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Ionic Street (by fotophotow)
I’m minorly obsessed with this alley off of 7th street in downtown Philly. If you come across any photos of it, let me know?
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David Suzuki in this interview about facing the reality of climate change and other environmental issues from Moyers & Company.
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Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran, Iran, 1977
(Kamran Diba)
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Cira Centre at sunset
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Comic Book Readers
orkin 1947
what’s this?
Little girls read comics from the very beginning of their incarnation??
“Girl reading comic book in newsstand” by Teenie Harris (c. 1940-1945) © 2006 Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
That sound you hear is thousands of wangsting sexist fanboys shrieking in horror.
Suck it.
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A technical glitch causes the Hubble Space Telescope, which ordinarily captures magnificently crisp scientific imagery of the cosmos, to lose balance and create this inadvertent piece of modern art.
It is suspected that in this case, Hubble had locked onto a bad guide star, potentially a double star or binary. This caused an error in the tracking system, resulting in this remarkable picture of brightly colored stellar streaks. The prominent red streaks are from stars in the globular cluster NGC 288.
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Photo:Nobody Likes Me by i♡. http://flic.kr/p/koKVLc
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Here is a sketch comic I made called Ducks, in five parts.
Ducks is about part of my time working at a mining site in Fort McMurray, the events are from 2008. It is a complicated place, it is not the same for all, and these are only my own experiences there. It is a sketch because I want to test how I would tell these stories, and how I feel about sharing them. A larger work gets talked about from time to time. It is not a place I could describe in one or two stories. Ducks is about a lot of things, and among these, it is about environmental destruction in an environment that includes humans. Thank you for taking the time to read it.
-Kate
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Gerhard Richter: 4096 colours (1971)
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Google Street View Uses an Insane Neural Network To ID House Numbers
This neural network—which you can read about here, basically it’s a computing network modeled on animal nervous systems—has eleven layers of neurons, which makes it possible to ID millions of house numbers a day from the Street View raw image data. “We can, for example, transcribe all the views we have of street numbers in France in less than an hour using our Google infrastructure,” write the engineers in a new Arxiv paper about the project.
What about the numbers that are too blurry for this giant brain to make sense of? No prob—those are identified by humans as part of a second generation CAPTCHA program. So you may have already contributed to the cause, without even realizing it.
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Amazing visualization of the psychogeography of running with smartphones.
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Thanks for the submitting - See you on Friday for our 1840s GIF Party!
"Surfbort."
This goes perfectly with Outkast’s “Hey Ya”
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David Suzuki, from this video.
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Probability that computerisation will lead to job losses in next two decades, The Economist, 2013 (via Twitter / Malbonnington)
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The future is so great!
FUCK
Sigh.
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"The Male Gazed: Surveillance, Power, and Gender” By Kate Losse at Model View Culture
Government surveillance within social networks didn’t arise out of nowhere; instead, it is a product of longstanding inequalities in power in technology that have historically privileged white men above all, who have been much more likely to control surveillance technologies than be targeted by them. The outrage over NSA surveillance has occurred and received massive coverage not because the deployment of technology for citizen surveillance is new but because white, technical, American men have finally become targets of the surveillant gaze rather than its aloof masters.
