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mpdrolet: via Mount Eerie

Tue, 12 Jun 2012 00:39:48 +0700

mpdrolet:

via Mount Eerie

lafilleblanc: Carl Andre (source)

Tue, 12 Jun 2012 00:34:36 +0700

lafilleblanc:

Carl Andre

(source)

"When it’s a young boy, [and they say] ‘Yes sir, no sir’ that’s okay. But when they say, ‘Young lady’..."

Tue, 12 Jun 2012 00:29:27 +0700

“When it’s a young boy, [and they say] ‘Yes sir, no sir’ that’s okay. But when they say, ‘Young lady’ or ‘How’s my girlfriend?’ [it] means you are old and disgusting and ‘I wouldn’t screw you for anything in the world.’ I get so angry. Or when they say, ‘You know, even though you’re 79, I’d still do you.’ And you want to say, ‘You know, you may be 40, I wouldn’t touch you if you were the last man on Earth.’ How dare you, you disgusting person, would think I would want to go near you.”

- Joan Rivers on language. [full interview here] (via nprfreshair)

mpdrolet: Sarah Pannell

Tue, 12 Jun 2012 00:24:17 +0700

mpdrolet:

Sarah Pannell

fer1972: Balladyna Illustrations by Krzysztof Domaradzki

Tue, 12 Jun 2012 00:19:05 +0700

fer1972:

Balladyna Illustrations by Krzysztof Domaradzki

mpdrolet: via 十月２日

Tue, 12 Jun 2012 00:13:54 +0700

mpdrolet:

via 十月２日

fer1972: Daydream by AlexanderJansson

Mon, 11 Jun 2012 23:56:30 +0700

fer1972:

Daydream by AlexanderJansson

laughingsquid: Giant Game of Truth or Dare in a New York City...

Mon, 11 Jun 2012 23:50:02 +0700

laughingsquid:

Giant Game of Truth or Dare in a New York City Park

mpdrolet: Satoko Yugari

Mon, 11 Jun 2012 23:44:48 +0700

mpdrolet:

Satoko Yugari

tpmmedia: NASA scientists have isolated an ethereal...

Mon, 11 Jun 2012 23:10:16 +0700

tpmmedia:

NASA scientists have isolated an ethereal glow permeating parts of the sky that may be the remnants of the earliest objects in the universe.

The glow, which is seen as the red and orange glow in the NASA image at the top of this article, is thought to be from the first stars that formed in the universe, some 13 billion years ago, shortly after the theorized “Big Bang” some 13.7 billion years ago.

Read more…

laughingsquid: Bill Murray Introduces His Hologram on David...

Mon, 11 Jun 2012 23:04:46 +0700

laughingsquid:

Bill Murray Introduces His Hologram on David Letterman

brain-food: Lake Retba in Senegal A boat floats on what looks...

Mon, 11 Jun 2012 22:59:21 +0700

brain-food:

Lake Retba in Senegal

A boat floats on what looks like a huge strawberry milk-lake.

The wooden vessels were photographed from the air bobbing on Lake Retba, in Senegal.

From above the mass of water - which spans one square mile - looks staggeringly similar to a giant milkshake.

And just like the Dead Sea swimmers are even able to FLOAT on the water with ease.

The bizarre colour is caused by high levels of salt - with some areas containing up to 40% of the condiment.

Michael Danson, an expert in extremophile bacteria from Bath University, said: “The strawberry colour is produced by salt-loving organism Dunaliella salina.

“They produce a red pigment that absorbs and uses the energy of sunlight to create more energy, turning the water pink.

“Lakes like Retba and the Dead Sea, which have high salt concentrations, were once thought to be incompatible with life - hence the names. But they are very much alive.”

Salt collectors can often be seen scouring the expanse to remove the valuable mineral - but first have to coat their skin with sheer butter.

This helps protect their skin from exposure to the intense salt levels in the three metre deep lake.

Salt crystals cling to the bodies of miners who work the lake everyday to extract its contents.

And towering piles of collected salt litter the shoreline.

Villagers then process it before selling and using the valuable mineral. (via)

mpdrolet: Jogjakarta, Indonesia Hengki Koentjoro

Mon, 11 Jun 2012 22:53:47 +0700

mpdrolet:

Jogjakarta, Indonesia

Hengki Koentjoro

nprfreshair: Why Joan Rivers reads obits: “That’s how I meet...

Mon, 11 Jun 2012 22:48:22 +0700

nprfreshair:

Why Joan Rivers reads obits: “That’s how I meet new men. The minute it says ‘Sadie Schwartz’ I know, ‘Go to that funeral.’”

(via Joan Rivers Hates You And Everyone Else : NPR)

nationalpost: Montreal police arrest 12 as hundreds march in...

Mon, 11 Jun 2012 22:43:12 +0700

nationalpost:

Montreal police arrest 12 as hundreds march in post-Grand Prix protest
Protesters sent a clear message Sunday night that while the Canadian Formula One Grand Prix may be over, their nightly demonstrations will continue.

After a weekend of violence and arrests that put Quebec’s student protests back on the international stage and brought claims of police “profiling,” several hundred marched in a downtown demonstration that almost immediately was declared illegal.

Windows were smashed, notably those at the offices of the Caisse de depot pension manager and at the National Bank.

A police cruiser was also damaged and police said they made 12 arrests — nine for bylaw infractions and three for alleged criminal offences, including assault. It was the 48th consecutive night that protesters gathered in Montreal. (Photos: Gazette; Reuters; AFP/Getty Images)

blakegopnik: DAILY PIC: With just minutes left in my visit to...

Mon, 11 Jun 2012 22:37:52 +0700

blakegopnik:

DAILY PIC: With just minutes left in my visit to the great Documenta art festival, in Kassel, Germany, I discovered my favorite work: an abandoned old house repurposed and reinhabited by Theaster Gates and a crew from Chicago, with help from locals. They furnished various bedrooms with stylish beds and tables and wardrobes, all made from found scrap. (It was some of the best design work I’ve seen —like Martino Gamper’s deluxe DIY, only done out of necessity.) Other rooms were rehabbed as video lounges or performance spaces.
When I stopped by, Gates and some colleagues were performing classic free jazz – cello, doublebass, voices, guitars … as well as paper ripped beside a mike. At first, I was annoyed at such obvious modernist cliches. And then I realized that this wasn’t about producing great musical art. It was about the sociability that allowed the music to happen — more like Risk played in a hippie-house than Ornette Coleman playing a gig.
Gates sees art as a genuine solution to problems. He won’t let a neglected building, or silent space, get the better of him. One way or another, artmaking can be used to fill both.

The Daily Pic, along with more global art news, can also be found on the Art Beast page at TheDailyBeast.com.

theatlantic: U.S. Military Admits Major Mistakes in Iraq and...

Mon, 11 Jun 2012 22:32:00 +0700

theatlantic:

U.S. Military Admits Major Mistakes in Iraq and Afganistan

When President Obama announced in August 2010 the end of U.S. combat operations in Iraq, he complimented the soldiers who had served there for completing “every mission they were given.” But some of military’s most senior officers, in a little-noticed report this spring, rendered a harsher account of their work that highlights repeated missteps and failures over the past decade, in both Iraq and Afghanistan.

There was a “failure to recognize, acknowledge and accurately define” the environment in which the conflicts occurred, leading to a “mismatch between forces, capabilities, missions, and goals,” says the assessment from the Pentagon’s Joint Staff. The efforts were marked by a “failure to adequately plan and resource strategic and operational” shifts from one phase of the conflicts to the next.

From the outset, U.S. forces were poorly prepared for peacekeeping and had not adequately planned for the unexpected. In the first half of the decade, “strategic leadership repeatedly failed,” and as a result, U.S. military training, policies, doctrine and equipment were ill-suited to the tasks that troops actually faced in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Read more. [Image: Reuters]

Make A Splash

Mon, 11 Jun 2012 22:26:25 +0700

heidisaman:

It’s Monday. Let’s do this.

Artwork by David Hockney: A Bigger Splash (1967), courtesy of MNZ.

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mpdrolet: Mouth IV, near Shanghai, from Yangtze, The Long...

Mon, 11 Jun 2012 22:21:15 +0700

mpdrolet:

Mouth IV, near Shanghai, from Yangtze, The Long River

Nadav Kander

fer1972: Memories Like Sand by enmi

Mon, 11 Jun 2012 22:16:04 +0700

fer1972:

Memories Like Sand by enmi