December 2010
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“I made no resolutions for the New Year. The habit of making plans, of...”
– Anaïs Nin (via twice1day)
Dec 31st
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Dec 31st
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Dec 30th
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seedy: Susan Sontag - On Photography (1977) →
c-d: On Photography, 1977 (OCR’d PDF, 1.6mb) In the book, Sontag expresses her views on the history and present-day role of photography in capitalist societies as of the 1970s. Sontag discusses many examples of modern photography. Among these, she contrasts Diane Arbus’s work with that of…
Dec 30th
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womanonfire: C Y B E R P U N K (via Google Video)
Dec 30th
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“There’s a breed of humility which is itself a species of showing off.”
– Mark Twain (via @JPBarlow)
Dec 29th
“I know for sure that you can tell how smart people are by what they laugh at.”
– Tina Fey (via monstersflash)
Dec 29th
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Dec 27th
In Sweden, Equality Starts in Pre-School. →
miguee-e:lipstick-feminists: http://www.sweden.se/eng/Home/Education/Pre-school/Reading/Equality-at-daycare/ Turning theory into practice Trödje pre-school started working with gender pedagogy in 1996. Pre-school teacher Ingeborg Bergvall says: “We keep the children under observation to see which abilities they need to develop and then we work with that. One example is that we keep boys and...
Dec 26th
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Dec 25th
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Listenvelveteenrabbit: (Adam Joseph - Have Yourself a...
Dec 24th
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Dec 22nd
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Dec 21st
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kirvysplash: Nosaj Thing Visual Show @ Mapping Festival 2010 It’s been just over 1 year since he 1st premiered his visual show @ Red Bull Megahurtz in Montréal, where it was officially still in beta, but Nosaj Thing has been diligently refining it with the close assistance of one miss Julia Tsao. Regardless, released just a few days back, here’s Nosaj Thing’s performance as it was witnessed...
Dec 21st
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“I would love to believe that when I die I will live again, that some thinking,...”
– Carl Sagan, who passed away on this day in 1996. (See also: #sagan forever.)
Dec 21st
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Dec 21st
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Dec 20th
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adomania
dictionaryofobscuresorrows: n. the crushing sense that the future is arriving ahead of schedule, that all those years with fanciful names like “2011” are bursting from their hypothetical cages into the arena of the present, furiously bucking the grip of your expectations while you lean and slip in your saddle, one hand reaching for reins, the other waving up high like a schoolkid who finally...
Dec 19th
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Dec 18th
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Dec 16th
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Dec 16th
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“I think photography was inside me. Once I found it, it became stronger than me...”
– Raymond Depardon
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“Then no one will say, “Are you a gamer or not?” They will just say, “What kind...”
– Journey’s Jenova Chen on God, Authorship, and Creativity - PlayStation 3 Feature at IGN (via notgames)
Dec 12th
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Dec 7th
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“Finally, what about forgetting? Remarkably, this, too, may be a blessing in...”
– Cognition: Exploring the Science of the Mind by Daniel Reisberg (via thebrim)
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“Kennedy discovered that Plato had placed clusters of words related to music in...”
– Hidden musical code found written into Plato’s texts (via alanajoy)
Dec 2nd
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