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The anime series Serial Experiments Lain contains a screen shot of Conway’s Game of Life in LISP. (source @nmu102)
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(via Dead and Going to Die – The New Inquiry)
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All hell broke loose when the cover came out. Several advertisers took their money and ran. Subscribers demanded refunds. Angry letters flowed in. Photo History: George Lois Gives America a Black Santa
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Gargoyle, drumming
(via Signed Japanese boxwood Okimono of a Gargoyle playing drums from quirkyantiques on Ruby Lane)
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My week as an Amazon insider | Technology | The Observer
The first item I see in Amazon’s Swansea warehouse is a package of dog nappies. The second is a massive pink plastic dildo. The warehouse is 800,000 square feet, or, in what is Amazon’s standard unit of measurement, the size of 11 football pitches (its Dunfermline warehouse, the UK’s largest, is 14 football pitches). It is a quarter of a mile from end to end. There is space, it turns out, for an awful lot of crap. […]
On my second day, the manager tells us that we alone have picked and packed 155,000 items in the past 24 hours. Tomorrow, 2 December – the busiest online shopping day of the year – that figure will be closer to 450,000. And this is just one of eight warehouses across the country. Amazon took 3.5m orders on a single day last year. Christmas is its Vietnam – a test of its corporate mettle and the kind of challenge that would make even the most experienced distribution supply manager break down and weep. In the past two weeks, it has taken on an extra 15,000 agency staff in Britain. And it expects to double the number of warehouses in Britain in the next three years. It expects to continue the growth that has made it one of the most powerful multinationals on the planet. […]
If Santa had a track record in paying his temporary elves the minimum wage while pushing them to the limits of the EU working time directive, and sacking them if they take three sick breaks in any three-month period, this would be an apt comparison. It is probably reasonable to assume that tax avoidance is not “constitutionally” a part of the Santa business model as Brad Stone, the author of a new book on Amazon, The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon, tells me it is in Amazon’s case. Neither does Santa attempt to bully his competitors, as Mark Constantine, the founder of Lush cosmetics, who last week took Amazon to the high court, accuses it of doing. Santa was not called before the Commons public accounts committee and called “immoral” by MPs. […]
Because Amazon is the future of shopping; being an Amazon “associate” in an Amazon “fulfilment centre” – take that for doublespeak, Mr Orwell – is the future of work; and Amazon’s payment of minimal tax in any jurisdiction is the future of global business. A future in which multinational corporations wield more power than governments. […]
"They dangle those blue badges in front of you," says Bill Woolcock, an ex-employee at Amazon’s fulfilment centre in Rugeley, Staffordshire. "If you have a blue badge you have better wages, proper rights. You can be working alongside someone in the same job, but they’re stable and you’re just cannon fodder. I worked there from September 2011 to February 2012 and on Christmas Eve an agency rep with a clipboard stood by the exit and said: ‘You’re back after Christmas. And you’re back. And you’re not. You’re not.’ It was just brutal. It reminded me of stories about the great depression, where men would stand at the factory gate in the hope of being selected for a few days’ labour. You just feel you have no personal value at all." […]
It’s taxes, of course, that pay for the roads on which Amazon’s delivery trucks drive, and the schools in which its employees are educated, and the hospitals in which their babies are born and their arteries are patched up, and in which, one day, they may be nursed in their dying days. Taxes that all its workers pay, and that, it emerged in 2012, it tends not to pay. On UK sales of £4.2bn in 2012, it paid £3.2m in corporation tax. In 2006, it transferred its UK business to Luxembourg and reclassified its UK operation as simply “order fulfilment” business. The Luxembourg office employs 380 people. The UK operation employs 21,000. You do the math. […]
"It’s a form of piracy capitalism. They rush into people’s countries, they take the money out, and they dump it in some port of convenience. That’s not a business in any traditional sense. It’s an ugly return to a form of exploitative capitalism that we had a century ago and we decided as a society to move on from." […]
It’s a mirror image of what is happening on the shop floor. Just as Amazon has eroded 200 years’ worth of workers’ rights through its use of agencies and rendered a large swath of its workers powerless, so it has pulled off the same trick with corporate responsibility. MPs like to slag off Amazon and Starbucks and Google for not paying their taxes but they’ve yet to actually create the legislation that would compel them to do so.
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Five Myths About Crime in Black America—and the Statistical Truths
In the wake of Trayvon Martin’s death [and Renisha McBride and Jonathan Ferrell], we’ve seen a lot of discussion of the larger societal issues that play into how and when people are perceived as criminals. There were hoodies, there were marches, and there were frank talks from parent to child about how to minimize the danger of being a young person of color. On the other side, there were justifications of George Zimmerman’s actions: a smear campaign against Martin’s character, and plenty of writers explaining that statistically, blacks are simply more dangerous to be around.
That framing ignores the realities behind the numbers. Here are five myths about crime and people of color.
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In response to my Ms. Male Character video someone made this clever image illustrating what “female as default” might look like. Because we live in a strongly male-identified society the idea of Pac-Woman as the “unmarked” default and Mr. Pac-Woman as the deviation “marked” with masculinizing gender signifiers feels strange and downright absurd. While Pac-man and the deviation Ms. Pac-Man seems completely normal in our current cultural context.
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icantellyoumeanseriousbusiness:
Stephen Colbert talks about columnist Richard Cohen.
"Richard Cohen has known that slavery is bad for at least seven days." Colbert appreciation minute holla
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1959 Polish poster for DESIRE (Vojtech Jasny, Czechoslovakia, 1958)
Designer: Jerzy Flisak (1930-2008) [see also]
Poster source: Danish Film Institute
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empty rooms of Twin Peaks x
Wow! I’ve never watched Twin Peaks, and nothing has made me want to watch it more than this.
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I often get email intended for a different Sudama. Once in a while it’s really great.
