.@espn Who is this?
— NHL Blue Jackets (@BlueJacketsNHL) November 11, 2014
ESPN used to cover hockey. The year was 1992. The Blue Jackets never forget. #LUMBUS
.@espn Who is this?
— NHL Blue Jackets (@BlueJacketsNHL) November 11, 2014
ESPN used to cover hockey. The year was 1992. The Blue Jackets never forget. #LUMBUS
Thomas Rowlandson, Death in the Dissecting Room, 1815
Having at last reached the end of Tolstoy’s novel, the book is finally being closed on Franklin & Bash, USA’s epic tale of man’s constant struggle against the laws of God and nature, and how—if humanity hopes to scratch its name into the very face of the Earth, to leave its mark, to scream aloud that it was here, that we lived and we breathed in the sun and rain, in both drought and flood, in the promise of heaven or threat of hell—then sometimes those laws must be subverted by a couple of bros in cool suits. It’s a fight we make every single day of our existence, and it’s one Mark-Paul Gosselaar and Breckin Meyer made every summer since 2011. But their battle is now at an end. Ours must go on without them.
According to Deadline, the ratings for Franklin ...
In this incredibly vulgar display of cuteness, an adorable baby boy named Wyatt rocks out on the drums (with a little help from his parents) to the hardcore heavy metal Pantera song “5 Minutes Alone.”
In 2010, artist Kat O’Sullivan (Katwise) began transforming her house in a rural stretch of Upstate New York into an incredibly colorful work of art. The house, now known as Calico, the House That Sweaters Built, is adorned inside and out with a “psychedelic rainbow” of lurid colors and patterns. The house is a work-in-progress, and O’Sullivan promises that “it will only get weirder.” When she’s not further adorning her house, O’Sullivan sells clothes that she makes from recycled sweaters on her Etsy store.
photos via Kat O’Sullivan
via Hi-Fructose
taking a selfie thinking it looks good and then seeing it flipped
firehoseall carriers suck forever
firehose'He is preaching to 150 fresh-faced young marketing professionals gathered in the lower-Manhattan headquarters of Horizon Media to hear him deliver a talk entitled "Consumers: The New Renegades." Known for his gravity-defying spiked black coiffure, Shingy wears (perhaps even "rocks") oversize specs, slim black pants, a paint-spattered button-down, and Roman sandals. He speaks animatedly of brand engagement and native advertising as a stream of vivid images flash and flow across the wall of screens behind him: a flask bearing the phrase FUCK ROSÉ; a hamburger in extreme close-up; Shingy's upraised middle finger in sharp focus, his black nail polish gleaming against a bleached white sky.
"Sitting on a beanbag does not make you a creative!" he shouts in his lively Australian tenor.'
firehosesome raw-ass shit got announced while I was gone beat
firehosesome raw-ass shit got announced while I was gone beat
firehosesome raw-ass shit got announced while I was gone beat
firehosevia Rosalind
New Zealander Marty Todd (previously) shot some video of Rambro the Angry Ram up to his old tricks again, this time taking on the bucket of a six-ton excavator.
firehosevia Russian Sledges
They have been in business for 65 years and have almost 2,000 titles under their belt.
They produce some of the most beautiful and well-made books on the planet.
They work with the leading illustrators in the world.
Yet the Folio Society remains far from a household name.
Why?
Their business model stinks.
They operated exclusively as a membership book club and didn’t spend any energy actively promoting their titles until two years ago!
Focusing on high-quality production values centered on packaging, typography, and illustration should not automatically negate attention to distribution, marketing and building brand awareness. It is the age old quandary faced by so many publishers of the well-made book.
During my years at Wessel & Lieberman we tried numerous times to carry their books in our shop but to no avail. One of the illustrators we represented, Charles van Sandwyk, illustrated Andrew Lang’s Blue Fairy Book for them and we were eager to both carry it and promote it. No such luck, Mark Wessel ended up becoming a member so we could acquire copies to provide to our clients who collected van Sandwyk’s books.
illustration by Charles van Sandwyk for the Blue Fairy Book
Hopefully this is about to change. Their website has finally opened its offerings to anyone, member or not and they have entered the world of social media. They have an advertising campaign underway in The New Yorker and are showing up at and sponsoring various book festivals. I am not sure they have included booksellers into their new mix yet but clearly they are making a concerted effort to emerge from the marketing darkness.
Ironically, the PR push coincides with the release of their latest book, a new edition of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness beautifully illustrated by Sean McSorley.
Folio Society Tries To Raise Its Profile | Publisher’s Weekly
Illustrating a Heart of Darkness | Creative Review
firehosevia Matthew Connor
John Carpenter’s synth-driven film scores have experienced a cultural resurgence of late, referenced by modern composers in movies like The Guest, Cold In July, and Drive, and inspiring such electronic acts as Steve Moore, Com Truise, Umberto, Power Glove, Pye Corner Audio, and many others. Building on this momentum, Sacred Bones Records will release an album of new Carpenter music on February 3, 2015.
Titled Lost Themes, the album was originally rumored to be unreleased material that Carpenter had discarded for his previous films. But it turns out the songs are all new creations—although listeners are encouraged to envision Kurt Russell screaming in the foreground as they play. In the press release, Carpenter calls them “little moments of score from movies made in our imaginations.”
The track listing reads like discarded band names for a Tampa goth outfit:
1. Vortex
2. Obsidian
3. Fallen
4. Domain
5. Mystery ...
firehose'For a flat installation fee, the company will install a rack of servers in your office, with its own power and Internet connection. Cloud&Heat then pays the bills and you get the heat.'
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When Adrienne Moore switched from an iPhone 4 to a Samsung Galaxy S5 earlier this year, problems with iMessage prohibited her new phone from getting text messages sent to her number. She filed a lawsuit in May, and Reuters reports that US District Judge Lucy Koh has ruled that the suit will move forward.
Apple acknowledged earlier this year that there was a "server-side bug" causing trouble for customers attempting to leave iMessage and deregister their numbers. If your number is still in Apple's system, iMessages sent to you could appear to senders as if they've been delivered even though the recipient hasn't actually gotten them.
Moore claims that the inability to receive messages interfered with her mobile contract, and that Apple violated California's Consumers Legal Remedies Act and Unfair Competition Law. In an earlier motion to dismiss the suit (PDF), Apple said that Moore "did not tell Apple that she was no longer using her iPhone" (in other words, she didn't de-register the iPhone from the iMessage service before getting rid of it), and that Apple never promised that iMessage "would automatically recognize a user's transition to a new device. From that motion: