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"You might want to check out Northrop Frye's notion of the Green World in Shakespearean literature, which is equally applicable to other myths/fictions...." [
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more than 12 hours ago
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"Go to the Met roof around early evening, look at Jeff Koons, walk around the Central Park reservoir afterwards.
The American Folk Art Museum, next to MoMA, has Friday music nights which are pretty awesome. It's an oasis of music and quiet (and AC)..." [
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3 weeks ago
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"I'd say no, because lockpicks usually have a sharp end so that each individual pin can be depressed with accuracy.
But the easiest way to find out is:
Is the piece of metal thin enough to fit into your lock? If you insert it, can you feel the end..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Rabulah
3 weeks ago
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"1) Racism is sometimes not so much denoted by intent as by an adherence to popular reference. This may be ignorance, but it doesn't stop it from adhering to a type of depiction always used to satirize and demean blacks.
2) What really bothers me..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by anansi
Last month
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Photographs of Children's Drawings
favorited 41 times, recently by Joey Michaels, vronsky, Rora, Saxon Kane, madamjujujive, agregoli, gemmy, Smart Dalek, houseofdanie, quincepuppet, Kloryne, Coffeemate, christopherious, desjardins, hilatron, purplemonkie, Uther Bentrazor, runincircles, davemee, 2or3whiskeysodas, Phire, Drexen, Serf, melissa may, one teak forest, leibniz, The Great Big Mulp, subaruwrx, pantufla, pravit, BobsterLobster, mazatec, mostlymartha, Foci for Analysis, vrakatar, cazoo, doctor_negative, katillathehun, mullingitover, you're a kitty!, papakwanz
Last month
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"It takes about eight and a half minutes for light to travel from the sun to Earth, so assuming that the supervillain (not being superlarge) builds a barrier right in front of the sun or turns the sun off, Superman would have 8.5 full minutes of sun..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by 0xFCAF
Last month
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"Where did I say I think that? You're batting about .005 on putting accurate meanings to the things I've written. Why don't you just go with the words I used, instead of making shit up.
Kirth Gerson, will all due respect, your point is that you..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by nasreddin
Last month
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"What's annoying is when people inject ideology into an area of law that has been and that should be largely free of it.
To see the level of discourse about patent law be reduced to the level of a bad morality play is just sad.
saslett, I..." [
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Last month
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"Have your girlfriend take a video/photos with a city landmark, the dog, and the time/date (such as in a bank sign, etc.) all visible at the same time." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by lacedback
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Inflammatory political statement meant to induce controversy does not equal art.
Sure it can. Look at the Futurists. Art, especially postwar art, has always been about politics (or anti-politics), spectacle, etc. xod gets it right.
I mean, come..." [
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favorited 11 times, recently by papafrita, Thoth, paradoxflow, invitapriore, monsterhero, junebug, Espoo2, rifflesby, Pope Guilty, easy_being_green, mygothlaundry
2 months ago
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"Get bulk film & a bulk film loader ($15), and after the initial cost you'll be paying 5 cents per negative, which is less than half of what you would get per roll. After I forced myself into the mindset that film was almost free, I started taking..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by bonaldi
2 months ago
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"I speak two languages and have lived in two cultures, not by choice, but by upbringing. I've lived in the US half of my life, and I also have no related family (including my parents) who are American. I'm a semi-immigrant, in that sense.
I'm also..." [
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favorited 6 times, recently by liquorice, twins named Lugubrious and Salubrious, bettafish, zeusianfog, Locative, jtron
2 months ago
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"Yeah, not sure what the big deal is. Fairey's angle is "appropriate-aesthetic-for-propaganda". The only part of his work that makes his stuff into art is the fact that the images he appropriates (whether originally propaganda or art) are..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Dean King
3 months ago
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"I guess I'm the person who has to step in and say, "meh."?
Really, this story was: "I teach ESL! Japanese people have strange attachments to our culture and pronounce things differently in italics! This girl is quirky and strange..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by KokuRyu
3 months ago
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I don't do ad hominem attacks, unlike you.
