January 2011
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Amazing video of two artists creating a giant work. Hypnotizing.
I love this, very inspiring. Makes me excited to be done with school in a year, so I can finally have a ton of free time to spend making art and working on my business.
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This seems like a really creative way to spice up your home, especially if you are interested in photography. I love this, and I am definitely going to try it when I am much less broke, haha.
“The wrong question keeps being asked. Over and over and over again. How can we get people to take rape seriously? The real question is: what can we do to end rape (and all forms of violence) in all of its manifestations everywhere? I think people are resistant to the real question *especially* online because the internet is so heavily grounded into the news cycle rather than the historical rape cycle. That is—we operate from a position of 3-4 days on a story rather than the reality that rape has been an integrated tool of white supremacist heteropatriarchy for centuries. A problem that old does not end in a news cycle. And it doesn’t end because we figured out how to accomplish a perfect world where everybody takes rape seriously. It ends because we figure out how to imagine and build a new structure that *doesn’t* depend on rape for its survival. Which, as I’ve mentioned numerous times before, radical women of color and queer/LGBT communities have been leaders in doing. So if we come back to the internet community—what would an approach to the current situation look like a long term goal of ending rape was kept in mind? Would there have been outreach to feminist/anti-rape organizations in Sweden? Would there have been outreach to smaller communities that may have access to what the women in the Assange cases need? Would there have been a transnational partnership whereby feminists in Europe and the US worked together to declare a condemnation of the various governments involved, demand protection for the women, and insist on global rules of reporting on rape? We all understand that the internet can be an amazing tool for “educating”—educating people about rape, for example. What I think we forget when we believe to passionately in liberal reform rather than radical change is that the internet can be a tool for organizing as well. Organizing that is not based on education. 4Chan has shown us this. Indy media has shown us this. Anarchists have shown us this.”
—radicallyhottoff (via thetart)
“The fact that these women didn’t seek to press charges until after a prosecutor labeled their experience as rape is neither here nor there. Rape victims don’t always label what happened to them as a crime. In fact, rape culture encourages women to blame themselves. Even women who know they were raped are often reluctant to press charges because they also know that the process is harrowing and the chances of winning are slim. If you’re going after a high profile figure, you can expect to be vilified. There seems to be a double standard in terms who counts as a “good victim.” Suppose your investment adviser isn’t paying out returns as promised. You don’t want to press charges, you just want your money. So, you go to the prosecutor’s office, the prosecutor hears you out, and she says, “You got mixed up in a Ponzi scheme. That’s fraud. Do you want to press charges?” Up to this point, you just wanted help to get what’s yours, but now an expert has re-framed your experience in legal terms. Is anyone going to argue that you weren’t really defrauded because you didn’t realize you were a victim until someone explained your rights?”
—Did Assange’s Accusers Want STD Testing? (via azspot)
Do you know how cute that one dude thinks you are? So scute
Wow, this reminds me of Honesty Box from Facebook, haha.
And, I s’pose I do now! Even though I have no idea who that “one dude” is… : ]
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Patience
I‘ve had these chips laying out since August, they were all arranged in the patterns I had set up months ago, but covered in dust. I cleaned them all up..one by one. and re-layed them out in new patterns, with a new level of patience that I didn’t realize I had… I think these are my nicest weave work so far.. simple sherlocks, but really elegant, really clean, and really refreshing.. I love these pieces and loved making them. - Chris Carlson
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Futile Devices
Sufjan Stevens
Sufjan’s new album, Age of Adz, is different than what you might be used to….
but you gotta listen to it.
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