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back of cab, passing a mini - http://finalbossform.com/post...
back of cab, passing a mini
Mens Magazine Covers interpreted so you don’t have to. Modern Primate is a new project from the mind of Chris Menning (Know Your Meme, Buzzfeed). It’s kind of a anti-mens-magazine mens-magazine. So far it’s posts seem smart (‘How To Pretend to Care About The Super Bowl’), snarky without being obnoxious (‘What Mens Interest Magazines Are Really... - http://finalbossform.com/post...
Mens Magazine Covers interpreted so you don’t have to. 
Modern Primate is a new project from the mind of Chris Menning (Know Your Meme, Buzzfeed). It’s kind of a anti-mens-magazine mens-magazine.
 
So far it’s posts seem smart (‘How To Pretend to Care About The Super Bowl’), snarky without being obnoxious (‘What Mens Interest Magazines Are Really About’), and do an effective job of calling out every clichéd mens magazine trope from the past decade (‘Should You Become a Married Man?’).
 
As an occasional reader of mens magazines as a form of self flagellation, I can’t wait to see where it goes from here.
Thank you Project X for making this gif of a dog in a bouncy castle possible. I don’t want to see Project X in the theater. (The fact that Corey Delaney basically did this for absofucking real is such a better story, imo.) But I am forever grateful that I can gif the trailer and stare at the dog above all day today. - http://finalbossform.com/post...
Thank you Project X for making this gif of a dog in a bouncy castle possible. 
I don’t want to see Project X in the theater. (The fact that Corey Delaney basically did this for absofucking real is such a better story, imo.)
 
But I am forever grateful that I can gif the trailer and stare at the dog above all day today.
w.e.l.c.o.m.e. by fra.biancoshock via rebel:art - http://finalbossform.com/post...
w.e.l.c.o.m.e. by fra.biancoshock 
via rebel:art
I don't want to see Project X but I am grateful for this gif... http://finalbossform.com/post...
Mens Magazine Covers interpreted so you don't have to /by @modprimate http://finalbossform.com/post...
Eifel (by Yergen Diesel) - http://finalbossform.com/post...
Eifel (by Yergen Diesel)
Today’s belief in ineluctable certainty is the true innovation-killer of our age. In this environment, the best an audacious manager can do is to develop small improvements to existing systems—climbing the hill, as it were, toward a local maximum, trimming fat, eking out the occasional tiny innovation—like city planners painting bicycle lanes on... - http://finalbossform.com/post...
Dear friends of Clinton Hill. You know that tea place on Gates that seemed like it'd never open? It's finally opening tomorrow.
I love the way that soca/calypso radio ads can make a party sound like a threat.
At brunch with music industry folks dealing with Whitney fallout. Fascinating seeing what has been prepared for and what hasn't.
Snowy Sunday (by François.C) - http://finalbossform.com/post...
Snowy Sunday (by François.C)
bombing the dragon 2012 苗栗火旁龍 (by *dans) - http://finalbossform.com/post...
bombing the dragon 2012 苗栗火旁龍 (by *dans)
entrepreneurdesigners: Above: previous state of the world Below: current state of the world Courtesy of the wonderful Kenyatta This was my bastardization of the concepts of Deleuze and Guattari as I apply them to the entertainment industry for Gary and Christina’s Entrepreneurial Design class at SVA. The top is an illustration of... - http://finalbossform.com/post...
entrepreneurdesigners:
  
Above: previous state of the world
 
Below: current state of the world
 
 Courtesy of the wonderful Kenyatta
  
This was my bastardization of the concepts of Deleuze and Guattari as I apply them to the entertainment industry for Gary and Christina’s Entrepreneurial Design class at SVA.
 
The top is an illustration of territorialization — that as new industries mature, they create a valley like weighing down the center like a piece of graph paper. Over time, that valley develops a gravity that pulls people, money, and raw materials into its path. Those paths form channels of “prosperity” — more jobs, the creation of secondary markets, and stable income — but they also create calcification.
 
Industries sometimes get so stuck in their ways that they resort to uncompetitive practices like consolidation and protectionism in order to maintain their ability to draw materials into their trench. ‘Deterritorialization’ happens when a disruptive technology or platform comes along to level out the playing field again.
 
The bottom drawing is my argument that most successful “viral” media isn’t viral at all. It doesn’t “replicate” and it’s organizational structure is more like that of a rhizome, seemingly random but actually spawning from within vast, organized root networks like reddit, BuzzFeed and Facebook.
Everyone’s Asian Mother snuck into Jeremy Lin’s press conference last night I know that the Jeremy Lin story is about breaking down stereotypes and everything… … but I think this woman writes for Asian American Moms Magazine which is probably a real thing. And if you get that joke then your mom is probably a charter member: “Your fans in Taiwan... - http://finalbossform.com/post...
Kickstarter has its first two $1M projects in less than 24 hours(!) We talked about Kickstarter funded content projects during Gary and Christina’s class on Wednesday and how they, along with Louis CK’s direct to fan experiment, could be seen as a positive sign of things to come. My only concern that night was that successes like Louis CK,... - http://finalbossform.com/post...
Kickstarter has its first two $1M projects in less than 24 hours(!) 
We talked about Kickstarter funded content projects during Gary and Christina’s class on Wednesday and how they, along with Louis CK’s direct to fan experiment, could be seen as a positive sign of things to come.
 
My only concern that night was that successes like Louis CK, Radiohead’s pay-your-own-price for ‘In Rainbows’, and even the Double Fine story above relied on success in traditional distribution in order to amass the kind of fandom needed for these projects to succeed.
 
