View from @tellapart offsite house in Park City, UT (Taken with instagram)
Headed off on vacation
The beat [just the beat] on this Gucci Mane / Neptunes song will be my vacation musical mantra.
I’m going to pause personal blogging for vacation and a bit after. I’ve been at my new job for a year and a half and have developed some thoughts so I might go back to professional blogging for a bit.
In the interim, I leave you with this awesome blog post, found via TellApart’s Dr. Nick:
Eight years since Steve died. I keep looking for meaning, but all I’ve found so far is that in order to be at peace with the present, we must be at peace with the past, because the present is a product of the past. Accept. Accept. Accept. Learn to love the present moment. What happened, happened. It’s difficult to understand the big picture when our lives are mere brush strokes on the canvas of reality. Trusting that it all fits together to form something beautiful is the purest form of faith. Anything else is a dangerous distraction. No contracts with God, no expectations of reward, just trust.
Alex Zachary Pete Currie Gallery
Shouts for their write-up in NYTimes on recent Jordan Wolfson show:
“Animation, masks,” the 12-minute 29-second film that is the entirety of Jordan Wolfson’s New York gallery debut, has the hallmarks of a classic. It rejuvenates appropriation art through the incisive use of digital animation, achieving an intensity that rivets the ear and the eye while perturbing the mind.
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Its only character is a jarringly stereotypical Shylockian Jew, with hooked nose, yarmulke, frizzed hair and beard and misshapen teeth, who is rendered in sleek high-definition animation (but only from the waist up). Sometimes benign, sometimes demonic, this gnomic cross between a Hasidic Woody Allen and a Semitic Yosemite Sam lip-syncs the sexy, whispered dialogue of a pair of young lovers that evokes the indie-film subcategory known as mumblecore, while executing repeated rap-music hand gestures.
Interesting dudes with interesting goals running a cool space with interesting artists.
What a guy! So happy to see a clip of Andre and his art on BET.
BET coverage of Andre Woolery’s Bruised Thumbs solo show.
Preview of future @tellapart office. Gonna be incredible. (Taken with instagram)
(Source: underbluemoonisawyou, via bookshelfporn)
1) One to one
2) One to many
3) Many to many
4) This:
One of my favorite parts of Twitter is watching two accounts converse semi-privately save for the Venn Diagram intersection of the two follower accounts.
Pinterest et al
I created a Pinterest account to get a sense for what the site/community feels like. Successful socially-oriented content platforms like Pinterest, Hype Machine, Tumblr, Svpply, Instagram all achieve a magic alchemy between three interrelated factors:
1) The presentation layer aka the experience of the website/app
2) The audience/community
3) What the community chooses to share in that particular venue
The links above are my profiles on each respective website. I’m the same person of course, but its expressed differently in each venue based on the triangulation of the three factors above. Furthermore, my willingness to participate depends on the attractiveness of the three when I first show up. The earlier you show up, the more malleable everything is. If you show up early, you get to see the community norms being formed which is fun.
Feminism & Pinterest
Interesting article by Nathan Jurgenson. Its a very interesting time to be doing a sociology PhD…. Hat tip to rock star TellApart employee Sree for tweeting this.
The basic premise of article:
We can view Pinterest from “dominance feminist” and “difference feminist” perspectives to both highlight this major division within feminist theory as well as frame the debate about Pinterest itself.
I expected my Pinterest board “Pinterest is for Dudes” to send shockwaves through the gender studies community but I haven’t received any interview requests yet…
