tlvx

it is ok for me to have everyting i want. (via kara)

richard alpert + donald draper

two of television’s awesomest badasses, separated at birth?

being into baudrillard’s ideas, i just had to make this (i know, obvious) comment. it’s also worth noting that all matter is, in a sense, ‘quantized energy’, so, everything, everywhere, sortof suffers from this common ailment.

Imposing a grid is a form of digitization. Digitization is the reduction of something raw and analog — something real — into an absolute, structured system. There are many benefits to digitization; primarily, it becomes much easier to transmit.

Here is the basic tradeoff of digitization: you invariably lose something. Look at the sound waves above. The top one (analog) is the real deal, the bottom (digital) is better than nothing but still not what it represents.

(via jakob)

very well-dressed shiite militia fighters taking control of parts of beirut, new york times.

Life Before Death. noch mal leben: portraits of the dying.
photographs by Walters Schels. texts by Beate Lakotta.
This exhibition features people whose lives are coming to an end. It explores the experiences, hopes and fears of the terminally ill. All of them agreed to be photographed shortly before and immediately after death. 

The photographer Walter Schels and the journalist Beate Lakotta spent over a year preparing this exhibition in hospices in northern Germany. They made portraits of 26 people who were very close to death. The exhibition articulates the experiences, hopes and fears of the dying, and gives them one more opportunity to be heard. 

Heiner Schmitz
Many of them come in twos, because they don’t want to be alone with him. What do you talk about with someone who’s been sentenced to death? Some of them even say “get well soon” as they’re leaving. “Hope you’re soon back on track, mate!” “No one asks me how I feel,” says Heiner Schmitz. “Because they’re all shit scared. I find it really upsetting the way they desperately avoid the subject, talking about all sorts of other things. Don’t they get it? I’m going to die! That’s all I think about, every second when I’m on my own.”

Sharing A Memory For Social Status, piers fawkes, again, psfk. the entire article quoted below, since it’s all pitch-perfect:

This great photo taken by Dave Bullock for Wired of a gig at Coachella got us thinking. Quite a party - but when you look deeper, there appears to be a lot of people taking photos in the audience. It’s not hard to be reminded of camera-wielding tourists who arrive at an attraction and spend more time looking through a lens at the attraction than looking at it directly and taking it.

In similar ways, these music fans seem to be recording a memory that they never really experience. They’re too busy taking that shot to actually be there in the moment. 

And the reason? Like the tourist, they want to share. But today they share that memory instantly via email and MMS to their friends on Facebook or readers of their blog. They share so that other people can see the photo of a moment that they actually didn’t see. And the motivation? For social status: to bolster the image their friends and network have of them.

So in summary: these folks are taking photos of moments in order to share those moments with others in order to gain status for having experienced a moment they never really had.

addictomatic

addictomatic, a new search site, launched today. it has an amazing design and robot mascot by my friend and co-worker bryan bell.

(via bell)

an ad in the current weekly dig.

more available at aidsvertising! (“look at them! laugh at them! new shit every day fuck!”)

this saturday: (!)

The ROFLCon afterparty, hosted by Basstown and featuring Hearthrob, DJ Lone Wolf, the Basstown DJs, and visuals from Bloodsugar.

ROFLCon Afterparty–Now with spiffy poster!

cctv building by oma in beijing. this building has captured my interest for quite a long time, and this is what it looks like right now.

(via Montrasio International)

fhwang in #nyc.rb (via jamiew)