Jono Lee

mtv:

well played.

There’s been a lot of awesome Kickstarter projects recently, including this one and Matter. Check them out!

nbaoffseason:

Landry Fields and Jeremy Lin’s new handshake: skimming through book, taking off glasses, then placing inside pocket protector.

Note: Landry Fields graduated from Stanford, Lin from Harvard. Way to set the bar super high for all Asian parents, Jeremy.

brycedotvc:

On my ride to the train station this morning I was tuned into Al Jazeera radio. As my mind drifted between the broadcast and my plans for the day I heard the host of the show detailing the role Facebook was playing in an upcoming election in India. A reference point that several years ago would have felt very inside baseball was dropped in passing. As if any cultural event of an significance was going to be well represented on a site that was, not that long ago, just for college kids to poke each other.

Last week while I was in NYC a friend slightly older than me noted that our respective generation was living in an interesting wrinkle in time. We were born into a world without the internet. We remember what rotary phones were. We made mixtapes on actual cassette tapes. We drove to stores to rent movies, buy cds and purchase physical books.

My kids won’t have these analog artifacts as touchstones. Or, in many cases, millstones. They will be the first of a generation born digital and will see the world and it’s possibilities through a very different lens than I will. 

Anthony from Hype Machine made the following observation after a recent Skrillex show:

As the room lit up with projections of Call of Duty footage, Nyan Cat animations and sample-heavy bass, I couldn’t stop thinking that this show was among the signs that “Internet culture” is now just culture.

Watching the rise of internet culture crossover into simply culture is a powerful shift. The possibilities of a generation unencumbered by analog thinking presents a huge set of new possibilities and challenges.

Who’d have guessed that an off handed comment from a Skrillex show would capture so much of this moment in time we’re passing through.

heylz yah

mattriopelle:

There is more potential for damage by saying yes than saying no. Let me explain. Yes is quick, easy, and amiable. It keeps the peace. It can also kill your passion, burn you out, and rob your work of value. No is hard, divisive, and unsettling. But when it’s based on standards and not fear, …

I need this guy’s hair #swag

utnereader:

What would a month of meditation do for you? In the portrait series “Before and After,” Peter Seidler photographs participants on their first and last days of dathun, a 30-day group meditation retreat. He tells the Shambhala Times:

I set up the “Before and After” project to explore the observable effects on practitioners after long periods of intense meditation practice. The question is: what are the observable changes after a period of intense practice?

Each participant in the project was asked to simply sit for a portrait on first day of dathun…. I photographed them against a consistent background. Prior to the photograph, I asked each person to consider what they were looking for in the practice period ahead. This was on day number one. Then, at the end of the program, after approximately thirty days of retreat, I asked each participant in the project to sit in front of the same background and asked each to consider what the experience of mediation retreat had been for them…. It’s clear from the results that the person in every one of the portraits has undergone an important transformative experience. I leave it to the viewer to draw their own conclusion.

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Gotta do this

I had to stare at this one for a while….. awesome costume

I’d use every single one of these

brycedotvc:

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