January 2011
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WatchYou Bitch
This is the essence of “Production”, kids. Assume that 80% of what you see in your daily media consumption is a lie; a beautifully choreographed act, with sincere intention and artistry, of often spectacularly convincing deception.
(What can I say, I’m a sucker for behind-the-scenes insight into ambitious imagery. Inspiring work out of Aaron & Avery - from...
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“In the middle of the last century, a now-outmoded technology—the manual...”
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Slate’s Farhad Manjoo, explaining why you are wrong, wrong, WRONG to type two spaces after that period. To save a copy editor a trip to the loony bin, read the whole story. (via motherjones)
Oh.
(via flavorpill)
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Well, I was taught to be a two-spacer. I’ll...
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9 Political Art Projects of 2010 →
Wu Yuren’s “Enter” from the series Enter and Exit Series (2002)
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*sigh*
for the umpteenth time, I’ve had to unfollow a tumblr I really like due to NSFW content. unfortunately, I browse the web regularly during my workday, and as beautiful as some curvy female forms may be, I’m not so sure my bosses want me scrolling past naughty bits in-between client communications…
I just wish there were some built-in filter, even within posts, so that I...
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“Because each new generation of children is taught that religious propositions...”
– Sam Harris, “The End of Faith” (via atheos)
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a perfect Tuesday night
Quick trip to the Farmer’s Market for dinner ingredients.
45 minutes of yoga with a new teacher in a new style.
Homemade pumpkin curry, just hot enough to make us cry & a Santa Lucia Cabernet Sauvignon.
William Shatner interviewing Jenna Jameson.
That’s right. William Shatner. Interviewing Jenna Jameson.
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“Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every...”
– James Madison - Fourth U.S. President. He and Thomas Jefferson defeated a bill in 1784 that would have given tax money to churches. Together they created the Religious Freedom Act, affirmed the separation of church and State, later written into the Bill of Rights as the First Amendment. As...
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“Today’s monotheism is the dying yet still powerful remnant of a pre-scientific...”
– Essay on Monotheism ~ ExChristian.Net
That’s a pretty good summary, as far as I’m concerned.
(via danielholter)
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WikiLeaks show U.S. sought whaling deal with Japan →
The more information I am exposed to thanks to the tactics of WikiLeaks, the more supportive of their cause I become. This is an important story, and the American public, along with the rest of the world, deserves to know how our governments behave and negotiate when it comes to causes that might otherwise seem straight-forward,
Also - researching whales by killing them? Could we possibly get...
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season of ghosts
Creeping slithering slipping out of the woodwork, 2011 has already proven to be a year thick with things I had thought were well-behind me.
That the particular individuals who have emerged are people I’d consigned to memory and never thought to communicate with again makes their presence all the more unnerving. There is a tone of entitlement, that somehow in this era of reconnection a la...
Watchimageoscillite:
Adbusters Presents: On The Day The World Ends
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‘some lone dove…’ by ApK Photography