June 2012
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shak - phases.EP
gotchu. by shak.
Jun 1st
May 2012
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Screen Hopping, The Endless Itch For Attention
The remote control and mobile phone have turned us into bored content hunters. We flip channels and websites hoping to find something that excites us. Such rapid hopping makes another person crazy. Indecision creates frustration. There’s simply too much choice on TV and the Web. Without a plan we scan content until we stumble upon something that grabs our attention. The final destination...
May 31st
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Pepil Pew - Fly With The Wind
Beyond the Sun.
May 31st
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Black Star - Respiration (feat. Black Thought)...
Late on this.
May 30th
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Refreshments on the Brooklyn Bridge
Source: bombtune.com via Wells on Pinterest
May 30th
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Apple Should Facilitate Social, Not Build It
Tim Cook hit it right on the head last night in his comments on Ping. We tried Ping, and the customer voted. (link) Ping was meant to be Spotify but it was stuck to downloads and actionable-click sharing. Conversely, Spotify streams and shares music playlists seamlessly. Apple should let Ping fade even if iTunes all of a sudden becomes part of Facebook’s frictionless sharing timeline and...
May 30th
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We can do anything
What we have to remember is that we can still do anything. We can change our minds. We can start over. Get a post-bac or try writing for the first time. The notion that it’s too late to do anything is comical. It’s hilarious. We’re graduating college. We’re so young. We can’t, we MUST not lose this sense of possibility because in the end, it’s all we have. A...
May 30th
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Joey Bada$$ Feat. CJ Fly - "Hardknock"
UK rapper pioneer Lewis Parker is producing for the kid. Per the comments: 90’s is back.
May 30th
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China turns its firewall into a points system
China is now running its microblogs on a point structure, rewarding points to good sentiment about the state and decreasing points for state criticism. Zero points equals a dead account. By controlling the Internet, China is creating the type of closed environment that will lead to a rise in modern Chinese Muckrakers. And Ai Weiwei will be the face of the movement. When Twitter broke a...
May 29th
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DIIV - "How Long Have You Known?"
I was in Brooklyn this weekend.
May 29th
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The Camera Collection
With all the mobile image hoopla today, this video serves as a nice reminder of what real cameras used to look like.
May 29th
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#WaterfrontNYC
Source: bombtune.com via Wells on Pinterest   Thanks Mike Bloomberg.
May 29th
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Is the Facebook Phone Really Worth The Time and...
The Facebook phone make sense. Facebook is a social ecosystem layered in with an app store, games, calendar, and a built in camera. It could push out an operating system today. But it’s hardware that’s Facebook’s biggest challenge. Just take a look at Amazon’s attempt to create a tablet. The Kindle Fire is no match for the iPad, minus the size and Apple is fixing...
May 28th
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Memorial Day
Source: bombtune.com via Wells on Pinterest
May 28th
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Street Art: Pigeons Flying On A Camouflaged...
Source: bombtune.com via Wells on Pinterest
May 27th
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MADEMOISELLE MAURICE
Source: mademoisellemaurice.com via Wells on Pinterest   Here’s how she did it. About Mademoiselle.
May 27th
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Getting School Children On Twitter
This is a wise effort to educate school children on participating in the public sphere with new tools of communication. Did she just say Ampersand?
May 27th
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Create a Life with Purpose
Leave the world with something it can remember. Measure how you achieve that goal. God is not an accountant.
May 27th
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Art Through Suffering With Ai WeiWei
You can push a creative man into silence but all this does is fuel his creative output. China held artist and “dissident” Ai WeiWei in captivity for 81 days. He nearly died. WeiWei is now turning his jail time experience into a piece of art. Source: nytimes.com via Wells on Pinterest   For WeiWei, creative expression is more about storytelling than profit. “Very few people...
May 27th
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MADEMOISELLE MAURICE
Source: mademoisellemaurice.com via Wells on Pinterest Here’s how she did it. About Mademoiselle.
May 27th
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Art Through Suffering With Ai WeiWei
You can push a creative man into silence but all this does is fuel his creative output. China held artist and “dissident” Ai WeiWei in captivity for 81 days. He nearly died. WeiWei is now turning his jail time experience into a piece of art. Source: nytimes.com via Wells on Pinterest For WeiWei, creative expression is more about storytelling than profit. “Very few people...
May 27th
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First Instagram, Then Twitter: Breaking News On...
.@dantoffey Joking aside I expect more Breaking News on @Instagram.The app is that fast.Twitter for the syndication. — Wells Baum (@bombtune) May 25, 2012 Instagram is for art. Instagram is for daily status updates. Instagram is also a news breaker. Instagram is real-time just like Twitter. In fact, Instagram precedes Twitter (No wonder Jack Dorsey wanted to buy it).  People are pulling out...
