____ like you give a damn.

#pastamania

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 16:25:00 -0600

You guys, WBSC has a big announcement to make on Monday. Clues on Twitter.

"If you don’t ask, you don’t get."

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 14:46:41 -0600

“If you don’t ask, you don’t get.”

- Richard Saul Wurman, who coined the word “information architect” and founded TED.

NYS Senator Diane Savino speaks on the Marriage Equality bill....

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 16:04:00 -0600

NYS Senator Diane Savino speaks on the Marriage Equality bill. And now I’m tearing up at work again. Thanks a lot Senator Diane Savino.

P.O.B. - People On Bikes Made in Minneapolis. Take that...

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 14:52:07 -0600

P.O.B. - People On Bikes

Made in Minneapolis. Take that Portland! (via Matty Lang)

flavors.me/colinkloecker I could totally get sucked into...

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 12:56:58 -0600

flavors.me/colinkloecker

I could totally get sucked into tweaking this for hours. Must resist!

Service Aesthetics

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 14:01:00 -0600

Service Aesthetics:

In the “culture of use,” as Bourriaud aptly phrased it, artists were attempting to make socially relevant art outside the constraints of the market, pitting commodified objects against the slipperiness of a post-Duchampian Conceptualism that broke the logic between labor and exchange value, production and worth, use and uselessness, author and audience, centralized power and autonomous agency. The artists of relational aesthetics critiqued the power of the State and of capital by emphasizing the power of the crowd that participates in and completes their artworks. Yet it is becoming ever more clear today that there is another category of art that offers a different way to define artistic work in relation to social praxis and the issue of identity: an art that focuses not so much on the social relations of the artist and audience but on the atomized power of individual relationships within the social whole; an art focused not only on the artist’s autonomy but also on the contested idea of the self in our post-Fordist era.

Afternoon reading.

Mulligan Stu’s Do-Over RevueA night of poetic whoopsies,...

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 10:16:00 -0600

Mulligan Stu’s Do-Over Revue
A night of poetic whoopsies, epistolary flubs and other creative bloopers.

Mulligan Stu’s Do-Over Revue is a new monthly variety show a bunch of us are working on that invites courageous individuals on stage to share their most cringe-worthy artistic output in front of their sure-to-be-entertained peers. Teenage poetry, embarrassing diary confessions, Keith Sweat-heavy mix tapes, unsent love letters, pop star-inspired collage and other bad creations. Call it a celebration of misguided creativity or simply an exorcism of bad art. Whatever you do, don’t call it good. Because it’s not, and that’s the point.

Our house band is Seasonal Concepts and the song above is a rough cut of their MSDOR theme song.

Yeah, this is gonna kick ass.

@ The Nomad World Pub (map) tonight at 7PM // $3 Cover // Beer specials // Hilarity // Join the FB group // RSVP for the event (not reacquired!)

How to never pay for a movie rental again.

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 07:42:03 -0600

1) Live in Seward.
2) Always carry quarters.
3) Have a bit of luck. (Or at least a very lucky girlfriend.)

Email me for specifics.

Tumblr Mosaic Viewer (via Start Me Up)

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 07:36:08 -0600

Tumblr Mosaic Viewer (via Start Me Up)

How To Be Happy In The Twin Cities

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 07:19:22 -0600

For Ali.

ericaaaaa:

I was at Give and Take last month, where they focus on what people know and what they want to know. There’s a section in the middle where they ask people to share what they want to know, in the hopes that someone attending can help them. One guy said, “I want to know how to be happy in Minneapolis.” There was some awkward laughter, and a woman chimed in, “It takes five years.”

The exchange stuck with me because when I thought about it, it’s taken me about five years to get to a place where I feel like I can stay here comfortably. This is the first November that’s gone by since I moved back after college that I haven’t been aching to get the hell out. Maybe it’s just the warmer weather this year or maybe I’ve just resigned myself to sticking around, but I’d like to think it’s a little more than that. It was just at the beginning of the year that I resolved, “make the absolute best of things here, or move already.” And I think I’ve done pretty well with that.

So, some tips. This is not to say that I’m an expert, but here are some of my ideas along with tips I’ve gotten from friends. They’re always needed more in the winter, it seems.

