Lovely short film about artistic advertising. Some beautiful New York buildings (and accents).

/aside: Gee Vimeo manages to host a lot of fantastic video. Nice one.

(via FormFiftyFive)

Tim Bray nails the appalling media focus on nuclear paranoia in tsunami hit Japan:

The real story in Japan, by any objective measure, is the sustained post-tsunami desperation among those whose lives were swept away, and the narrative about the rescue and cleanup workers all over the Northeast. Read much of that? Me neither.

Kottke on the intrusion of voice:

As a long-time hater of the phone call, this is good news.

Yep.

A Brief History of Title Design, from the great artofthetitle.com

(via @rands)

Bill Simmons tackles the owner’s perspective in the NFL labor negotiations. The ever escalating money machine seems similar to what is argued here by Felt Tip’s Lucius Kwok:

The idea behind the Slow Company movement is that instead of trying to be the first or to get the most mindshare or market share of any company in your vertical, you try to make something that people genuinely find useful and are willing to pay for it. And instead of trying to woo celebrities and plastering your name all over SXSW, you make something that people like so much that they tell their friends, and it spreads by word of mouth based on how well made it is and how awesomely it solves problems that people have - real problems, not ones that marketers make up.

(via Neven Mrgan)

Half a million Twitter accounts a day? Peaked.

I’m calling it: Twitter has peaked. First the dickbar, now a “you will obey” edict. Time for the next new thing, Internet.

Grinderman:

I woke up this morning and I thought
What am I doing here?
Yeah what am I doing here
AhoOowooOoOOoooooo

I’m at the Virgin Blue gate with Public Enemy. Flava Flav has his clock on. The band are huddled around Boost trying to decide which drink they want. “I want something with Mango,” says Chuck D in the most serious voice you can imagine.

The Bedroom Philosopher reviews his summer festival touring experiences - part I and part II

OK, so, Antarctica is amazing.