February 2012
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A flash game, you say? A flash game to... →
January 2012
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in order to lumin
I really want to post the last sentence of Everything Is Illuminated (given that the first sentence doesn’t really do it justice and the last one oh-so-very-much does), but that would be callous of me. Suffice it to say: OH my GOD that BOOK.
Heartbreaking and beautiful, in that order. A must-read. Maybe, maybe - and I don’t say this lightly - my new favorite.
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Good ol' irony
From artismyoccupation.org. Credit to Mom for finding this gem.
“AN IDEAL FIT IS… An artist who has… 1. A direct, existing relationship with the occupy movement, a community-based organization or non-profit waging a campaign on the front lines of economic justice issues; 2. A track record of creating quality work that has impacted many people; 3. The ability clearly able...
Thanks, Leo
A few months ago, after much more hemming and hawing than I think my great-uncle Leo might have appreciated given the subject matter, my family gathered to scatter his ashes in a small copse behind the Met Museum. Standing in a loose circle, we told a few stories, said whatever more we felt we needed to say, then dipped our cupped hands into the zip-lock bag we’d appropriated for the occasion...
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“And when we go, nature will start over. With the bees, probably.”
– Stephen Falken, WarGames.
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2012 word of the year: Bootstraps
And pulling yourself up by them.
