places to sleep and help for me…