May 26th
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Columbia Nights - As You Are
As You Are by Columbia Nights
May 26th
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Furney - FabricLive
May 26th
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Weekend Reader
These are the most interesting articles I read through this week.
May 26th
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Had a walk through Central Park yesterday
May 26th
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Untilted #1 2008
Source: arnaudgerniers.com via Wells on Pinterest   It grows like a pupil. Selected Works by Arnaud Gerniers.
May 26th
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Liking Vs. Loving
Source: robinsloan.com via Wells on Pinterest   Can’t wait to read the manifesto in the form of an app.
May 26th
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NYC Pollution
Thanks.
May 25th
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How to Sketch Up Prototypes
Source: blogs.hbr.org via Wells on Pinterest   Sketching or mocking up experiential prototypes and then testing them with consumers or potential partners, while also explicitly jotting down your operating and business assumptions and using them to discuss the business with industry experts, allows you both to pick a promising route to invest in the development sprint and to pivot with...
May 25th
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LEON VYNEHALL - Mauve EP
“Sounds good.”
May 25th
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A Couch From Frank Lloyd Wright's House
Source: statigr.am via Wells on Pinterest
May 25th
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A Pragmatic Review of Facebook's Camera App
MG Siegler called Facebook’s Camera app “great.” The app is well designed from the outset. But upon digging deeper there a few things that should be called out. 1.  The icon design is a carbon copy of Camera+. Source: Uploaded by user via Wells on Pinterest   This goes back to my argument that Facebook is not creative. It has a history of copying others and taking...
May 25th
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Quakers
There are 35 rappers in this group.
May 25th
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Moby on Architecture
LA makes no sense. Moby’s architecture blog.
May 24th
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Today Show
Source: statigr.am via Wells on Pinterest
May 24th
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Is the Airport a Social Network?
The airport is the biggest/smallest physical social network. The hubs in Atlanta, Heathrow, and Munich bring people from all across the world, speaking the same language in design. Airport signs and rules are the same everywhere. You can figure out where you need to go just by following the terminal numbers. You can also follow the herd of passengers and not talk to anyone. Airports are symbolic...
May 24th
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Lenzman - How Did I Let U Go Feat. Riya
Proper.
May 23rd
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Rome, New York
Source: statigr.am via Wells on Pinterest
May 23rd
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The Places Where I Write My Book
Ross Gale.
May 23rd
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Eugene Polley, Wireless Remote Inventor
Eugene Polley enabled us to watch TV from the couch and bed, flipping channels, muting sound and turning the TV off with a push of a button. What’s most interesting about his invention is that It was promoted as an ad canceling device. You can even shut off annoying commercials while the picture remains on the screen. (link)Today, we set the DVR using the remote control to skip through...
May 23rd
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Jenova 7 & Mr. Moods - Time Travellers LP
[audio:http://www.bombtune.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Jenova_7_And_Mr._Moods_-_02_-_Set_The_Mood.mp3|titles=Jenova_7_And_Mr._Moods_-_02_-_Set_The_Mood] Jazz samples and instrumental hip hop just make so much sense. Free Download
May 23rd
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Clarity - Off The Cuff
Flipside’s ‘Off The Cuff’ resolutely sticks with the ultra-efficient aesthetic, using icepick-on-iron snares and wide, sludgy subs synced with cyber-strafing atmospheres for a proper dread future shock. (link)
May 23rd
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Never Forget
Ladder 23.
May 23rd
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Or Die Trying....
Source: bombtune.com via Wells on Pinterest
May 23rd
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Social Caveman
The word “social” is beginning to make me want to live in a cave forever. — Jon Mitchell (@ablaze) May 22, 2012 Seek balance?
May 23rd
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Neil Gaiman Commencement Address (2012)
How to avoid the miserable career: Do the next thing on the list. I learned to write by writing. Stop when it feels like work. Any moment now they will discover you. Learn to say no. The world conspires against success. Stop responding to email and writing more. When things get tough, make good art.  Make it on the bad days.  Make it the good days too. The things I did the best were the...
May 23rd
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Selective Hearing
Our hearing sucks in loud places. What could be an awesome conversation goes sour. So we just give a desultory nod. Seth Godin writes about the signal to noise ratio, using the nightclub as a metaphor for the constant loudness on Twitter and Facebook. Twitter and email and Facebook all have a bad ratio, and it’s getting worse. - Seth Godin Some people don’t go on Facebook simply...
May 22nd
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Can Art Change People's Lives?
You exist. Don’t forget that.
May 22nd
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Raja - When
Goldmine.
May 22nd