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Old People Reacting to Dubstep (video)
Happy Friday!
I’m going to see an experimental jazz band tonight at midnight at the Brooklyn Bowl. They’re called Moon Hooch and they got kicked out of the Bedford L station for “starting too many dance parties.”
This was my first Moon Hooch dance party. (I love how I saw people filming, assumed the video would be on youtube later that night, and it was. ❤ Brooklyn)
Anyway, as promised, here are old people reacting to Skrillex:
More Overheard in Brooklyn Tweets
Eleven days into my new project and I haven’t given up. Pimp my Twitter. Pimp my Twitter. Pimp my Twitter.
23% follower to following rate. Could be worse.
You know what’s more important than followers? Retweets. It’s hard to do on twitter if you’re not in a tweet circle jerk. Do me a solid, guys, and check the page and retweet your favorite quote. And comment if you have suggestions!
Overheard Brooklyn
@HeardInBK
Tag me in your hipster quotes and I might retweet you.
Williamsburg, Brooklyn
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“I would like to thank the fine denizens of the Internet for inspiring my wireless network name. ‘BonerHitler.'”
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“My love life is a Jungian soap opera.”
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“You’re raping the cows! You’re raping the cows!” [at icecream truck]
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“He’s like Thoreau but with Tourette’s.”
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“They rhymed ‘Vietnam’ with ‘Bambi’s mom.'” #garfunkelandoates
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no matter how many people think of a stoner dating site, it will never get built
Domtar (Big Paper) Releases Ads that Reek of Desperation
Here is an attempt at viral marketing that pushes against paperless. I never knew paper companies felt so threatened by iPads.
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I’ve never heard of them, but apparently Domtar is the largest manufacturer of uncoated sheet paper in North America.
Bullet points from Big Paper include:
> Opening a nice envelope is surprisingly exciting.
> The mail carrier is getting a little pudgy.
>Underneath all our wireless streaming, hands-free technology, we’re still people.
Paper is PERSONAL! Paper is PURPOSEFUL! Paper is KNOWLEDGE!
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Guys, this is a call to action. Our love of opening envelopes is in a precarious position. If we let Clouds overtake our planners, our humanity will fall like Domtar’s stock prices. Our children will descend into the chaos of ADHD. Our corporate ideals will be ripped like babies from their mothers’ breasts, and freedom will be eaten by the fascism of inefficiency.
Thank you, Domtar, for opening my eyes to the dangers of digital; you should make an app for this.
AppsBlogger: Nearly Half of All Kickstarters Fail
Mashable released an infographic last week from Appsblogger.com that had the statistic 41% of all projects did not meet their funding goals:
The infographic, created by AppsBlogger.com, looked at a total of 45,815 Kickstarter projects and nearly $215 million pledged funds. It shows that the secret to having a successful Kickstarter project is setting a realistic monetary goal and dedicating the right amount of campaigning days to spend on the site.
Shorter Kickstarter campaigns tend to better, with the average successful project lasting 38 days, compared to failed projects which averaged 43 days. Meanwhile, successful projects typically ask for around $5,487 compared to failed projects which, on average, ask for $16,365.
It’s no secret that social networking and promotion are keys to Kickstarter success. So now that I’ve lured you in…
A friend in Brooklyn, Meg Paska, who is essentially the face of the Brooklyn homesteading movement (also beekeeping) moved to a farm recently and is trying to start up her own place to run farm workshops based on Community Supported Agriculture.
She’s reached the half way point for her goal already with a couple more weeks to go. She wants to grow food and raise animals on a larger scale than what she was doing in Brooklyn.
Remember, projects succeed more often than they fail.
Go and help her out: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1296103575/the-homestead-at-seven-arrows
Overheard in Brooklyn @HeardinBK Twitter
I have a new project. There’s a few other “Overheard in Brooklyn” websites and blogs, but they’re all dead. Don’t let this Twitter die like my Anthony Weiner Tumblr died!
My life goal is go viral on the Internet by ripping off other people’s ideas. (My parents didn’t love me.)
Send me your Hipster quotes and retweet any ones you like.
“My dream is to make a living writing dick jokes for people that have been to college.”
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“Goddamn, I need a man purse.”
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“Feminist mime class. Help! Help! I’m trapped under a glass ceiling.” –@TheRealDictator
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“She bought a shower curtain that says YOLO on it.” “This shit has gone too far.” #YOLO
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“We’re living in a Dystopia!”
Depressing Father’s Day Secrets
One day late, but still timeless.
PostSecret is an ongoing community art project where people mail
in their secrets anonymously on one side of a homemade postcard.
PostSecret, 13345 Copper Ridge Road, Germantown, MD 20874, USA
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
Sheryl Sandberg’s Harvard Business School Class 2012 Commencement Speech: Communicate Better
“As you lead in this new world, you will not be able to rely on who you are or the degree you hold. You’ll have to rely on what you know. Your strength will not come from your place on some org chart, but from building trust and earning respect. You’re going to need talent, skill, and imagination and vision. But more than anything else, you’re going to need the ability to communicate authentically, to speak so that you inspire the people around you and to listen so that you continue to learn each and every day on the job.”
Neatly edited transcript at HuffPo.
As Facebook’s Chief Operations Officer, Sheryl Sandberg is one of the most prominent female business leaders today. She’s also a great speaker and a genuinely sweet person. At her alma matter, she addresses the challenges graduates will face in today’s competitive workforce.
Her commencement speech also briefly touches upon challenges faced specifically by women in the corporate jungle gym, an echo of her TED talk, “Why we have too few women leaders.”
A different kind of commencement speech than the one Neil Gaiman gave the UArt’s Class of 2012.