Josh Nguyen

theworldwelivein:

Vietnam I (via Stoncel)

I needed this today. Inspiring read about one of my favorite authors, W. Somerset Maugham.

Yet travel lay behind nearly all his work, and the traveling impulse—the wish to steal into the untried alleyway, to slip into a foreign heart, the wish to be away from the stuffy drawing-rooms he knew too well, and out among dramas and mysteries that would challenge and expand his mind—was really the engine that drove all his writing.

My whole soul aches for the East, for Egypt and India and Japan. I want to know the corrupt, eager life of the Malays and the violent adventures of the South Sea Islands … I want to see life and death, and the passions, the virtues and vices, of men face to face, uncovered.

“A novelist must preserve a child-like belief in the importance of things which common sense considers of no great consequence,” he wrote late in life. “He must never entirely grow up.”

serenastyle:

buzzandersen:

If Fonts Were Dogs

(via janicemomoko)

This really hits home since I just brought home a rambunctious young Fraktur of my own.

YES. I LOVE Helvetica & german shepherds :)

Finally tinkered www.joshuanguyen.com to where I want it to be. Thanks flavors.me!

It’s about time I updated my podcasts. Thanks Shanan for introducing these interviews with folks in the entertainment biz.

Ecstasy.

It’s a gorgeous sunny blue true day in the Bay.  The Pacific is just ahead and the hills are curved behind. What an amazing world. Fuck Yeah San Francisco!  

Ivy - Edge of the Ocean

serenastyle:

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lol at the linux penguin.

hikenow:

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I miss Central Park in a New York City summer.  

Rummaging through old Flickr photos came up with: I especially miss 2005, when it was all about riding a moped everywhere, sandwiches and picnics by day and wine bars and noodle shops by night.  This was when I as about to quit my job and travel for a year and everything was liberating. It was a pretty magic season in New York.

david:

Quite an endorsement! I can’t even keep track of all the features and partnerships Dens, Naveen, and team have been pushing — all while breezing by an awful lot of incumbent competition. You guys are incredible. (via lavrusik)

hipstertracks:

OK Go - This Too Shall Pass (Passion Pit Remix)

I had a good day at work today. Playing around with Flickr like it was 2005 confirmed a couple of things:

1. I love this product
2. There are only a few products I’d like to work on holistically: Tumblr, Vimeo, Flickr, Twitter, Wordpress and Six Apart

All those products, in their own ways, are repositories of individual memories, made awesome by the connections formed by the community.  They’re also very personal products, and by personal I mean they’re positioned in ways that encourage users to be creative.  Self expression is really important and is the magic here.

If the 30-something me can sit down and have a conversation with the 12-year old me, I’d say “Hey, listen up for a minute. Stop running around for a sec.  What do you want to do with your life? No idea? I suggest you look into archeology.  And if you can’t handle the field work, maybe a position in comparative anthropology?”

“Oh and by the way, stop eating ice cream so much.”

I love history.  I love the way individual stories become a communal story.  And messing around with a product I work on so much in a different, freer and unbiased way today, I find that Flickr has a couple of awesome points compared to it’s peers. Flickr:

• Introduces a low entry threshold (expressive video still requires more effort)
• Centers around your original content; Tumblr’s content, for all its goodness, feels more like bookmarking and re-publishing and broadcasting to me.
• Benefits viz a viz blogs from the whole ‘photos tells a 1000 words’ thing

I spent a couple of hours going through the Organizr and re-categorizing sets and figuring out things that haven’t been classified.  What I found was awesome.  Flickr has been the pictoral blog of my life since 2005.  The frequency in which photos exist analogous to my life have increased as mobile options become better and I’ve become more comfortable with a camera. I noticed friends who’ve dropped out of my life, discovered new friends who’ve entered my routines and found old friends who continue to be there.  I dug up old images to go with my hazy memories, old photos to accompany half written blog posts and reimagined events properly because those photos existed.  

Who knew I was into Taleb Kweli?  I apparently was at a concert in NY once upon a time.

I usually read my old blog posts and get a kick out of it.  My friend Nine has self-published her old posts, and it’s pretty awesome to see the stories that naturally form out of those archives.  I never thought to do that review with with my Flickr photos, but I unwittingly did today.  It spurred a lot of thoughts that needed to be fleshed out, but there was a sort of thrill there, a kind of primal excitement that only comes from a connection of events to a time and place and people.  

So what’s missing?  Context.  Moar contexts.  It’s about the stories, stupid.

Christopher Niemann does it again. Clever Google maps style drawings of sayings, metaphors and what not.

8asians:

“Return to a Classic”, Super Mario’s Wardrobe by Glen Brogan

spanishcoffee:

hikenow:

eatsleepsnap:

r i o m a g g i o r e     c i n q u e   t e r r e

gorgeous gorgeous. I want to go back!

Shout Out Louds - Very Loud

See I got a plan
A plan to get us out of here
If we only can use your money then we can definitly get out of here
You see I always screw it up someway
This is why this love can’t stay

Google Maps just added bike lanes to all their US cities.  Fucking rocks.

nervousacid:

This video has been reblogged literally almost 700 times as I write this, but I honestly believe this cannot be overblogged. A (ridiculously cute) kid named Calen meets a married gay couple for the very first time and, in only one minute, manages to figure out what millions of adults in America can’t seem to understand about when husbands marry husbands: “So that means you love each other!”

