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Jul 01 2008
I think the ultimate test for your current job is: Would you do it for free?

If your answer is no, you should consider what you are doing. (via tightgrip)

This is bullshit. It’s called work for a reason and I would never work ever if I wasn’t getting paid. One reason I hate school: grades mean shit to me, money talks.

(via sarahchristine)

…says the would-be teacher.  To me, the quote underscores the massive difference between doing something you don’t really enjoy in any way for the money (and no, it’s not whoring yourself out—because at least sex is sex, and can be fun) versus getting paid to do something you love.

(via shorterexcerpts)

On the flip side, isn’t the whole “would you do it for free” idea what keeps people in creative fields underpaid for so long, and what keeps the intern/putting your creative works out there for free economy a-humming? It just seems like the ramifications of this “philosophy” (if you want to call it that) serve as yet another way to devalue creative work in this already too technologically driven era.

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rendit:

lunchfood:

OMG! (via fimolculous)

see what you’re all missing?

signed,

crabby mccrab

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attention 17-year-olds of the world: your summer-vacation posts are in hackers' hands!

“Livejournal.com is currently unavailable for a brief emergency maintenance. We’ll be up again shortly.”

Also: Is Diaryland the new old Tumblr? I revisited it last night for the first time in forever and was charmed all over again.

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soupsoup:

mdfsmash:

Kanye Infomercial [via BuzzFeed]

Guessing this is a continuation of the new Absolut commercials.

Zach’s was better but this is pretty funny.

The phone number just tells you to call back tomorrow! Boooo.

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"I don’t serve meals on my airline anymore. Get over it! What’s the matter— you can’t last two hours without chicken parmigiana? Why are you even going to Indianapolis?"

katiebakes:

If you wish to attempt a Sudoku puzzle during the flight, you must demonstrate to my satisfaction that you realize that the nine spaces in every row and column must each contain a unique digit, and that the nine squares that make up the over-all Sudoku square cannot be completed without consideration for how they fit into the entire puzzle. Do you understand this? No? Fifty dollars.

I’m just reblogging this to say that i hate sudoku. HATE. Not only is it dumb and artless, it’s killing the crossword puzzle. Although I do like the puzzle that was rebranded as “Paint-Doku” for the purposes of confusing Sudoku fans into buying it. (It goes by the name “Paint By Numbers” in Games.) Don’t believe me? From that linked American Prospect piece:

But Sudoku may not be ready to play second fiddle yet; if anything, in fact, the game’s popularity seems to still be rising. This has led to a somewhat comical scramble in the puzzle biz to identify the next big thing in an expected post-Sudoku wave of Japanese logic puzzles. A Sudoku cousin called Kakuro seems the most likely candidate: “Hooked on Sudoku? Discover the Newest Puzzle Craze!” shouts the cover of a recent Kakuro book.

A personal story about this marketing mania: Earlier this year, my publisher said he wanted me to write a book of a well-known Sudoku/crossword hybrid puzzle. This specific variety of puzzle has been known for decades in the United States as “Alphacodes” or “Coded Crosswords.” They’ve been a favorite of mine since I was a kid, so I eagerly agreed to do the book.

“But we need a Japanese name,” the publisher told me.

It’s a language-specific puzzle that’s never been seen in Japan, I replied. It doesn’t have a Japanese name.

“Then come up with one,” he shot back. “Marketing wants a Japanese name. Can you have it to me by Tuesday?”

Jun 30 2008

Somewhere in my brain is an essay that I’ve been kicking around for years about how this is happening to music in a much bigger and faster way. I used to be really into independent film. Then, it all kind of got terrible because EVERYONE COULD MAKE A FILM AND THERE WERE NO QUALITY FILTERS and I wasn’t interested anymore because there was just so much dreck to slog through before you found real gems. Sound familiar, dear music lovers? I mean, I don’t want to be a big, terrible person against the democritization of art. It’s more about how art is becoming more fragmented and commodified and there’s just too much noise.

I don’t necessarily think that it’s just about inexperience — but it is. This also seems to be related to the girls who all make crap that looks exactly the same that gets sold at the Renegade Craft Fair and Stitch and ready-made DIY shoppes (yes, that spelling is intentional) in trendy cities.

I want to listen and see and buy beautiful original things, objects, art. And though the internet and increased affluence and lots of other factors have made this easier, it’s also made finding the best of what’s available so bloody exhausting.

therichgirlsareweeping’s response to a quote from “Little Movies, Big Problems” is certainly worth quoting in its own right. 
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letsgomets:

Soup Beat me to the Punch / Mets own New York
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Photographs That Will Never Ever Be Gender-Flipped, Part XXVIII In A Series

Or, “Maybe I Would Have Less Of A Problem With This If Jonah Hill Wasn’t So Freaking Annoying, But Probably Not”