But the flipside, of course, is that people are building audiences and fandoms online without traditional distribution. And success is infectious. Perhaps the next time a vlogger needs to find funding for a big project, they’ll turn to Kickstarter instead of negotiating some branded entertainment agreement.
 
Also: please click through to read Yancey’s ‘24-hours’ story.  It’s inspiring (and hopefully infectious.)
mature industries benefit from gravity, resort to protectionism to draw materials into their trench #svaixd http://finalbossform.com/post...
Everyone's Asian-American mother snuck into @JLin7's press conference last night /cc @triciawang @resawu http://finalbossform.com/post...
As an old-school internet guy *and* a massive music nerd, I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about the future of the music industry (and similar content businesses) over the past 15 years and I’ve come to the conclusion that most traditional publishing models are totally unsustainable at this point, and are just being kept on life support by... - http://finalbossform.com/post...
Jeremy Lin’s line vs the Lakers tonight: 38 PTS 13-23 4 RB 7 AST 6 TO As a Knicks fan, I was holding my breath all week waiting to see what he’d do in tonight’s game vs the Lakers. Fortunately he was phenomenal. Best part, though, was at halftime when ESPN reporter Lisa Salters didn’t believe Lin when he said that he was going to the locker room... - http://finalbossform.com/post...
Jeremy Lin’s line vs the Lakers tonight:
 
38 PTS 13-23 4 RB 7 AST 6 TO
 
As a Knicks fan, I was holding my breath all week waiting to see what he’d do in tonight’s game vs the Lakers. Fortunately he was phenomenal.
 
Best part, though, was at halftime when ESPN reporter Lisa Salters didn’t believe Lin when he said that he was going to the locker room to study film of the first half to figure out what he could do better. Can’t wait to see that clip online.
The Difference Between the United Kingdom, Great Britain, England and a Whole Lot More heressomeawesome: As Felicia is out of the country this week, you’re getting a double-dose of me (Barrett) instead. I can already hear you science nerds squealing with joy, but I’ve got something a little different up my sleeve today. This week, one of my... - http://finalbossform.com/post...
The Psychedelic Furs - Pretty in Pink - http://finalbossform.com/post...
The Psychedelic Furs - Pretty in Pink
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Mystical station (by Jsome1) - http://finalbossform.com/post...
Mystical station (by Jsome1)
Framed - an iphone 4S short story - http://vimeo.com/31013938
Framed - an iphone 4S short story
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“I’m so tired of these fucking videos.” - http://finalbossform.com/post...
“I’m so tired of these fucking videos.”
holy crap this extension is really useful - http://finalbossform.com/post...
Every Wes Anderson Slow-Motion Shot, Set to Ja Rule by slacktory Apparently today is #CleverVideoWednesday. - http://finalbossform.com/post...
Russian Film ‘Aelita, Queen of Mars’ was to Fritz Lang’s ‘Metropolis’ as ‘Ghost in the Shell’ was to ‘The Matrix’ If you took/are taking a film theory class in college, chances are you had to watch Fritz Lang’s classic expressionist 1927 film ‘Metropolis’. What you may not learn (or at least I didn’t) was that his work was strongly influenced by a... - http://finalbossform.com/post...
Russian Film ‘Aelita, Queen of Mars’ was to Fritz Lang’s ‘Metropolis’ as ‘Ghost in the Shell’ was to ‘The Matrix’
 
If you took/are taking a film theory class in college, chances are you had to watch Fritz Lang’s classic expressionist 1927 film ‘Metropolis’. What you may not learn (or at least I didn’t) was that his work was strongly influenced by a Russian sci-fi movie that came out a few years earlier.
 
via kosmograd:
  
The other pre-eminent Russian work of fiction set on Mars is Aelita, by Alexei Tolstoy, written in 1923, six years after the second Russian Revolution of 1917 and the instigation of a Socialist state. In it the character Los travels to Mars to lead a popular uprising against the Elders. When the rebellion is crushed Los and Aelita, the princess of Mars, seizes control to establish her own totalitarian regime.
 
It was made into a film Aelita, Queen of Mars by Iakov Protozanov in 1924. The Constructivist style of its film sets, designed by Isaac Rabinovich, and with outlandish costumes by Alexandra Exter, depicted the advanced state of Martian society, as something for the new USSR to aspire to. While it was a major influence on Flash Gordon, Metropolis, the film fell out of favour in later years, perhaps for being a little too accurate in prefiguring Soviet society under Stalin.
Everything is a Remix: The Matrix futurejournalismproject: Kirby Ferguson, a New York-based filmmaker, and friends have been working on a four-part video series called Everything is a Remix. Here, to demonstrate their point, they juxtapose scenes from the Matrix with films that it drew inspiration from. For example, as we move along the timeline:... - http://finalbossform.com/post...
Everything is a Remix: The Matrix 
futurejournalismproject:
  
Kirby Ferguson, a New York-based filmmaker, and friends have been working on a four-part video series called Everything is a Remix.
 
Here, to demonstrate their point, they juxtapose scenes from the Matrix with films that it drew inspiration from. For example, as we move along the timeline:
 0:27 - Fist of Legend (1994) 0:38 - Tai-Chi Master (Twin Dragons) (1993) 0:44 - Fist of Legend (1994) 0:48 - Tai-Chi Master (Twin Dragons) (1993) 0:53 - Drunken Master (1978) 
Click through for other influences that range from a Philip K. Dick speech (1:45) to Total Recall (2:30) to Alice in Wonderland (3:24).
  
Ok. I’m about to reblog two other similar things in order to make a point.
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