Last month, to promote his clothing line, Bad Vibes Forever, his mother appeared in an Instagram video to say “his message was essentially to heal” and that he was “spreading love and light to the world.” A week later, a news release for a major-label single called him the “voice of his generation.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/05/arts/music/xxxtentacion-skins.html
But this does seem like a good time to remind you of all the other reasons why you should never, ever use Quora.
https://waxy.org/2018/12/why-you-should-never-ever-use-quora/
Eye charts at your optometrist’s office typically only have 10 letters on them: CDHKNORSVZ. Inspired by that lettering, creative agency ANTI Hamar and typographer Fábio Duarte Martins have expanded that abbreviated alphabet into a free font with a full alphabet called Optician Sans.
https://kottke.org/18/12/optician-sans
For decades, “60 Minutes” has reigned at the top of television news, bringing in hundreds of journalistic awards, not to mention weekly ratings for CBS that are the envy of the industry. The success has allowed “60 Minutes” to operate independently from the larger network news division to which it belongs.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/06/business/media/60-minutes-jeff-fager-don-hewitt.html
That’s Aught catalogs the decade from *NSYNC and Linkin Park to Amy Winehouse and Wilco
https://pitchfork.com/news/rhino-release-150-song-2000s-pop-culture-box-listen/
Pete Mauney spends his nighttime hours hunkered down near airports to capture these these time lapse photos of arriving and departing air traffic. (He does a similar thing with fireflies.)
https://kottke.org/18/12/time-lapse-photos-of-nighttime-airport-traffic
Elvis Presley's image has been used to create action figures, reading lamps and Christmas ornaments. His likeness has adorned socks, slippers and soap – and countless other products over the decades since the American rock legend first got audiences all shook up.
https://www.npr.org/2018/12/06/674116968/elvis-presley-helps-pedestrians-cross-the-street-in-german-town
Pete Shelley, the Manchester-born co-founder, singer and guitarist of the influential British punk band Buzzcocks, died Thursday in Tallinn, Estonia, at the age of 63.
https://www.npr.org/2018/12/06/674317025/buzzcocks-pete-shelley-dies-at-63
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