Cultural Offering; January 23, 2009

ANIMAL COLLECTIVE SOLD OUT
Within 2 hours.
Two.
Hours.
I'm so mad.
All the resellers are twice the price or more.

I HATE HYPE.

Anyway,

I don't like soda, but I love this pepsi spot:



So I visited refresheverything.com
and found videos of people leaving messages for President Obama.

Here's a good one...

Cultural Offering; November 28, 2008

Three posts in one day. But I found a website that whoever reads this (which is possible nobody) might find some kind of artistic/aesthetic/nostalgic value in. And I'm probably going to forget it sooner than later myself.

Being the culture and photography fan that I am, (I use 35mm, various Lomography cameras, digital and instant) Square America . com was really cool to find.

Basically it's a collection of mostly square color and b/w photographs taken in the mid 20th century. I've gone through a lot of the database, and this is one of my favorites:

Cultural Offerings; August 16, 2008

I saw an cool indie movie today: American Teen. It's basically just a documentary about these kids in their senior year of high school in Nowhere (aka Warsaw), Indiana. But seriously, I was sitting in the theater, jaw dropped at these kids and their incredible dysfunction. All of the kids they followed gravitated towards other people who would just hurt them. The movie subliminally bashed the clique scene, but there were no 'American teens' in the theater to make an impression on...

Cultural Offering;1969

I watched The original Italian Job today. It was a really fun picture. I've never seen the 2003 version, but it would be really hard to top this one. This is my cue to look for more classics and cult films!