Month: August 2011
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Foster The People, Live At Lollapalooza
My friends in our music dept called this one over a year ago! (via Perez)
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Sunday In The Garden In Brooklyn
Yesterday = A bowl of tomatoes from our garden, fresh from rain the day before, and a new chair in which to sit and eat them.
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Brand As Super-Utility: Levis’ “The Commuter”
Even from a jeans company. It’s not only possible, it’s what we’ve come to expect.
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General Motors Announces Partnership with MTV’s “Creative SWAT Team” Scratch
Last week, GM’s North America President, Mark Reuss, announced the company’s groundbreaking partnership with Scratch in Traverse City, Michigan. The goal? Help transform Chevrolet to win with Millennials. Here’s an excerpt from Reuss’ speech: “We can re-establish Chevy as an automotive icon for those who remember the glory days, yes. But there are even more…
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Still Pretty Much My Favorite Music Video
Somehow the description in the MTV Music Player is “painful,” and I guess I can accept that, though I’d say Yo La Tengo’s “From A Motel 6” is more a poem about the beauty of an open wound if not a love song from Ira to Georgia on drums. Yo La TengoGet More: Yo La…
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Jonathan Safran Foer’s TREE OF CODES
All year, I’ve been studying car manufacturing processes (complicated) and the history of soda bottling (simpler but with more bullies), so it’s refreshing to come across a short film on the manufacturing of my friend Foer’s ambitious little book, TREE OF CODES. Published last year, TREE OF CODES required a painstaking process in which chunks…
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Happy Birthday MTV
What got us here? Apparently, “Radio Language”… Courtesy of Steve Schutzman