Clashing Values in the Age of Mass Media

In the NYTimes, an interesting article about how the digital age is bringing differences in cultural values to light: American/European values on the rights to privacy versus free speech.

there ain't nothing please me more than you

Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros. Addicted.



See you all at Sasquatch, Zeros.

Re-Packaging

The ultimate design contest: the ubiquitous NYC Condom wrapper.





Gothamist reports the finalists of the Department of Health's design contest. Vote!

Hold on to your metro-themed packages; they'll be a collector's item soon.

Just kidding. The original is also staying, and I'm not advocating keeping old condom wrappers.

Yea (yay!)

Yeasayer's new album, Odd Blood, is out... trippy, catchy and groovy, as they do best. Exhibited here in the single, Ambling Alp, and its video (NSFW):

Embrace naked desert frolickers.

(If that's not enough trippy nudity for you, check out the "ambling alp experience" from the album site, also NSFW.)

Also enjoy/recall the video from the also-catchy Wait for the Summer, from their last album (alternate title, Crustaceans Hallucinating on Apples)-

You never fail to blow our minds, Yeasayer. Rock on.

Eyelid Movies

Phantogram's new album, 'Eyelid Movies," comes out next week. You can hear it now, though, on NPR.

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*Phantogram is playing the Mercury Lounge here in NYC next friday, February 12th. Maybe see you there.