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thekhooll: Rain Oil paintings By artist Gregory Thielker. wow

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 00:00:22 -0400

thekhooll:

Rain

Oil paintings By artist Gregory Thielker.

wow

I know what I’ll be doing tonight

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 19:10:50 -0400

I know what I’ll be doing tonight

(via 11 Ways To Be Remarkably Average)

Fri, 07 Jun 2013 13:01:06 -0400

(via 11 Ways To Be Remarkably Average)

BruceS: Where does the Yahoo!Tumblr money go?

Sat, 01 Jun 2013 18:31:51 -0400

BruceS: Where does the Yahoo!Tumblr money go?:

brucesterling:

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-05-22/what-tumblrs-millionaires-tell-us-about-the-tech-industry

(…)

Tumblr’s $1.1 billion exit has minted a number of new millionaires—and made some rich folks even richer.

Here’s who made what, according to PrivCo, which studies private companies….

Ten Former NYC Rock Clubs, and what they are today

Tue, 28 May 2013 01:44:53 -0400

Ten Former NYC Rock Clubs, and what they are today

Interesting @constrvct...

Mon, 27 May 2013 15:49:00 -0400

Interesting @constrvct review

brucesterling:

https://constrvct.com/designs/2385

http://www.flickr.com/photos/brucesterling/sets/72157633732135635/

Constrvct Dress Review

by Jasmina Tesanovic

Three weeks after I signed up online and sent them my measurements, I received my new dress from Constrvct in New York, shipped here to Torino in Italy.

Italian Customs hit me up for 37 euros in duty fees, unaccustomed as they are to importing dresses from Manhattan rather than exporting them there. However, the sealed package was light and the blue dress arrived in fine condition. What excitement and happiness: a dress that is entirely personalized, computer-assembled, and even the pattern was generative art! I myself chose the fabric, the color, and the shape, and then some computer-governed devices sliced it up and stitched it out, for me and me alone.

Five years ago, when our theme at the Share art conference in Torino was “digital manufacturing,” a prospect like this still seemed remote and futuristic. Three-d fabrication machines were still the industrial monsters for cars and aircraft, not swift consumer gear for clothes, furniture, or kitchen gadgets.

   It’s still a bit dreamlike to order and manufacture personalized objects sent from New York to Italy, but in the time that passed, little hacker, Maker, and fabrication ateliers are springing up in Italy like mushrooms. They’re mostly retailing simple curios in plastic, vinyl and rubber, though: a real dress that comes from clicking a website still has a Cinderella quality.

   With that said, the dress, which is a personalized version of Constrvct model #2385, “Spines” from “Nervous System,” is a genuine dress — it’s not some mere CafePress T-shirt. I threw the dress over my head like Cinderella, zipped it up, and went out to road-test it on the busy streets of Torino.

“Spines” is a pretty pattern, but it’s not strange enough to stop any traffic. There’s a Turinese vogue this season for hyper-active floral patterns, and the streets are full of women in wild elastic jeggings that make “Spines” look demure and even ladylike.

The fabric is polyester, which traps heat next to the body and had me sweating on a cold day. Despite my careful measurements — I did my best, but I’m no tailor — the cut was somewhat ungainly. The bustline turned out too big while the waist is too loose.

   A sleeveless dress with a simple cut needs to be extremely precise to look elegant. Somewhere the data had slipped: was it me, the cutting machine, the stitching machine, the data entry process, who knows? My mother, whose generation knew a thing or two about hand-tailoring, would have sternly rejected such sloppiness from a dressmaker. She would have taken her tailored purchase back to the Chanel shop, or told her private seamstress to fix it. A lost centimeter here or there is the very soul of ladylike couture.

The dress is also too long, maybe an inch. The past-kneecap length is good for showing-off the unusual pattern, but all my overcoats are shorter than my dress. Who has the priority here, the fabric-artists at Constrvct, or the user’s knees and calves?

The underskirt lining is too long (it’s as long as the dress), so as soon as I sit, the lining shows itself. Try as I might, I can’t drape the skirt in a way that conceals the lining. The stitched seams are visible, machine-made, of uniform width, too big and coarse, and not neat and tidy.

   The dress also creases easily, while polyester cannot be ironed!

   The beautiful mermaid-like sea colors, computer generated patterns from the well-known code-artists at “Nervous System,” are shiny and cheerful, and all in all rather wonderful. The spiny, wavy patterns suit my curly hair, while the blue shades go with my blue eyes. A dress with a pattern this busy can be accessorized with all kinds of oddities.

