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Loving the bling. Good jam too.

Here’s the Tupac hologram from Coachella. Pretty insane. I’d love to know how this was made.

merlin:

texburgher:

How one iPhone app changed everything.

Skyward

Holy God, this is great. You’re all so amazingly cute. I want to french all of you.

GO! Buy Birdhouse!

(via texburgher)

Oh…the good old days.

inj:

AZEALIA BANKS :: 212 FT. LAZY JAY

been on repeat for a while over here

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cleversimon:

Futility Closet:

When Polish composer André Tchaikowsky died in 1982, he left his skull to the Royal Shakespeare Company in hopes that he might appear as Yorick in a production of Hamlet.

No one felt comfortable fulfilling this wish until David Tennant used the skull in a performance in Stratford-upon-Avon in 2008. He continued to use it throughout the production’s West End run and in a later television adaptation.

“André’s skull was a profound memento mori, which perhaps no prop skull could quite provide,” said director Gregory Doran. “I hope other productions may, with the greatest respect for André, use the skull as he intended it to be used, for precisely this purpose.”

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beatboxgoesthump:

this was our city last night. slightly frightening :)

Crazy.

The Virb Blog: Virb + Instagram →

virb:

When we rolled out the Virb Admin updates two weeks ago, there were a few surprises that didn’t make it into the final release. Today, we’re excited to unveil one of those little treats.

I’ve been looking to switch to Virb for a while now. I think this will be my project for the afternoon.

Phoneography lovers rejoice, for Instagram galleries have come to Virb.

[golf clap]

With only a…

Rethinking Smaller, Smarter Social — Then Rethinking It Again

parislemon:

Back in October of last year, I wrote about one of our early CrunchFund portfolio companies, Everyme. At the time, they were rethinking social networking through the lens of the original digital social network: your mobile phone address book.

They put an app out there and a lot of people were testing it, sending feedback. That’s when the team had a realization: they were onto something, but they weren’t quite there. So they went back to the drawing board and rethought their rethinking of social. The result is the Everyme app launching today.

Address book information is still key, but it’s no longer about recreating your address book to make it social. It’s now about using the connections in there to create small, private networks — called yes, Circles. By syncing your address book information with Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn, Everyme can automatically cluster people together and populate some key Circles for you. Your hometown, your college, your current city, your work, etc.

This is similar in concept to what Google does with Google+ Circles, but the key is that most users won’t have to set up their own. And managing them is much simpler. The concept of Google+ Circles is right, but no one is going to manage them. No one does. It’s flawed.

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Basically a Path ripoff with some Google+ features. If Path doesn’t sell to Google these guys will. Lame.

"I don’t know, that’s a tough one, man. Jay’s Roc-A-Fella chain is one of the best chains in hip-hop. Of course Kanye’s Jesus piece is maybe arguably the best. But I think the Roc-A-Fella chain is the best original idea to turn into a chain. So Jay definitely gets extra points for that. I got to honestly say all of Kanye’s chains are very, very detailed and tasteful, more so than I’ve ever seen. His Murakami Jesus piece is probably the best Jesus piece I’ve ever seen. My chains are going to be cooler than all of theirs, though."

— Big Sean on whose jewelry is better, Jay-z’s or Kanye’s (via howtotalktogirlsatparties)

If Path beats Facebook in mobile and Google+ can’t compete with Facebook on desktop, wouldn’t it make sense for Google+ to try and buy Path?

(Source: bosstalkn)

(Source: bosstalkn)

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parislemon:

fuckyeahmovieposters:

On the Road

Expectations will be extremely high for obvious reasons, but I’m actually looking forward to this. Walter Salles’ The Motorcycle Diaries is one of my favorites. Here’s the trailer.

I wonder if the movie will be as dreadfully boring as the novel.

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Check out the work of Sam Spratt

So good.

"Mr. Stephanopoulos pointed out that a college education had long been part of the American dream. But Mr. Santorum said there are “a lot of people in this country that have no desire or no aspiration to go to college” because they had different skills and different interests. And, as he told the radio talk show host Glenn Beck last week, he said President Obama wanted everyone to go to college because the campuses are “indoctrination mills."

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Santorum Says Religion and Conservative Principles Are at Risk - NYTimes.com

How is this type of discourse even a possibility in our country’s national dialog? It’s frightening.