the daily thing:

my ongoing multimedia mixtape

by Lisa Gidley from spiraling.com

also see the blog of my New York City photographs, Station to Station

and the blog of my Polaroids, Now It's In Your Hands

June 28
Love this cover. benjaminhilts: newyorker: In this week’s issue: George Packer on the McChrystal debacle; Ken Auletta on Afghanistan’s first media mogul; Tad Friend on Steve Carell; Charlayne Hunter-Gault on Jacob Zuma; Rebecca Mead on playgrounds; James Surowiecki on financial illiteracy; Sasha Frere-Jones on Robyn; James Wood on David Mitchell; Peter Schjeldahl on Charles Burchfield; David Denby on “Knight and Day” and “Winter’s Bone”; fiction by Sarah Shun-lien Bynum; and more: http://www.newyorker.com/
Love this cover.

benjaminhilts:

newyorker:

In this week’s issue: George Packer on the McChrystal debacle; Ken Auletta on Afghanistan’s first media mogul; Tad Friend on Steve Carell; Charlayne Hunter-Gault on Jacob Zuma; Rebecca Mead on playgrounds; James Surowiecki on financial illiteracy; Sasha Frere-Jones on Robyn; James Wood on David Mitchell; Peter Schjeldahl on Charles Burchfield; David Denby on “Knight and Day” and “Winter’s Bone”; fiction by Sarah Shun-lien Bynum; and more: http://www.newyorker.com/
June 25
“ With his party having won 6 of the City Council’s 15 seats, Mr. Gnarr needed a coalition partner, but ruled out any party whose members had not seen all five seasons of The Wire. The Saturday Profile - Icelander’s Campaign Is a Joke, Until He’s Elected - Biography - NYTimes.com
June 21

Chuck Jones: “The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics” (1965)

June 20
(via snuh)

(via snuh)

June 19
“I think I was always misunderstood. People just didn’t think to like me. I think I annoyed them … I got on their nerves. I don’t know way. It was just the way it was. Maybe I was too intense.”

(via pal Julianna on Facebook)

June 17
5-Second Films | Gentleman Caller

via douglaswolk:

It’s really eight seconds long including the credits. But definitely worth it.
June 16
(via thediscography : fuckthereallife : 3000km : illillill : Caitlin Burke)

(via thediscography : fuckthereallife : 3000km : illillill : Caitlin Burke)

June 15
Map: Where Americans Are Moving “More than 10 million Americans moved from one county to another during 2008. The map below visualizes those moves. Click on any county to see comings and goings: black lines indicate net inward movement, red lines net outward movement.”

This is fun to mess with. That’s a lot of lines coming into Multnomah County! It looks like we sent 100 people to Austin and got 97 in return.

June 14

The “Hot Lunch” scene from Fame (1980) (or, the exact opposite of my high school cafeteria).

June 13
Most Frequently Looked-up Words on NYTimes.com, 2010
June 11
stilllifequickheart: Marsden Hartley Mushrooms on a Blue Background 1929

stilllifequickheart:

Marsden Hartley

Mushrooms on a Blue Background

1929

June 10

Bob Ross: “Painting an Evergreen Tree”

June 8
The BP Oil Spill Re-Enacted By Cats in One Minute.

(via pal Dylan on Facebook)

June 5
Down to Titan!

Wow. A weirdly beautiful compilation of the actual images and data recorded when the Huygens probe descended to Saturn’s moon Titan in 2005.
June 4

A late-’70s St. Louis news report on the already-thriving subculture surrounding midnight showings of The Rocky Horror Picture Show … and look at the poofy-haired, fully made up kid around 1:25! Could it be Michael Stipe?