FastCompany.Create:
It used to be, if you wanted to know what a Scorpion Dive was, you had to go to Urban Dictionary to read about it. As of Thursday, though, the top internet destination for such colloquialisms has a new offshoot that will not only tell you that a Scorpion Dive is a particularly harsh kind of faceplant, it will also show you a video of the unfortunate act happening on So You Think You Can Dance. Welcome to UrbanDictionary.tv.
Exciting news! Congrats AMP.
Snow Motion Mixtape
Wish I had a fire place, but this record is just as hot. Rad show last night at Neumos.
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As inspired by salt water and snow…or the longing for some place warmer in the winter months.
The back side of the Central Cascades, WA - as seen here looking West from the Wenactchee Crest trail. Spent a sunny Sunday in the snow. It was a delightful day for a romp with snowshoes. Came across several game tracks, a coyote carcass, and spotted a bald eagle cruising high above the Swuak Creek basin. Views to the south were equally impressive with glances of Rainier and Adams in the distant horizon. Lunch included a mighty fine winter warmer; spicy hot chocolate with bourbon. Yum.
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Long Haul: Inspired by big rigs, citizens’ band radios, and driving gloves. For the Bandit in all of us.
“This shift from fan to distributor is natural. Fans have always spread the word about their favourite music – now they spread the music, too.”
This is my last column for the Guardian’s Film & Music section (the section itself is ending next week, folding back into the paper - a sad day IMO) - blogging got me the gig so if this does turn out to be the last regular thing I write there I wanted something hopeful but faintly valedictory, and a feature on Tumblr’s positive influence on music writing felt like just the thing. Apologies to the many blogs I couldn’t fit in.
Two points: obviously the contributory content model is nothing at all new, it was being done 15 years ago, but Tumblr makes it simpler than ever to try out these ideas and see which catch people’s imagination. And secondly the other piece of this is that the very best music content on Tumblr tends to be on individuals’ personal blogs rather than necessarily Tumblrs self-identifying as ‘about music’.
God is a Mountain
God is a mountain,stamp detournement designed by Charles “Bonsey”
The mountains are calling and I must go. – John Muir
(Source: laughingbone.blogspot.com)
This guy, MASSIVE pipes. They just don’t make em like they used to…