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I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood
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"My intention is to give some of the wow and wonder of science."
http://miriam-english.org/randomwalks/index.html
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Brownian motion. Recording random movement as a continuous line. (via Brownian Examples Processing.org)
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A new poster from the National Congress of American Indians makes its post. Here’s some background from Native Appropriations on the push to end the use of Native mascots.
(via bitch-media)
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Came across this site full of high-resolution scans of public domain posters and decided to make iPhone wallpapers out of a few of my favorites. You can grab them here.
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"Things in nature often move in complicated ways."
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Designed Conflict Territories- Tobias Revell
The thing we have to consider is who and what we are protesting against. I won’t regurgitate the stacktivism or infrastructure fictions ideas. Chances are, that if you’re here, you know them already but there’s a general idea that the very shape of global geopolitics has changed in the last 20 years or so and the people in charge are not who we thought they were. To re-word a great Dylan Moran gag: While we were talking, Google very, very gradually built a future around us. (Please replace Google with whatever or whoever you like to satisfy your own biases.) The point stands that the entities constructing and steering our futures, or what they often like to call the future - with all the baggage of powerlessness and inevitability that that wording brings - aren’t states, and they work on a completely different geopolitical strata: There is no town square for Google.
When Edward Snowden leaked the details of the PRISM program to the world press, he wasn’t revealing anything. We already knew, at some very fundamental level that a vast apparatus existed to observe and harvest us and our ‘data’. Whether through decades of dystopic training or the simple maths of adding ruthless western capitalism and it’s history of paranoia to enabling technology we knew that these things were happening. I wrote some time ago about the fact that the rebalance of power enacted by the PRISM revelations is different to what is easily read - they forced us to react. Snowden issued a call for action, and the world failed to respond. I now have a term for this retreating reaction - shocked acquiescence. When faced with something so large and unfathomable as PRISM or climate change, the most common reaction is to accept or pretend it’s not happening and move on.
So why this response? ‘There’s no town square for Google’ wasn’t just a tweetable bite. We have no space in which we can protest, in which we can occupy and configure a conflict besides or in front of the thing we wish to protest and air our grievances against. For both the new geopolitics and the threat of climate change, there is no common language, no common space, no commons. -
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Siri can flip coins, roll dice
So far, I can’t figure out how to make Siri roll a d20. However, Siri’s coin might occasionally fall into a crack.
I’m not sure how far back Siri’s been able to do this, but it’s not an iOS 7 addition. Siri can do it on my iOS 6 test device, too.
[via Jerrod H]
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“I always get asked, ‘Where do you get your confidence?’ I think people are well meaning, but it’s pretty insulting. Because what it means to me is, ‘You, Mindy Kaling, have all the trappings of a very marginalized person. You’re not skinny, you’re not white, you’re a woman. Why on earth would you feel like you’re worth anything?’ There are little Indian girls out there who look up to me, and I never want to belittle the honor of being an inspiration to them. But while I’m talking about why I’m so different, white male show runners get to talk about their art.”
—Mindy Kaling for the win, ladies and gentlemen.
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Rick Owens S/S 2014
Paris, 26th September 2013. Rick Owens has raised the bar.
White chicks? Skinny models? Walk-pose-exit-straightface runway show? Forget those. We got something better for you: Rick Owens Spring/Summer 2014 show.
The show was a step dance performance. As if the show wasn’t unusual enough, the cast is truly something different from hundreds of shows we’ve been seeing from New York, London, Milan and Paris in this fashion month. It was performed by step dancer girls, and what makes it different is, the majority of them are black, and all of them are plus sizes.
Of course, there’s definitely debates about the presentation. Some love it. Some hate it. Some confused. Of course, when you see the runway pictures in Style.com you won’t see the usual thing. You’ll be confused, especially if you don’t watch the video of the show. But surely, you can tell something is going on.
I think the message is crystal clear. Fashion is an interpretation of visual beauty. And most of the time, fashion didn’t represent universal beauty. Fashion often represent only one form of beauty: White and skinny. Which is a shame, because fashion should be representing universal beauty. And when you’re not in on of the “white” or “skinny” category, people valued your self less. You, valued your self less.
Even if it’s not the best collection, this is the best show, best casting of Spring/Summer 2014 for me.
Rick Owens is breaking all rules, murdering all stereotypes of fashion with this show. The message is crystal clear here: DIVERSITY
This is a “FUCK YOU” in the face for all stereotyping in fashion industry.
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"Dear Steve,
Here’s another masterpiece for you to explore — On p187, a line that runs from Shakespeare to Stephen Daedalus starts to emerge by way of Hamlet, see what you think!
