weekly notes: january 14, 2011

play with this:

• z-type. it’s like asteroids meets carpal tunnel syndrome.

want this:

• magic milk straws. i approve of this.

check this out:

• the t-shirt lifecycle. so true.
• electronic music flowchart. so true. but it’s missing bleeps. you can’t have bleepy-bloops without bleeps.
• 8 great infographics. i particularly liked the first three.
• how the recession changed us.
• 15 songs you didn’t realize were covers. and for some reason that is currently beyond my comprehension, i always thought otis redding was white. how this is possible i don’t even.

look at this:

• chernobyl 25 years later
• a historic vote in sudan
• haiti, one year later
• 10 important pictures that shaped america

read this:

• the mathematics of beauty. a really cool/nerdy read.
• why chinese mothers are superior. apparently, my mother is chinese.
• white guy shooting = crazy; brown guy shooting = terrorist. word.
• a conversation with francis ford coppola. i’m not even a coppola fan, but this is a good read.
• 6 most frequently quoted bullshit statistic

listen to this:

• enrico coniglio – salicornie
• pausal – lapsing
• bachar mar-khalife – distance
• eluvium – crash deconstructed
• dustin o’hallaron – opus 54

watch this:

• hauschka gets the most out of 88 keys.
• we can’t fucking walk in straight lines. why? who cares! just knowing that is pretty awesome.

• the frontier is everywhere

• croissants (basically, the most oddly captivating 10 minutes of bread baking you’ll ever see)