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Posted 1 month ago

good song. good bad. nuff sed

thenearsightedmonkey:

Artist: Os Mutantes
Song: A Minha Menina
Album: Os Mutantes (1968)

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postcardsfromamerica: Susan Meiselas.  Rochester, New York.  Memorial rally honoring Lawrence Richardson.   Still thinking about this gathering a week ago to honor Lawrence Richardson, who was brutally shot…. Susan Zoom

postcardsfromamerica:

Susan Meiselas.  Rochester, New York.  Memorial rally honoring Lawrence Richardson.  

Still thinking about this gathering a week ago to honor Lawrence Richardson, who was brutally shot…. Susan

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why doesn’t this make me feel safer? new-aesthetic: “Sandia researchers have invented a dart-like, self-guided bullet for small-caliber, smooth-bore firearms that could hit laser-designated targets at distances of more than a mile (about 2,000 meters). The four-inch-long bullet has actuators that steer tiny fins that guide it to its target.” “A tiny light-emitting diode, or LED, attached to a bullet shows a bright path during a nighttime field test that proved the battery and electronics could survive the bullet’s launch. (Photo by Scott Rose)” Sandia’s self-guided bullet path (by SandiaLabs)

why doesn’t this make me feel safer?

new-aesthetic:

“Sandia researchers have invented a dart-like, self-guided bullet for small-caliber, smooth-bore firearms that could hit laser-designated targets at distances of more than a mile (about 2,000 meters). The four-inch-long bullet has actuators that steer tiny fins that guide it to its target.”

“A tiny light-emitting diode, or LED, attached to a bullet shows a bright path during a nighttime field test that proved the battery and electronics could survive the bullet’s launch. (Photo by Scott Rose)”

Sandia’s self-guided bullet path (by SandiaLabs)

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Posted 4 months ago
nevver: André Kertész yeah, he rockest totaloastamy

nevver:

André Kertész

yeah, he rockest totaloastamy

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Posted 4 months ago

Muddy Waters and Mozart

lareviewofbooks:

ARETHA SILLS

on the Late Great Townes Van Zandt.
Photograph by Julie Cline

What I remember most about the AP obituary that ran fifteen years ago tomorrow was its brevity — given that it was written for one of the most influential songwriters of our time — and a quote from Katie Belle, Townes Van Zandt’s five-year-old daughter who was with him: “Daddy’s having a fight with his heart.”

When he died at age 52 on New Year’s Day 1997, fans of the legendary Texas singer-songwriter were saddened but not surprised. He had, after all, named his 1972 album The Late Great Townes Van Zandt — possibly a joke about his perpetual obscurity, or possibly because he and everyone who knew him thought he would die young like Hank Williams (who also died on January 1st). As his friend Guy Clark said at the memorial, “I booked this gig thirty-something years ago.” Townes’s seemingly brief turn on this plane was characterized by staggeringly self-annihilating behavior — behavior that had in many ways defined that turn, and has often overshadowed the powerful and transcendent body of work he left behind.
If I had a nickel I’d find a game.

If I won a dollar I’d make it rain.

If it rained an ocean I’d drink it dry

And lay me down dissatisfied.



— from “Rex’s Blues”
Townes’s obituary offered just enough room to recap a few basic facts: that his songs were recorded by singers more famous than he would ever be, including Emmylou Harris, Merle Haggard, and Willie Nelson; that though he sang about prostitutes and bums and emulated Lightnin’ Hopkins, he was the scion of a prominent Texas oil family; and, the often-told tale, that Steve Earle once threatened to jump on Bob Dylan’s coffee table to proclaim just who was the better songwriter. The obituary politely left it to Van Zandt’s lyrics (from “A Song For”) to hint at his lifelong struggles with mental illness and addiction: “There’s nowhere left in this world where to go. My arms, my legs they’re a tremblin’. Thoughts both clouded and blue as the sky, not even worth the rememberin’.”

The day after New Year’s 1997, I was working at Streetlight Records in San Francisco. A co-worker gingerly handed me the newspaper, fearing I’d be crushed. He knew that I had interviewed Townes a few years back. One of the last things I’d heard Townes say was, “I wish you could help me, Aretha” — a line I withheld from publication, as well as a few other sections of our conversation, including a part about how many rehab facilities and mental institutions Townes had visited over the years. I’ve been mystified by my reticence to print these moments ever since. I have no excuse other than that I was in my early 20s and more of a fan than a journalist.

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Posted 6 months ago

Paramilitary Policing From Seattle to Occupy Wall Street

by the former Chief of the Seattle PD.
in the Nation.

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Posted 6 months ago
uncertaintimes: Berenice Abbott playing ping pong  # (beating your ass in between trips to the darkroom)

uncertaintimes:

Berenice Abbott playing ping pong  #

(beating your ass in between trips to the darkroom)

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Posted 9 months ago

Dieter Rams’ ten principles to “good design”

Good design is innovative
Good design makes a product useful
Good design is aesthetic
Good design helps us to understand a product
Good design is unobtrusive
Good design is honest
Good design is long-lasting
Good design is consequent to the last detail
Good design is concerned with the environment
Good design is as little design as possible

Dieter Rams via http://www.yatzer.com/as-little-design-as-possible-dieter-rams via Wm. Gibson intervu in Boing Boing
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Posted 12 months ago

Now i get it…

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Posted 12 months ago

applicable in so many situations.