Linear A.
Ancient language, lost to the modern day. Largely undecipherable.
Given a choice between making love to Enigma or Kraftwerk, what would you choose? ☯92OCT
Back at his place, nightcap in hand, she noticed the bingo cage and saw blades and immediately regretted ever trusting OK Cupid’s vetting process.
(Photo: Chris Wahl; Dwell)
BEST IDEA EVER
via Thinkstank:
Secret Sontag Gift Exchange
Holiday ritual in which each participant draws the name of another participant out of a hat and then sends them an anonymous greeting card featuring a quote by essayist Susan Sontag and probably some sort of holiday greeting while you’re at it.
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two sentences i did not expect to see next to each other
- “If fashion in the last 10 to 20 years has taught men and women anything, it is that one element of your look should be a little wrong. Otherwise, you have all the warmth and excitement of a piece of cardboard. You’re not real. You’re not somebody we want to have sex with in Dumbo, Brooklyn.” writes Cathy Horyn in an article titled ”The Five Things You Need For Fall” in today’s New York Times.
…So I started searching out stories about those who had gone off-script with unconventional arrangements. I had to page back through an entire century, down past the riot grrrls, then the women’s libbers, then the flappers, before I found people who talked about love in a way I could relate to: the free-thinking adventurers of early-1900s Greenwich Village. Susan Glaspell, Neith Boyce, Edna St. Vincent Millay—they investigated the limits and possibilities of intimacy with a naive audacity, and a touching decorum, that I found familiar and comforting.
(Previously.)
Every Playboy Centerfold, The 1980s (normalized) 2002
Digital C-prints.
Ed. 5 2 APs. 60” x 29.5”.
From a broader series begun in 1997, the photographs in this suite are the result of mean averaging every Playboy centerfold foldout for the four decades beginning Jan. 1960 through Dec. 1999. This tracks, en masse, the evolution of this form of portraiture.
Tech notes on the amalgamation body of work:
Most of the early amalgamation print work (Playboy, Class, Homes, 76BJs) was made with code I wrote in C on Unix-based SGIs using Paul Haeberli’s SGI file format.
Later amalgamation work (Decades, Late Night, Special Moments) was done in C/C on Windows boxes with the ImageMagick C libraries. I did The Song of the Century manually with PC audio software (I honestly cannot remember what software, but I did download a few of the cover songs with the original Napster)
For the City and Loop pieces, we actually modelled much of Chicago’s Loop as semi-transparent, textured rectangles and rendered this “city” from typical tourist vantage points. All of this was done in Maya. The Portrait pieces were done with Processing.
Ask the Author Live: Nick Paumgarten on Online Dating : The New Yorker (via sarplus)
QUESTION FROM SHELLY: Your article mentioned that women like the photos of shirtless men. Really??! It’s a complete turn off to me. Along with the photos of the men holding fish. I have to ask the men out there…why do they put these photos up there?
NICK PAUMGARTEN: Well, that surprised me too. I’m told it depends on the man, and of course the woman. The one thing I learned from all this is that there’s something for everyone out there, or maybe it’s, there someone for everything. It’s hard to generalize. As for the fish, I like such photos, but I guess it depends on the fish. A big striper is impressive. Maybe men-with-fish photos is the equivalent of women-with-cat photos
Awesome beyond belief.
QUESTION FROM S: Did any of the people you talk to equate it to online window shopping? I feel like that’s how I often use OK Cupid. I’ll have that open in one tab, and Anthropologie.com open in another, and really I’m just killing time with both, not looking to buy.
Also this:
So much emailing, so many halting nights out. It’s funny, it’s, like, the return of the ritual. Jane Austen for a new age.
(Previously.)
(via sarplus)
(via Eyetracking points the way to effective news article design)
“…this difference doesn’t just occur with images of people. Men tend to fixate more on areas of private anatomy on animals as well, as evidenced when users were directed to browse the American Kennel Club site.”
