January 2012
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Some of my favorite albums of 2011 →
2011 was such a solid year for music that it was damn near impossible to whittle everything down to one gorgeously hand-crafted list. And yet, here it is. Feel free to grab it (the…
December 2011
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Some of my favorite albums of 2011
Welp, that’s the list. Feel free to take it with you (hint: the names are clickable). Also made a playlist for yer listening pleasure. Enjoy. Posted via email from hawkt.com | Comment »
My best albums of 2011
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September 2011
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The New Idea →
-D Berman, “The New Idea” from Actual Air Permalink | Leave a comment »
The New Idea
-D Berman, “The New Idea” from Actual Air Posted via email from hawkt.com | Comment »
June 2011
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On writing about speed, time, geological... →
Seriously, Metal Mob — I’m not fond of hyperbole, but this might be the best line of promotional copy ever written:
The presenters will explore theories of speed, time,…
On writing about speed, time, geological...
Seriously, Metal Mob — I’m not fond of hyperbole, but this might be the best line of promotional copy ever written: The presenters will explore theories of speed, time, geological formations, and the meaning of meaning while performing brutally fast speed metal with fog machines, laser pointers, samples, and PowerPoint visuals. Of course it’s a run-on with serial commas....
March 2011
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The scientist of tomorrow
The scientist of tomorrow will have special scruples about his internal life. He will create out of himself the precision instrument for reducing life to a subject of analysis. -Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet Posted via email from hawkt.com | Comment »
February 2011
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The strength of street knowledge
Launched today, Google’s Art Project provides Street View tours of some of the finest art museums in the world, complete with multimedia installations, floor plans, historical context, biographies and bookmarking. Bear witness. Posted via email from hawkt.com | Comment »
November 2010
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The personal appeal of Sneakerpedia →
A friend of mine is an archivist at Nike HQ. Of the many fascinating things she told me when we toured the Beaverton campus a while back, the one that really stuck in my head was a story…
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The personal appeal of Sneakerpedia
A friend of mine is an archivist at Nike HQ. Of the many fascinating things she told me when we toured the Beaverton campus a while back, the one that really stuck in my head was a story about the company’s own sneaker collection. Rumor has it that for the longest time, Nike didn’t maintain a comprehensive archive of its shoes. As a result, the company allegedly had to buy back 150...
Ad infinitum →
“Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.” -Ad Reinhardt Permalink | Leave a comment »
Wrong house →
If you think witch house is “the next wave” of screw music, you don’t know about DJ Screw. Permalink | Leave a comment »
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Wrong house
If you think witch house is “the next wave” of screw music, you don’t know about DJ Screw. Posted via email from hawkt.com | Comment »
October 2010
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To be loyal is to perform work →
Interesting interview with Jonathan Franzen via Guardian Books today. Sarfraz Manzoor (a fine man in desperate need of a new website) manages to elicit some pretty…
Pussy people in the place to be →
Not sure how I missed this IKEA campaign when it launched a month ago, but shame on me. Great stuff from Mother London, Adam Berg and Stink Digital. …
Keep fries weird →
A riff on the “Keep Austin Weird” slogan, the new McDonald’s mural on the corner of 7th and Brazos had everyone in line at Bakerman’s talking about it. Permalink | Leave a comment »
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Keep fries weird
A riff on the “Keep Austin Weird” slogan, the new McDonald’s mural on the corner of 7th and Brazos had everyone in line at Bakerman’s talking about it. Posted via email from hawkt.com | Comment »
Land of 1000 logos →
Visit scenic Nordkyn, where the logo changes with the temperature. Permalink | Leave a comment »
September 2010
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Land of 1000 logos
Visit scenic Nordkyn, where the logo changes with the temperature. Posted via email from hawkt.com | Comment »
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I want to love you, pwc
PricewaterhouseCoopers + Wolff Olins + Universal Everything = freshest brand refresh I’ve seen in a long, long time. Posted via email from hawkt.com | Comment »
Truthiness to power →
“Now, I’m not a fan of the government doing anything — but why isn’t the government doing ANYTHING?”
