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alexsteele:

Spring fever

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pleatedjeans:

relationship games

smokedontsmoke:

Sam of Ricky Eat Acid, and his dear friend (“wife”) Jasmine started a one of the cutest, most without guile labels earlier this month. They are called Unlimited Free Milkshakes, and their first release, cute boy kissing booth set the standard for the kind of heartfelt lo-fi gems they mean to release. And now with the turning of time, and Sam turning the big 2-1, Unlimited Free Milkshakes released a free compilation of music from friends, label affiliates, past lovers, present lovers, and sexy all-stars of all shapes and sizes. The tape ranges from “weirdo drone/ambient/experimental…to totally upbeat electronic stuff, downbeat stuff too (like blithe field’s appearance), dream pop (red alder), bummed out tape pop (just TRY and guess who wrassle mania is - that voice)”. 

And with all it’s wild and beautiful branches, Art Week 2012 is rooted in friendship, and in the support of friends music. And when I really start to think about it, that’s a huge part of why I do what I do here at Smoke Don’t Smoke. If not for the friendships that form here through these pages, and through those sounds, I’m not sure it would be sustainable. 

So get with the program and download [or click the image] the friendliest compilation this or that side of the Mississippi. And check out the lead track from Wrassle Mania (10 hugs if you can guess who it is).

Wrassle Mania - Hate Fuckers

mikelernerphotography:

Camila for @FORDmodels/Bushwick

(by Mike Lerner)

she looks like Cindy Crawford and Lana Del Rey had a daughter.

septagonstudios:

Valentina

theatlantic:

You Don’t Own Anything Anymore

Google’s terms of service sound grabby because they are: the terms of service for Google Drive (and pretty much every Google service) give Google the right to do almost anything with your uploaded content. This isn’t because Google has a bunch of really cool ideas for “publicly performing” your photos. It’s because copyright law was written before there was a such thing as computers.

“Copyright law itself is really strange,” says Greg Lastowka, co-director of the Rutgers Institute for Information Policy & Law. These companies, he says, are only doing “what copyright law forces them to do.”

Say you draw a picture. You literally own the paper and the ink that you used to draw it, but the thing you have a copyright for is intangible: it’s the pattern, the shapes, the design. If someone comes along a steals your drawing, they’re stealing your property. If someone takes a photo of your drawing, they’re violating your copyright. “When you say you own a photo,” says Lastowka, “you really mean ‘I have the exclusive right to reproduce my photo.’”

In a world where sharing a photo is strictly a matter of getting another copy made and mailing it, or getting it published, copyrights are pretty easy to keep track of and these laws hold up pretty well. Sending a physical photo to your grandmother goes like this: you either put the picture in an envelope and send it, or you get a copy made yourself and send that.

Sending your grandmother an email photo, though, might involve copying your photo five or six times; first to Google’s servers, then to another server, then to an ISP’s CDN, then to AOL’s servers, then to your grandmother’s computer. As far as you’re concerned, this feels exactly like dropping an envelope in the mail. As far as copyright is concerned, it’s a choreographed legal dance.

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lizaandsophiequalunicormns4ever:

SO TRUE!

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