“This is Taylor Swift’s greatest power: an ability to combine her art and her life so profoundly that both spheres become more interesting to everyone, regardless of their emotional investment in either.” — Chuck Klosterman
taylor swift // quote // quotes // chuck klosterman // Monday, October 19, 2015 // 17 notes
“Vulnerability in a space where it’s permitted and allowed to be connected with by an audience or others is an elevation of the human spirit. It’s sort of why we’re here in some weird way … It’s a part of being human that gets distant from a lot of people.” — Marc Maron
marc maron // quotes // quote // Monday, October 12, 2015 // 1 note
“I think people just wear yoga pants and sweatshirts, and I wanted to make the most beautiful version of that possible.” — Kanye West
kanye west // Friday, September 25, 2015 //
“Kanye West is controversial as a byproduct of his own mania, which is to say it’s natural, which is to say it’s enjoyable.” — Shea Serrano
kanye west // vmas // Tuesday, September 01, 2015 // 2 notes
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But the Stream, mobile applications, and moving images: They all show a departure from a books-internet toward a television-internet. We seem to have gone from a non-linear mode of communication — nodes and networks and links — toward a linear one, with centralization and hierarchies.
The web was not envisioned as a form of television when it was invented. But, like it or not, it is rapidly resembling TV: linear, passive, programmed and inward-looking.
” — Hossein Derakhshan (Whip-smart piece from a man who went to jail in the Golden Age of Blogging, was recently freed and is now being swallowed by the Stream.)the internet // internet // Thursday, July 16, 2015 // 2 notes
silicon valley // # // Monday, April 20, 2015 // 5 notes
“Is the ‘contemporary conformist’ aesthetic already becoming 'the mainstream’ design aesthetic? Are many post-hipsters contemporary conformists? Does 'the web’ look too contemporary conformist now? How has Instagram impacted the contemporary conformist aesthetic?” — Carles
carles // quote // contemporary conformist // Wednesday, April 08, 2015 //
“The greatest impediments to personal change always come from within, not without.” — Andy Greenwald
quote // mad men // Thursday, April 02, 2015 // 1 note
“Mad Men is a show that believes deeply in the possibility of change. It’s just under no illusions about how difficult that process can be.” — Andy Greenwald
mad men // Thursday, April 02, 2015 //
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