I think I know you from somewhere

Soooo. SUN. Finally.

Of course it's still absolutely freezing, but at least we got a little bit of a vitamin D boost. I went out for a walk and cigarette on my lunch break, and I stopped at traffic lights on purpose, although I had the chance to cross the road (twice, at a leisurely pace), so I could stand in a sunny spot for a few more seconds.



In other news, Pinterest and tumblr have proven to be great methods of procrastination, although I've been cheating somewhat with the latter, as I've only been uploading my favourite photos I took using instagram.

In O' Level Geography, back in my glorious high school days (I'm sure I'm showing my age now, which isn't that tragic, but still), we were taught about the term 'conurbation', which basically happens once two or more urban areas start developing and growing to such an extent that they start merging with each other and turning into one. I feel the same is happening with the online and social media landscape.

The big question that keeps revolving in my head is when these will stop working together and start working against each other. It may become a case of the big fish eating the small ones, or people will simply fall back into their own networks of choice.

Peeping Tom

I always had a thing about looking to see what's in other people's private spaces. The inside of bags, the inside of houses, the inside of their heads... I guess it's a natural curiosity. So, I was pretty thrilled when I stumbled upon Freunden von Freunden.

As they put it in their own words, We are an international interview magazine that portrays people of diverse creative and cultural backgrounds in their homes or within their daily working environments. 

This, in very simple terms, means hours of fun and inspiration. Flats in Berlin, lofts in New York, houses in London and everything inbetween. 

Here are a few of my faves (pics taken from the site):

  

RA Top live acts of 2011

Resident Advisor just released their top 20 live acts of 2011, as voted by fans.

http://www.residentadvisor.net/feature.aspx?1420

I have a lot of catching up to do. Especially with some of the gentlemen in the top 10. Nicolas Jaar, in particular, is going to be huge.

Snapshots of a modern revolution

I bumped into this person's photoblog today. She (I believe it's a 'she' we're talking about) has managed to get into the heart of the uprisings in Greece and capture moments of immense beauty, ugliness, pain, happiness and, above all, truth.

Find them here: http://flavors.me/murplejane#3f5/posterous

Celebrity mugshots

Endless fun not-so-suitable for the whole family:

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/mugshots/celebrities

Now every average existence in the world can feel like a better person.

For IKEA sadomasochists, like me

http://www.ikeahackers.net/

You can make loads of cool stuff, like a cheese grater lamp, for example.

There's no place like home

And there's nothing like amazing design ideas from all over the world to make you want to make yours even better:

http://freshome.com/

Sometimes I just want to go pretend-play in IKEA.

When you know what you feel like...

...but not exactly.

http://musicovery.com

little bit of this, little bit of that

Saturday afternoon procrastination

http://www.livincool.com/

I heart viral campaigns

Especially when they are promoting anything that J.J. Abrams made/makes. Like Super 8, which I'm super (sorry) excited about.

I know this great little website

'cause London's a big, scary city, and sometimes you need to know where to go:

http://www.greatlittleplace.com/

(Also, Timeout reviews mostly suck.)

Good idea, maybe a site redesign once enough info is gathered will make it more user friendly.

Wikitime?

On the potential uses of Facebook

The world is filled with data, and with the massive explosion of the internet and social networking sites it has been easier than ever to gather this data from and in the same place. The hard part is analysing them in a way that will yield original, interesting and truthful results.

Facebook has people's data. They put it there themselves. David McCandless, data journalist, realised this and performed a study on Facebook to locate a possible seasonality in break-ups. His theory is interesting, but also flawed (as pointed out in Digital Society). What is an important take-away from this (apart from the fact that people liked talking about Rihanna and Chris Brown - a lot) is the unbelievable potential that lies within Facebook for data mining and exploitation, and the ways in which it can help us understand the world more than anything else.

Hey there.

Long time no nothing. My bad.

Here's a few treats:

To hip or not to hip; a very interesting article regarding the re-rise of the hipsters, especially in the London scene. Highly entertaining but also insightful.

And another one, this time about a different way of making music.

This blog is back.

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Ugly site, pretty good fun:

http://www.sporcle.com/

Eye Candy

The internet is very large.

That is a good thing.

http://butdoesitfloat.com/

http://www.nachoalegre.com/diaries.html

http://zero1blog.com/

Minimalist Movie Posters

More to be found here.

And here.

...and in addition to my last post

http://listography.com/

Slightly quirky online store

http://www.fredflare.com/

Wishlist:

Possibly the coolest site I've come across this year

Paint it like Pollock:

http://www.jacksonpollock.org/

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Because sharing is caring:

http://www.trendhunter.com/

(thanks Felix)