springwise:

In Spain, NGO taps ‘foodstagrams’ to fight world hunger

Instagram is a useful tool for sharing our lives visually with others and it’s probably a sign of how comfortable the Western world currently is that one of its most popular uses is ‘foodstagrams’ – photos of everyday meals. We’ve already seen one restaurant tap the social media service to build a user-created menu, but now a Spanish charity is aiming to fight world hunger with its FoodShareFilter app, which enables the sharing of food photos on Instagram while raising money for the cause. READ MORE…

alanstarzinski:

Boom

take back your rights, stop the destruction of the planet, rebuild an economy without the fuckers that tanked it, trash your iphone because it’s made by slave labor that would rather commit suicide than make it for you.  I’m with you guys, fuck my generation— most of us anyway— and the one before it— most of them anyway.

(Source: norwegian-blue)

benjaminapple:

jkottke:

A pair of scientists looked at the rate at which the complexity of life increases and then extrapolated back to a point of zero complexity, aka the origin of life. The answer they came up with is 9.7 ± 2.5 billion years ago. Which is much older than the Earth. This idea has some provocative…

Duuuude!

Hey, I haven’t checked in in a while partly because I’ve been hard at work trying to be ready for this play I’m in tonight and tomorrow.  Please come see it, it’s at the Roy Arias Theater at 43rd and 8th.

creativesomething:

Ever hear the phrase: “I’m just not the creative type?” Or ever get the feeling that you might not be as creative as you’d like? That’s a sign of low creative confidence.

Creative confidence matters in the process, almost more than talents or abilities. As engineer and entrepreneur…

respectacles:

7. “Food manufacturers now spend nearly twice as much money on advertising their [breakfast] cereals as they do on the ingredients that go into them.”

– 9 Surprising Facts About Junk Food, Mother Jones

(via motherjones)

This is so great!  Please watch and share and reblog and call in asking for it on TRL.  Does TRL exist anymore?

crowdsourceinspiration:

I just stumbled upon this wonderful songwriting “map” created by Steve Mugglin. It perfectly illustrates the typical,nice-sounding choices a songwriter has when building a chord progression or melody. It is a revelation to finally visualize the process that I’ve been working through naturally and accidentally with my ear for years. Looks easy, right?

I need to meditate on this a bit.  It looks like it combines “standard chord progressions” like the kind in Jerry Coker’s books (or one of them anyway), with like the “strength of root motion” chart I saw (and I don’t recall what he called it exactly) in George Thadeus Jones’ book on music theory— and a lot of other things probably too. 

ratliff2016gold:

RATLIFF 2016 GOLD meets Lifeway® Kefir at SXSW

Olympic History is made when Future GOLD Medal Winner Connor Ratliff goes to SXSW and meets the people from Lifeway® Kefir, his potential Olympic sponsors.

Connor is just amazing, always.

(via connorratliff)

winterval:

fairfetch:

Winterval 2013 Playlist!

All the songs that were used int the fest this year. You will need a spotify account but then you can click through all the songs!

(well we think all the songs. If we missed any, let us know!)

I just love the Rick.  yes I have one.  In stereo actually.  I keep Rotosound 50-110 on it.  I also have a Mapleglo Rick that I put a Leo Quan Badass II bridge on it and Alembic replacement pickups with the Stanley Clarke electronics in it.  There is so much circuitry on it that I had to tape the battery to the outside of base even at gigs till I got a space for it routed out.  I keep Elixirs on that one, similar string gauges.  45s for g strings are just to wimpy sounding.

(Source: Spotify, via prymal2)