The Start of Something Good

I’m going to have to put all the mixtapes back up in posts one at a time like this, but I will get to all of them eventually. I went with this one first because I’ve been enjoying it all summer, in fact it’s one of my favorite mixtapes I’ve ever made… and if you got a chance to download it, hopefully you’ve enjoyed it too. If you didn’t get a chance to download it, here’s your chance!

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Tracklist:
Something Good Can Work / Two Door Cinema Club
Let’s Go Surfing / The Drums
Hummingbird / Born Ruffians
Little Secrets / Passion Pit
This Too Shall Pass / OK Go
Nature of the Experiment / Tokyo Police Club
The Start of Something / Raised by Wolves
Nothing to Worry About / Peter Bjorn & John
Girlfriend / Phoenix
Cousins / Vampire Weekend
Zero / Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Stillness is the Move / Dirty Projectors
Lazy Eye / The Silversun Pickups

Just a little update: since I made this mixtapes earlier this summer, I saw Passion Pit and Phoenix in concert (consecutively) and I definitely recommend you check either of them out whenever they visit a town near you. Phoenix was hands. down. the best show I’ve ever been to. They played 1901 for the encore and invited everyone on stage for a dance party. We had front row seats, and were up immediately jumping around with Thomas Mars and the gang.
I was never a huge fan of Passion Pit, but after their show, I’m definitely a fan. Lots of clapping and dancing.

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The Wilderness Downtown

If you haven’t seen this already, it’s worth dropping whatever you’re doing for a few minutes and checking out Arcade Fire’s video for their song We Used to Wait. I wouldn’t describe this as a music video, as much as an innovative HTML5 experience. It’s amazing to see what can be done without flash, and this is just the start of an HTML5 era. Three cheers for <canvas>!

Here’s the site. Great song and album too.

Selgas Cano Architecture Office

These photos are of Spanish architecture firm SelgasCano‘s office space in the middle of the woods. I remember seeing these photos on FFFFound, a while ago and really wanting to work in a place like this. The office is provided by a weighted pulley mechanism at one end of the tunnel that allows varying degrees of natural ventilation.

(via CIELBLEU)

Luca Barcellona

This is a video of this italian guy doing hand lettering, and it’s absolutely gorgeous. On paper, it doesn’t sound so interesting, but it’s incredibly mesmerizing.

(via Public School)

And, we’re back.

Over the weekend you may have noticed that Hipster Collective wasn’t exactly looking very hip. It’s true, we got hacked by some Turkish fellow who calls himself Vicious… and he was indeed vicious. Enough about that… we’re back now, though unfortunately I had to erase my database. All the content is still on my server, though it’s just not linked to anymore… So as far as mixtapes, I’ll try to put some of those back up, but I consider this a nice fresh start… a way to continue in my new direction. I’m thankful to everyone who stuck around… please keep coming back. You’re what makes this fun.