2008

May

Officially, I suck at Tumbling

Exam week is over, yeah, but now I have Formula SAE competition in Michigan for another week....

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-5-11)

Nas/Nujabes - Book of Rhymes/Who’s Theme I’ve been shamlessly biting this one...

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-5-4)

Free the Robots - Jazzhole Some chill, jazzy, electro breakbeats for your 4 A.M.

Bogus is...

being sexiled the night before my hardest final. If he isn’t out of there in three...

Apr

One down, FOUR TO GO

Finals, finals, finals, finals. I’ll be interesting in a week or so, I swear. (Also, I really...

tore, sort, rot rots, bee, bees, seer, bear, ace, bay, cay,...

UIUC Formula SAE places third VIR! Yeaaaaaaaaah ^__^ Even...

Bboy JATO tearin it up at Breakin’ the Law: 5inal...

^ IL Breaks V On April 5th, DJ Franco De Leon set up in the...

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-4-27)

UW Madison is 80% white. Going from a breakdancing...

College is the time for impromptu road...

“I loved it. I didn’t care what I was playing. I got...”
— Josh Venable, the DFW dj...

500 yen cup of tea in Kyoto, Japan I wanna go baaaaaaack...

/edit: I removed the embedded player because it was annoying. Adult Swim, for the record, autoplay...

TED | Rives: Is 4 a.m. the new midnight? While we’re on the topic of TED, this is probably one...

TED: Vilayanur Ramachandran - A Journey to the Center of Your Mind Interesting and ingenius talk...

Oh, great. Do I really want this?

Charles Mingus - Eat That Chicken Originally I was torn between his gorgeous Goodbye Pork Pie Hat...

“When my wife was cleaning the blood off, she said ‘I think...”
— Blind homeowner captures...

PENNSYLVANIA

Annuals - Dry Clothes

Make time lapse videos with a graphing calculator! (via...

soupsoup: mascarah: There was no one ‘Ah-ha’ moment. Not...

The Strangers. I haven’t been this legitimately scared by a trailer since, uh, ever.

Smoking Popes - Pure Imagination (Live at KDGE) I remember being exposed to this group at my very...

“Pit bulls kill cancer boy’s miniature...

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-4-20)

Duke kids doing R. Kelly For the sake of nostalgia xD

God, I am such a giant nerd. Labeling this took...

“Why does everybody hate rollerbladers? I do. I don’t...”
— D, as we watched someone on...

Broken Social Scene - Swimmers As a single, moderately sex-starved college girl who typically...

petergoody: That dude stole my Halloween costume. God,...

As I was finishing up my paper last night, I kept hearing...

8AM observations, Grainger Library

I just watched the sunrise… from a desk in the 24 hour engineering library (that I have a...

Lupe Fiasco - Fighters f. Matthew Santos A brilliant Chicago artist in celebration of the new...

evanwalsh: stephaniemcdonald: wait is this funny? other...

windycity.tumblr.com

SAVE POLAROID!!

“In most elevators, at least in any built or installed since...”
— From that New Yorker piece on...

inky: JOIN US… JOIN US… — ghostvirus We all look like...

Um, why aren’t there tumblr meetups in Chicago? With a...

Sony Commercial: Foam City Beautiful lighting, makes me want to roll around and give out...

[self.reddit] Ask a Muslim!

I was at one of the Grainger prison cells cubbies doing...

Caribou - Pelican Narrows I’ve been getting crap about posting Brand New (sorry, I have a...

Dave White. So maybe I’m a little obsessed with...

It looks like someone took a baseball bat to my car. =/

“I hope I’m not so small-souled as to take satisfaction...”
— Lee, from Steinbeck’s...

Brand New - The Archers Bows Have Broken In celebration of the coolest new tumblr feature! Also,...

david: Anyone using Firefox/Safari can try a (still very...

WINDTALKERS

saturnreturning: It’s Cabot karaoke night, and 300 Harvard kids are repping the rap bridge in...

“Bad Day on the High Sea” by Brandon Bird Here,...

Kanye West's Blog

Common - The Light Three great things about this song: It’s from an album entilted Like Water...

Reverse graffiti by Alexandre Orion. art less pollution

Last year, his apartment flooded. So...

DanOnDuty: i've been homeless.
excitingtrousers: i heard
excitingtrousers: WHAT HAPPENED?
DanOnDuty: well, i came home from lunch and the house was full of smoke
DanOnDuty: i walked out and the groundskeeper guy, in this very wes-anderson-movie kind of way points at the column of industrial-quality smoke coming from the roof and says "hey man."
DanOnDuty: so i called 911

aatw: Architecture in Helsinki: Places Like This Also,...

Wow, I wish I was half as good at Processing as flight404. (via Boing Boing, where else?) This is my...

Nick and Michelle playing rummy with me =) It’s no...

The National - Mistaken for Strangers HIS VOICE.

“She wants to know if I love her. That’s all anyone wants...”
— Jonathan Safran Foer (via...

