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Well there is one thing I can say being a procrastinator has in its favor. Probably a lot fewer of us commit suicide than plan to.
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Arcades Project, an epic consideration of the 19th-century Parisian consumer experience that J.M. Coetzee once called “a history of procrastination and false starts, of wanderings in archival labyrinths in a quest for exhaustiveness all too typical of the collecting temperament.
“Three days of driving rain had already begun to ruin the dry season rice harvest, leaving the crop under water, before I returned to Yangon from Bago on the day the cyclone struck. I was in Myanmar (Burma) entirely by chance, working for a South Korean client on a documentary on the lives of two men living in exile since the 1988 crackdown. I was photographing places and things that represented their lives in Burma. Then the storm turned everything on its head. ” (via James Whitlow Delano « The New Breed of Documentary Photographers
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via strangemaps.files.wordpress.com
- The United States of America (USA): the US, Canada, all Central American and Carribean states, most Atlantic islands (including Greenland and Iceland), most Pacific islands, Taiwan, Hainan, the Philippines and several now Indonesian islands, including Sulawesi. This was to be the dominant power in the world, military and otherwise.
that’s what i call seapower
Trudi Blue, Hotel Bagdad / Hospital Motel
combat boots..a new hat gas mask that’s their gear for how long another 5 years? they’re the firefly at night a sittin’ duck by day wake up call brushing their teeth with sand no water to wash the foul taste at hand they’re dripping sweat in a sweat while the chill runs through the spine a brainstorm is it my maker day? so who’s who in Bagdad hotel and who’s home in the hospital motel?
Kung Fu Panda Express
Most times America must seem like a black or white world where if you’re not a black person or white person no one really gives a crap about whether your thousands-of-years-old culture is being portrayed by a cartoon panda doing martial arts voiced by Jack Black. Just suck on it Chinese Americans. Why are you all so uptight? It’s just a movie, they say. Don’t you have Fu Manchu mustaches and stick around confusing your Rs and Ls? And I think Dragonball Z is a documentary on Japanese mythology. What? That’s isn’t real? Don’t you all worship Goku?
Fist Bump of Legend
Die, fist bump, die!
I swear. You do a little gesture to celebrate the fact that you’re now officially “the Man” of the Democratic Party and it becomes the most talked about piece of…
I have no problem with the “fist bump” aka dap, showcased as the Obamas celebrated their ascension to the top of the heap Tuesday night. It’s existed since forever in the black community. Or at least since the 1970s. It’s so ingrained that it isn’t even about coolness anymore. My father gives dap and he hasn’t been cool since 1972. Along with church, dancing and Juneteenth picnics, dap is just on that long list of “ordinary shit black people do.” It doesn’t have anything to do with anything. It’s not that deep or complicated. Most black people like Al Green and turnip greens. It’s not rocket science.
this stencil is one of my faves. it is behind cheapo discs on n. lamar blvd. (via Cheryl Coward
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Ethnic lit” is unhappily what emerges when identity politics head into the marketing meeting, and for any writer with a non-WASP name, it’s all too easy to feel one is being pimped for one’s “background and life experience” (real or imaginary), and somehow colluding in the production of a crude, essentialized version of oneself in return for an advantage over ethnically uninteresting peers.