It’s really not as complicated as some people think. (via)

“From the mouths of babes”.

Oh.My.God. YES.  I miss Asia’s street food stalls. More over at EatingAsia.

New Iron Man trailer. Holy crap. Cannot wait.

paperbackgirl:

Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood will reportedly return to film scoring, writing music for an adaptation of Haruki Murakami’s Norwegian Wood. The score will be based on a composition Greenwood wrote for the BBC Concert Orchestra—Sean Michaels.

Anatomy of a Crime.

travelhighlights:

Isle of Skye Sunrise by Ian Cameron:

“Looking like a prehistoric island or a set from Jurassic Park, the Old Man of Storr and his basaltic offspring are hit by the first butterscotch rays of a late Summer sunrise. A 4am scramble up to the lofty cliff top viewpoint seems like hard work but the reward is a string of unmatched superlatives.”

Isle of Skye, Scotland

theworldwelivein:

Cambodia :: Photography Served

travelhighlights:

Yading National Park by Michael Anderson

Tibet

serenastyle:

newsweek:

tanya77:

saucy:

True or False?

Where’s the Embiggen factor?

Here (pdf)

Urban planners, rejoice! Today, the New York City Department of Transit announced a radical new plan for improving the city’s bus lines: A fully dedicated express-lane for buses, running crosstown on 34th Street.

hikenow:

barroomhero:

I must go to this underwater restaurant in the Maldives before I die.

New York City. “The Sandpit” by Sam O’Hare

Hilarious.

(via mroth)

Full text:

After several years of practicing law with a bunch of nerds in Silicon Valley I have come to the conclusion that my law degree is useless and I don’t want to be a lawyer anymore. Though I spent over $100,000 on it I am willing to sell it for the bargain basement price of $59,250, which is the current value of my remaining student loan balance.

This priceless collectible will permit you to be surrounded by hobby-less assholes whose entire life is dictated by billing by the hour and being anal dickheads. Additionally, this piece of paper has the amazing ability to keep you from doing what you really want to do in life, all in the name of purported prestige and financial success. Finally, girls in the Marina will swoon with retarded thoughts of sugar daddy when they hear you went to XXX prestigious law school and are a lawyer.

Act now as supplies are limited and this crap takes three years to make. DISCLAIMER: this piece of shit isn’t even written in English. It’s in Latin or something, but I have the translation. It says “Haha. We took your tuition money bitch, now suck it. Sincerely, President of the University”

Added Bonus: It’s from one of those elitist BS institutions that accept people like George W. Bush cause their daddy donated $20 million. Instead of donating $20 million you can have it for the low low price of $59,250 or best offer.

This is actually a serious post. I will really sell this piece of shit.

ernie:

laughingsquid:

Down for the Count

“ONE! ONE KNOCKED OUT GLITTERY BAMPIRE! AH. AH. AH.”

(via hellonewyork)

I used to work right behind this building. Weird.

(via airport)

serenastyle:

thedailywhat:

Infographic of the Day: The eight biggest burger chains in the US, mapped out by regional influence.

Explained:

Imagine, if you will, the burger force – a field of energy that radiates from every freshly-cooked patty, earth-penetrating and inverse-squared with distance, compelling the hungry carnivore to seek out and devour the well-done ground beef at the source.

Now, wrap that concept in a Star Wars motif – set in the present day, with the second-tier burger chains as the rebels – each, by themselves, without mutual aid, battling the 12,000-plus restaurant McEmpire.  The situation is most dire, for the upstarts control but a few significant islands of territory amid the overwhelming and darkly-rendered influence of the McForce.

Embiggen.

[good.]

an American pandemic ordeal

(via hellonewyork)

foreverdigital:

lookinforyellowandpurple: This has happened to me a lot.

tasteslikeglitterr: thedailywhat: LOLDWELL. Lmao. Always do.

Wow.  What a circle jerk - I’m j.fisher on Flickr. The interwebs is eating itself.

hikenow:

adventuresintravel:

Australia Coast

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(via hellonewyork)

James Cameron

I love God-complexes, especially when talent is backing them.

spanishcoffee:

fourthirtyam:

one day…

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Genius.

hikenow:

technicolorgypsy:

[China]
Photographer: Feng Jiang

The first of four pictures that remind me how much I’d like to explore this vast country.

jonathanmarcus:

Pretty jealous Vimeo has Kevin producing such cool work. Congrats!

ksheurs: Today at Vimeo we launch Statistics! This has been one of the biggest and coolest projects I have ever worked on. I am very happy with what we all accomplished and I am sure that the Vimeo community will agree. Big thanks to Sox, Cory, Joe, Ryan, Blake, Andrew, Andrea, Jack, and Casey.

Check out http://www.vimeo.com/stats now for the video and demo!!!

hikenow:

maryajaleel:

Banff, Alberta, Canada