Born To Raise Design is a design company specializing in design and development for the web. Behind the scenes is owner and developer Jake Bell, a 23-year-old resident of Minneapolis, Minnesota. When he is not knee-deep in code, he enjoys riding bikes, reading books, and bringing about the downfall of capitalism.
This is both the web presence and weblog of Born To Raise Design.
I've decided to sell my digital camera. It's a Canon Digital Rebel XT. Included is the camera body itself, a 2GB memory card, and everything included with the camera when I bought it (strap, USB cable, etc.). It does not come with a lens. I like it; I just do not have space in my head for digital photography.
Email me or post a comment here if you are interest. Price is negotiable.
Maybe it's too late to formalize a resolution; then it just becomes a resolution of the regular variety. In either case, be it resolved that:
There are obviously other things I'd like to start or resume doing, but this is a decent list for now.
Also, I can't decide whether becoming more active on this blog is a good resolution. I'm fairly comfortable with the amount that I post currently and the amount of time it affords me to do other stuff, but I do also realize that the frequency with which I post is directly related to the traffic my blog gets. I think ultimately I'll have to settle for being an internet nobody.
I have a grand total of $34 in my bank account.
Things to cut out:
– Cigarettes
– Drinking
– Fun
I could post a list of the top ten or twenty albums of 2008 like every other blogger in the blah-blah-blahgospehere, but I'm not going to. It seems fairly irrelevant given how music is transmitted less in physical than digital form these days; our exposure to music is hardly chronological. The entire canon of music is available to us at all times, and so we pick, choose, stumble upon, and are referred to rad stuff all the time. The idea of a canon even seems a bit ludicrous in an age of such mass media.
Postmodern musings aside, I've decided to do it a bit differently. Here's a list of the sixteen best albums I heard for the first time in 2008. Yeah, I know that sixteen is a weird number of things to have in a best-of list, but that's how many I could think of. Plus, now they make a cool grid shape.
Some were actually released in 2008, most were not. Some I had actually heard before 2008 but perhaps wasn't ready for, some were instant clicks. Some are classics that I just sort of wrote off for some reason and fell in love with in 2008. They aren't in any particular order, except that The Marble Index by Nico was the best album I heard all year, so I gave it a prominent spot.
So here I go:
The New School in NYC is being occupied by students in solidarity with the struggles in Greece and elsewhere. It looks like the cops are playing their usual games and arrested and brutalized a couple people, but they are holding strong.
This place is blowing up.
Read more here.