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My first foray into the world of sleeve facing. This one was quick and dirty. I expect better work in the future.

The D.O.C. – It’s Funky Enough [blip.fm]

There are so many nooks & crannies on the internet filled with dopeness. It is always a pleasure to fall into another.

(Watering Hole by Amy Stein) {via}

And you say, Goddamn
This is the dope jam

I started Gravity’s Rainbow this weekend. So far, I am loving it — I hope that I am able to finish it. My track record for fiinishing “long” books isn’t the best, even for books I love. (I’m looking at you, Infinite Jest & The Recognitions). Hopefully, public shaming of myself on the internet will help. Also consider this to be an invitation to be my goodreads friend.

Tell your friends, to get with my friends
And we can be friends

Speaking of Infinite Jest, I hear that David Foster Wallace’s unfinished novel may be teetering towards publication. Without knowing all the facts, this doesn’t sit well with me. Well…no reason my hangups should be yours, too.

(More at The Telegraph)

Happily stumbled across a new favorite blog, one-minute sketches of subway commuters.

If you like Granddaddy, you’ll love Sono Oto.

One acrylic-on-canvas work titled “Tulip Butts” shows the red imprint of a backside representing the open petals of a tulip with an imprint between them from an adjacent body part that represents a flower’s stamen.

We craft our identity through pointing all the time. Language is mostly about pointers (“signs”). The list of favorite TV shows, movies, and music on social network sites are a linguistic pointer to these cultural referents. Yet, in a multimedia world, instead of having to just reference them by name, I can reference them by image, video, and audio, pulling a much more rich set of content into the fold. In some senses, these practices are the same as they both involve constructing a semiotic pointer to a cultural object. Yet, because multimedia referents are “hosted”, multimedia pointers can be altered. Furthermore, there’s a perceived cost to pointing (namely, bandwidth). And, besides, we never think of uttering the linguistic referent as making a “copy.”

As remix is ridden with questions of legality, I can’t help but wonder what the legal ramifications of pointer remix might be. We live in a world obsessed with copyright and IP, but isn’t pointing to something fair use? Imagine how ridiculous the world would be if you could only consume, but never link (linguistically or through html)

There’s room for interesting debate about open culture, etc…. this preview [youtube] for a documentary grabs my attention, too… if for no other reason than hearing GWB “sing” Imagine and Walk on the Wild Side.

(more at the OpenSourceCinema page on youtube)

via Maud.

bonus points for making me wonder if I say “cray-on” or “cran”. I think something closer to “cran”, but not quite.