Things that make me happy

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May 23
Surftourist.com: Surf Senegal

Added a new destination to my list… Senegal. Wonder how kid friendly those breaks are… 

surftourist:

“The sandy, rock–strewn shoreline is full of painted fishing boats and is framed between a long ochre cliff and a grassy headland; Ouakam’s rights freight–train across the shallow reef.”

From Drift’s recent story of a trip to Senegal.

They stayed at N’gor Island surfcamp. A place I’d like…
May 20
I feel like you could change British to Seattle-ite and it would still be true… 

I feel like you could change British to Seattle-ite and it would still be true… 

May 10
“ A great city should be an inventory of the possible. Descartes, writing about 17th-century Amsterdam
May 5
This was so cute I think my ovaries are going to explode.  We were in Nusu Lembongan (population 150), a little island off the coast of Bali for Steve and Glo’s wedding. As we waited for a boat, we were all taking photos of some gorgeous little village kids who were hamming it up for the camera.  I had my polaroid camera with me and snapped a photo of them and gave it to them. They were so confused by it - they couldn’t figure out why I just gave them a black piece of paper. They were turning it over and over looking for the digital screen (yep, even village kids in remote Indonesian islands understand digital cameras)… I told them to wait (not that they understood me) and mimed shaking it.  They shook it and shook it and shook it and finally the picture started to appear. As far as they were concerned, I just created magic. It was the most adorable thing I have ever seen…  It quickly descended into a “Gods Must Be Crazy” fight for who owned the polaroid between the 5 of them. (That littlest girl seems small but she’s pretty tenacious). I made them pose again and snapped off another 4 photos and handed them around. They started shaking the polaroids furiously and we all watched them gather round as they developed. There was squealing and pointing and much glee.  10 minutes later there were still shaking those polaroids.  They ran up to show the rest of the village, and everyone they showed also had to be shown how to shake it. 30 minutes later and they were still being shaken.  I wanted to tell them they could stop shaking once the photo developed but how do you really mime that? Besides, it was stinking hot and I was about to jump onto a boat and kind of lacked the energy to go through the whole exercise.  As far as I know, those kids are still shaking those polaroids.  Every time I start getting wound up or stressed, get too involved with work and start losing sight of a healthy perspective I’m going to think back to that moment of the first photo developing for kids who had never seen printed photos,  and try remember how magic those few minutes were.  Now THAT is what life is all about. 

This was so cute I think my ovaries are going to explode. 

We were in Nusu Lembongan (population 150), a little island off the coast of Bali for Steve and Glo’s wedding. As we waited for a boat, we were all taking photos of some gorgeous little village kids who were hamming it up for the camera. 

I had my polaroid camera with me and snapped a photo of them and gave it to them. They were so confused by it - they couldn’t figure out why I just gave them a black piece of paper. They were turning it over and over looking for the digital screen (yep, even village kids in remote Indonesian islands understand digital cameras)… I told them to wait (not that they understood me) and mimed shaking it. 

They shook it and shook it and shook it and finally the picture started to appear. As far as they were concerned, I just created magic. It was the most adorable thing I have ever seen… 

It quickly descended into a “Gods Must Be Crazy” fight for who owned the polaroid between the 5 of them. (That littlest girl seems small but she’s pretty tenacious).

I made them pose again and snapped off another 4 photos and handed them around. They started shaking the polaroids furiously and we all watched them gather round as they developed. There was squealing and pointing and much glee. 

10 minutes later there were still shaking those polaroids. 

They ran up to show the rest of the village, and everyone they showed also had to be shown how to shake it. 30 minutes later and they were still being shaken. 

I wanted to tell them they could stop shaking once the photo developed but how do you really mime that? Besides, it was stinking hot and I was about to jump onto a boat and kind of lacked the energy to go through the whole exercise. 

As far as I know, those kids are still shaking those polaroids. 

Every time I start getting wound up or stressed, get too involved with work and start losing sight of a healthy perspective I’m going to think back to that moment of the first photo developing for kids who had never seen printed photos,  and try remember how magic those few minutes were. 

Now THAT is what life is all about. 

May 3

Analysis of Tom from (500) Days Of Summer as a sympathetic character

joshishollywood:

  1. Summer is rather up front with Tom about her intentions
  2. Tom says that’s cool
  3. It’s clearly not cool
  4. But he says it’s cool anyways because he thinks he can change her perception of relationships
  5. He can’t
  6. Summer does exactly what she said she was going to do
  7. Tom hates her for it
  8. Tom cries and is a complete dick to everyone
  9. The joke here is that Tom is not a sympathetic character
  10. Because Summer isn’t a bitch
  11. Tom is just a gigantic man-baby

(via clambistro)

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April 27
“ Flipboard aggregates content from your social graph in really lovely ways, but the juxtaposition of oral culture in an essentially literate design doesn’t always make sense. It’s quite odd to see your friend’s tweet about their breakfast burrito elevated to a strikingly designed pull-quote. The pull quote is a design pattern that emerged from a culture of publishing—from a process by which an editor would carefully select a bit of text that, when extracted and enlarged, would resonate with the greater work. But here, there is no greater work, and no editor: only the blind act of an algorithm.

That algorithm knows a lot about who your friends are, and what they recommend, but it does not (yet, at least), recognize the difference between talking and publishing. The result is content that looks beautiful, typographically speaking, but whose effect is dissonant, rather than engaging. Most of of conversations on social media are in an oral tradition, not a literate one - even though they’re in written form. Via a working library (link thanks to @monsieurmorris)

(via somethingchanged)
March 24

March 23

clembastow:

macleanbrendan:

Brendan Maclean covers Rebecca Black

I LOVE YOU BRENDAN

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clembastow: (via peterberkman)

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March 19

This is great! A traffic light for pedestrians that encourages yoga while you wait to cross

March 17
marrypotter: KOI INSTELLATION by SIPHO MABONA

marrypotter:

KOI INSTELLATION by SIPHO MABONA

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March 16
clembastow: Catherine McNeil by Greg Kadel for Vogue Australia

clembastow:

Catherine McNeil by Greg Kadel for Vogue Australia

(Source: clambistro)

March 8
somethingchanged: How Long Do Animals Live?  Vintage Isotype infographic via Information is Beautiful, lesstraveledby.

somethingchanged:

How Long Do Animals Live?  Vintage Isotype infographic via Information is Beautiful, lesstraveledby.

March 5
"I've got a message for the action man..."

God I wish I could write like this. 

clembastow:

It’s February the 19th, 2011, and I’ve just finished my sixth beer of the night. I haven’t shaven since January, and work… Well, work’s not something I can talk about right now. Suffice it to say, work is hell, future uncertain, etc.

Tomorrow will mark one year since my uncle lost his battle with…

(Source: notbuddyblanc, via clambistro)