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12 February 2011 @ 09:30 am
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Anti-government bloggers work on their laptops from Tahrir Square. Despite government attempts to shut down the Internet and limit communications, organizers have been adept at using a variety of media and electronic workarounds to coordinate the rallies.

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18 October 2009 @ 08:49 am
Chris Jordan: Midway - Message from the Gyre  
"These photographs of albatross chicks were made just a few weeks ago on Midway Atoll, a tiny stretch of sand and coral near the middle of the North Pacific. The nesting babies are fed bellies-full of plastic by their parents, who soar out over the vast polluted ocean collecting what looks to them like food to bring back to their young. On this diet of human trash, every year tens of thousands of albatross chicks die on Midway from starvation, toxicity, and choking.

To document this phenomenon as faithfully as possible, not a single piece of plastic in any of these photographs was moved, placed, manipulated, arranged, or altered in any way. These images depict the actual stomach contents of baby birds in one of the world's most remote marine sanctuaries, more than 2000 miles from the nearest continent. "



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04 October 2009 @ 10:12 am
just one of those days...  
 
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14 May 2009 @ 12:37 pm
you eat what you are  

Short Order Cook | Marathon,TX | 2-Person Household | She can bench press over 300lbs. | 2007
 

"You Are What You Eat is a series of portraits made by examining the interiors of refrigerators in homes across the Untied States.

For three years I traveled around the country exploring the issue of hunger. The more time I spent speaking and listening to individual stories, the more I began to think about the foods we consume and the effects they have on us as individuals and communities. An intense curiosity and questions about stewardship led me to begin to make these unconventional portraits.

A refrigerator is both a private and a shared space. One person likened the question, "May I photograph the interior of your fridge?" to asking someone to pose nude for the camera. Each fridge is photographed "as is." Nothing added, nothing taken away.

These are portraits of the rich and the poor. Vegetarians, Republicans, members of the NRA, those left out, the under appreciated, former soldiers in Hitler’s SS, dreamers, and so much more. We never know the full story of one's life.

My hope is that we will think deeply about how we care. How we care for our bodies. How we care for others. And how we care for the land.

estimated to be complete in fall 2009"

text taken from artist's website
www.markmenjivar.com/



What does your fridge say about you?
 
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11 May 2009 @ 03:38 pm
play him off, keyboard cat  

this is what it feels like to be simultaneously horrified and amused.

http://playhimoffkeyboardcat.com/

 
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17 April 2009 @ 09:07 pm
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the other day i saw an ad on the ol' craigslist for baby giant tortoises that were for sale.

it reminded me of this enormous tortoise that roams an exotic petstore right in the middle of houston's chinatown area. he's been there for years, and will be for perhaps the next century...assuming that the store remains.

at first i thought, 'awesome i should totally get one.' ever since i was a kid and saw this cool statue at the zoo, i've always wanted a huge tortoise to carry me places...well, that or a luck dragon. you know, whichever i happen upon first. 

anyways, it got me thinking about how someone can actually buy an animal that would not only outlive them, but their children and possibly their childrens' children. what a world to live in.
 
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14 April 2009 @ 07:21 pm
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movin' on up to hyde park and a sweet action room with a hidden doorway! yes!

everyone must come visit, it will be full of awesome.

also: i've missed you, internet. i've missed you so, so much. this semester is killin' meh!

alsoalso: wade, i have not forgotten to write you a letter, i have just been crushed under the wheel that is my biochemistry class.
 
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07 March 2009 @ 11:41 am
palindromes  




"Dammit I'm Mad"

by

Demetri Martin

Dammit I'm mad.
Evil is a deed as I live.
God, am I reviled? I rise, my bed on a sun, I melt.
To be not one man emanating is sad. I piss.
Alas, it is so late. Who stops to help?
Man, it is hot. I'm in it. I tell.
I am not a devil. I level "Mad Dog".
Ah, say burning is, as a deified gulp,
In my halo of a mired rum tin.
I erase many men. Oh, to be man, a sin.
Is evil in a clam? In a trap?
No. It is open. On it I was stuck.
Rats peed on hope. Elsewhere dips a web.
Be still if I fill its ebb.
Ew, a spider… eh?
We sleep. Oh no!
Deep, stark cuts saw it in one position.
Part animal, can I live? Sin is a name.
Both, one… my names are in it.
Murder? I'm a fool.
A hymn I plug, deified as a sign in ruby ash,
A Goddam level I lived at.
On mail let it in. I'm it.
Oh, sit in ample hot spots. Oh wet!
A loss it is alas (sip). I'd assign it a name.
Name not one bottle minus an ode by me:
"Sir, I deliver. I'm a dog"
Evil is a deed as I live.
Dammit I'm mad.

 
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07 March 2009 @ 11:38 am
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?yadot uoy era woh .gninrom eht ni em enohp .seugnot ni gnikaeps .rotcelloc tbed a si dneirf ylno ym.

 
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27 February 2009 @ 10:23 am
"eventually, everything connects"  
last night i went to a showing of some of the short films of Charles and Ray Eames. the topics ranged from the production of their famous chairs to the beauty of tops, spinning and falling, to cartoon representations of mathematical theories. each film was beautiful and nostalgic. they reminded me of the segments during Sesame Street where they would show the production of crayons or something similar.

there was a surprisingly large turnout for the film, including a loud asian man who wanted to know my opinion on the rebuilding of the governor's mansion.

the best part of the night was the Nicole Eriko Smith artwork being displayed on the walls. they were a part of the Consent to Play exhibit: simple ink on paper drawings, but so lovely to see.

"[...]The three main characters in these drawings live and play within a space somewhere between public spectacle and private ritual.    The imagery is informed by an upbringing that includes celebrations and rituals from both southern Louisiana and mainland Japan; it is also informed by an interest in the aesthetics of kink and fetishism, as well as the dynamics of power and consent. Elements of these celebrations and rituals as well as the theatricality of fetishism manifest themselves in my drawing by way of hybrid forms, body postures, accessories and relationships. I am interested in exploring vocabularies of touch and gesture, and the logic of anatomy and body posture; conversely, I am interested in how that logic is subverted when viewed through certain filters (i.e., celebration, ritual and dom/sub play).”
– N.E. Smith
 
 
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