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Jun 16, 2008
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Jun 16, 2008
Wallstrip: What’s your favorite part about the web?
Daniel Ha: The weather.

Great Wallstrip interview with Daniel Ha of Disqus.

Jun 12, 2008
I think the hipster aesthetic has now invaded just about everything.

via totes
Jun 12, 2008
“ Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over. ” - Ernest Hemingway (via jayrobinson)
Jun 11, 2008

Phone Sex Operators

If you’ve ever been curious what phone sex operators look like, this photo essay is for you.
Jun 11, 2008
Desk deception: What appears to be a pile of papers is in fact a hunched figure Desiree Palmen, an a 44-year-old Dutch artist, creates “invisible” works of art. “The artist makes cotton suits and paints the camouflage on by hand, painstakingly matching it to the chosen background. Either she or a model then poses in the suit in the chosen place. The scenes are photographed and filmed and then put on display.” (via: dailymail) via seriouslythough

Desk deception: What appears to be a pile of papers is in fact a hunched figure

Desiree Palmen, an a 44-year-old Dutch artist, creates “invisible” works of art.

“The artist makes cotton suits and paints the camouflage on by hand, painstakingly matching it to the chosen background. Either she or a model then poses in the suit in the chosen place.

The scenes are photographed and filmed and then put on display.”

(via: dailymail)

via seriouslythough
Jun 10, 2008
“Don’t tell anyone, but the 20th-century city is over. It has nothing new to teach us anymore. Our job is simply to maintain it.” —Rem Koolhaas “Don’t tell anyone, but the 20th-century city is over. It has nothing new to teach us anymore. Our job is simply to maintain it.”

—Rem Koolhaas
Jun 9, 2008
“ TV is not vulgar and prurient and dumb because the people who compose the audience are vulgar and dumb. Television is the way it is simply because people tend to be extremely similar in their vulgar and prurient and dumb interests and wildly different in their refined and aesthetic and noble interests. ” - David Foster Wallace
Jun 5, 2008
“ If I want fancy I’ll come to New York, where they can pull off fancy much better [than Baltimore]. As far as Baltimore’s concerned, we do edgy much better. In New York there’s no such thing as a real biker bar; everything’s influenced by fashion and the very fact that you move there proves that you believe in irony. ” - John Waters
Jun 5, 2008
Charles Jacobi on Books and Printing - 1903 Beautiful transition from print typography to the web. Charles Jacobi on Books and Printing - 1903

Beautiful transition from print typography to the web.
Jun 4, 2008
Navies of Landlocked Countries, Economist Navies of Landlocked Countries, Economist
Jun 3, 2008
A car hits a group of cyclists in Mexico. A horrifying event and an incredible photograph. A car hits a group of cyclists in Mexico. A horrifying event and an incredible photograph.
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christmasgorilla is the personal web-site of Chris Muscarella—me. I am the co-founder and President of Products at Mobile Commons and an artist & technologist working with mixed media. I live in New York City. This is an impressionist web-site that exists to share things that I find interesting—and because I needed a soap box.