#latergram @s_p_watson being a babe at lunch
Technologies I like, designs that matter to me, and navel-gazing thoughts on my life.
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Chris Rooney
• Books
• Ask me anything
Chris Rooney
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I’ll give you the most logical conclusion kids are ditching Facebook—one that none of the articles I read on the Great Teenage Facebook Exodus mentioned. And the evidence that supports the theory is right there in the Piper Jaffray survey. But first let’s define Facebook.
What is Facebook to most people over the age of 25? It’s a never-ending class reunion mixed with an eternal late-night dorm room gossip session mixed with a nightly check-in on what coworkers are doing after leaving the office. In other words, it’s a place where you go to keep tabs on your friends and acquaintances.
You know what kids call that? School.
”— Cliff Watson (via soupsoup)
“As more brands ramp up their efforts to become storytellers in their own right, some are choosing to bypass certain agencies in favor of working directly with media owners.”
— Steve Rubel
(Source: adage.com, via edelmanwellsaid)
You look like a stock photo model.
Insult of the day. You wouldn’t even know whether or not to be hurt.
“I don’t know how to feel about this. Am I being insulted, or complimented? Am I blandly attractive enough for random blog posts? Or am I utterly forgettable? I’M NOT SURE.”
“Ain’t No Love,” The Milk. Such a great cover and band.
wbez:
This is what structural racism looks like.
Chicago, we have to do better.
Media criticism done on a napkin.
This is a great idea for a tumblr…
“There are two dozen platforms … from each of which several different bus lines depart. Thereafter, for a kilometre or more, all the lines leaving from any one platform take the same route out of the city, making identical stops. “Each bus stop represents one year in the life of a photographer,” Minkkinen says. You pick a career direction – maybe you focus on making platinum prints of nudes – and set off. Three stops later, you’ve got a nascent body of work. “You take those three years of work on the nude to [a gallery], and the curator asks if you are familiar with the nudes of Irving Penn.” Penn’s bus, it turns out, was on the same route. Annoyed to have been following someone else’s path, “you hop off the bus, grab a cab… and head straight back to the bus station, looking for another platform”. Three years later, something similar happens. “This goes on all your creative life: always showing new work, always being compared to others.” What’s the answer? “It’s simple. Stay on the bus. Stay on the fucking bus.”
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Oliver Burkeman, author of the excellent The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can’t Stand Positive Thinking, explains a theory that likens creativity and originality to a Helsinki bus terminal.
And yet, according to Mark Twain, Alexander Graham Bell, and Henry Miller, all buses run on the same line anyway.
(via explore-blog)Stay on the fucking bus.
(Source: , via explore-blog)
