My brother and I just had the following exchange while watching The Matrix Reloaded, which features twin be-dreadlocked albinos.

Peter: Dreadlocks look like someone went, “hmm, I like how Medusa looks, except I’d want the snakes to look more like that clog I fished out of my sink last week.”

Alexi: Dreadlocks are only barely acceptable if you’re black AND from Jamaica AND are in a reggae band, and even then only barely.

Peter: You know what you never see? A person wearing dreadlocks asking for a job application anywhere besides a coffee shop, a record store, or a head shop, because trying to work anywhere else when you’ve got an old janitor mop attached to your scalp is unpossible.

Alexi: Dreadlocks are like wearing a sign that says “I suck” except that sign is painted with head grease from your disgusting tubes of filthy hair and smells like pot and beerfarts.

Peter: I have to be careful about talking too much shit about people with dreadlocks, because otherwise the deadlock people may not want to be around me or see things I make, and then my life would flirt dangerously close with being “too awesome.”

San Francisco 1905

This is my new favorite youtube video. A long, unedited shot of from a camera mounted on a streetcar traveling down Market street in San Francisco in 1905. It’s one of the clearest examples of urban life from that time period that I’ve ever seen. I’m amazed at how busy and bustling the street is, an assortment of cars, horse-drawn carts, vendors, other streetcars, and people everywhere, nearly all of them dressed in full suits. The video is set to Air’s La Femme D’Argent from the Moon Safari album, which gives the video a dreamlike quality.

thepublics / culturite:

Buy Nothing Day

Nov 27 - North America
Nov 28 - International

I support this, unless of course you were planning on buying John Atencio jewelry. In that case, shop on!

I cooked Thanksgiving dinner for the first time today. Goddamn right I’m proud.

WOW. This is awesome. (via dalasverdugo)

Queen - Fat Bottomed Girls

jonahray:

Exclusive clip from the movie TWILIGHT: BREAKING DAWN.

(the actual sketch from Attack of the Show)

It involves TONS OF ADORABLE PUPPIES!!!!

This is like peeking into Jonah’s subconscious. Teen Wolf! Can’t Hardly Wait castmembers! Puppies! Nice work Jonah. You’re a man now, dog.

Abstraction 21 by Morgan

(slightly NSFW)

I went to see this last night with Natasha and Alexis and Jim and Nick and Carlos and Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice. It was a genre-bending joyride into insanity that under less sure hands or with a less capable cast would have veered into oncoming traffic. It didn’t. It held up, and as a result it was one of the most entertaining movies I’ve seen this year. I hate phrases like “return to form” but yeah, for Nic Cage, that’s exactly what it was. Go see it. The dancing soul scene alone is worth the ticket price. (via alexbalk)

10 Days - A study of news headlines taken from the BBC News Online between May 6-15th, 2009, by Ripo

Everyday the news is transmitted to us across the globe.

We’re left saddened, scared, inspired, skeptical, hopeful, angry, or simply numb.

But the next day brings a new set of stories painting over the memories of yesterday’s events.

You will be better if you watch this.

Ken LaValle has a nice collection of stills he took while serving as behind-the-scenes photographer for The Rig.

Brandon wrote a thoughtful examination of my earlier post, a portion of which I’ve excerpted here:

walpaper:

However, the original scenarios above, though lacking in detail, do have context: (soup and bagel, child in a Paris park).  The context changes as details are added. The frame of context never ends.

Context is generally defined as the conditions in which something exists or occurs. And while conditions can (and do) add specific enlightening details, they are not the key to understanding a situation more truthfully - spoken or unspoken.

[…]

Context is an illusion . Detail is key.

A fair point, but I’d argue that detail is just as subjective as context, in that the interpretation of details are dependent on the observer. So, of the addition of context is just the illumination of detail, it still doesn’t mean those details will necessarily provide a conclusive “truth” to the situation (you arrive at basically the same conclusion, but you circle around to promoting detail as the fundamental truth). A person hearing about the photograph will have a different emotional response if they’re a reader in present day visiting a blog than would, say, a German military officer during World War II. Same goes for the soup and bagel.

The scenario I described can promote a variety of emotional responses. The words and manner of telling it, the method behind the exposure of more detail, all can give a clue as to what kind of emotional response I intended (indeed, probably desired). The addition of context is nothing more than a way to manipulate truth to a desired effect, which is what my original point was. Namely, I don’t believe in a end-all, be-all “truth” to any situation. Even a photograph, or a scene of a man eating his lunch, can be influenced by any number of external preconditions.

At least, that’s how I see it. Sincere thanks for making what was an off-the-cuff post a more thought-provoking discussion.

Beach House “Zebra” from Teen Dream, 2010. (via tothemaxxx)