Cadillac Ciel Concept
How do you feel about this car?
Dear India
Will you tell us where you got your name? Was someone in love with the impish India in “Delta Wedding” maybe? Or something more obvious. You can tell me to mind my own business.
Harold Camping Post Rapture Interview
The world not having ended, Harold Camping had time to sit down with me, in his first post-rapture interview, and answer a few questions.
How certain were you the world was going to end on May 21 — did you have any doubts?
I’m battle tested man. I’m tired, I’m so tired of pretending like my life isn’t perfect and bitching and just winning every second and I’m not perfect and bitching and just deliverying the goods at every friking turn, because, look what I’m dealing with man, I’m dealing with fools and trolls, dealing with soft targets and it’s just, you know, it’s just strafing runs in my underwear before my first cup of coffee because I don’t have time for these clowns.
Can you expand on that?
I don’t have time for their judgement and their stupidity and you know they lay down with their ugly wives in front of their ugly children and look at their loser lives and then they look at me and they say “I can’t process it!” Well, no, you never will, so stop trying . . . just sit back and enjoy the show. You know?
But you were wrong the first time you predicted that the end of the world would take place in September of 1994. So you must think, in the back of your mind, that maybe you can’t actually predict when the end of the world will be.
Boom, that’s the whole movie, that’s life. That’s life, there’s nobility in that, there’s focus, it’s genuine, it’s crystal and it’s pure and it’s available to everybody. So just shut your traps and put down your McDonald’s, your magazines, your TMZ and the rest of it and focus on something that matters.
But . . . But . . .
But you can’t focus on things that matter if all you’ve been is asleep for forty years. Funny how sleep rhymes with sheep. You know? Anyway. We’re getting off topic. We don’t care anymore, we don’t care.
Okay, so describe to me exactly what you expected to happen on May 21 . . . .
Yeah, why not because it’s just pure, pure and complete gnarlyisms. Um, yeah, I sat with two radical fire napalm-dropping pilots in my movie theater watching the attack sequence, the chopper attack sequence on the beachhead to go surfing because they wanted to and those people were in their way. Um, and I was getting a tattoo during the the the the death from above. And it’s the banner from the death card that Kilgore is throwing on his victims. But there’s also falling from it is the apple from The Giving Tree. There’s my life. Deal with it.
So, have you thought about what you’ll tell your followers now that the Rapture didn’t take place?
You know, it’s um, I just, I’m sorry man, I got, I got, I got magic and I got poetry in my fingertips and um, most of the time. And this include naps. I’m a, I’m an F-18, bro. And I will destroy you in the air and I will I will deploy my ordnance to the ground.
Okay. Any final thoughts?
Bye bye. Losers.
dear clusterflock
How elite are you?
In the Washington Post, Charles Murray suggests that answering these questions might help determine if you’re a member of the “New Elite.” How do we do?
1. Can you talk about “Mad Men?”
2. Can you talk about the “The Sopranos?”
3. Do you know who replaced Bob Barker on “The Price Is Right?”
4. Have you watched an Oprah show from beginning to end?
clusterflock interviews clusterflock
Amanda: who is Nico Muhly?
Cast y’all’s votes, y’all.
Should I be the next Oprah?
Recommended by Sheila
I shoot primarily with a battered LG VX11000 camera-phone, when I am not using the waterproof version of the Fisher-Price KidTough Digital Camera.
question for Phil
While I primarily shoot digital, every once and a while I find myself thinking about how to reintegrate film. What’s your process for developing, scanning, sorting, digitizing?
Barry, feel free to jump in. Do you think about shooting film anymore?
Anyone?
clusterflock interviews clusterflock: toothbrush edition
Aaron, is the Colgate 360 the best toothbrush you have used?
clusterflock interviews clusterflock, #2 – Dogville edition
A few days ago Rick asked me:
Q: Andrew, I just finished watching Dogville, the second time. You spoke of “shaking for days,” after seeing it. If you can recall, what shook you?
(I ask because I’m shaking again, or at least, I’m haunted.)
My answer was: [http://www.clusterflock.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/1004.MP3] Download
He then asked me a follow up:
Q. What have you carried with you, since viewing the film. Were you changed in some elemental way?
And my answer: [http://www.clusterflock.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/Dogville2.mp3] Download
Edited out were some reflections/impressions on how/why the film reflected America and its foreign relations, but it was, frankly, uncompelling. I also don’t feel like I answered the question really, but I am not sure that that is entirely the point.
clusterflock interviews clusterflock, #2 -UPDATED #2
Q: Andrew, I just finished watching Dogville, the second time. You spoke of “shaking for days,” after seeing it. If you can recall, what shook you?
(I ask because I’m shaking again, or at least, I’m haunted.)
A. [http://www.clusterflock.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/1004.MP3] Download*
*Pardon my p’s**, the pop filter is still in the mail, and the quiet hum of the enormous A/C unit outside my window.
