Your phone needs to be constantly recharged, and you do too. — Jared Lafitte
This album dropped today: “The Symphony and the Static”. From the artist, Fr. Pontifex: “The idea for “The Symphony and The Static” as a concept came to me during Christmas last year. I was going through a difficult time in my life and I had also walked with some people through some tough times and yet it was Christmas, which is always a joyful experience for me. The feelings I had inside, birthed in me the idea of the tension between hope and suffering, joy and pain, and peace and violence. One of the lines from “The Overture” sums it up, “We live in the tension of chaos and glory, chapters buried in time with so much more to the story.” My life feels like that and it’s what I observe and experience with my people. Not one of us is immune to the human drama. Each one of us experiences our own symphony and static.“ Gotta say, the tracks are kicking. Check it on iTunes or his online store.
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by yours truly
“How Twitter Hijacked My Mind”
A chameleon credit card, that does membership and gift cards too…all in one. Great idea. And set to ship 2014. (via davemorin)
UPDATE: Read an article that pointed out that the card is designed to stop working once it loses touch with your cell phone for a defined time under 10 minutes. While this is a security feature, it also prevents the card from being used whenever your cell phone goes dead, which is a bad thing. The company says they’re working on something, but I think that’d definitely have to be figured out for this to make sense. (Maybe Apple’s fingerprint technology?)
Are You Happy And In Love? Here’s Why That Makes You So Sad.
The sound of the waves…
…washing, washing, washing against the shores of my soul.
The longer I listen, the more I begin to hear them…
…until my heart starts to beat in unison with their poundings.
-yours truly
Christ does not die in the noble detachment of the philosopher. He dies in tears. — Joseph Ratzinger, Eschatology (via marylikesbagels)
confessionsofsomeoneanonymous:
Man & Woman
Didn’t get to post this at the time, but Apple’s latest desktop operating system was released recently. And the price is…free. Amazing. OS X Mavericks downloadable from the App Store.
This was really neat to watch – great job Buckeyes! :)
moviescore:
The Ohio State marching band did something cinematically awesome this weekend. Watch and listen and see how many movie scores you can identify. (via Deadspin)
New personal best too.
Clutch poverty like a treasure, for only in our emptiness can we be filled. — yours truly
Pray, hope, and don’t worry. Worry is useless. God is merciful and will hear your prayer. — Padre Pio
Stumbled across this radio show a few months back, and was literally stunned: RadioLab. An entirely different sound, and an entirely different format.
In this video above, you get to see some behind-the-scenes. But I’d recommend you catch them on the airwaves, via podcast, or online.
The first show I caught, and was mesmerized by: “The Good Show”, especially the sub-segment, “One Good Deed Deserves Another”.
Hope you enjoy! :)
Message From Your Heart - Kina Grannis I wasn’t aware that this video is what started her music career. I’ve previously linked to another of her songs here, and if you’re interested to hear her backstory, checkout her TEDx talk. Don’t forget about ‘your most precious body part’ that ‘takes blood and makes art’, bom bom bom bom …
It can be a challenge to find wallets that aren’t actually bulky by design. The folks over at Bellroy seem to have gotten it right with their line of simple wallets, which look really neat. Their Card Sleeve Wallet (pictured above) particularly caught my attention – complete video and writeup at the link.
53, makers of the award-winning iPad app called Paper, have partnered with the folks at Moleskine, to allow you to print out your digital sketchbooks.
Paper … to digital … to paper. Or as I like to call it: there and back again.
This ties into an observation I’ve been recognizing: technological transition is not necessarily to digital (i.e. one way), but removing the barriers between the digital and analog worlds, so that ideas and information move seamlessly back and forth between the two.
Additional anecdotal evidence: Evernote’s latest announcements, including enhanced partnerships with Moleskine, Post-It, ScanSnap, and more.