OMG. That is so US. Permalink | Leave a comment »
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Truthiness to power
“Now, I’m not a fan of the government doing anything — but why isn’t the government doing ANYTHING?” OMG. That is so US. Posted via email from hawkt.com | Comment »
Here we go future magic →
How Dentsu London and BERG London create stop-motion iPad light paintings: “We extrude the single 3D animation frame as light in the air.” Brilliant. Permalink | Leave a…
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The future magic is now
How Dentsu London and BERG London create stop-motion iPad light paintings: “We extrude the single 3D animation frame as light in the air.” Brilliant. Posted via email from hawkt.com | Comment »
August 2010
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The hour grows late →
Hot damn. Is it after midnight already? Figures.
I’ve lost another night to the SXSW Panel Picker.
In my defense, there is a veritable ton of ideas to reckon with this year (2412 of…
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The hour grows late
Hot damn. Is it after midnight already? Figures. I’ve lost another night to the SXSW 2011 Panel Picker. In my defense, there is a veritable ton of ideas to reckon with this year (2412, to be exact). Many are killer. And if, by some stretch of the imagination, you don’t have the time or energy to sift through them all, don’t fret: here are some standouts to get you started. ...
Our trip to Portugal →
After a decade of daydreaming about it, Sara and I finally made it to Portugal for a couple of weeks. I can honestly say it was worth the crazy long wait.
Our trip began…
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Our trip to Portugal
After a decade of daydreaming about Portugal, Sara and I finally made it out there for a couple of weeks. I can honestly say it was worth the crazy long wait. Our trip began and ended in the Estremadura, where we stayed in Amadora for a week and used the almighty Lisbon Card to check out the region together. Sure, we had to deal with some thugs in the train station once. And yes, a baby threw...
July 2010
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The Big Reveal
As Facebook’s torrent fiasco and the Wikileaks war logs controversy have made crystal clear, big data has gotten too big to ignore. While we’d all like to think our data is secure, that belief runs contrary to the train of thought that information wants to be free. Regardless of whether or not you agree with that line of thinking, it’s hard to deny that projects like IBM...
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Dear Diary: I Think @dcurtis Likes Me
Scratch that — I know Dustin likes me. He said so the other day! :D And he’s got pretty high standards, so I know he isn’t just saying that to get into my beta like some people (I don’t even have one, haters). Still I can’t help but wonder if Dustin’s into me because he really thinks I’m smart and pretty, or if he just wants me because I’m here and...
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Evoke Real Change. Conduct Social Post Mortems.
In early 2010 the World Bank Institute (WBI) debuted Evoke, an innovative social game on a mission to foster global change through open collaboration. Now, six months after launching the platform, Jane McGonigal and company are breaking new ground yet again by conducting a social post mortem (which, in an inspired act of rebranding, they’ve dubbed a “post-vita”). More than...
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Liar Liar Jeans on Fire
From the looks of it, cross-country trips are hot like fire this summer. Both Sears and Levi’s have launched grassroots campaigns that follow a journey across America — one by tractor, the other on foot. The two campaigns have a lot in common. Both narratives revolve around a young, rugged-looking dude. Each campaign used Google Maps and YouTube to help set the scene. And if you were to...
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Let It Burn
Coke Europe is using short, stylized films and other niche content to introduce Burn to its target audience of young hipsters. From winged competitors like Red Bull to fleet-footed fighters like Converse to 10,000-lb. heavyweights like Dell, big brands have been wielding microgenres in the battle for the attention of tastemakers for years. And the success of tactfully branded collaborations...
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What's Your Function, Perfunkt?
A new branded social network, Perfunkt engages gourmands and world-class chefs around original niche content. While Perfunkt seems to align with its audience’s minimalist tastes and plugs into Facebook’s Open Graph nicely, the site itself seems a little…well…perfunctory compared to Epicurious and the myriad of other foodie communities out there. So what do you think?...
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Will Facebook Credits Make the World Go 'Round?
With over 500 million users, Facebook is on top of the world. Which raises a good question: how can The Social Network avoid the MySpace conundrum? Minting the world’s first global currency is one option — hence Facebook Credits. The idea makes sense from a logistical standpoint, given Facebook’s vast walled garden. But are we ready for a global treasurer/creditor who: Knows...
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Shop Shop 'til You Drop. Shop Shop Never Stop.
http://www.playretailtherapy.com/PopSugar-Retail-Therapy-9128164#ooid=F3ODlrM… Stitch together select swatches of Habbo, Farmville and Second Life and you have PopSugar’s Retail Therapy. A new social fashion game, Retail Therapy allows users to create online boutiques where they can sell virtual goods to their friends from real brands like Topshop and Diane Von Furstenberg. While the...
