henry goldman.

El-P on letterman. baller.

Banging new childish gambino joint, “we ain’t them”. @donaldglover keeps killing it.

rookiemag:

“Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved it. I answer all my children’s letters — sometimes very hastily — but this one I lingered over. I sent him a card and I drew a picture of a Wild Thing on it. I wrote, “Dear Jim: I loved your card.” Then I got a letter back from his mother and she said, “Jim loved your card so much he ate it.” That to me was one of the highest compliments I’ve ever received. He didn’t care that it was an original Maurice Sendak drawing or anything. He saw it, he loved it, he ate it.”

Maurice Sendak, rest in peace.

nprfreshair:

The complete 2006 interview with The Beastie Boys. [Fresh Air Remembers Adam Yauch]

RIP Adam Yauch

yranadult:

Obama working the room at a dive bar in Denver. Posted on yr an adult, via buzzfeed/politics, photo via instagram.

Dabs & Myla mural in LA. My favorite artists right now. Via LA Taco, obviously.

This is the first video in Ze Frank’s new webseries, composed as a video poem, an invocation for someone who hasn’t begun the thing they’re trying to start. For him, it’s this series. And if you don’t know who Ze Frank is, he’s the first guy to ever really videoblog. And he recently announced he was coming back, do it again, raising $150,000 in a couple of days on kickstarter. Anyways, I thought this was nice.

A photo from the LA riots by photographer Ted Soqui. 

Los Angeles magazine has a sweet slideshow of Soqui’s shots of the ‘92 riots up on their website.

Aziz tells a story about meeting the president. 

Sometimes, I just love our culture. 

yranadult:

by Henry Goldman

The Creators Project was a thing that happened in San Francisco over the weekend.

Ok. More specifically, it was one of a handful of international branded “experiences”, produced by Vice’s marketing wing on behalf of Intel, who, I believe, make robots. The mission of the Creator’s Project is ostensibly to “celebrate art and technology”, but more specifically, it’s to make 18-34 year olds associate Intel with hip artists, musicians and technologists. To achieve this goal, Vice has also built Intel a videowebsiteseries that apparently 25 million people have looked at once and then not looked at ever again. (This is all from the press release)

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yranadult:

The automatic email response I WISH I had the nerve to use all the time

yranadult:

by Henry Goldman

I was drinking at a friends house last weekend, and, being millenials, instead of just putting on an album, someone pulled out the laptop-projector combo and we played my very well curated vhx.tv rap video playlist. We stood around drinking, sometimes paying attention to the screen and enjoying the antics of Azealia Banks and Odd Future and Fat Joe, et al. Then, Yasiin Bey’s (née Mos Def) remake of “N**gas in Paris” came on, “N**gas in Poorest” came on and everyone stopped in their tracks to watch it.

The video, embedded above, sent a message to us that, Oh yeah. All the songs we like now are about how great it would to be rich, and none of them are about how fucked up we are for thinking that. Once the next Rick Ross video came on, we went back to our prior positions, but the situation got me thinking that, even though I like fun, dumb music, I (and I think many of the people I know) wold also appreciate some music that reflects and affects reality.

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yranadult:

by Henry Goldman

If you’re like me, and have been before, the answer is probably no. Here’s my rationale:

• Coachella costs a TON of money just for the tickets, not to mention food, drinks, travel out there. ATM fees are, like, $400 alone.
• You either have to camp, with a bunch of teenagers…

yranadult:

by Henry Goldman

If you couldn’t guess, I started this blog because I’m at a bit of a crossroads in my life. I’m close enough to 30 that I’m just trying to think of myself as already there, so I won’t be really down when it happens in 9 months. I’ve had a couple really cool jobs and worked with a ton of awesome people, but I don’t really have a career path right now. I’ve been picking up small gigs here and there while I get my proverbial shit together, and I’m realizing I don’t have anyone beside my peers who I can ask for advice. They’re often in the same situation as me. Or they’re completely irresponsible. Or, they’re like doctors, so how are they gonna help me?

So, I’m putting out an open call for a mentor, or mentors. I might even put it on craigslist, like: “Young(ish) Creative Hustler Seeks Older, Successful, Networked New Media Millionaires to School Me on Career and Life in General” .

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yranadult:

What is yr liberal arts degree good for?

This robot video is special. 

yranadult:

The New Rules of Adulthood #6. If you really like a band, whose music you listen to for free, buy their album. If no one does, they’ll go away.

Photo credit: flickr user affendaddy, used/modified under CC license

yranadult:

by Henry Goldman

One of my favorite alternate reality scenarios to ponder, usually while I should be focusing on the road or the client-conversation I’m in the middle of, is what would have happened if I went somewhere else for college. Now, I regularly regard the decision to go to McGill as the best I ever made, based on the facts that it was cheap, it was a good school, it was in a big city, it was in another country, the drinking age was 18, and I had an awesome time. However, I’m a perpetually unsettled by where my life is, so I can’t help but wonder how things could have been different for me. So, I tried to imagine alternate scenarios of where I’d be if I went to a different kind of school.

 Art School

If I’d gone to art school, I would have probably had a tough time fitting in, as I’m not a great artist, per se. But I love creative writing, I like making videos and I’m not good at math or science, so I must be artistic, right? Anyway, I’d have a ton of debt, which would be bad. But on the plus side, I’d have a much hipper set of college friends, I’d have a portfolio of weird conceptual art projects (ex: a series of pictures of big city billboards photoshopped to look like ads for my personal brand) and I’d have a job in creative branding, probably in Chicago. Or I’d be broke, detached, working in food services in Portland. One or the other.

 

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yranadult:

Rule #5. Hang out with old people.