For instance, the Constrvct “Spines” dress is perfect for my blue plastic computer-generated shoes from “United Nude.” These angular Dutch shoes feature a low poly-count that makes them look like shoes off the set of Super Mario. I bought these “New Aesthetic” shoes mostly to irritate and intrigue Italians, who always notice people’s shoes. However, with the “Spines” dress, these shoes become a low-key ensemble.

   I walked all over the porticos and boulevards of downtown Torino in my computer-generated dress. Far from looking like a showboat Internet geek-freak, I looked pretty standard for the Turinese, who tend toward the dignified and somewhat upscale. I’m the only woman in Torino with this dress — it even has my own name stitched into the collar, which gratifies one’s vanity — but no style-conscious Italian stared or took critical offense. The dress has a simple, conventional cut. When it’s worn with a sweater, a scarf, a hat or a bag, it’s just another part of a wardrobe.

   What is the victory condition for this unorthodox means of production? This is Maker-style disruption at work, no doubt about that. To have our dreams come true with mouseclicks, to encourage human creativity while avoiding the limitation and expense of human hands, to make it cheaper and more attainable, to be unique, to be pretty and comfortable…to be affordable and also adorable! To make Cinderella come to the ball with the magic of digital crafts, instead of the crude spells of her fairy godmother!

   To give a woman everything she wants from a pretty dress is a tall set of orders for a new-startup with a website and a few machines. I’m pleased and happy to wear Constrvct’s alpha rollout, but this garment isn’t yet the gorgeous finery of the old regime. This is a rumble in the New York garment district. This is a street rebellion.

startupquote: Every feature has some maintenance cost, and...

Mon, 27 May 2013 15:43:47 -0400

startupquote:

Every feature has some maintenance cost, and having fewer features lets us focus on the ones we care about and make sure they work very well.

- David Karp

fred-frederator-studios: “David Karp reminds me of Ted Turner,...

Sun, 26 May 2013 03:09:04 -0400

Channel Frederator program illustration for David Karp & tumblr. Illustration by Jeaux Janovsky

"David Karp in September 2006, a few months after hiring [Marco Arment] to build websites with him for clients." Photo by Marco.

"David and [Marco Arment] figuring something out in January 2009. Most of [their] conversations looked exactly like this." Photo via marco.org

The Coolest Jobs, featuring gigs at tumblr. Time Out New York, August 2010

David Karp, CEO, tumblr & Marissa Mayer, CEO, Yahoo. May 20, 2013 Photo: AP

fred-frederator-studios:

“David Karp reminds me of Ted Turner, but also Rupert Murdoch,” Seibert said. “He is like all artists — people who don’t just have a vision; they create the future. Whether the artist is Picasso or Mark Zuckerberg, these are the people who can see around the corners while we’re just walking down the street.” -PBS MediaShift

When Channel Frederator gave tumblr’s David Karp the Vanguard Award of 2007 we already knew he was special. After all, it was David’s imagining of Channel Frederator to begin with that launched us out into the internet wild. That he went on to build his platform into one of the media greats and sell it to Yahoo this week was no surprise to any of us.

We were fortunate to literally be there at the birth of tumblr at David’s desk at the Frederator/NY loft on Park Avenue South. He gamely showed up at Frederator’s animation events on both coasts, and even sponsored our first viral hit.

Most importantly, David’s been both a friend and a mentor to this digital immigrant every day. (Here’s a bunch of David’s appearances on Frederator’s blogs.) So, I thought it was fitting in this tumblr celebration week to point out some of my favorite articles that have popped up about David and tumblr. If you take out some of the usual digi-snarking that’s always out there after a big deal, there are a number of observers who get underneath the surface.

The One-Person Product. By Marco Arment. My favorite by far (it actually made me cry) was this memoir by David’s first employee and co-conspirator Marco Arment. In it he recounts the earliest days and how David’s visions and Marco’s talents and skill combined to launch over 100 million ships. Marco truly gets to the heart and soul that David pours into everything he does.

Tumblr’s Sale Is a Billion-Dollar Trophy for the New York Tech Scene. By Kevin Roose. Tumblr couldn’t have happened anywhere else in the world but New York City, because David Karp is a crystalline product of the best that New York has always offered to creative people, innovators, and entrepreneurs. ”So while David Karp may be the one pocketing Yahoo’s money this time, every New Yorker should be smiling. Because his success is the city’s, too.”

