• Some expired Fuji NPS160 in a $5 Olympus XA I found at a sidewalk sale. Worked OK, but a bit underexposed. Gotta remember that.

  • While she savors the space and mental calm of the suburbs, she finds herself looking hopefully for signs of creative ferment. “We’ve found it in pockets,” Ms. Ghiorse said. “Once in a while, you’ll think, ‘This place gets it,’ because they have a Fernet Branca cocktail on their menu.”

    —Creating Hipsturbia, New York Times, 2/17/2013

  • Russian dashboard cameras: not just for crazy car accidents and suicidal pedestrians anymore.

    (via jstn)

  • But it’s just very difficult to simultaneously be the place people think of when they’re thinking “I wish I could have a hard-shell taco with the shell made out of Doritos” and the place where people think “I wish chef Lorena Garcia would whip up some fresh flavors out of high-quality ingredients.”

    This is one of the reasons why Demolition Man’s vision of a future in which all restaurants are Taco Bell doesn’t make sense.

    —Cool Ranch Doritos Locos tacos coming in March: Taco Bell still cares about downscale.

  • The Coquette: On Super Bowl Advertising

    coketalk:

    This is marketing disguised as propaganda:

    This is propaganda disguised as marketing:

    The Scientology “Knowledge” ad is trying to make you buy something, whereas the Dodge “God Made a Farmer” ad is trying to make you believe something.

    That’s an incredibly important distinction.

  • Or, alternatively, you could sit at home with a nice cup of tea, and wonder why on earth the visual arts world is still using a language that almost everyone else has dropped. You could plough through some exhibition catalogues, and some visual arts criticism (which often doesn’t seem to be all that critical) and look at some galleries’ websites, and wonder how it was that people who are often quite young learnt to speak the kind of language that would have gone down very well on a cultural studies course in the 1970s, but which seems very, very, very old-fashioned now.

    —Why it’s time for galleries to dump the jargon - Features - Art - The Independent