I’ve been posting a lot of scary things today, so...

First, this is not photoshopped. The girl, who has yet to...

This is part two of the movie below. And here are scans and a translation of the children’s...

Back before CGI came along and ruined everything, Estonia produced terrifying stop-motion animation...

The Weakerthans - Aside THEY ARE GOING TO BE AT LOLLAPALOOZA (as part of a kick ass lineup). I have...

“This ain’t no party, it’s a gangbang”
— In response to the hotel...

DJ Format - We Know Something You Don’t Know Because I love breakdancing turtles doing...

ELEMENT FOUR: THE BBOY

Bboys are dancer/athletes that get down and dirty to breakbeats… hence “breakers”....

This is art. Expressions Crew performing their Marionette Show.

Revenge of the DJ was amazing. Beyond amazing. Incredible....

ELEMENT THREE: THE DJ

DJs and the mixtape were the heartbeat of hip-hop from the very beginning. And if there is any name...

This is a movie with the entire soundtrack and all the sound...

DJ Qbert shredding some vinyl. And here’s one with him scratching without using the fader....

<Vidar> not a damn peep outta her
<Vidar> "are you enjoying yourself?" "yeah" "cause you look bored to death" "ok"
<Vidar> it was like dating rainman

DKnip87: god i love donuts
DKnip87: i couldn't love a human baby as much as i love donuts

ELEMENT TWO: THE MC

It’s not just about the top-40 stuff all over KISS FM, it’s about sending a message,...

DangerDoom - Bada Bing Unfortunately neither the mouse nor doom will be here tonight. Listen up...

Braille - Shades of Gray He’s on tonight!

I just woke up, so I haven’t been able to post up...

Hellogoodbye - Shimmy Shimmy Quarter Turn Music I watched the sunrise (woohoo all nighter) to after...

“Dude, they’re sexier when they’re bigger”
— Adri Ahahhaha, she’s...

Jenny and Adri at the stove. It’s 2:05 AM and...

Where technology and street art collide ^__^ (A How-to on Laser Graffiti by Graffiti Research Labs...

“We don’t want it to be beautiful, we hate this wall....”
— - Palestinian man to British...

ELEMENT ONE: THE WRITER

Obviously it’s scribe day here at dirty laundry (I’ve decided to ignore April Fools...

SUPPORT URBAN ART!

REVOK. (You might remember him and AUGER tagging the shit...

Mar

Posting this just becaust this beat is so sick. (Salah is a kick ass dancer too haha.) See if you...

The Booze Test - Name That Alcohol

“I hate people who say things like ‘I just ran twelve...”
— Michelle McCann

I love how it’s tagged “fucking asians”

Clementine: This is it, Joel. It's going to be gone soon.
Joel: I know.
Clementine: What do we do?
Joel: Enjoy it.
Ah~ that line always kills me. My heart just sinks. Haha, and I don't know if it was such a good idea to watch Eternal Sunshine tonight, cause now I'm all introspective and unmotivated and a little lost.

I’m still laughing about last night. Three kegs,...

PARTY AT JONESTOWN

Do the D.A.N.C.E. tonight at 707 E. Springfield. Triple birthday party, triple kegger, triple...

[NPR] A Victim Treats His Mugger Right

“This is going to be your new favorite song.”
— A friend, while giving me a CD...

topherchris: jessicagoldharalson: When is someone going to do a group satirizing Tumblinas? ...

Filled with The Beatles, Leonard Cohen, Erasure, Neutral...

Finally got a chance to play this with a light gun…...

“If you’d like to join other Happy Mutants on an...”
— AHHH!! Boing Boing has an IRC...

The Shining, recut to give you a warm and fuzzy feeling inside.

Never Gonna Give You Up

I believe I got rickrolled at a pub last night.

askvero: Wal-Marts in 2007. Look at the definitive...

Yeah, I got one too (like every other person on tumblr), but...

suwaowalog: Castlevania (NES) (via skinny coder) This is...

will someone start posting a lot of...

hydeordie: so i can get this nick douglas porn picture off my dashboard so i may continue to tumbl...

“And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the...”
— John Steinbeck, from East of...

God, I wish this was true. Damn you, Square and your C&D letters!

Music. Dance. Clock! Uniqlo is a sweet Japanese clothing...

Smoke drags through the dim spotlight illuminating the lonely pianist. His closed eyes are smiling,...

I’m sitting at one of my favorite cafes in Champaign,...

“One day, very soon, some brilliant kid will invent a bot...”
— Me, just now. (The...

I don’t believe that I know enough about politics or religion to properly discuss topics that...

Is it sad that the only reason I knew today was the first...

[BBC News] The Peace Sign Turns 50!

Above was my inagural post to the new tumblr group I joined:...

I hope The Boy I Like doesn't read here

KaelGotRice: tell him in some cute way
KaelGotRice: that you like him
excitingtrousers: LOL
excitingtrousers: write him a note
excitingtrousers: do you like me
excitingtrousers: y/n
KaelGotRice: how about: