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<rss version="2.0"><channel><description>My name is Slava. I live in Toronto and work at PlanetEye. I’ll be sharing good things here, because I care for you….

If you want you can email me at “slavas [at] gmail.com”.</description><title>Avenues Tumbl (Slava Sakhnenko)</title><generator>Tumblr (3.0; @avenues)</generator><link>http://avenues.tumblr.com/</link><item><title>Designers are Dumb, or Constructing a Temple of Annoying Memes</title><description>&lt;img src="http://media.tumblr.com/IKlh0OZjHcdd7mj9amI9JRAV_500.png"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://deliciousghost.com/2008/08/07/designers-are-dumb-or-constructing-a-temple-of-annoying-memes-pt-1/"&gt;Designers are Dumb, or Constructing a Temple of Annoying Memes&lt;/a&gt;</description><link>http://avenues.tumblr.com/post/45113805</link><guid>http://avenues.tumblr.com/post/45113805</guid><pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 16:27:18 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>(via slowernet)</title><description>&lt;img src="http://media.tumblr.com/IKlh0OZjHcdcs1yx0NaQQ7VN_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;(via &lt;a href="http://flickr.com/photos/eshepard"&gt;slowernet&lt;/a&gt;)</description><link>http://avenues.tumblr.com/post/45112137</link><guid>http://avenues.tumblr.com/post/45112137</guid><pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 16:15:11 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>“What you see in this book is not real.”
via kanYe...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://media.tumblr.com/IKlh0OZjHcd2sbdkRJhI3IFC_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;“What you see in this book is not real.”&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;via &lt;a href="http://www.kanyeuniversecity.com/blog/index.php?em3106=201130_-1__0_~0_-1_8_2008_0_0&amp;co=1&amp;eM="&gt;kanYe West : Blog&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://avenues.tumblr.com/post/45083274</link><guid>http://avenues.tumblr.com/post/45083274</guid><pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 11:35:28 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>Chris McPherson portfolio (via aphotoeditor)</title><description>&lt;img src="http://media.tumblr.com/IKlh0OZjHcd1qdav7xy6o5vz_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Chris McPherson portfolio (via &lt;a href="http://flickr.com/photos/12642015@N06"&gt;aphotoeditor&lt;/a&gt;)</description><link>http://avenues.tumblr.com/post/45079524</link><guid>http://avenues.tumblr.com/post/45079524</guid><pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 11:05:57 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>Conspiracy</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://biteofpythias.tumblr.com/post/45017682/conspiracy"&gt;biteofpythias&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;people have actually looked at the high levels of sexual intermixing that occurs at the olympics. we used to have to have wars for that… now we have the olympics for sex and we just have the wars for the lube&lt;/blockquote&gt;</description><link>http://avenues.tumblr.com/post/45071769</link><guid>http://avenues.tumblr.com/post/45071769</guid><pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 10:02:36 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>"By banishing computers from their lives, Erasmus’s reclusive colleagues are able to nourish..."</title><description>“&lt;p&gt;By banishing computers from their lives, Erasmus’s reclusive colleagues are able to nourish what he calls “attention surplus disorder,” the ability to focus on and think about one thing for a long time. Erasmus’s order passes its trains of thought from generation to generation — a Church of the Long Now. &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;By contrast, the video and telecom-addled civilization that bustles outside their walls is full of shallow and incorrect knowledge. People who’ve never taken time to study anything feel they know everything.&lt;/p&gt;”&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; - &lt;em&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://valleywag.com/5033385/neal-stephensons-new-novel-makes-me-want-to-kill-the-internet"&gt;Neal Stephenson’s new novel makes me want to kill the Internet&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Ok, so right now I’m about to finish re-reading Baroque Cycle, then I’ll read the newly aquired Cryptonomicon, and after that is done I’m purchacing &lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0061474096/downandoutint-20"&gt;Anathem&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/em&gt;</description><link>http://avenues.tumblr.com/post/44981406</link><guid>http://avenues.tumblr.com/post/44981406</guid><pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 16:33:34 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>Paris Hilton Responds to McCain Ad</title><description>&lt;object width="400" height="334" classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www2.funnyordie.com/public/flash/fodplayer.swf?96d0a705" /&gt;&lt;param name="flashvars" value="key=64ad536a6d" /&gt;&lt;param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /&gt;&lt;embed width="400" height="334" flashvars="key=64ad536a6d" allowfullscreen="true" quality="high" src="http://www2.funnyordie.com/public/flash/fodplayer.swf?96d0a705" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/64ad536a6d"&gt;Paris Hilton Responds to McCain Ad&lt;/a&gt;</description><link>http://avenues.tumblr.com/post/44948170</link><guid>http://avenues.tumblr.com/post/44948170</guid><pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 11:21:14 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>(via antikris)</title><description>&lt;img src="http://media.tumblr.com/B2ojRzJ4mc27iqzcjqsSIf7O_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;(via &lt;a href="http://antikris.tumblr.com/post/44479340/nudawn-fatmanatee-via-riotrepublic"&gt;antikris&lt;/a&gt;)</description><link>http://avenues.tumblr.com/post/44852140</link><guid>http://avenues.tumblr.com/post/44852140</guid><pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 17:27:52 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>(via slava)</title><description>&lt;img src="http://media.tumblr.com/IKlh0OZjHcajhjn7ViWESMTr_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;(via &lt;a href="http://flickr.com/photos/slava"&gt;slava&lt;/a&gt;)</description><link>http://avenues.tumblr.com/post/44849795</link><guid>http://avenues.tumblr.com/post/44849795</guid><pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 16:59:40 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>The Escapist - video by The Streets </title><description>&lt;object width="400" height="336"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/y2c6g6eG1mQ"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/y2c6g6eG1mQ" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" wmode="transparent"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2c6g6eG1mQ"&gt;The Escapist&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; - video by &lt;i&gt;The Streets &lt;/i&gt;</description><link>http://avenues.tumblr.com/post/44693742</link><guid>http://avenues.tumblr.com/post/44693742</guid><pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 13:58:13 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>Birthday (via slava)</title><description>&lt;img src="http://media.tumblr.com/IKlh0OZjHc8pby4hBAC7TbBV_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Birthday (via &lt;a href="http://flickr.com/photos/slava"&gt;slava&lt;/a&gt;)</description><link>http://avenues.tumblr.com/post/44665866</link><guid>http://avenues.tumblr.com/post/44665866</guid><pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 10:07:44 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>"1. Embrace Your Inner Dilettante, be Flaky, and Denounce the Cult of Permanence.

2. Stop Hiding..."</title><description>“&lt;p&gt;1. Embrace Your Inner Dilettante, be Flaky, and Denounce the Cult of Permanence.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;2. Stop Hiding Behind the Comfort of Stepping Stones.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;3. Pursue Self-Development over Productivity.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;4. Get to “Mind Like Water” the Original Way (i.e. Mindfulness).&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;5. Say “No” to the Productivity Industrial Complex and Make Your OWN Way.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;6. Convert Your Money Back Into Time.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;7. Aggressively Remove Things From Your Life that You Don’t Want to Do.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;8. Realize that Perspective is often the Best Solution to your Problems.&lt;/p&gt;”&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; - &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://zenhabits.net/2008/07/8-great-anti-hacks-to-fundamentally-change-your-life/"&gt;8 Great Anti-Hacks to Fundamentally Change Your Life&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;</description><link>http://avenues.tumblr.com/post/44096049</link><guid>http://avenues.tumblr.com/post/44096049</guid><pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 12:53:39 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>"Promise me we won’t go into the nightclub
I really think that it’s obscene
What kind of..."</title><description>“Promise me we won’t go into the nightclub&lt;br/&gt;
I really think that it’s obscene&lt;br/&gt;
What kind of people go to meet people&lt;br/&gt;
Someplace they can’t be heard or seen”&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; - &lt;em&gt;“&lt;b&gt;Light Enough to Travel&lt;/b&gt;” - by &lt;i&gt;The Be Good Tanyas&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/em&gt;</description><link>http://avenues.tumblr.com/post/43978229</link><guid>http://avenues.tumblr.com/post/43978229</guid><pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 15:42:02 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>“Riga, Latvia”thelongbrake dot com </title><description>&lt;img src="http://media.tumblr.com/IKlh0OZjHc0cr8lrYFFHrFlo_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;“Riga, Latvia”&lt;a href="http://www.thelongbrake.com/blog/2008/07/29/1126/"&gt;&lt;br/&gt;thelongbrake dot com &lt;/a&gt;</description><link>http://avenues.tumblr.com/post/43966997</link><guid>http://avenues.tumblr.com/post/43966997</guid><pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 13:53:33 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>“Design Won’t Save the...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://media.tumblr.com/iEEmSQleDbkj3nv7K9I3Sd1D_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;“&lt;b&gt;Design Won’t Save the World&lt;/b&gt;”&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;via &lt;a href="http://morgantepsic.tumblr.com/post/43049001/joshuatuscan"&gt;morgantepsic&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://avenues.tumblr.com/post/43800296</link><guid>http://avenues.tumblr.com/post/43800296</guid><pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2008 08:03:20 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>Cahiers du cinéma </title><description>&lt;p&gt;When gaybeardating.com or whatever signed up to Google Ads, they should have probably expected this exact scenario.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://slavas.googlepages.com/bears.jpg" width="427"/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;via &lt;a href="http://alexbalk.tumblr.com/post/43543409/cahiers-du-cin-ma"&gt;alexbalk&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;David Cho &lt;a href="http://radaronline.com/exclusives/2008/07/bear-released-into-wild.php"&gt;really missed his calling&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;</description><link>http://avenues.tumblr.com/post/43551026</link><guid>http://avenues.tumblr.com/post/43551026</guid><pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 17:33:31 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>May I present to you… «  I Can Has Cheezburger?</title><description>&lt;img src="http://media.tumblr.com/IKlh0OZjHbugq6b5T3YVNXTF_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://icanhascheezburger.com/2008/07/24/funny-pictures-you-the-ocean/"&gt;May I present to you… «  I Can Has Cheezburger?&lt;/a&gt;</description><link>http://avenues.tumblr.com/post/43513636</link><guid>http://avenues.tumblr.com/post/43513636</guid><pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 10:58:05 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>Toronto (via slava)</title><description>&lt;img src="http://media.tumblr.com/IKlh0OZjHbufpg29S30AOT4v_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Toronto (via &lt;a href="http://flickr.com/photos/slava"&gt;slava&lt;/a&gt;)</description><link>http://avenues.tumblr.com/post/43510577</link><guid>http://avenues.tumblr.com/post/43510577</guid><pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 10:29:31 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>By Rinko Kawauchi
The whole collection of works is gorgeous, and...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://media.tumblr.com/IKlh0OZjHbrlp9yfbFoAehWS_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;By &lt;a href="http://www.cohanandleslie.com/index.php?mode=artists&amp;object_id=20"&gt;Rinko Kawauchi&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The whole collection of works is gorgeous, and extremely Japanese (if that makes sense).&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://avenues.tumblr.com/post/43274173</link><guid>http://avenues.tumblr.com/post/43274173</guid><pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:48:09 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>“Alp” - Vanessa Püntener</title><description>&lt;img src="http://media.tumblr.com/IKlh0OZjHbrl1rvyVjvFNLUh_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.vanessapuentener.ch/index.php?section=2&amp;project=1&amp;image=55"&gt;“&lt;b&gt;Alp&lt;/b&gt;” - Vanessa Püntener&lt;/a&gt;</description><link>http://avenues.tumblr.com/post/43272032</link><guid>http://avenues.tumblr.com/post/43272032</guid><pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:29:51 -0400</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