With my wish for your continued joy in discovery,
Frimi Sagan
June 2001” -
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"I stopped at a little shack where a man sold hot red chili in paper containers; I bought some and ate it, strolling in the dark mysterious streets." - Jack Kerouac, On the Road
The shack is still there and they still sell hot red chili. -
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Twitter / AFP: ”Egyptian protestors direct laser lights on a military helicopter flying over the presidential palace in Cairo.”
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If Saturn were as close to Earth as the moon.
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“Over the course of a year, I researched and created ZXX, a disruptive typeface which takes its name from the Library of Congress’ listing of three-letter codes denoting which language a book is written in. Code “ZXX” is used when there is: “No linguistic content; Not applicable.” The project started with a genuine question: How can we conceal our fundamental thoughts from artificial intelligences and those who deploy them? I decided to create a typeface that would be unreadable by text scanning software (whether used by a government agency or a lone hacker) — misdirecting information or sometimes not giving any at all. It can be applied to huge amounts of data, or to personal correspondence. I drew six different cuts (Sans, Bold, Camo, False, Noise and Xed) to generate endless permutations, each font designed to thwart machine intelligences in a different way. I offered the typeface as a free download in hopes that as many people as possible would use it.”
Making Democracy Legible: A Defiant Typeface — The Gradient — Walker Art Center
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92y:
You heard her, sloppy joints. Of course.
Watch the excerpt of Martha telling this story to Bravo’s Andy Cohen, plus who she would “shag marry kill” and - sincerity face - her thoughts on elder care from her new book, Living the Good Long Life: A Practical Guide to Caring for Yourself and Others.
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Report tyrannical activity.
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This guy is definitely dancing to George Harrison: Got My Mind Set on You
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China’s First Reading of Howl at Studio No. 5
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Strong men also cry… strong men also cry.
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My favorite comic author just published the first part of a new online graphic novel “Steve & Steve”. Of interest to fans of early computer culture, California in the ’70s, psychedelics. If this describes you, you’ve already clicked.
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For best results, queue up something around 126.5 bpm. I recommend Daft Punk or Prince.
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17 Moments When Jason Collins Was Super Gay
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Little Star Weekly April 12, 2013
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Unintentional new aesthetic, yo.
this fucking wall.
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Done doing these so here they all are in one place! Fully Dressed Redesigns of Superheroines.
Point of this: An exercise in character design, attempting to clothe the heroines nearly all the way and not making them painted-on, while still keeping the look of their original costumes in some way. Hopefully keeping them looking as iconic as the originally were. Just showing what can be done with a costume breaking outside the barrier of the norm.
NOT the point of this: some moral code I’m trying to push on you
Sorry if there was a character you wanted me to do that I didn’t get to!
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Green puffer jacket with faux fur trim. (And this bag is becoming a favourite I think)
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Artist Jay Shells channeled his love of hip hop music and his uncanny sign-making skills towards a brand new project: “Rap Quotes.” For this ongoing project, Shells created official-looking street signs quoting famous rap lyrics that shout out specific street corners and locations.
this ^ is the.awesome.
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From Jack Kirby’s unpublished adaptation of The Prisoner
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This is a legit illustration from an advertising patent. The juxtaposition of the viewer exercising control over the experience of watching the ad by debasing themself in a dramatic gesture of surrender to the brand is simply sublime. The bullet hanging in the air, suspended both by the magic of the freeze-frame and by an invitation to participate in the globalized corporate-efficient murder of the planet, is just the cherry on top.
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"In contrast to his famously hyperbolic statements about his generation, these photographs seem like a secret visual diary filled with more complex realizations about his life and times." Tim Keane: “I Noticed My Friends”: Allen Ginsberg’s Photography (Hyperallergic)
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Top: Title Unknown: "From over his shoulder, we see Bush looking at himself in the bathtub"—Jerry Saltz
Bottom: Title Unknown: "Justin Quinnell’s bath, as seen by his tongue?"—Adam Rice
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‘Jane Says’ by Jane’s Addiction is my new jam.
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Justseeds: Mary Tremonte: Queer Scouts Patch and Poster Set
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Rinsed Chef Boyardee ravioli with a Yellow Tail red wine sauce, peas handpicked from a Cup-a-Soup, and finished with grated string cheese. (Corner Stourmet, The Bold Italic)
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City lights photographed from the International Space Station and Neurons imaged with fluorescence microscopy.
Source images; Cities (1) (2) (3) (4) (5), Neurons (1) (2) (3) (4) (5)
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All Watched Over
by Machines of Loving Graceby Richard Brautigan
I’d like to think (and
the sooner the better!)
of a cybernetic meadow
where mammals and computers
live together in mutually
programming harmony
like pure water
touching clear sky.I like to think
(right now, please!)
of a cybernetic forest
filled with pines and electronics
where deer stroll peacefully
past computers
as if they were flowers
with spinning blossoms.I like to think
(it has to be!)
of a cybernetic ecology
where we are free of our labors
and joined back to nature,
returned to our mammal brothers and sisters,
and all watched over
by machines of loving grace. -
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Off the Grid
“There are growing number of people
who have decided to live light on the earth
to not be a part of problem anymore
I spent the last few years with four of them
striving for harmony with nature
in the most pristine corners of United States.” -
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If Buy Nothing Day gets you down — forget about Buy Nothing Year — how about a more positive crusade: Buy More Stuff!
Previously: create something day (randomWalks, 2002)
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"Maybe 300 or 400 years from now, everything will be gone, we’ll all be gone, and they’ll be the four faces in the Black Hills and the statue there symbolizing the Native Americans who were here at one time."
A memorial for Crazy Horse 64 years in the making … so far - CNN.com
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Draw some random points on a piece of paper and join them up to make a random polygon. Find all the midpoints and connecting them up to give a new shape, and repeat. The resulting shape will get smaller and smaller, and will tend towards an ellipse! [code] [more]
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"Occupy Hanukkah" cards by zoecohen on Etsy
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Every opportunity to relate one part of the puzzle to another part of the puzzle is taken; no part of the puzzle is wasted. When designed well, this kind of puzzle means endless surprise, solving it means delving deeper and deeper; you become faimilar with every letter, every picture, every clue. It’s not just that it could be important—eventually it will be important. And by the time you’re finished, you know the puzzle better than you thought you ever could, and you rarely forget any part of it.
Tony Delgado: The Fool’s Errand
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Robert Gibbons: On the Autumnal Equinox, 2012
I walk alone a lot, but not today, what with it being the last day of summer, & seriously, the earth & nature know this, the mind of earth & nature very palpable at Times like these Equinoxes & Solstices, where slender wheatgrass waves goodbye, New England asters emerge to say hello, the entire ground becomes animated, & stones one’s stared at before suddenly take on a new life of their own, tossing several glances (Pound’s phanopoeia) as unheard words in order to enhance, give wealth to our poor existences, & their own.
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(via Bad Children’s Books — BobStaake.com)
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Important Observations
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Hooray! What was once a Walmart has become a 124,500 square foot public library.
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"Like full-spectrum hieroglyphs, these spray-painted dots are ‘infrastructural forensic evidence,’ in Foster’s words, marking the ritualistic elimination of insects from urban space." (via BLDGBLOG: Dot Urbanism)
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Michal Migurski: generating repeating patterns
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This is a great meme.
Oh this is glorious.
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So um this is easily the most incredible tarot deck I’ve ever seen (via HEXEN 2.0) More on artist Suzanne Treister in this Metafilter thread.
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Paul Benedict (via Actor, South Philly native Sherman Hemsley dies — NewsWorks)
RIP Sherman Hemsley (and dig the psychedelic life he led) but it is blowing my mind that this wacky white next-door neighbor from The Jeffersons was also The Number Painter from Sesame Street.
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Microsoft Olympic Decathlon for Apple II
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"I think it’s about a car. A car that goes to Mexico, Indonesia and other places. It’s about a car that goes on all sorts of adventures. The guy on the cover is a teen, he likes to drive people places a lot. And he’s French." (via My 6-year-old Judges Books by the Covers, from No Exit to 50 Shades of Grey - Strollerderby)
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Is that Malik B. just to the left of Black Thought’s mic hand?
Twenty years ago today, one of Philly’s greatest musical acts, The Roots did their first performance at South Street and Passyunk Avenue.
Many albums later, The Roots continue to represent the Philadelphia music scene with class and dignity. We’re big fans of The Roots here, and we’re much looking forward to the upcoming Roots mural on 6th and South!
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Sunday Minecraft by Nick Ladd.
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"The first-ever snapshot of a single atom’s shadow."
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I love this picture of an American family. The story is just a little heartbreaking: Akron restaurant owner dies hours after meeting Obama
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The San Diego fireworks all went off at once this year. more
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jimn:
How is this considered OK but Milli Vanilli were fake (for doing what every pop act did & does)?
