Rasputin Stout, can’t be killed. (Taken with instagram)
“Boy meets girl” – World Order with Genki Sudo
best choreography of 2012.
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The structure is made from recycled material and was used for the Film On The Rocks film festival, which took place this year on the island of Yao Noi, Thailand.
What’s Wrong With *The Hunger Games* Is What No One Noticed
What’s Wrong With *The Hunger Games* Is What No One Noticed
The Hunger Games has this same feminist problem. Other than the initial volunteering to replace her younger sister, Katniss never makes any decisions of her own, never acts with consequence— but her life is constructed to appear that she makes important decisions. She has free will, of course, like any five year old with terrible parents, but at every turn is prevented from acting on the world. She is protected by men— enemies and allies alike; directed by others, blessed with lucky accidents and when things get impossible there are packages from the sky. In philosophical terms, she is continuously robbed of agency. She is deus ex machinaed all the way to the end.
That’s why The Hunger Games is such a diabolical head fake. Forget about it being »
@intothewoodsTV captures @HAIMtheband with @EarTrumpetLabs’ Microphone
Worthwhile viewing material.
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Mug collection, desk edition. (Taken with instagram)
Aaron James Draplin, dropping knowledge.
Favorite line so far “Dude free since 2003.”
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Hating the word Lucky
“I feel really lucky,” he said, then added, “although I hate that word — ‘lucky.’ ” When I asked him why, he mulled it over for a moment, looking away. Then he focused back on me. “It cheapens a lot of hard work,” he said. “Living in Brooklyn in an apartment without any heat and paying for dinner at the bodega with dimes — I don’t think I felt myself lucky back then. Doing plays for 50 bucks and trying to be true to myself as an” — here he put on a faux snooty voice — “artist and turning down commercials where they wanted a leprechaun. Saying I was lucky negates the hard work I put in and spits on that guy who’s freezing his ass off back in Brooklyn. So I won’t say I’m lucky. I’m fortunate enough to »
Training Citizen Journalists
Thanks to the internet, pretty much anyone can practice journalism. We’ve been exploring how to deal with the information overload, and how to evaluate journalism that’s not necessarily produced by a traditional newsroom. Some argue that journalism born from Twitter monitoring is not real journalism. But it seems here to stay.
via Gigaom:
This democratization of distribution has had a profound effect on the coverage of uprisings in Egypt and Libya and more recently in Syria. Because of YouTube, Twitter, and other networks, more information is available about what is happening in those countries. But is it reliable? According to some reports, the news coming from Syria has been altered by activists who are trying to make a specific point. Does that mean citizen journalism is flawed? Not really. It just means we »
Picture of the Day. Barcelona, Spain. A protester adds to a barricade of burning tires during demonstrations and a general strike. News of a renewed Spanish recession has been met with further austerity measures and big spending cuts – policies to which the government is tightly cleaving. This is the first general strike in the three months since PM Mariano Rajoy took office.
Read: An article in The Nation on the radicalism of the Spanish student movement by Zoë Schlanger.
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“They’ve opened up the possibility of collective disobedience for themselves, for their purposes,” Ramírez said. “That’s not nothing.”
Information you do not need to know
An email I received this morning from a source who will remain anonymous*
So last night, i was getting aggravated because I couldn’t find that awesome Zhanna song that starts with the rain sounds on soul seek. But I did find a person who seemed to have every Bravo album ever recorded, and i downloaded their earliest 3 albums. Problem is, Zhanna seem to have only been on the first record. But youtube had taught me that she must have recorded a bunch of stuff on her own, so i set myself to searching through this soulseek person’s files, looking for a folder with Zhanna’s solo stuff. Nothing with her name on it that was in roman characters, so I started looking for alternate transliterations. Bingo- found a folder labelled Agusarawa, and lo an behold, the last thing i did before I went to »
jstn:
Incredible fluid wind map: hint.fm/wind
The Russians Used a Pencil: The Making of Frameographer
The Russians Used a Pencil: The Making of Frameographer
Tom and I have been working on Frameographer on and off for about 6 months. Like our other products, it was created to scratch our own itch. We were dissatisfied with the current offerings in the market and we wanted to make something really great, something that we enjoyed using. I can’t tell…
Fascinating look at the design development process of a movie creation app.
Rep. Rush Kicked Off Floor for Wearing Hoodie in Support of Trayvon Martin
“Just because you wear a hoodie, doesn’t make you a hoodlum,” Rep. Bobby Rush, D-Ill, said. “I don’t mind being out of order if it means standing up for freedom and justice and human dignity. This is just another part of the struggle.”
(video by BuzzFeed)
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This thing is a camera! Specifically a Fusil Photographique, or “rifle camera.” It was built by Etienne-Jules Marey, who used it to photograph birds in flight, and it’s been called the world’s first portable motion picture camera.
Pretty stylish, right? Gives a whole new meaning to the phrase “point and shoot.” You can read more about Marey and his contemporaries here and here. (Thanks to the inimitable Ben Simington for the heads-up.)
World of Experience, an imaginary atlas by Louise van Swaaij, Jean Klar, and David Winner – a fine addition to these 5 maps of the human condition.
Topography of apathy and farewells? Count us in.
(via explore-blog)
I’d hang that on a wall.
The Talking Heads: The generation that saved America from Disco
The Talking Heads: The generation that saved America from Disco
To imagine a band, composed of a variety of different cultural and sub cultural influences is not to uncommon in music today. Spreading from vast corners of the globe, bands and music lovers alike have banned together to further create and let free the music industry of today, but it was not always so. Back in the disco era, our dear American culture was diminished down to an afro-lovin’, bell bottom wearing, disco-roller-skates sort of structure, and it was up to somebody to get us out. The Talking Heads, a band formed in the late 70’s in a “intellectual punk” rebellion against the glittering disco era. Accompanied by The Ramones, the Talking Heads were on the top level in C.B.G.B’s leading bands and artists, which earned their spot in »