Showing posts with label AROUND THE WORLD. Show all posts
Showing posts with label AROUND THE WORLD. Show all posts

Thursday, February 17, 2011

AROUND THE WORLD wide web: PART THREE

Again, a mega-tweet of links worth checking out:

  • The student cabinet that I advise has a website that's pretty legit. It'll be getting consistent updates here on out.
  • You definitely need to print out these Arrested Development paper dolls.
  • Please read this Taylor student's blog. His matter of fact posts are fantastic. (ps. I have zero connection to this student besides him once attending Taylor.)
  • Loved to see Arcade Fire win the best album Grammy. Might love this "hate blog" even more.
  • And everyone should listen to James Blake.

Class time!

Monday, May 17, 2010

AROUND THE WORLD wide web: PART TWO

About a month and a half ago, I began a series called AROUND THE WORLD, click here for a fuller explanation of what it is.

After a weekend in Albuquerque, New Mexico for Matt and Jess's wedding (congrats!), I now have enough info to fill an AROUND THE WORLD blog (or at least an "around the country" posting). Here's what's going on:
  • Paste Magazine's chief editor, Josh Jackson, writes on the central characters of 24 and Dexter (as well as on the character of our centers).
  • Twitterers worth following: fake tips for proper writing, inside Christian jokes, the guy that created Freaks & Geeks.
  • Best online comic strip? (beware: occasionally R-rated)
  • Tony and Peggy Campolo talk about their various opinions of homosexuals in the church.
  • 10 new songs (often times awesome remixes), 5 times a week, free downloads, and free music advice.

Saturday, March 27, 2010

AROUND THE WORLD wide web: PART ONE

I'm not sure how well known the website, Burnside Writers Collective (BWC), is, but every so often (once a week?) they have a posting entitled Across the Universe where the author gives four or five links to interesting happenings on the internet. It's a great resource to find new corners of the web or fresh perspectives on popular topics. I suppose they could simply Twitter links every couple days but I just love how they're all grouped together in some sort of megaTweet of substantive information.

Anyways, I'm copying their idea and giving mine a snappy title: AROUND THE WORLD wide web.

Without any further ado, check out what's hip on the internets:
  • Sufjan Steven directed and scored a film about New York's ugliest highway, The BQE. It released last fall but Pitchfork has the entire film streaming for the next week. I've loved the music for a few months now and the visual side (which I'm watching now) is equally beautiful.
  • A great blog entry (stolen from BWC's Across the Universe) on appropriate responses to art.
  • I don't pretend to know anything about fashion, etc. but The Sartorialist is one of my favorite GoogleReader followings. Just stylish people shot in the "real" world.
  • March Madness has been madness. I thoroughly enjoyed filling out and following my own brackets. Here's Obama's picks.