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One of 26 photos in ISS Star Trails by NASA_JSC_Photo
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(via Mind-Blowing Shadow Art by Kumi Yamashita)
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(via PAPERMAG - RIP Maurice Sendak: A Look Back At His Illustrations That Scared Us Most)
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I like taking a thing that everyone is used to and making them see it again.
(via Million Dollar Babies - The Morning News)
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"What you’re looking at is the simplest thing in the world: an oyster shell filled with olive oil and balanced in a small dish of sand. Three pieces of cotton string are lying in the oil with their ends poking just a little way off the side of the shell. Those are the wicks. This is a shell lamp. This is perhaps what the first lamp ever looked like. At the very least, this is a fundamental human technology." (via Root Simple: The World’s First Lamp)
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(via All Major News Outlets Cover Trayvon Martin Tragedy, Except Fox News | ThinkProgress)
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Actually Governor Romney, what you just said is completely incorrect… This is NPR.
NPR has a new ethics handbook, which came out February 24th. Here’s the key part:
We report for our readers and listeners, not our sources. So our primary consideration when presenting the news is that we are fair to the truth. If our sources try to mislead us or put a false spin on the information they give us, we tell our audience. If the balance of evidence in a matter of controversy weighs heavily on one side, we acknowledge it in our reports.
Fair to the truth. It’s already started to have an effect. This is from an NPR report on Feb. 27 about the auto bailouts and the Republican candidates.
NPR REPORTER: Mitt Romney, son of former American Motors CEO George Romney, criticized President Barack Obama’s handling of the bailout.
MITT ROMNEY: Instead of going through the normal managed bankruptcy process, he made sure the bankruptcy process ended up with the UAW taking the lion’s share of the equity in the business.
NPR REPORTER: Actually, the U.S. Treasury got most of GM’s equity.
Such a simple word: “Actually….” And now it has a chance to become standard practice at NPR.
For more on this, see my post: NPR Tries to Get its Pressthink Right
(Photo by Matthew Reichbach. Creative Commons License.)
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(Beautiful Mosaics of Trees Photographed Across Time via PetaPixel as promised)
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(via Inside and on Top of the Divine Lorraine with Lies and Get Up « Streets Dept)
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"Here is Lincoln as he was, his eyes weary, his forehead wrinkled, wearing an expression, wrote a poet, of ‘deep latent sadness.’ But Gardner also captures something else. An eyebrow, arched. An upturned lip. The faintest hint of a smile." (BARACK OBAMA, Perfecting Our Union via The Atlantic)
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Art History Through Sci Fi-Colored Glasses | Tor.com via djacobs’ shk
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I’ve submitted one of my Occupy Wall Street posters to Threadless. Would you give it a vote? http://www.threadless.com/submission/397309/When_in_Riot_Gear
If it’s selected for printing, I will donate the proceeds to the National Lawyers Guild for OWS defense.
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(via "Cake Decorations" Wrapping paper | Marian Bantjes)
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“‘It’s hard to stand all day,’ said Zhao Sheng, a plant worker.”
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P101111CK-0186 (by The White House)
Fantastic, but my favorite thing about this picture is the Chucks.
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(via Como crear un lente soratama – Pixel Análogo)
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The New York Times is doing some interesting work around the “Shrinking Middle Class.” This piece demonstrates the shift away from middle-income and shows the exit of money from the city to the suburbs, and the increase in both affluent and poor neighborhoods at the expense of middle-income.
The NYTimes piece doesn’t animate the shift and it really bothered me because a graphic like this should so obviously be an animation. So I made one myself. (Dark green is most affluent, dark purple is the most poor.)
Philadelphia county becomes markedly more purple in 40 years. Notice also that almost no regions show any reversal of trends — green gets greener, or purple gets purpler.
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Stanley Donwood. (Source.) Download PDF.
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(via Why did the ‘New Yorker’ reject this R. Crumb cover?)
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Hiking (Taken with instagram)
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“Why would someone spend their limited leisure time shoveling horse-shit into a compost pile?” wonders Jason Mark, co-manager at San Francisco’s Alemany Farm, which hosts community workdays twice a week.
More and more, people are clamoring to join in the urban farming movement and get their hands dirty. There’s no doubt that urban gardening has graduated from fledgling trend to part of our cultural landscape, with vegetable gardens taking root everywhere from tiny backyards, to college campuses, to the White House grounds, to fire-escape terraces.
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(via Binary’s Forth Fugue - today and tomorrow)
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The real story in this TPM piece on Pat Buchanan isn’t his batshit crazy, white people are doomed, Jesus-mongery. Anyone who pays attention has been hearing the same exact things from Pat Buchanan for as long as he has been in the spotlight. In fact, he never even really used code-words to talk about race, he was always pretty straight up about his racism.
