Narelle Autio, “Splash” from the series, Watercolours. (via Two Looks, a blog by Magnum’s Alex Webb and his wife Rebecca Norris Webb)
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tumble dry low heat
laundromats are slow, lazy sundays, lugging detergent, fabric softener, and weeks worth of quarters to stare curiously at the socks and underwear of the neighbors you never meet. i want a disco in my laundromat, so we can dance. email laundrmat@gmail.com
~ Wednesday, November 25 ~
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Monsanto: The parable of the sower | The Economist
The debate over whether Monsanto is a corporate sinner or saint
Monsanto’s usually vilified (like in Food, Inc.), but seems to do some good as well.
China executes two in tainted milk scandal
The scandal has forced global food companies, even those whose suppliers and products were cleared of contamination, to step up quality control standards. Many foreign food companies say they have taken over quality testing from suppliers, in an attempt to safeguard their brand image.
Having seen the impossibly shabby dairy supply chain in Ukraine up close, I’m hoping that this is the case everywhere in the world.
~ Tuesday, November 24 ~
Canadian Woman Loses Benefits Over Facebook Photo - NYTimes.com
BROMONT, Quebec (AP) — A Canadian woman on long-term sick leave for depression says she lost her benefits because her insurance agent found photos of her on Facebook in which she appeared to be having fun.
~ Monday, November 23 ~
‘Fela!’ Broadway? Dance!
The chronology of the show, set in 1978 but including events from the 1980s isn’t fully accurate, Mr. Jones allowed. Like Fela it prefers the mythic to the mundane and presents its story not through linear narrative but in songs, explosive dances, recollections and flashbacks loosely woven through a performance that Fela gave at the Shrine, his club in Lagos, Nigeria’s capital. It relies on the simmering beat of his music and the indefatigable dancing of an ensemble that regularly spills offstage and into the audience.
~ Saturday, November 21 ~
“ I’ll do it if you insist, sir, but I’m going to be grumpy… until the end of this sentence!
— Kenneth the page, grinning as he walks away.
~ Friday, November 20 ~
~ Monday, November 16 ~
Dancers from the National Ballet of China rehearse scenes from Signature work “The Red Detachment of Women,” a rousing story about a peasant girl liberated by communism, in Beijing, China on Aug. 21, 2009. (AP Photo/Elizabeth Dalziel)
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~ Monday, November 9 ~
- me: he's so weird. after all these years, still the same
- i think when you get older your quirks amplify
- her: yeah people dont change much
- they just become more themselves
- me: yeah
- that's terrible, if yourself is bad
- her: because all your insecurities shed by the time you're in your thirities
- so you're just left with who you really are
This is how an American soldier is made. For 27 months, Ian Fisher, his parents and friends, and the U.S. Army allowed Denver Post reporters and a photographer to watch and chronicle his recruitment, induction, training, deployment, and, finally, his return from combat. A selection of photos from Ian’s journey are posted below. (via Captured Photo Collection » Ian Fisher : American Soldier Photos)
Every year, Black Friday rings in the yearly holiday shopping season, with hundreds of thousands of people getting up before sunrise to queue for bargains and deals; when the doors are unlocked, the stores being besieged by their own customers. During Black Friday last year, security guard Jdimytai Damour, was trampled to death by death crazed shoppers as he tried to hold back bargain seekers at a Long Island Walmart. Unfortunately, the uproar in the media was mostly over by the end of the weekend.
Picture Black Friday is a photojournalism project that aims to revisit and analyze a combination of forces- a worsening economy, financial desperation, excitement, fear, absurdity, and a distinctly American cultural tradition- that culminate the morning after Thanksgiving.
You can’t go to Asmara and not note the architecture. While most African capitals today are replete with drab, hulking towers from the 1960s and 1970s, the Eritrean capital, dating back to its days as an early-century Italian colonial pied-a-terre, is home to some of the boldest designs on the continent.
Benito Mussolini saw Asmara as an extension of his Fascist empire. He used the highland city, as Barney Jopson wrote recently in the Financial Times, as “a laboratory for bold architectural styles – rationalism, futurism, monumentalism – that would never pass muster in Italy. The result is a cocktail of convex façades, jutting balconies and porthole windows.”
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'The Fall of the Wall United Us Again'
Medvedev: Every historical figure is revered by some and rejected by others, and this holds true for Stalin as well. In my blog, I clearly defined Stalin’s deeds as crimes. Fifty million Russians regularly access the Internet — over a third of the Russian population. Thousands have responded. Some wrote that the head of state has finally taken a clear stance on the oppression and on Stalin. Others, on the other hand, refused to accept my views. They wrote that our country has Stalin to thank for its developed economy and free social services, and they said that there was virtually no crime under his leadership. They said that today’s Russian leaders should first of all try to match those achievements.
SPIEGEL: That doesn’t sound very flattering for you.
(SPIEGEL Interview with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev)
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