May 2010

Sincerity: The Greatest Compliment of My Life

05.31.2010

Sincerity. That’s something I really value. Shane Grant once said to me, “If nothing else, you’re always completely sincere.” And I found that to be maybe the greatest compliment of my life. And it’s true, I am almost incapable of being insincere, for better or for worse. Even when I try to cover up my [...]

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05.30.2010

Really great piece about the making of the Red Dead Redemption soundtrack. Read about Les Paul's echo chambers. http://ow.ly/1R07d # Loving this 10-minute, animated Daniel Pink performance about the surprising truth about what motivates us: http://ow.ly/1R0Ac # Can gay actors play straight characters? Should they? Thanks to Newsweek, the debate rages. http://ow.ly/1RGwI #

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05.23.2010

"We need new metaphors." Kevin Kelly at iCitizen 2010, on the next 7000 days of the web. Let him re-arrange your brain: http://ow.ly/1N3t8 # And then … 3:09 into "Dance Yrself Clean" … I found myself dancing on a tabletop. Really good song. # Dear books, Thx, thx, thx. http://ow.ly/1Olnn #

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Slay Goes with the Flow @ iCitizn 2010

05.18.2010

Here’s a great-looking and sounding video of my intro from iCitizen 2010. Thanks, Resource. Footnotes (as originally tweeted) after the break.

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05.16.2010

R. Nash's big speech about the future of publishing. It's as good as you've heard. Chris Anderson said he's a genius: http://ow.ly/1K9SR # Celebrating Mother's Day a little late with my mother, sister, wife, and Diane Keaton. Hurrah, Women's Fund! # RIYL: Grant Morrison, Rashomon, The United States of Tara, David Mitchell, Flying Lotus, Synecdoche [...]

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05.09.2010

Sunday reading: "Surely the notion of art emerging whatever the circumstances, whatever the scarcities, is outdated." http://ow.ly/1F91j # Mark @bittman has a great new site: part blog, part food salon. Looking forward to reading it everyday. http://ow.ly/1Gjc6 # Famed/Influential Theatre Director Anne Bogart: " We have reached the end of Postmodernism." http://ow.ly/1GARb What a weight [...]

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Kevin Huizenga’s lyric comics essays

05.07.2010

Kevin Huizenga is one of my 3 favorite makers of comics these days. His methods mix accessible pictures, science, philosophy, history, and autobiography all together in a form much like David (Reality Hunger) Shields describes here: The lyric essay asks what happens when an essay begins to behave less like an essay and more like [...]

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My iCitizen Moment of Zen

05.06.2010

I’ll write a more comprehensive follow-up sometime this weekend. Suffice to say, iCitizen 2010 was a great event to experience and of which to be a small part. The Resource team were great hosts and I had a blast. Here’s a photo from about an hour ago. That’s Resource CEO Nancy Kramer doing some poetry [...]

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05.02.2010

Poll: Who's going to read Pres. George W.'s book? http://ow.ly/1D9Jf I don't know if I'll be able to resist. # Bustown boy makes good. RT @donewaiting: looking at photos of my bro @sinkane with jay-z and beyonce is pretty surreal. http://bit.ly/8Ztx3X # RT @Walling1: wireless receivers didn't survive the fire. Anyone have 3 wireless handheld [...]

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