Get outside, even if it’s cold or dark. Staying inside often seems like a good idea, but the outdoors can make you happier, even if it’s just for a little bit.

Dress appropriately. Whenever I think back on times where I was extremely uncomfortable, it usually revolves around being cold. Get some warm socks, wear a hat, let fashion suffer a little bit (but not too much, layers are always in!).

Be active. I hate to be harpy about fitness, but it really does work for decreasing stress and making you feel awesome.

Be active, while outside and appropriately dressed. The happiness trifecta. Even in winter. Snowshoes, anyone? Sledding?

Want to make new friends? Align yourself with people who want to do the same. Not going to lie, making friends can be hard…until you find that niche of people who are on the same page. So when you meet them, and you say, “You know what would be awesome? If we _________.” And then they’re like, “Yeah, ______ would be awesome!” Now, don’t stop there. Fill in the blanks and actually make it happen, instead of simply talking about things that would be awesome.

Get out and do things, even if you have to go alone. Because doing things beats not doing things. And there are a lot of things to do.

Avoid rush hour traffic. If at all possible, align your commute in such a way so that you’re either not behind the wheel at all during rush hour, or not for very long. Long commutes have been proven to increase unhappiness.

Get out, even if it’s to someplace colder. Even a weekend trip to Lutsen can be oddly restorative.

Make the best of it. Once again, I don’t want to sound too Pollyanna or like I’m endorsing The Secret or whatever, but outlook is key. My thinking on winter is: winter can really suck, so let’s try and make it not suck as much as possible.

What are your secrets?

Favors.me Oh wow. Oh wow oh wow oh wow. (via kavalierandclay)

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:08:07 -0600

Favors.me

Oh wow. Oh wow oh wow oh wow. (via kavalierandclay)

efj: high line Jealous!

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:45:20 -0600

efj:

high line

Jealous!

Bedroom/Jungle Emergency measures were taken this weekend to...

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:00:39 -0600

Bedroom/Jungle

Emergency measures were taken this weekend to save our 15 year old ficus tree. We don’t think it was getting enough light in our living room so we moved it to the bedroom, which is also a four season porch/sunroom and becoming more and more jungle-like. Which is awesome.

Real Good Coffee // Bare-faced Lie

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:21:30 -0600

Real Good Coffee // Bare-faced Lie

Last night I dreamt that I met Jesse Thorn, America’s...

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:45:00 -0600

Last night I dreamt that I met Jesse Thorn, America’s Radio Sweetheart, and he complemented me on the wear patterns on my 501 STFs. (Damn right they’re good, I wear them every day.)

On a related note, you should really check out his new project, Put This On. It’s a webs series for men about dressing like a grownup. The first episode, above, is about denim.

Really enjoying Lilly McElroy’s work right now.

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:24:22 -0600

Really enjoying Lilly McElroy’s work right now.

tragos: klodt: SUPPORT FOR SAME-SEX MARRIAGE BY AGE AND...

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 10:03:25 -0600

tragos:

klodt:

SUPPORT FOR SAME-SEX MARRIAGE BY AGE AND STATE

“The data supports the notion that younger people are more supportive of gay marriage than older people. I also think it’s interesting that, even in states that we normally consider quite hostile to gay rights (the ones at the bottom of the table), there is still a significant age difference: 18-29 year-olds in Alabama, for example, are more supportive of gay marriage than people 65 and older in Massachusetts. So, while we like to think about states as “liberal” or “conservative,” spreading out the data by age tells a much more complicated story.”

Via Sociological Images and Daring Fireball

Do you notice that the yellow triangles are closer to the ‘65+’ demographic’s support-level than to the ‘18-29’ bracket? Did the baby-boomer embrace of the civil rights in the 1960s end in the 60s?

And by the way: a toast to Gen-Y!

It’s charts like these that help me sleep at night.

Lou Dobbs Quit CNN

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:32:48 -0600

Fucking finally. (via whatthefuckdoineedtoknow)

I’m hooked.

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:39:06 -0600

I’m hooked.

Joe Winter, Inkjet/Sunset (2009) Inkjet/Sunset is a photograph...

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:37:00 -0600

Joe Winter, Inkjet/Sunset (2009)

Inkjet/Sunset is a photograph of a blue sky printed repeatedly until the ink cartridge is empty. (via hyperallergic)