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La Cara Infinita
First… NSFW–little bit of explicit nudity and it might freak out some of your more conservative friends/co-workers. Currenly, the favorite song of Christopher, my buddy-friend-guy. I have really been digging it too. I find myself going around whistling and singing it throughout the day. Dorian Wood (feat. Eddika Organista) –…
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‘Ordinary life’ anime finds a special place in fans’ hearts – AJW by The Asahi Shimbun
There are no high-tech machines, no monsters, no aliens and no global catastrophe. But a certain genre in Japanese animation that portrays mundane everyday lives enjoys continued popularity among fans. The anime, collectively known as “kuuki-kei,” which literally means “like air” and can be interpreted as “slice of life,” goes…
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The ideology and politics of fracking in an image
Originally posted on tothesungod: If you prefer visuals to text, here’s To Frack or Not to Frack condensed into a single image. Consider it an elaborate way of saying: when it comes to the risks and regulation of natural gas development—the politics of fracking—people should be directly involved in the process of…
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Don’t Believe the Hype
Originally posted on Independent Scholars: These days it is often hard to tell when a claim is true when faced with the swirl of rapid fire information that is our modern world. We teach our students to evaluate sources, but even we can sometimes be confused by new and glitzy…
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Nothingness and Liberation
As an anarchocynic, I find myself looking through the open and secret history of humankind very often. Part of my apparent contradiction to folks comes from how one must needs hop from this to that to the other in order to follow a line of thinking that is more covered…
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Malcolm Gladwell: Albert O. Hirschman and the Power of Failure : The New Yorker
We may be dealing here with a general principle of action… Creativity always comes as a surprise to us; therefore we can never count on it and we dare not believe in it until it has happened. In other words, we would not consciously engage upon tasks whose success clearly requires that…
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The Bather
The Bather by Alexander Porfirevich Archipenko (1915). © Estate of Alexander Archipenko / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Courtesy of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. http://www.philamuseum.org
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Aging Well
Originally posted on Live Life in Crescendo: This is post featured on WP Freshly Pressed. Current post is first on recent post list. “Oh, I’m too old for that “. Spoken by someone 80? Spoken by a young man. He was too old to learn to snowboard. So often…
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Te Atua (God)
“Te Atua (God)” by Paul Gauguin. 1893-94. Courtesy of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Purchased with the John D. McIlhenny Fund, 1941. http://www.philamuseum.org
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An ASCII Poem
d|gI+Al hEGeM0n …d|g|Z|nE An ASCII Poemby Fred Bremmer and Steve Kroese < > ! * ‘ ‘ # ^ ” ` $ $ – ! * = @ $ _ % * < > ~ #4 & [ ] . . – | { , , SYSTEM HALTED Translated from…
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St. Maelruains
Originally posted on Ed Mooney Photography: On the Edge of Tallaght village lies Saint Maelruain’s Church, and whilst not a ruin it is a stunning church and there are some very interesting items within its grounds. There is no definite date available as to when Tallaght was founded. It is…
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