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Tumblr Is Officially the Mack of Microblogs
About two hours ago, Tumblr joined the ranks of Quantcast’s top 50 U.S. sites — another win in a string of victories the microblog platform has had this year alone. So why is Tumblr on fire? Maybe it’s because that’s where big media’s been setting up shop. Or perhaps it’s due to the fact that they attract top talent. Our guess is that it has something to do with...
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Ben & Jerry's Nixes Email from Its eCRM Recipe
Ben & Jerry’s has always been a free-spirited brand. But hippie businessfolk don’t play when it comes to connecting with their communities. So when the savvy Vermont-based company announced its plans to replace email with social media in its eCRM program, the question became not “What were they smoking?” but “Where can I score some?” Decisions like this...
Fry It Up and Eat It Down
You know and love those Old Spice commercials. But did you know The Man Your Man Could Look Like will return your Twitter love on YouTube? As far as cross-promotion goes, this Wieden + Kennedy beast is half horse, half swan and all sorts of awesome — and it just keeps getting better. Fingers crossed it doesn’t jump the shark like some other wildly popular, character-driven campaigns we...
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The Economist Gets a Facelift
Apparently big media is betting elective surgery can help it cope with its identity crisis, and the new face of news has begun to emerge from underneath the bandages. In fact, between Bloomberg’s reboot, The Times’s digital mitosis, and the BBC news revamp (among others), we’re seeing the industry’s major players up the ante with each new bid for digital relevance. The...
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Not Turning Off
It’s like Keichii Matsuda took Jesse Schell’s predictions for the future of social and made them real. Do you like what you see? Posted via email from RPPL | Comment »
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Under the Influence of #influenceproject
At first blush, the Influence Project appears to be Don’t Tell Ashton on The Butterfly Effect’s budget. Not the case. A closer look at the competition Fast Company launched today reveals a social experiment aiming to show how influence works online. But will the project serve as a true barometer of individual influence or just one big breathalyzer for ego gratification? And, more...
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New BBC News Site on the Way
Less clutter. More video. More social. According to this sneak preview, these are just a few of the improvements we’ll see on the soon-to-be-refreshed BBC News website. Unlike recent Times and Sunday Times site revamps, the BBC News reboot looks to be more about knocking down UI barriers than building paywalls between its users and its content. Cheers to that. Posted via email ...
You got the touch →
Man, I love me a good behind-the-scenes reel. I don’t care whether it’s about browsers (happy b-day, Rube) or what I can only assume is psychotropic cat food — if it’s…
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You got the touch
Man, I love me a good behind-the-scenes reel. I don’t care whether it’s about browsers (happy b-day, Rube) or what I can only assume is psychotropic cat food — if it’s done well, a video about creatives making awesome stuff helps sell me on the product as well as the shops peddling it. Take Touching Stories, for example. The free iPad app came out on 6/25 — eons ago in...
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Never Forget Who Borrowed What Again
Too bad NeighborGoods isn’t backward-compatible with your life…. Posted via email from RPPL | Comment »
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Cliqset in the Building?
A behind-the-scenes player with tons of industry cred, Cliqset is the Cam’ron of lifestreaming platforms. But the launch of Cliqset 2.0 yesterday may help the social aggregator step into the mainstream. Like Killa Cam, Cliqset is all about flow. The service plugs your favorite social networks into a single stream, and recent enhancements up the ante by allowing users to feed, follow,...
June 2010
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Chatroulette: Big Thing? Next.
Andrew Ternovskiy’s head must be spinning. Until recently, everyone was betting the house on Chatroulette. We all went all in — even Jon Stewart, for the love of Peter. Then the bell tolled a resounding “donnnnnnggg” and the world nexted Mr. Ternovskiy. Yesterday Salon went so far as to pronounce Chatroulette dead, declaring that “you can’t build an empire on...
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The New MapQuest Is on a Mission
Impossible as it may seem, MapQuest used to set the gold standard for online map services. Then Google Maps and Bing Maps ran ‘em off the road like a couple of Spy Hunter bosses. With today’s launch of the new MapQuest, the veteran company is back like Pontiac to reclaim its booty. From the fresh new look and feel to the simplified UI, the new MapQuest seems to be positioning...