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Kickstarter recently relauched Drip as a Patreon-style backer platform. I was invited to be one of their first projects at launch, but declined once I saw their payment processing fees. The usual 8% but with 20c per transaction, which they said was Stripe's demand. By the way, I wanted to launch a yearly subscription thing, which I found out wasn't going to be possible in their framework (only monthly and per-post, just like Patreon). For what I wanted to do, which was based on microtransactions, I just couldn't agree to it.

Funnily enough, Patreon last week announced a change to their processing fees that was really similar to what Drip was at launch this November. Patreon users balked. Just an hour or two ago, the CEO sent out an email apologizing and announcing they weren't going to roll it out after all. They're sticking with monthly batch processing.

Huh. This is kinda interesting. I wish they'd show examples of this in use.

For instance, I was pretty damn good when it came to dancing, loved it to be honest, and now I just don't find it fun.

Maybe you just need to find a new dance partner. Same goes for the lecturing.

I read that the on the night of the Pope's address, the pontiff leant over to Boehner and said, "pray for me. pray for me." Boehner was crying throughout the address. He quit 14 hours later.

If it was a moment of realization, a straw that broke the camel's back, then I am actually a little saddened by his decision to quit. It could have been a moment of revitalization which he could have used to empower his own positions versus that of the GOP mainstream, a move that would have been in devotion to his newfound sense of righteousness. But by caving, he'll just birth the next head of the hydra.

Lol, iPhones.

Ugh, paywall. Help?

Damn. I'm late to the party. I have something really interesting to share.

Jenny McMahon describes art as units of social calibration. Which is a pretty tersely straightforward way of describing it. But essentially, the power in art it for it to calibrate its audience. I'm not as good at explaining it as she is, so check out this audio interview. It's really eye-opening.

http://newbooksinphilosophy.com/2013/12/15/jennifer-a-mcmahon-art-and-ethics-in-a-material-world-kants-pragmatist-legacy-routledge-2013/

So I think the part where we decide if the art is good or bad is a bit of a misnomer, because it has more to do with whether or not the art should be accepted by us or shouldn't be. That function in itself is a subjective one.

While I agree — this article is outdated.

I have the Nexus 6, while I can't always grip it right because it's so big, I really do love the large screen. I work with photography so it's kind of ideal. It's my first Nexus and I really love it. I love this phone!

Does an elastic band stretch better in a hot environment than in an icy one? When I read about this subject I often find omissions of environmental effects, especially during childhood, and how they effect those senses of intro/extroversion. I don't get why. I grew up around people who I just didn't jive well with. I always wondered if I'd be an extrovert if I had grown up in a talkative family that brought nice friends around that I might have enjoyed talking to. I also didn't get to keep friends as we moved countries often and I often believe that is a big factor as well. But who knows. Indeed I can now only stretch my personality to a point.

i'm just gonna hand write my name over one of those doubles

Oooooooooh. Of course!

Manufactured Landscapes is one you'll need a bit of patience with but it's incredible. Burtynsky, also a large format photographer. The doc on Erwin Olaf is great. Since we're talking about dutch guys, I'll bring in Mark Kessels, a doc called Kessel's Eye is great, he's a subversive advertising guy who collects vernacular photos. The doc on the king of war photojournalism James Nachtwey is a must watch. Those are all classic contemporary docs in my mind. There aren't as many docs on women photographers but they're out there — I liked the one on Cindy Sherman from a while back. Gosh there's so many more but those are the first that come to mind.

Also, if you haven't seen the BBC photo history doc series The Genius of Photography, be sure that you do, it's great even for seasoned photographers.

I work in NYC and live in Brooklyn. I don't really go out anywhere though.

BUT! I do have some suggestions. The Gutter for bowling (it's the best & cheapest place in town), Pies & Thighs for lunch, the High Line for a walk, the galleries underneath the High Line for art (just snake down from 29th to 22nd, between 10th and 11th aves), the Met for even more art (pay what you want, btw, and it's within Central Park so there you go), Nolita for shopping, for cheap blockbusters go to Sunnyside Cinema in Queens & for romantic date nights go to Nitehawks (do not miss this)... gotta go but I'll think of more later.

Oh boy, if you love Dorothea Lange, you're gonna shit your pants when you see this:

It's from a recent series by Sandro Miller where he got John Malkovich to impersonate famous photographs.

He is fantastic. I'm sure you've watched the documentary on him, it's great, one of the better photo docs out there. He is great in interviews. His older work is cool too. He made miniatures and used taxidermied birds.

Yay! I do this for a living. Let me dig up some superstar contemporaries, I'll bring up a variety of styles.

Curran Hatleberg

Mark Peckmezian

Taryn Simon

Bobby Doherty

Thomas Prior

Alex Prager

Nadav Kander

Bryan Schutmaat

I love photography, photographers... I used to interview photographers for my blog every two days, racked up over 300 of them. Then I went on to printing books, now I'm a photo editor at a big weekly mag in NYC. If anyone has any, um, requests? I'd love to dig up some more.

Great post. Thanks for tuning me into him, I'm eager to read his book now. I used to bike through the Hasidic neighborhood almost every day and I always wondered if anyone left and wrote about it. Not that had any bearing on this piece, though..

Ay, me too!

Well then there's also the shell with the hole in it that was intentional. Probs a necklace. I suspect that's even less likely to be natural weathering...

Sounds like it also could've saved Dr. Mann from going nutso.

Sure, I totally agree with that. But I think his problem is the vaccuum of real news leadership. His voice would be great as a sideshow to the real televised discussion we never seem to have.

Woah, I'm surprised this hasn't made the rounds already! I'm a photo editor and I haven't seen this before. Awesome choices of photographs for recreation.

Argh-- really want/need to read this but I don't have a subscription.

Oh, fantastic! /s

I'd rather read Putnam's thoughts on my generation.

But maybe the problem is that Millenials is a pretty wide blanket. I thought Millenials were younger than the ones Bret's talking about.

Woah, very surreal. I also had no idea you could listen to cop comms online.

PS1 doesn't really have much up at the moment, but Nikolai, if you're here when the NY Art Book Fair is happening, that's the only art thing you really need to do. It takes place at PS1. Keep a whole day free for it. It is the art event each year. http://nyartbookfair.com/

Other than that, screw the Koonsy Whitney right now, MoMA's inbetween some better shows... but actually the New Museum has a surprisingly good show on right now though.

I think it's all on Netflix!

I quit my internship a year ago to embark on a huge photobook publishing project... which is now done (almost in US stores, already in Europe) and I just got hired by my dream employer as a freelance photo editor. I not only got a job (yay! i was a bike tour guide to pay the bills in the meantime) but also essentially jumped a couple rungs on the ladder... which feels especially braggable given the precarity of my generation's employment situation. Somehow feels dirty tho.

The choices we make in life are the best we can access in our rolodexes of personal experiences. Once we know a better way, we'll choose it, so long as we're not obstructed or inebriated. I've been feeling this strongly over the last few years... and I've become a hard-lined determinist. I think.

This quote you've written down is fantastic—and better yet, while it's about innovation, I think it describes most human development quite well too.

If you can solve that many chess games at the same time with your eyes closed, you surely must be pretty good at complex number solutions as well!