January 2010
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Not the song I would have expected for a single and admittedly a bit slow, but the Yeah Yeah Yeahs new video for “Skeletons” is still awesomely creepy and full of ghostly marching band and mist and dead famous people and awesome makeup. According to Babelgum’s lil’ blurb about the video, Karen O’s costume (Christian Joy, presumably?) and dancing was inspired by Loïe...
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Googling vs. Bing-ing | visual thesaurus →
Here’s some lingustistic geekery about the verbification of Google, Bing’s hopeless aspirations that we’ll all be Bing-ing instead one day, and the weird legal issues involved with brand names becoming generic nouns and/or verbs (kleenex, xerox, netflix, youtube etc….While we’re at it, band-aid, velcro, astroturf, q-tips, rolodex, tampax, and saran wrap are...
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zola jesus - clay bodies
kind of obsessed with the visuals here
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I’m not saying that fashion consumers are “fashion victims” (a sexist and anti-feminist description that implies irrational consumerism); I’m just suggesting that fashion consumers are not only political-sartorial actors but are also market actors whose range of consumer choices are embedded in a larger ethical-economic system that has long produced and managed consumer...
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ny mag | the cut | fashion companies don't like it... →
You know, just when I think I can’t get any more frustrated with how idiotic the entire universe seems to be when it comes to teh intarnetz, I run across this. Dior: “OH NOEZ! OUR ADVERTISEMENTS ARE BEING SEEN BY MORE PEOPLE THAN WE INTENDED, FOR A LONGER PERIOD OF TIME THAN WE INTENDED, AND WE AREN’T PAYING FOR IT! FUCK!!!! THIS IS SO BAD!!! WE NEED TO TAKE LEGAL...
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now our luck has changed and the lights are red.
Obnoxious meta-post, just for now! Just a few things:
■ Domain! Finally. You are now reading HTTP://MORNINGMIDNIGHT.COM . Ooooh. Any old links to the Tumblr address (http://findesiecle.tumblr.com) WILL still redirect here, and if you subscribe through Tumblr you’ll still be fine.
■ RSS: This means that http://morningmidnight.com/RSS is the new feed address — though again, the...
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lazy mix of a decade or more of slacking, for driving around some town that isn’t nyc at average speed with the windows down on a kind of warm afternoon wearing jeans, which is to say, a mix for the total opposite of right now
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