December 2011
22 posts
Nicolas Henry-"The Playhouses of our grandparents" →
capucha:
“ Over the last five years, Nicolas Henry has created roughly 400 portraits in more than forty countries. For each portrait, a sort of makeshift stage set or temporary playhouse was constructed using the subject’s familiar possessions – a reflection of each person’s history, his imaginary world: a fish-cum-helicopter during a miraculous bowfishing trip in Vanuatu; a skyscraper fashioned...
“He showed the words “chocolate cake” to a group of Americans and recorded their...”
– Michael Pollan (via misswallflower)
America has a disordered relationship to food.
(via rubyvroom)
Winter Wonderland
Every Christmas Eve, my family has some friends over to eat delicious food, have good times, and sing carols. We’ve got a packet with a bunch of lyrics that was a printout from some radio station ages ago, and some of them are a little…interesting.
In Winter Wonderland, for example:
“In the meadow we can build a snowman / and pretend that he’s a circus clown / we’ll...
25 Foods You'll Never Be Able to Eat Again →
“Despite initially being simply a movie tie-in for 1984’s Ghostbusters, Ecto Cooler disappeared in 2001, forever ruining the contents of your lunchbox.”
Cape Town Diamond Museum opens at Waterfront →
I can’t say I’m incredibly surprised that this museum seems to focus on the positive outcomes of diamond mining (ooh! pretty shiny things!) instead of the negative (blood, price jacking, keeping the poor man down, &c.), but it’s still disheartening.
I actually met a diamond trader when I was in South Africa. He was very kind, and his family was lovely — two perfect...
Written? Kitten! →
iena:
nebraska-admiral:
thewordunheard:
My dearling Michael (who is getting married in 9 days! who I will be in Hawaii with in 26 days! whoa!) just linked me to this, which just helped me punch out a short paper about the vertically-integrated ancillary social programs offered by Indian microfinance institutions in, like, 45 minutes.
For every 100 words you write, it gives you a new picture...
Things my new thesis advisor said to me today...
- So you don’t need to write this thesis to graduate?
- You are planning on writing a thesis for recreation?
- Of course you’re auditing a class that you don’t need to take next semester!
- The internship that you’re doing in Chicago won’t have anything to do with the thesis?
- And you’re getting two degrees?
- I suppose you’re a speed reader, too?
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