Video stars: Crisp editing and a playful simplicity fill the music video for Down with Webster’s “One in a Million” with musicality and an understated beauty.
“Well, you know, you wait for the end of these things and then you worry about how they may end. There’s nobody else around him. Um, this makes me a little nervous, I gotta tell ya. A little nervous, I gotta tell ya.” — Shephard Smith narrating Romero’s live-broadcast car chase
Thank you, Internet: Burn Marks, by YouTuber ThemOldaBoys.
Worth a read: “Depression Part 2,” by Hyperbole and a Half.
And that’s the most frustrating thing about depression. It isn’t always something you can fight back against with hope. It isn’t even something — it’s nothing. And you can’t combat nothing.
Sketch me up: 5secondfilms on living alone.
“Standards of usage, then, are desirable, even if all of them are arbitrary and mortal and many of them are spurious and discardable. And yet this understanding, widely shared among knowledgeable writers on language, is no match for a good dichotomy—particularly when it furnishes the narrative for an extended snark.” — Steven Pinker
Watch/Listen: Diane Keaton shows us how charming we all wish we would be after a good amount of wine on The Ellen DeGeneres Show.
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Art attack: Part of the series Les Cages Superheros, by Sandra Chevrier.
“The gay marriage movement wants to pretend that marriage has somehow changed, but it also is invoking this very 1950s narrative that unmarried people are unworthy of respect.” — Yasmin Nair
“People all over the country laud Mayor Bloomberg for his support of same-sex marriage. But in his recent budget, there was a 70 percent cut in homeless youth services, as many as half of whom identify as LGBT.” — Kenyon Farrow
“Those of us who work on marriage equality must remind everyone that this is not the ultimate goal of the LGBT movement. But it is an essential ingredient—we need to build political power, not destroy it with a circular firing squad.” — Josh Friedes
Watch/Listen: Sometimes, we don’t realize how much we need those around us who care: Omelette, by Madeline Sharafian.
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Market wonderful: Olympic gold-medalist Gabby Douglas, for Nike Free. (Watch here.)
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Move your body: Busy Signal’s “Bounce,” by Guillaume Lorentz.
“The job of a news organization — and of a citizen — has changed with frightening speed in a world where information is everywhere; where the tip line is public; where the distinction between source, subject, and publisher has blurred; and where, crucially, questionable reports and anonymous postings are part of the fabric of that story.” — John Herrman and Ben Smith
Market wonderful/Worth a read: “Sex sells, gay or straight,” by Jeffrey Augustine, explores how Toyota Camry’s 2012 Super Bowl commercial “defies the heteronormative relationships that make up this coveted commercial landscape.”
“How did this happen? Something more significant occurred than professionals merely adhering to smart policies and procedures. What we saw unfold was the cultural legacy of the September 11th attacks and all that has followed in the decade-plus since. We are not innocents anymore.” - Atul Gawande