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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
It is hard to beat flight pattern photography sometimes. Mondo-Bloggo has kindly reprinted the entirety of their recent post on 1950s college kids flying kites, and we are all better for it. Novelty architecture happens from time to time. Incidentally,…
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10/40/70 #25: The Hitch-Hiker
This ongoing experiment in film writing freezes a film at 10, 40, and 70 minutes, and keeps the commentary as close to those frames as possible. This week, I examine The Hitch-Hiker, directed by Ida Lupino (1953):
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Dickens in the Third World
”Neither a British nor American young man living in the twenty-first century can understand a Dickens as well as I can. I am living in a Dickens atmosphere.” George Packer tells the fascinating story of Somerset, “a toothpick-thin, boisterous young…
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The Cloud Corporation
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club’s September pick, Timothy Donnelly’s The Cloud Corporation, has been reviewed by The New Yorker. We’re not saying it’s solely because the collection was a Rumpus pick… but we’re not not saying that either.
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Tao Lin and Emily Gould: The Sam and Diane of the Youtube Generation?
Today over at The Awl, Emily Gould interviews Tao Lin for her awesome Cooking the Books series. The salad they make looks pretty tasty, but the real reason to watch the video is the undeniable tension between Lin and Gould.…
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2011: The Revenge of Print?
“We are challenging everyone who’s ever made/self-published a zine, a comic or mini-comic before to dust off the ol’ photocopier and make at least one more new issue in 2011.” A scrappy group of self-publishers are hoping to make next…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
The first new carnivorous mammal in more than two decades was just discovered. Just so you know. Hey, check out Walter Green’s schema for the Believer! The internet is awash with rad vintage product design. Turn of the century french…
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The Rumpus Interview With The Bots
The Bots are a band of two brothers, Mikaiah Lei, 17, and Anaiah Lei, 13, hailing from Glendale, California. Mikaiah sings and plays guitar while his younger brother Anaiah holds it down on the drums.
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Notable San Francisco, This Week: 10/11-10/17
This week in San Francisco, Twitter IRL, SOMArts asks How Do You Value Art?, more art at Hotel Biron, and even more art (and readings!) at Sub-Mission’s Skate This Art. Monday 10/11: Celebrate your inner nerd at the Commonwealth Club’s…
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LitCrawl 2010
The SF Weekly has posted a slideshow from this year’s wonderful LitCrawl in San Francisco.
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“If you run it out of your house, then no one expects anything…”
Ben McGrath profiles Gawker Media founder Nick Denton for The New Yorker.