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Some of my friends at a party
Elliott

Anna

Jenny

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Adbusters: “Hipster: The Dead End of Western Civilization”
Nice title, totally a play on this. I need to read my RSS feeds more often,
I almost missed this gem.

photo by : Olaf Blecker :: design by: Pedro Inoue

But after punk was plasticized and hip hop lost its impetus for social change, all of the formerly dominant streams of “counter-culture” have merged together. Now, one mutating, trans-Atlantic melting pot of styles, tastes and behavior has come to define the generally indefinable idea of the “Hipster.”


An artificial appropriation of different styles from different eras, the hipster represents the end of Western civilization – a culture lost in the superficiality of its past and unable to create any new meaning. Not only is it unsustainable, it is suicidal. While previous youth movements have challenged the dysfunction and decadence of their elders, today we have the “hipster” – a youth subculture that mirrors the doomed shallowness of mainstream society.

(credit: The Publics, who has a good post that is more about the photographer, worth a read)

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Addict-o-matic: Inhale the web
I believe this was made personally for me.

This site allows you to type in anything you can think of and it will bring up a page with all the most popular resources and link all kinds of things that are relevant to that topic. Widgets (which you can customize and arrange by a drag & drop) contain all the info. There is a YouTube widget, Google blog search, Twingly Blog search, Twitter, Live.com new, Ask.com news, Digg, Topix, Bloglines, Flickr, Yahoo web search, Delicious tags, Wordpress blog search and a few others.
This is highly amazing.

(credit: SwissMiss)

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The Decemberists: The Tain Video
The Tain is an epic 18-minute composition based on an Irish myth. It’s the best Decemberists song in my opinion. I can’t stand most of their music (mostly because of someone I knew that played them over and over and over), but I do like this song.
The video is taken from The Decemberists: A Practical Handbook DVD.

(credit: Pitchfork)

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Shepard Fairey: The artist behind the iconic Obama portrait

The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston will open the first museum survey of Shepard Fairey, the influential street artist who created the now iconic Obama poster. Featuring over 80 works that trace the artist’s career over 20 years, Shepard Fairey: Supply & Demand opens February 6, 2009.

Watch CBS Videos Online

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New Dave Kinsey: Mizaru, Kikazaru, Iwazaru (three monkeys)
5-color screenprint on 100% cotton rag

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hillman curtis film : Circles
This was shot early fall ‘08 in designer James Victore’s Brooklyn studio and features Michael Goduti (Sopranos, Law and Order), Sid Hillman (Men in Black, Arlington Road, Ghost World), and Laura Victore.

He has also recently completed a short film on the American artist Jim Dine, for the Getty Villa and a series of silent Obama ads for ObamaMinute that played on a four story jumbotron in Times Square

(credit: SwissMiss)

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Post Traumatic Obama Disorder.

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Also using the ZINK printer technology, Polaroid PoGo Instant Mobile Printer can connect to mobile phones and digital cameras
You can see if your phone is compatible by going here.(no the iPhone is not, silly enough) The ZINK (which stands for ZERO ink) technology is really cool. There is no printer ink. The patented ZINK Paper is an advanced composite material with embedded yellow, magenta and cyan dye crystals, activated with 200 million heat pulses, in 30 seconds, in a single pass. The result is 2 x 3-inch borderless color images in under a minute. Prints dry-to-touch, water-resistant, tear-proof, smudge-proof Peel-off, sticky-backed Automatic image quality optimization. This is on my list of things I want.. As soon as I replace my camera that I accidentally left in Mexico.

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TOMY xiao TIP-521 Digital Camera with Built-in ZINK Printer is a full-featured 5 Megapixel digital camera with a built-in full color ZINK™ printer
This is something I hope more digital camera start doing. I have so many photos now and I wish I had more of the printed. The camera will available in Japan on November 28, 2008.

Features:

Digital Camera

* 5.0 megapixels, 4x digital zoom
* 2.48″ full color LCD display
* 16MB internal memory, supports SD/SDHC memory cards
* Multiple flash modes
* Rechargeable Lithium-ion battery and AC power adapter
* IrSimple/IrDA receiver
* Dimensions Approx. 149.5 x 74.5 x 25mm, ~294g (with battery)

Built-in ZINK Printer

* Powered by ZINK™ Zero Ink™ Printing Technology from ZINK Imaging
* Prints 2″x3″ (5×7,6 cm) borderless, sticky-back ZINK prints
* Durable photos - smudge-proof, water-resistant, virtually tear-proof
* Fade-resistant, long-lasting images
* No waste - no ink cartridges - Just Add ZINK Paper™
(credit: LikeCool)