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Fundraising graphics from what will be the steepest presidential...

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 23:33:00 -0400

Fundraising graphics from what will be the steepest presidential campaign in history—some say it’ll top 1 billion. McCain has a lot of PAC money behind him, and Obama’s individual donor tally is impressive. Both numbers make me feel a little sick to my stomach, however. Check out more.

lonelysandwich: David Lynch on Where Ideas Come From The money...

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 09:35:43 -0400

lonelysandwich:

David Lynch on Where Ideas Come From

The money quote is towards the end—something about Van Gogh with diarrhea.

via The Morning News

Currently I am enjoying listening to these sounds. I am...

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 20:50:00 -0400

Currently I am enjoying listening to these sounds. I am considering a trip to West Africa in a year, and these beats produce images in my mind of what that trip could feel, sound, and/or be like. I had thought I wanted to go straight to grad school, but now I realize that I need to find a place, a people, and some sounds away from the USA. This music puts a jiggle in my hips and a smile on my face.

patrickmoberg: Last week I met up with friends Bill, Jessie,...

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 17:49:47 -0400

patrickmoberg:

Last week I met up with friends Bill, Jessie, Meredith, and Andrew on their Western conquests. It was a great adventure, both enlightening and inspiring, and provided an unexpected perspective to look at life from.

Guys, thanks again for letting me tag along, it was a blast. A few photos from the journey are here.

I have felt like this about Facebook for some time now…

Sat, 17 May 2008 13:00:04 -0400

I have felt like this about Facebook for some time now…

I like this guy’s website.

Sun, 11 May 2008 20:07:18 -0400

I like this guy’s website.

Lynchings

Sun, 04 May 2008 10:12:00 -0400

James Allen went throughout the South looking for postcards that had been made to “commemorate” lynchings throughout the American South. His movie records his powerful and disturbing findings.

Here is the link to the main website, and you can go to the movie tab on the left:

http://www.withoutsanctuary.org/main.html

Sun, 04 May 2008 10:10:06 -0400

kyoungpyo: The first issue of TMNT (1984).

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 23:00:13 -0400

kyoungpyo:

The first issue of TMNT (1984).

“Up with caffeine and down with the shot” This...

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 22:59:57 -0400

“Up with caffeine and down with the shot”

This should be henryalex’s motto.

Britt at Brijit

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 11:24:26 -0400

Phil Donahue on Tavis Smiley

Brubes working it. Kyoung-Pyo I know you’ll like this...

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:50:00 -0400

Brubes working it. Kyoung-Pyo I know you’ll like this one

via lonelysandwich

Video

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 20:38:56 -0400

Excerpts from Amos Oz's The Same Sea

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 19:51:00 -0400

A Shadow

Vague rumors abound, and half-testimonies too, concerning a gigantic,
almost human creature, that roams alone in the Tibetan mountains.
Single and free. Footprints have been photographed in the snow
once or twice in inaccessible places where even the most intrepid
mountainer would hardly dare venture. Almost certainly
it is nothing but a local legend. Like the Loch Ness monster
or the ancient Cyclops. His mother, who sat embroidering
almost to the hour of her death, his sad, withdrawn father
who sits night after night at his computer looking for loopholes
in the tax laws, everyone in fact, is condemned to wait
for their own death locked in a seperate cage. You too, with your travelling,
your obsession to go further and further away and hoard more
and more experiences, are carting your own cage around with you
to the outer edge of the zoo. Everyone has their own captivity. The bars
separate everyone from everyone else. If that solitary snowman really exists,
without sex or partner, without birth or progeny or death,
roaming these mountains for a thousand years,
light and naked, how it must laugh as it moves among the cages.

Through us both

Before excuse me is this seat taken,
before the color of your eyes, before can I get you a drink,
before I’m Rico I’m Dita, before the fleeting touch
of a hand on a shoulder, it passed through us both
like a door opening a crack in your sleep.

Oz’s first poem got me thinking about the real inability to ever KNOW someone else’s human experience, even those who are closest to us. His image of a barred cage seperating us all is quite rigid. I would like to think—maybe hope—that the barriers that seperate us are not cages, but like water bubbles that can overlap to some extent, and are distinguishable only by their molecular dissimilarity which is, however unchangable, bearable. I find it intersting that these two poems were placed side-by-side in his book, the first suggesting the lonliness that can be life and the second revealing that despite that lonliness we will forever search for that sense of conncetion in other people.

Video

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 10:43:55 -0400

Harry Benson has got some cool photographs. He saw a lot of...

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 16:36:00 -0400

Harry Benson has got some cool photographs. He saw a lot of history first hand. Check out the photograph of woman with baby in Beaufort, SC under photojournalism. Disturbing. There are some pretty amazing ones though.

Arlington

Sat, 12 Apr 2008 20:47:00 -0400

Last summer Meredith worked on this public art project in Arlington VA. I helped a bit with some maintenance. The project was awsome good fun and we just found this post on a sustainable blog.

http://www.jacksonpollock.org/

Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:37:53 -0400

http://www.jacksonpollock.org/

Video

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 12:56:11 -0400

Video

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 09:39:16 -0400