“I’m not saying that television is vulgar and dumb because the people who compose the Audience are vulgar and dumb. Television is the way it is simply because people tend to be extremely similar in their vulgar and prurient and dumb interests and wildly different in their refined and aesthetic and noble interests.”
David Foster Wallace
The Open Coloring
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Central to radical sustainability is the concept of autonomous development. This form of developmet designs systems that give control over basic resources to the people using them. This increases community self-reliance and aids in resistance to resource monopolies. Design criteria include: 1) affordability 2) use of salvaged and/or locally abundant materials 3) simplicity 4) user servicibility 5) ease of replication and 6) decentralization.
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Mysterious! Mysterious! They become soundless.
Subtle! Subtle! They become formless.
10/10/10 - some friends and I organized a critical mass in the name of sustainability and a healthier planet. 250+ ppl - not all pictured.
(via mrscatalano)
Baghdad
Photograph by Moises Saman/Panos PicturesLife Goes On: Saman captured this indelible image of man and war, coexisting, during a walk through Baghdad’s impoverished and violent al-Waziriya neighborhood. The smoldering remains of U.S. military Humvees that had been attacked by insurgents threw up dark clouds against the sky. And then a man in a clean suit ambled by carrying a briefcase. “This guy walked past, and I thought it was a real scene of how life just goes on in Baghdad,” he says. “Even in war zones, people have to manage their daily lives.”
California’s Humboldt Redwoods State Park
“Among the tallest and longest-lived trees on Earth, redwoods depend on summertime’s moisture-rich fog to replenish their water reserves. But climate change may be reducing this crucial fog cover. Though still poorly understood, climate change may be contributing to a decline in a high-pressure climatic system that usually “pinches itself” against the coast, creating fog.”
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Soukora by Ry Cooder & Ali Farka Touré
Banksy Interview + Video
Banksy has done an interview with the Sunday Times, which is an interesting read:
“I have a large collection of famous art at home, but they’re all fakes. I make them myself. If I like a picture I grab a photo, project it up and paint it. Sometimes I change the colours to fit with the curtains. I do it partly because I’m tight and partly because if the Basquiats and Picassos in the sitting room were real I’d be too scared to ever leave the house.“I don’t make as much money as people think. The commercial galleries that have held exhibitions of my paintings are nothing to do with me. And I certainly don’t see money from the T-shirts, mugs and greeting cards. My lawyer calls me ‘the most infringed artist alive’ and wants me to do something about it. But if you’ve built a reputation on having a casual attitude towards property ownership, it seems a bit bad-mannered to kick off about copyright law.”
