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Adventure Photo Revolutionary :: Boone Speed
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www.boonespeed.com
By Russ Lowe via Cool Hunting
Boone Speed is his real name. Whether the Portland, OR-based photographer's brand of photography is the result of natural-born talent or sheer determination, his aesthetic likely has something to do with his father, Grant Speed. Known for his sculptures depicting Western life, the senior Speed split his West Texas home at the tender age of 12 to ride bulls and earn a living as a cowhand. Boone is keeping the all-American myth going, albeit updated for a new generation.
Star Wars: 1942
SILLOF is a dude that takes Figure Modification to another level. I am really into his WWII mods at the moment, but it is all worth a peek.
New York City Devours Los Angeles Alive
The following is a possibly entertaining but highly unedited rant, thank you:
Brooklyn, NY: The inner-sanctum of Hipster-dom, along with it's spiritual annexes; Austin, Minneapolis, Seattle, Hollywood etc. tends to house avenues and streets that bleed fresh creative explorations before vulturous bacterias grow within and feed off of the collective right-brain hemorrhages. Well, maybe not Hollywood, anymore.
Hollywood seems to have been reduced to having it's heart valves that used to gush blood for the sake of flowing become clogged with festering deleterious dyssocial disease long-time go.
The reasons for why Hollywood, unlike some other metropolises that house a constant, age-old war of what reduces down to Jedi versus Sith, has chosen to become a breeding pen of cultural ouroboros remains unclear.
The Future of Online Advertising
The Innovation Edge
Mr Gower has just tipped me off about Nesta's upcoming conference, The Innovation Edge on 20th May at the Royal Festival Hall. The aim of the event is to "bring together a powerful mix of the world's leading academic, political and industry experts to consider the latest developments in innovation." I can't get enough of conferences at the moment, especially when they have a great line-up and they're free. Awesome.
OpenSocial Goes Non-Profit
Yahoo! will join the OpenSocial application platform championed by Google. The search giant is also partnering with Google and MySpace to create a non-profit support body, the OpenSocial Foundation. Its role, they say, will be to support the OpenSocial project by creating and managing forums to discuss applications and development techniques. It will run as a non-profit body, with assets to be declared and assigned by Jul 1.
Heralded by Google as the next step towards true cross-platform interaction, OpenSocial is a set of specifications that lets developers create and run applications across any participating social network. A range of social networks have joined its platform, including MySpace, hi5 and Friendster, and Google claims that more than 200m users currently use applications that are part of OpenSocial. Facebook, however, is notably absent from the project.
Ramming All Night
Oh My Lord.
UK readers maybe familiar with Anfield Rap that wondrous Liverpool football club song.
Well, here is the American version from the Los Angeles Rams. The lyrics are amazing!
I'm quick off the line as I can be, cause I don't want dick running over me
I learned long ago how to ram it just right, so I could ram it all day and ram it all night.
The writers must be on the floor laughing their arses off! In fact they probably meet up one a year just to get their tear ducts flowing.
Inappropriate Signage
I love signage. I love inappropriate signage even more. This was in Waterstones...
Mixed Messages
Nike seems to be confused at the moment. They have just produced some shoes (model: Nike Trash Talk) from shoe waste material which has been recycled, that's good right? Well yes, it is. They are exploring other ways to work and be less wasteful with their materials. But last week I was in Nike Town (a fairly unpleasant experience) and I found myself in the customer services department, which is on the third floor. This is what I saw:
