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Jordan Harper

Miscellany, waffle, gratuitously stolen links, and much, much less.
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Permanent link to '‘Oh, the Farmer and the Cowman Should Be Friends’, 2009 by Ron Arad. Taken from Ron Arad: Restless, the new retrospective of Arad’s work currently on display at the Barbican, London.'
‘Oh, the Farmer and the Cowman Should Be Friends’, 2009 by Ron Arad. Taken from Ron Arad: Restless, the new retrospective of Arad’s work currently on display at the Barbican, London.

‘Oh, the Farmer and the Cowman Should Be Friends’, 2009 by Ron Arad. Taken from Ron Arad: Restless, the new retrospective of Arad’s work currently on display at the Barbican, London.

Permanent link to 'Authenticity is invaluable, originality in non-existent.'

“Authenticity is invaluable, originality in non-existent.”

— Jim Jarmusch

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Mamihlapinatapais

Mamihlapinatapais, from the Yaghan language of Tierra del Fuego, is considered the world’s most succinct word — and the hardest to translate.

It means “a look shared by two people, each wishing that the other will initiate something that both desire but that neither one wants to start.”

(via Magic Words)

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Permanent link to 'Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.'

“Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.”

— Henry David Thoreau (via theimpossiblecool) (via tapwaterjackson) (via quote-book)

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A Night At The Emirates - Beautiful documentary by Rohan Blair-Mangat shot at the Arsenal Liverpool game on 10 Feb 2010. I’ve yet to see a video that better captures the feel of a weeknight at the football. Watch it full screen in HD. (via @arseblog)

Permanent link to 'It also involves very little war, moats, spaceships, wizards, mafiosos, or tapestries. Also: we have egg plants. Egg plants make it very different.'

“It also involves very little war, moats, spaceships, wizards, mafiosos, or tapestries. Also: we have egg plants. Egg plants make it very different.”

Glitch, a new multiplayer online game from the founders of Flickr.

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Permanent link to 'Eat your heart out Delboy. Mango Rooms in Camden, top cocktails.'
Eat your heart out Delboy. Mango Rooms in Camden, top cocktails.

Eat your heart out Delboy. Mango Rooms in Camden, top cocktails.

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Beautifully shot video from DTP.DDDD where the folks at Intelligentsia coffee in Venice, CA explain what makes an espresso great. I like.

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I was about to post Edouard Salier’s awesome video for Massive Attack’s Splitting the Atom, but seeing it reminded me of his equally awesome (but very different) video he made last year for Raphael Saadiq, that I don’t think I posted at the time. (Raphael Saadiq - Let’s Take A Walk directed by Edouard Salier on Vimeo)

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Permanent link to 'Sapporo was laid out in 1869 and has a street plan like New York’s … The result is a checkerboard that was considered at the time of the city’s founding to be “modern” and “Western”. Ironically, the Japanese city that Sapporo most resembles in this respect is Kyoto, laid out on an exactly similar pattern in the year 794 in imitation of China’s three-thousand-year-old capital of Ch’ang-an. “Modernity” is an oddly blinkered concept.'

“Sapporo was laid out in 1869 and has a street plan like New York’s … The result is a checkerboard that was considered at the time of the city’s founding to be “modern” and “Western”. Ironically, the Japanese city that Sapporo most resembles in this respect is Kyoto, laid out on an exactly similar pattern in the year 794 in imitation of China’s three-thousand-year-old capital of Ch’ang-an. “Modernity” is an oddly blinkered concept.”

— Alan Booth, The Roads to Sata