[Image via lookbook]
I saw this picture of a tween posing in front of newspapers, and it kind of reminded me of how obsolete physical copies of newspapers are. Newspapers were created to be recycled. I’m not an environmentalist, but it seems like a big waste of time+paper+people standing at corners selling newspapers and making u feel sad inside that they are only making like $20-50 per day. Sort of wish all newspapers would ‘go online’ and stop their paper-based operations.
Unfortunately, I don’t think that will happen until the ‘old folks’ die. We are ‘the young folks’ [via Peter Bjorn and John]. Don’t rlly care about ’saving our earth’ but just have always thought newspapers were kinda awkward. Like they are big, and u have 2 fold them, and there are no hyperlinks on the page to read about related stories or issues. Also kinda sux cuz newspapers don’t come with an ‘archives’ section. Just kinda want a meaningful experience that can also play videos+audio sometimes.
I went through a phase where I only used the internet to myspace+facebook+steal music. I kinda didn’t use it as a tool 2 ’stay in touch with the world. Then I kinda grew up and realized that ‘the world’+'current events’+'opinions on those current events’ are more important than a minifeed of my friends, acquaintances, and bros who sat beside u in Organic Chemistry. Just want to stay relevant and on top of things. Don’t want to feel ‘left behind’ when I talk 2 important ppl.
Do yall know what I mean?
can yall relate 2 this?
Should HRO publish itself to a zany newspaper?
Do yall wish public libraries would be consolidated in2 a series of computers + a laptop kiosk in a public space?
Do yall know if ‘the rain forest’ is running out of trees?
Do yall ever use the New York Times skimmer 2 pretend that ur ‘reading the newspaper’ on ur computer?
Is it authentic to read the NYTimes everyday and send ur friends+family ‘relevant articles’ to connect with them and let them know that ur an interesting person?
Is visiting CNN.com for mainstreamers?
Should I just follow a bunch of relevant newsmakers on twitter, and follow links to news stories?
Just want to create an accurate version of ‘the world’ according 2 my internet experience.
Might decide 2 only subscribe 2 tastemaking and coolhunting blogs, and not worrie so much about the world. Might also read some ‘technology blogs’ so I can stay on top of relevant products that I am supposed 2 want. And I think I’ll also subscribe 2 a few ‘guilty pleasure’ celeb gossip blogs. t00tally h8 myself 4 following that–but s0 fun.
This is actually a picture of my desktop. I like 2 have all of my lil widgets on my toolbar to stay connected to various social media tools.
Do yall like 2 digg/stumbleupon/delicious? Is ’stuff going viral’ authentic when it happens on those sites, or is it kinda like Newspaper moguls when they ‘controlled everything’?
Do u believe that u can create ur own internet, and within that context, cultivate meaning + an appreciation of ‘the world’ according 2 u?
Should every site on the internet be a .gov?
Should I only use my computer to google questions about life?
Is google the ‘anti-christ’/God?
My life takes place
on the internet
And then sometimes
real life happens
but I come back to the internet
to reflect on it
and record it
and 2 make it
history
kinda weird how we’re all the same
cuz we all use the same tools 2 express ourselves’
When I die, will my social network accounts be deactivated?
do I need 2 leave my password 2 my email account in my will?
Or is that how hackers get in2 ur account?
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log off hro
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ice skates and newspapers? s0 zany!
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fuck this girl in the bum via contorted alt status
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//////////Reply by bigtyme
//////////Posted February 24th, 2009 at 1:43 pm
@the king, she’s urinating
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i’ve actually been thinking abt this for a while, in my econ class. gladd 2 c some non-Ecofreaks are getting involved.
btw, Financial Times is the only alt-paper left.
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i think its very wes andersonesque 2 b sitting in the kitchen having english breakfast and reading e.g. the times.
just never do it.
times are changing and no ones keeping track.
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WTF is a Mark Hutton?