No, the story is that Pat Buchanan now wears hipster frames. He looks like Ira Glass’s crazy old uncle.
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(via The Amazing Light Painting Photography of Brian Hart)
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Jack Kerouac at Staten Island Ferry wharf, we used to wander night time docksides under Manhattan’s bridges & through truck parkinglots along East River singing rawbone blues, Leadbelly’s “Black Girl”, “Eli, Eli”, chanting Poe’s “Annabelle Lee” & shouting Hart Crane’s “O harp and altar of the fury fused”… and “Atlantis” to Brooklyn Bridge’s traffic spanned above. Time of his Doctor Sax and The Subterraneans—New York Fall 1953.
Caption and photo by Ginsberg.
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(via Chart of the day, Apple price edition | Felix Salmon)
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(via Apple Store Memorials)
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(via Camera ~ photo by bgreenlee)
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"This kettle was groundbreaking; it was one of the first production pieces that used an existing mold/die in its form rather than manufacturing one from scratch. The designer recycled a headlight from a pre-war car, which was flipped over to create a usable kettle. Great thinking. Designers in the age of sustainability would be wise to look backwards and record how design activity developed during the depression and into WW2. -Todd Falkowsky" (via The CANADIAN DESIGN RESOURCE » K-42 Electric Kettle)
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(via Dry Niagara Falls, 1969 | HOW TO BE A RETRONAUT)
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(via Simon Birch | Design Milk)
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Sorry for the bummer (& that’s not me pictured above), but this site is scaring the shit out of me.
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(via The Generalist: CASSETTE REVIVAL)
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(via Shakesville: Holy Shit) See also "Video: Alberta woman files lawsuit over flaming water". Lighting water on fire is the new planking?
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Playing Angels (1950) by Carl Milles (by sudama)
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Our garden and the labors created a renewed sense of hope, connection, sense of purpose, and pride in our family. It gave us a physical common ground to stand in and share the joy of physical beauty and surprise… (via What Makes a House a Home: Angry Wayne and Lonestar Taco | Garden Design)
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(via Famous Places Photographed in Bubbles)
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Professional pet photographer Teresa Berg of Dallas, Texas realized that countless dogs are likely euthanized each year simply due to bad photography, and decided to make a difference. (via Photographer Helps Save Homeless Dogs Through Better Photography)
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pe…ter…
sonne ilu
ilu guys but you need to arch your back too
haha what are you talking about this is EXACTLY how I sit comfortably.
I’m so comfortable.
oh you too tanna?
spiderman where u at
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I just read all the comments.. dang yo, chill. It’s just a drawing. it’s freakin FANTASY. I think she looks hot and I wish i could draw half as good as this.
I actually have this as a poster in my room lololol. I like his art- mostly just for his lines— but yeaaahhh. Her pose bothers me every time I see this.
Also, reblogging for the comments dear god ahaha.
wait how are you guys sitting like that
wait I just
I can’t
fuck
lol fuq all y’all i sit like this almost every day
I am dying omg
I wish I had a webcammmm
i couldn’t even pull off the pose i kept falling over
da fuq
that is a look of intense concentration as i tried not to fall over while longing 4 peter
also i got a cramp in my foot
I don’t know about you guys, but I always drink my coffee like this.
oh my god this comment thread
tumblr you’ve outdone yourself
I’M CRYING
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(via Les Mousses - today and tomorrow)
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(via Abstract Slow Shutter Speed Photos of Landscapes While Traveling)
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The Fibonacci tree design performed better than the flat-panel model. The tree design made 20% more electricity and collected 2 1/2 more hours of sunlight during the day. But the most interesting results were in December, when the Sun was at its lowest point in the sky. The tree design made 50% more electricity, and the collection time of sunlight was up to 50% longer! (via The Secret of the Fibonacci Sequence in Trees)
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(via Extreme Tidying Up : Krulwich Wonders… : NPR)
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The things you see..
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Time Management
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“I can’t pretend I don’t have some rotting branches; we can’t pretend our privileges don’t exist just because we do not like them. To relinquish the power they hold, we have to constantly expose them for what they are,” Grandma Willow concluded, and gave John a pat on the back with one of her drooping branches.
