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May
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May
2013
Watching a person in total command of her craft is spiritual.
Miyoko Shida Rigolo
(by José Antonio Hurtado Alcázar)
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May
2013
May
2013
Hit the Road | This American Life »
Listen to Andrew Forsthoefel’s story. Beautiful.
So much better to listen to This American Life instead of tech podcasts about upcoming gadgets that will anyway show up when they show up.
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May
2013
May
2013
Not a jet plane
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Apr
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Apr
2013
I was impressed by this bravura display of American masculinity. But I was also bewildered by it. What exactly was he asking me to do to him? It was terribly confusing. Was it the pinkness of the shirt that led to the insinuation that I should fellate him? And — most of all — who exactly was the P.B. in this situation? Me or him? Surely him, I thought. After all, he was apparently initiating some kind of homosexual liaison between us. I was just buying soda and trail mix.
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Real men wear pink. I’ve heard my mom say that from the time I was a child and I totally agree.
This article is hilarious. Tears were streaming down my face and I was laughing so hard, I had to put my laptop down.
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Sculptural
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Mar
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Mar
2013
The exhibition is made up entirely of works Mr. Parker Smith meticulously stole from 77 artists: paintings, sculptures, sketchbooks, video, architectural objects, artmaking devices and more. Equal parts group show and conceptual installation, prank and boundary-pusher, it raises messy art world questions about aesthetic ownership and influence, the division between curator and artist, and the value of nontraditional and repurposed work. And it reveals something about how artists generate ideas.
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Intriguing installation project.
All 77 artists ended up giving him permission after he revealed the theft, which is credit to their openness to the idea behind the installation.
Adam Parker Smith’s ‘Thanks’ at Lu Magnus Gallery - NYTimes.com
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Mar
2013
Mar
2013
Beach, Singapore
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Mar
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Mar
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Desk
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Feb
2013
Feb
2013
So, I’m going to finish this season of House of Cards and sit through every opening credits sequence because people worked hard to build it. Actors, directors, writers, producers, boom operators, lighting designers, and a host of other crew members worked their asses off to give us precisely what we asked for.
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People work really hard to create even a minute of onscreen video. There is a lot that goes into every single minute - the writing, directing choices, what the actors do, how it looks (camera, lighting (grips and g&e crew), production design, hair and makeup), how it sounds (on set boom ops and recorders, sound editors and mixers), editing. Then there are people like location scouts, the drivers, caterers. The list is long. Very long.
If you want to enjoy a piece of art, the least you can do is respect the people who made it possible by watching the credits.
100% agree with Harry Marks.
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Feb
2013
Feb
2013
Gong Xi Fa Cai #nofilter
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Jan
2013
Jan
2013
In interviews we did with high achievers for a book, we expected to hear that talent, persistence, dedication and luck played crucial roles in their success. Surprisingly, however, self-awareness played an equally strong role.
The successful people we spoke with — in business, entertainment, sports and the arts — all had similar responses when faced with obstacles: they subjected themselves to fairly merciless self-examination that prompted reinvention of their goals and the methods by which they endeavored to acheive them.
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Jan
2013
Jan
2013
Lessig Blog, v2: Prosecutor as bully »
These two paragraphs of Lessig’s brilliant post sum it up:
For remember, we live in a world where the architects of the financial crisis regularly dine at the White House — and where even those brought to “justice” never even have to admit any wrongdoing, let alone be labeled “felons.”
In that world, the question this government needs to answer is why it was so necessary that Aaron Swartz be labeled a “felon.” For in the 18 months of negotiations, that was what he was not willing to accept, and so that was the reason he was facing a million dollar trial in April — his wealth bled dry, yet unable to appeal openly to us for the financial help he needed to fund his defense, at least without risking the ire of a district court judge. And so as wrong and misguided and fucking sad as this is, I get how the prospect of this fight, defenseless, made it make sense to this brilliant but troubled boy to end it.
PLEASE sign the petition to punish the bullies: wh.gov/E3v1
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2013
Jan
2013
All The Buildings In New York
(via The Loop: All The Buildings In New York Screenprint | James Gulliver Hancock)
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