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There is something anachronistically charming about a Newspaper. It’s so 19th century. So Andersonesque.
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You’ll be glad you did.
eatonsquareexchange.com
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yall, this is the hacker.
still miss u carles.
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ContortedAlts are everywhere now. It’s annoying.
Miss u, newspapers. <3
They’re more authentic than the intrawebz yall. Surfing the net can still pollute our environment. It’s no different than not recycling.
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so many questions. but for starts, is that broad being housebroken ?
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<3 newzpaperz bc they are ole fashioned & pretty soon it’ll b cool 2 use them again [via 8-tracks] . ps this is not h4ckerbr0. CRLS has made it crystal via[castles/antlers/stilts] CLEAR!
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I like newspapers, because they are so silent.
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Just wanna read HRO in newspaper format in my favorite local alt independent DIY arthouse coffeeshop, y’all.
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newspaper aren’t silent… all that noise when you turn the page
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h8 newspapers
gets my hands dirty
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missed u crls <3
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ha, now i have ur real name mr. mike-carles
now i can drive to your house and steal ur newspapers
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Are you Mark Hutton, Project Manager at The Beck Group?! You’ve decided to “expose yourself.” Awesome!
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bad lighting :(
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lookbook is so addicting!!
and it might be the weed but this blew my mind
“kinda weird how we’re all the same
cuz we all use the same tools 2 express ourselves”
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Yeah, keep waiting for the day that ‘old folks’ are ‘phased out’ so that all your kewl hipster friends can read the news online and line their pet cages with discarded $70 t-shirts instead. While you’re at it, why not consider investing about 54 billion dollars to buy everyone on the globe a laptop to read the news on. Your wealth and privilege blinds you from the state of the world. Perhaps with some perspective, you’d find better ways to waste your words.
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//////////Reply by daffy
//////////Posted February 25th, 2009 at 5:53 pm
@notyerhipster, fuck the ‘rest of the world’
you socialist cunt
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//////////Reply by dek
//////////Posted February 25th, 2009 at 6:02 pm
@daffy,
u r about as ‘with it’ as fkn jndl u stpd fk: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X27UIt0RuMw
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//////////Reply by daffy
//////////Posted February 25th, 2009 at 6:36 pm
@dek, u listen 2 ‘chilled drum n bass mixes’
people say da intahwebz is a great tool to make connections and form ur own reality. but i think it also contributes 2 the decrease of interpersonal connections we make in real life. it’s balance we must pursue if we want to keep promoting THE AWESOMENESS DAT IS DA INTERNET but also, you know, be able to talk to new people and have a normal conversation.
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Mark Hutton!
Haaaay der crls
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for when you or your internet dies:
http://www.deadmansswitch.net
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MARK HUTTON????
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I Met with your leader (Mark Hutton) and his legal team when he sent me the email to get his site back, I would like to reveal his true identity:
http://www.directcapital.co.nz/shared/people/hero/MarkHutton.jpg
But in the end, it doesn;t even matter [Via the Linkin parks]
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The Atlantic Monthly a few months back had an article about how the way our brains are stimulated through using the internet (constant change of topic which creates a “greedy for the new” motivation) is changing our brain chemistry. Concentration on one topic seems more difficult.
I was wondering about what happens to our online accounts too. Should we all make wills and leave the info in it? Is there any legal precedent for this yet?
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newspapers are very old fashioned. internetblogging is the future. it makes us a little bit happier every year :)
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The Article Skimmer really is great.
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you should write for the ‘new york times’
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you are the absolute demise of the English language. and it’s depressing.
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Ok Carles, since you are the noitall of the no newspaper trend, tell us who pays for the journailsts to find the news if not newspapers. All the web sites that acually publish news (instead of the crap u write) are paid for by newspapers or magazines … if they die, so do most of the journalism jobs … it would b 2 scary 2 live in a world where u r a legit news source … gonna go renew all my subscribs 2day
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I read the news paper everyday.
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