**That is the proper way to punctuate the plural of the letter “p,” right?
Q. What have you carried with you, since viewing the film. Were you changed in some elemental way?
clusterflock interviews clusterflock, #1 — updated, with answer
We have kicked around the idea for a long time of using the site to interview each other in some way. I was supposed to set something up with Andrew and totally dropped the ball. I think part of the problem was we were being too formal. I propose a simple formula: when something interesting occurs to someone that involves another flocker (or someone in some way affiliated with the site), make it a post.
So, without further ado:
Q. Kelsey, I’m curious about your experience(s) with Yahoo! Answers. You mentioned your frustration with the site a few times in comments and I was wondering if you would tell us what it was like working on that project. What it’s limitations were. What you saw as its potential. And how, presumably, it fell short. (As well as any other anecdotes you would care to share.)
A. My case against Yahoo! Answers is dated. For those who are unaware, I worked at Yahoo! from June 2005 to late 2007. The work itself was corporate — simple, predictable, complete with gym membership. It was my first job out of college and, when I showed up, I was as bright-eyed and idealistic as they come. But in order to work there, I left my apartment at seven and rarely returned before eight. After 2.5 years of a 4-6 hour daily commute, I now know how to lose myself. Commuting ever so slowly siphons away my laughter.
I politely decline
Not that I wouldn’t talk to any of y’all.
clusterflock interviews clusterflock
In ‘talking’ with Andrew about his life as a “cellar rat” in the coastal town of San Luis Obispo I was reminded that, at one point, the idea had been floated of flockers interviewing flockers.
We should do it.
I imagine that each flocker who wants to participate will conduct one interview and be interviewed once. But consider the comments on this post an open forum to discuss how we might want to do this.
An Interview With: Nouk Baudrot
You may remember Nouk from a recent post. I became very intrigued with his style, and I had a few questions for him which turned into an interview, with topics ranging from personal responsibility to what exactly style is.
“You can always judge a person coming out of the supermarket, being the most hilarious fashion mishap on earth. But don’t waste your time and energy on it, eventually all the derision makes you bitter and takes away the ability to be really, and truly happy about the one person coming out of the supermarket being absolutely magnificent.”
clusterflock interviews: Hillman Curtis
Hillman Curtis is a designer, author, and filmmaker whose work has informed, inspired, and influenced a generation of designers interested in the possibilities of new media. His books include Making the Invisible Visible: Process, Inspiration and Practice for the New Media Designer and On Creating Short Films for the Web, a book that was instrumental for me as I set out to film my own documentary. His series of interviews with artists and designers continues to set the standard for video on the web. This interview was conducted via email and I am grateful for his participation.
Can you give us a brief overview of your career? How did you get started, what led you here?
I started designing in ’95 or ’96. I was a rock musician and had just been dropped by MCA records. I had made a small amount of money from a publishing deal and I took the money and bought a used Mac II. I had made all of the band’s posters and flyers and — having come to the obvious conclusion that I was through with the music business — thought I’d have a go at design. I worked my way up to an Art Director position at Macromedia and from there started hillmancurtis.
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clusterflock interviews: Jason Kottke
The second in a series of clusterflock interviews, Jason Kottke, of course, runs kottke.org and has been instrumental in shaping contemporary blog culture. I had the pleasure of guest blogging at kottke.org a few weeks ago, and the experience prompted me to want to know more about the person behind the site, the process of creating what kottke.org has become, and the pressures associated with running it. The interview was conducted by instant message and edited from there.
I wanted to start by finding out how you got to this point, what the process of creating kottke.org was.
Well, I’d been putting stuff online since early 1995. First, a personal site, then a site called 0sil8, which was a series of experiments in design, writing, etc. Pushing the limits of HTML. kottke.org started as an online diary for me because I wanted something I could update continually, not just once a month or every two months. I drew my initial inspiration for the site from the online diaries of the time…not so much from other weblogs. The process was very gradual. No planning, really. I almost never plan anything out…I just head towards things that hold my interest.
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clusterflock interviews: Susannah Breslin
As I mentioned yesterday, clusterflock is adding a new feature — a series of interviews with people who have made a niche for themselves on the internet. The first interview is with Susannah Breslin from The Reverse Cowgirl. I published a short fiction of Susannah’s many years ago at elimae and since then have followed her writing on sex, pornography, and the human condition closely. I am thankful for her willingness to participate as the first in the clusterflock interviews series and hope that you enjoy the interview as much as I enjoyed talking with Susannah.
Tell us a little about the inception and history of The Reverse Cowgirl.
I launched Reverse Cowgirl 1.0 in late 2002. At the time, I was living in Los Angeles and working as a freelance writer and writing about sex quite a bit. There were things that I couldn’t “sell” to magazines–because they were too graphic, too weird, too out there. So, blogs were spawning, and I realized that was a place where I could write whatever I wanted about whatever I wanted. My biggest influence at the time was Daze Reader; these days, sex blogs are a dime a dozen. For personal reasons, Reverse Cowgirl went offline a year later, but I relaunched the blog, Reverse Cowgirl 2.0, nearly two years ago. I’m not interested in running a blog that’s a links dump for sex stuff; there’s plenty of that out there already. I write about sex-related things that are new, interesting, and in some way beautiful. Increasingly this year, I’m trying to make the blog more personal. So, I’ve been writing more about my life and my thoughts on the complex subject of sex.
