May 29, 2012 • 7,484 notes • laylali

Life can be so much fun. 

May 28, 2012 • 1 note

Jason Evans, The Daily Nice

“It’s not about the pictures but what their content and display and disappearance suggests in a silly accelerated consumer society.”


“Carrying a camera becomes a reminder to think positive. Small miracles are their own reward. I am consuming, but in a more sustainable, healthy way. The last 10-15 years has been a time when I’ve been learning how to live with my own depression and TDN has been a part of that.”

+ Jason Evans, about the therapeutic process on having a blog about niceness.

 


May 23, 2012 • 172 notes • meme-meme
Wrong?

Wrong?

May 11, 2012 • 3 notes • http

THE ARMY OF LUCK, OR THE GLOBAL PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS “Your concept of happiness is our lucky command. Write it on the keyboard”.

Words and sentences up to 40 characters can be put in and are displayed clearly visible with the paws letter by letter as sliding text marquee.

So to say, the users »choreograph« the Lucky Cats performance wordwise. Literally it is the »inscription« of an idea of happiness or a wish in the Lucky Cats’ bodies by moving their paws forward and backward.

May 11, 2012

Urban Datasexual.

 Dominic Basulto parallels the urban metrosexual to those who collect personal data.

The same cultural zeitgeist that gave us the metrosexual - the urban male obsessive about grooming and personal appearance - is also creating its digital equivalent: the datasexual. The datasexual looks a lot like you and me, but what’s different is their preoccupation with personal data. They are relentlessly digital, they obsessively record everything about their personal lives, and they think that data is sexy. In fact, the bigger the data, the sexier it becomes.Their lives — from a data perspective, at least — are perfectly groomed.

More here.

May 8, 2012

Weapons of Mass Creation, A Midwest Art, Design & Music Festival

Weapons of Mass Creation Fest

Weapons of Mass Creation Fest is an art, design and music festival that features “20 speakers, 20 designers, and nearly 30 bands.”

The festival happens June 8 through June 10, 2012 at the Gordon Square Arts Districton Detroit Avenue in Cleveland, Ohio. 

Weapons of Mass Creation is a young grassroots movement to inspire and enable the creative mind. We believe that good things happen when ideas and talents are shared within the community. This mentality manifests itself in the lifestyle of a Weapon of Mass Creation. A person who defies the hand they’re dealt and makes stuff happen.

Once a year, we have WMC Fest; the annual gathering of this community right here in Cleveland, OH. We celebrate and showcase the creative visionaries who embody this lifestyle. We bring the movement to the masses. Some have compared WMC Fest to SXSW, Brooklyn Beta, FITC, or the 99% Conference but with an indie/diy flavor. We aren’t exactly trying to be like them, but the comparison is flattering nonetheless. It’s part conference, part concert, part art show, and part festival. It’s simply WMC Fest!

Weapons of Mass Creation

Tickets are available to purchase now.

May 8, 2012

“I’m a strategist, I keep an eye on the world.”

In this interview-style short, a piece of toast says he’s a strategist working for an elite secret organization that will help the world as it transitions into the “end times.” A raccoon is his faithful servant.

Peak Condition (2012) Created by Laura Jane Favela

May 2, 2012 • 16,598 notes • free-parking
An anonymous author’s novel written on the walls of an abandoned house in Chongqing, China

An anonymous author’s novel written on the walls of an abandoned house in Chongqing, China

May 2, 2012 • 459 notes • life
To me the face – the eyes, the expression of the mouth – is the thing that reflects character. It is the only part of the body that permits us to see the inner person.
Philippe Halsman. See his work here. 
May 2, 2012 • 68,332 notes • grvnge
Born on the island of Moloka`i, Hawaii, Zoe is the only known captive white (golden) zebra in existence. You can read more about her here.

Born on the island of Moloka`i, Hawaii, Zoe is the only known captive white (golden) zebra in existence. You can read more about her here.