favorited 13 times, recently by the luke parker fiasco, humannaire, hip_plumber, bilabial, bach, roger ackroyd, limeonaire, misozaki, LoraxGuy, rottytooth, Phire, ukdanae, melorama
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Incredible. If anybody's interested, here's the Korean language interview, which seems to have been originally conducted in English. There's actually a lot that the blogger didn't translate. Here's some bits I thought were nice and interesting and..." [
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favorited 16 times, recently by reynir, milov, swift, i8ny3x, pandaharma, Pantalaimon, fuzz, Craig, smich, papafrita, vacapinta, revfitz, Kattullus, MillMan, spec80, subatomiczoo
5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"In case any of the wankers from Creative Time are reading this, I'll clue you in a bit: the existential dread, the emptiness of being, the sadness and horrendously vacuous pain, all those things that you thought you found in New Orleans weren't there..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by The Bellman
5 months ago
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"Nice. I also thought the projector bit was useless too, but then I decided that it provides a nice immediate method/metaphor of defining a user's domain: My power, which is beamed from me, only exists within the boundaries of this box that I create..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by migurski
6 months ago
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"I really do respect the process as well the idea behind adoptation. That having been said, I have no idea how some people can fail to see that cross-cultural adoption can have a strong undercurrent of racism and colonialism. The point is that the..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by lunit
6 months ago
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"I know how you feel as well.
The two books I've read by Ursula K LeGuin are The Left Hand of Darkness, and The Disposessed. They're categorized as sci-fi (whatever that means), but they have a strong anthropological (or xenological) aspect to them,..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by h00py
7 months ago
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"Miracle Fruit! Anything sour that you eat after you eat this fruit will become sweet. You can find people who will air-mail it to you online." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Mookbear
7 months ago
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"Jeez Christ, this place has a bunch of assholes. (Not the jokers, but the criticizers.) The fact that this guy worked by himself for four years to produce this movie is incredible. No, it's not Pixar's Ratatouille, and in an absolute sense, it..." [
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favorited 9 times, recently by Edible Energy, papafrita, the cydonian, psyche7, concreteforest, erpava, starman, jiawen, mecran01
7 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Alright, alright, my analogy's not that great. What I mean to say is that for every creation, there's the creator point-of-view, and the viewer point-of-view to things. As a viewer, I really do think it won't be that great. (Moreover, I think that..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by the cydonian
7 months ago
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"Artw - I completely agree about Knick Knack. I'm not disagreeing with what everybody's saying about the quality of the film. I'm saying that to criticize this thing without taking the creator's intent or mission in mind is something that a strict..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by MythMaker
7 months ago
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"Could you dress up all writerly, with typewritten sheets poking out here and there, a vest and monocle maybe, and also carry a baseball bat with which you'll try to hit objects but keep on missing?..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Phire
8 months ago
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"Not to be a downer, but the images were all trite, simplistic, cutesy, compromising any real thought for a cursory glance and a humoristic approach to discussion. I agree with what nickyskye's talking about.
Asian cultures are roundabout, based..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by nickyskye
8 months ago
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"There's also Yuken Teruya, who was at the NYC Guggenheim recently - he makes trees from consumer shopping paper bags. He's awesome. Some images are here, here, here, and here - respectively McDonalds, Berluti, Marc Jacobs, and Louis Vuitton,..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by nickyskye
9 months ago
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"Don't forget Michael Bell-Smith's excellent video, in which he overlays chapters 1-5 at the same time: Trapped In The Closet All At Once. Youtube, MP4. I saw this at MOMA, and was incredibly enthralled and pleased (really, no sarcasm!)...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Drexen
9 months ago
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"I'll second White Teeth, as well as Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses.
Also -- Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow was written in a different decade, but I just finished it and it's one of the best novels I've ever read.
Now, to start Infinite..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by takeyourmedicine
10 months ago
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"Here's my 'anthem' list. Many of these may not be so 'indie' anymore.
Sigur Ros - Hoppipolla
DNTEL - Last Songs
My Bloody Valentine - Sometimes
Bright Eyes - Let's Not Shit Ourselves
Broken Social Scene -- Ibi Dreams Of Pavement
The Flaming..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by santojulieta
Last year
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"I'm reading some Korean forums (equivalent to Fark), and the reactions range from "I'm sincerely sorry" to "Why did the fuck we blame the Chinese earlier?" to "Great, this is so embarassing for Korea" to "It's all a..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by mariokrat, LMGM, mek, russilwvong
Last year
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"This is kind of a off-topic jab, but I wish they had kept the original style of quotation -- that is, a em dash at the front. It's nice how in the Spanish version, the sentences don't have an ending character and instead trail off, as if they were..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by jason's_planet
Last year
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"Ah, E2, it's been a while. I started four years ago -- and I was a late user at the time. When it was strong, it had a great (and rare) sense of community, with all these injokes, user-user marriages, meetups. Like Metafilter perhaps, but with more..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by JHarris
Last year
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"There's a word in Korean called 'sul-ly', or 서리. It pretty much means 'to steal', but without the negative connotations of stealing, and as a result is more focused on small-scale theft, mischievous kids stealing a watermelon at night, et cetera. The..." [
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