Tumblr CEO David Karp’s Wild Ride from 14-Year-Old Intern to Multimillionaire. By Dorian Benkoil. The New York Times probably did the definitive piece on David’s rise (“my wife said, ‘Fred really likes teenagers, you should send him over.’”), but PBS MediaShift covered my role the best, so I’m going with Dorian on this one.

Tumblr’s @davidkarp on Jeopardy! via lilly: josefa7

Wed, 15 May 2013 23:17:23 -0400

Tumblr’s @davidkarp on Jeopardy!

via lilly: josefa7

Linguine with seared tuna and tapenade @plated

Sun, 12 May 2013 00:55:58 -0400

Linguine with seared tuna and tapenade @plated

<3 <3 <3 laughingsquid: Johnny Marr Sings The Smiths’...

Sat, 04 May 2013 19:44:08 -0400

<3 <3 <3

laughingsquid:

Johnny Marr Sings The Smiths’ “How Soon Is Now?” on Jimmy Fallon

Artist uses DNA from discarded cigarette butts and gum and turns...

Sat, 04 May 2013 17:49:00 -0400

Artist uses DNA from discarded cigarette butts and gum and turns them into 3D-printed portraits.

(Tangent: Is the artist’s self portrait photo by the same Dan Phiffer who went to ITP?)

(via Creepy or Cool? Portraits Derived From the DNA in Hair and Gum Found in Public Places | Collage of Arts and Sciences)

"Not getting into Brown was the best thing that’s ever happened to me,” said Assaf, a vice president..."

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 23:28:30 -0400

““Not getting into Brown was the best thing that’s ever happened to me,” said Assaf, a vice president of sales at S.W. Basics of Brooklyn who ultimately ended up studying at NYU and has been accepted to the Harvard Business School. The private school environment, according to Assaf, too often tended to engender in her and her classmates “an entitlement mentality.” “At NYU, in a city like New York, nothing happens for you,” she said. “You have to earn every opportunity.””

- Are private schools worth the hefty price tag? - Business on NBCNews.com (via infoneer-pulse)

Percolate

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 23:25:47 -0400

techcompaniesthatonlyhiremen:

MUST HAVES
Experience with Selenium, Watir or Sahi
Can program in one language
Hacking spirit
Lazy enough to automate his daily job

Percolate…how disappointing this is.

"Beware of Methodologies. They are a great way to bring everyone up to a dismal, but passable, level..."

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 04:34:10 -0400

“Beware of Methodologies. They are a great way to bring everyone up to a dismal, but passable, level of performance, but at the same time, they are aggravating to more talented people who chafe at the restrictions that are placed on them.”

- Big Macs vs. The Naked Chef - Joel on Software

My mother: those things, what are they called, those things everyone is talking about now.

Sun, 14 Apr 2013 00:37:57 -0400

My mother: those things, what are they called, those things everyone is talking about now.
Me: which things, ma?
My mother: Internet things. Upstarts.
Me: Upstarts? Do you mean startups?
My mother: Yeah. How are they doing?

delisandwich: Beyond I love that Madness made it among Things...

Mon, 01 Apr 2013 00:34:18 -0400

delisandwich:

Beyond

I love that Madness made it among Things Organized Neatly.

"Corrections & Amplifications: Yahoo Chief Executive Marissa Mayer is a woman. A previous..."

Tue, 26 Mar 2013 19:50:09 -0400

“

Corrections & Amplifications:

Yahoo Chief Executive Marissa Mayer is a woman. A previous version of this article referred to her as Mr. Mayer in one instance.

”

- At 17, App Builder Rockets to Riches From Yahoo Deal - WSJ.com

(via evangotlib)

…two steps back

(via Twitter / tapbot_paul: The little faith I have in …)

Tue, 26 Mar 2013 02:01:23 -0400

(via Twitter / tapbot_paul: The little faith I have in …)

"I’ve always believed that education is a partnership between teachers, students and parents. All..."

Wed, 20 Mar 2013 23:56:45 -0400

“I’ve always believed that education is a partnership between teachers, students and parents. All have to work together to produce satisfactory outcomes. The trouble is that today only teachers are being held accountable.”

- Student Responsibility for Learning (via gjmueller)