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My favorite part of The Dark Knight is when the Joker is talking to Harvey Dent in the hospital, and he says: “Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am? I’m a dog chasing cars. I wouldn’t know what to do with one if I caught it! You know, I just DO things… I’m not a schemer. I try to show the schemers how pathetic their attempts to control things really are.”

And therein lies the best career advice I could possibly dispense: just DO things. Chase after the things that interest you and make you happy. Stop acting like you have a set path, because you don’t. No one does. You shouldn’t be trying to check off the boxes of life; they aren’t real and they were created by other people, not you. There is no explicit path I’m following, and I’m not walking in anyone else’s footsteps. I’m making it up as I go.

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Thoughts on tour « Hoehn’s Musings
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I have this coworker

youcankeepthechange:

at work who is probably the most insane, funny person I’ve ever worked alongside. When she doesn’t get what she wants, she pouts and threatens to throw up, which is so bizarre but somehow hilarious. And once, a coworker said something rude to her and she replied with, “Well fine. I was going to buy a chicken sandwich from Jack in the Box and throw it outside your house, but I won’t now!” It’s absolutely ridiculous but her one liners (“You don’t like me because my eyes are weird!”) are almost borderline inspirational. I don’t get her, she doesn’t get me, and yet we totally get each other. It’s goddamn magical.

PS sorry this isn’t more interesting but guess what, boners? This is my life. This is as exciting as it gets.

To be honest this sounds exactly like me. But I also say “Ima kill you” a whole lot and pretend to cry and sulk a lot.

Or I’m the most immature person alive.

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People of brisbane

I am having a John Hughes film bed party, commencing when I have obtained the breakfast club. You are welcome to join me.

Bring frozen cokes.

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[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]

A Certain Romance.

ArcticMonkeys

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fuckyeaharcticmonkeys: Reblog if you have this album. Vinyl or disc? Disc. It lives in my car.

fuckyeaharcticmonkeys:

Reblog if you have this album. Vinyl or disc?

Disc. It lives in my car.

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wearethedigitalkids:

tumbletogether:

Stumbled upon this thought-provoking video about the scale of ambient computing our future likely holds. Tim O’Reilly has been talking about this ecology of computing and data since the Web 2.0 Expo last year (I recommend watching his keynote) and it remains one of the largest trends on the horizon.

As Clay Shirky says in Here Comes Everybody, “More is different” so the really interesting thing here isn’t just that a trillion is really a big number - it’s that the dynamics of interaction within the network change radically as the number of networked computers increases.

Perhaps more profound is the way the future will be less about screens we sit at to accomplish certain tasks and more about embedded and ubiquitous screen technologies. For an exceptional academic approach to this stuff check out The Media City: Media, Architecture and Urban Space by Scott McQuire. I studied under Scott at Melbourne University and was always blown away by his ability to synthesise multiple complex arguments into pithy and profound insights and weave those insights into engaging and entertaining stories.

Of course, we can already see this trend in action with mobile phone - and especially smartphone - technologies, and more specifically with moves towards augmented reality applications. Being able to overlay contextually relevant real-time information onto our physical world will blow apart the idea of desk- or laptop-based computing for good and properly usher in a world of mobile and embedded computing.

Fun time ahead folks :)

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For every kid that I bump into who is wandering the media industry looking for an entrance that closed some time ago, I come across another who is a bundle of ideas, energy and technological mastery. The next wave is not just knocking on doors, but seeking to knock them down.

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The Media Equation - For Media, a Sunset Is Followed Quickly by a Sunrise - NYTimes.com (via peterpawlick) (via neilperkin) (via wearethedigitalkids)
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titlepage: teaim: The Evolution of the Hipster 2000-2009 - spread in Paste magazine - from emo to present day…

titlepage:

teaim:

The Evolution of the Hipster 2000-2009 - spread in Paste magazine - from emo to present day…

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fuckyeahgirlswithshorthair: oh-lala: Pixie Geldof for British Vogue.

fuckyeahgirlswithshorthair:

oh-lala:

Pixie Geldof for British Vogue.
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Betsey Johnson!

  • Examiner: You have been in the industry for a very long time, yet you've managed to stay ahead of the trending curve--how?
  • BJ: I don't know a trend from a turkey! I pedal my own bike. Everything should be timeless, in it's own way. And everything looks good in black!