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"Talking and stretching are forbidden on the assembly line, and clocking in five minutes late may result in the loss of half a day’s wages. Bathroom use is limited to 10 minutes, which is strictly enforced by an electronic key card." The Deadly Labor Behind Our Phones, Laptops and Consumer Gadgets - COLORLINES
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fuck blogs (by jakedobkin)
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(via Steve Jobs Resignation Has Chinese Netizens All Worked Up - Global - The Atlantic Wire)
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(via 500px / Photo “Steve Jobs” by Ryan Katsanes)
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(via Miles Morales News - Comic Vine)
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Here are the dwarves from the Hobbit. I had been sketching them as warm up drawings the past week or so and liked the way they turned out. So here they are a bit gussied up.
The reason I drew these and risked being compared to Sam Bosma was because the people making the new Hobbit films had released some pictures of the cast. And I rather disliked most of them (I like Bofur and Bombur, but the rest of them look like a cross between Scandinavian hard rockers and klingon cosplayers), so I wanted to know how I thought they should perhaps look. -
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The animation was played fullscreen on a computer, which was moved around by an assistant while being photographed in a dark environment. The resulting images are long-exposure “light paintings” of the entire cadaver.
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Check out the Monopoly™ deed style on this early-20th-century ‘trade card’ advertising an island on the Jersey shore just south of Atlantic City.
(via Strathmere - a brief history & vintage photos)
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(via huxley vs. orwell - mlkshk) The first night I really got drunk I met a friend of a friend who talked my ear off about a book by Herman Hesse I’d never heard of which postulated a future dystopia in which the masses were mollified by an abundance of information: publishing was seen as a virtue but functioned as a vice, drowning the populace in irrelevancies. It took me a decade but I think the book was The Glass Bead Game. Have you read it?
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(via Shabazz Palaces @#p4kfest - mlkshk)
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You know exactly who they dont want in here but the guy with shorts and flip flops is welcome This is in Rockafella Center btw
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My local police precinct (Southwest Detectives in Philadelphia) is doing this fascinating thing where they post pictures from memory cards on stolen cameras to help find the original owners. It’s a strange combination of useful and invasive — one or two of the pictures border on intensely personal. But there are some really interesting pictures and I love the idea of someone finding their lost or stolen stuff this way.
What a great post! I feel guilty reblogging it.
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(via 50 Watts)
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Two nuclear power plants in Nebraska, 100 miles apart, are completely surrounded by water. (via Flooding Won’t Overcome Nuclear Plants, Officials Say : NPR)
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source: http://www.malcolmwells.com
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"It shouldn’t be that hard to figure out what to eat when you’re dealing with REAL FOOD" (via Jurassic Flood: No excuses!)
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Eclipsed Moon in the Milky Way, via Astronomy Picture of the Day)
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Apple iCloud icon golden ratio
Alan van Roemburg thanks to Takamasa!
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"It was an excellent decision to make the pawns ChuChus. The pawns is where a lot of themed chess sets go wrong, and Zelda is a tough series to pick an enemy pawn for. They look great." (via My friend just finished this hand-sculpted Legend of Zelda chess set. : gaming)
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(via How It Began - mlkshk)
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(via HOLLIS BROWN THORNTON Store — Luke Skywalker - hbt11-03)
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If we are not careful we shall leave our children a legacy of billion dollar roads leading nowhere except to other congested places like those they left behind. (via Malcolm Wells office, Cherry Hill, NJ - a set on Flickr)
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(via Dangerous Minds | Douglas Rushkoff: Taking Back the World)
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This excellent survey of pop deity origins begins with “the ur-god and his dark twin,” Superman and Batman. As Morrison sees it, “archetyped, pop-mythic tales of superpowered heroes and villains” soared into our collective imaginations in an explosive fashion. Superman, “the personification of a thrusting industrial tomorrow,” had a primal impact. Soon there was a pantheon of gods and figures from legend and myth: Hawkman (“an avatar of hawk-headed Horus”), the Flash (“the Greek god Hermes”) and Captain Marvel, whose magic word, “Shazam,” was an acronym: Solomon, Hercules, Atlas, Zeus, Achilles, Mercury. (via Nonfiction Review: Supergods: What Masked Vigilantes, Miraculous Mutants, and a Sun God from Smallville Can Teach Us About Being Human by Grant Morrison. Spiegel & Grau, $28 (464p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6912-5)
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(via MoMA.org | Access to Tools)
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jimn:
A supposedly biodegradable fork in my compost bin. It’s been there for about a year. Under what possible circumstances will it degrade? “Biodegradable” is almost as vague a promise as “recyclable”.
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Protection from Narcissism (via | Corina Dross)
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(via Vivian Maier - Her Discovered Work)
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(via Taking precautions › Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion)
