Michael Myers

Category#culture

Ekow Nimako is AMAZING!!

In #culture, #design
01/12/2022
1 Min read
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I’m a LEGO geek. I grew up with LEGOs and rejoined the fold when my daughter was 6 yo and my son was 3.  I recently purchased one of my white whales, the Batman Tumbler, which is proudly displayed in my home office along with various other sets, some on-loan from my son.  (I also may have purchased The Razor Crest just to get “the child” figure.  That might have...

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Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman

In #culture, #misc, #tech
11/06/2020
2 Min read
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I found this excerpt online after hearing @tristanharris read it on Rogan’s podcast. Simply chilling. We were keeping our eye on 1984. When the year came and the prophecy didn’t, thoughtful Americans sang softly in praise of themselves. The roots of liberal democracy had held. Wherever else the terror had happened, we, at least, had not been visited by Orwellian nightmares. But we...

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A brief history of Alternative Music (infographic)

In #culture, #infographic, #misc
02/09/2020
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This is an intricate infographic linking the founders of alternative music to those that were influenced by them. (You can buy the poster here.) I love this with the exception of one glaring omission. The mighty Jane’s Addiction is completely missing. So beyond definition were Jane’s Addiction in the late 80s, that Rolling Stone referred to them as “art rock”. Their first...

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Michael Myers