Made in Brisbane

» 40+ street artists you should know besides Banksy

“Everyone knows who Banksy is— but the international street art community has hundreds of other great artists that deserve your attention. Here’s a selection of the very best.”

(via thelosspeaks + hono-lulu + rhodyram)

“ Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is non-existent. And don’t bother concealing your thievery - celebrate it if you feel like it. In any case, always remember what Jean-Luc Godard said: “It’s not where you take things from - it’s where you take them to.

— Jim Jarmusch (via afternoontea + buzzandersen + artistspaid + somethingchanged)

“ Nobody should start to undertake a large project. You start with a small trivial project, and you should never expect it to get large. If you do, you’ll just overdesign and generally think it is more important than it likely is at that stage. Or worse, you might be scared away by the sheer size of the work you envision. So start small, and think about the details. Don’t think about some big picture and fancy design. If it doesn’t solve some fairly immediate need, it’s almost certainly over-designed. And don’t expect people to jump in and help you. That’s not how these things work. You need to get something half-way useful first, and then others will say “hey, that almost works for me”, and they’ll get involved in the project.

— Linus Torvalds (via azspot) (via somethingchanged)

» Small is beautiful in this age of austerity: The Independent

somethingchanged:

“For the past decade, the nation’s biggest museums have relied on blockbuster exhibitions featuring numerous well-loved masterpieces to attract visitors.

But now a leading director is urging galleries to rethink the way in which major shows are staged by offering up a single work of art rather than the usual rooms crammed full of gilt-framed Monets, Turners and Caravaggios.”

“ Although there’s no way to prove this, it seemed like the tech/media blowhards finally became less relevant this year. Perhaps it’s wishful thinking, but the old guard of Scoble/Winer/Calacanis/Arrington/Cuban seemed to lose influence, while more sober voices emerged — those who weren’t creating incestuous diurnal feuds with each other to game Techmeme.

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Fimoculous.com: 30 Most Notable Blogs of 2008 (via nickdouglas)

2009 ‘tis the year the web2.0/blogging circle jerk will endeth and people who create/make/innovate in whatever field will take hold of all the good aspects of the internet and do crazy good things with it. Or we might just build another dating site.

“ Some people go to the gym, Some people go to nightclubs. We tried to build a creative community for nerds

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For Geeks, a Frat House and Lab, All in One (via danw)

NY Times article on the very neat geek coworking space NYC Resistor.

kripy:

Photograph: Rough days, bayat.

“Be honest with yourself. Is this really a business? Is it really different? If the elevator pitch includes the words ”Twitter”, “social network” or “it’s web app X meets geek meme Y” you probably need to rethink things - those days are gone. Today your idea needs to be super-relevant: do people actually need this, or are you just a solution looking for a problem?”

» 200 digital music startups in 2008

“ I’ve said it before, but most people don’t want to broadcast to the world and be the most popular, nor do they want more content from people they don’t know—they want relevance, and a sense of authentic community, which tends to be smaller. That’s also why Tumblr is taking off. If you think it’s just another blogging tool, you’re not seeing the people connections in between.

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This is a good quote. I realized the other day that I use Tumblr in part as a “fun” RSS reader to aggregate content from friends, and part as a blog to post my own content. Tumblr has struck a nice balance between making it easy to create content, and easy to aggregate it meaningfully.

Consuming my friends | from This is going to be BIG (via bijan)

(via park3)

“ You know what’s interesting about the homogenization of “indie” blogs is that somewhere in there it became O.K for serious music snobs to like really poppy pop music, and have an opinion on it.
It sort of worked both ways. Not only did blog rock become mainstream chart fodder, but mainstream chart fodder became the subject of hipster blogs.
It’s not generally a bad thing, it seems that music is being judged more on its merits rather than its genre. Mainstream pop isn’t being shut out of serious music discussion, and some quite obscure indie is making it onto the charts.

— Commentor on Heartbreak No. 3: The Blogosphere As The New Status Quo [Idolator]. Social media platforms, label wars and hipster ‘tude; I am liking this post. (via tarts + semisetadrift)

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