March 2010
Put the health and care back in healthcare
ohheygreat:
I’m writing a chapter, and as usual I’m stuck on a sentence that I can’t get just right. So I paused, and I thought about what I was writing, which was about doctors. I thought about why I’m writing it, beyond “would like to finish my dissertation before the end of time,” and about why I care.
I care about doctors. How they work, how they’re perceived, how they’re treated. It’s a...
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Knowing is half the battle
ohheygreat:
Polaroid Film Back On Sale This Week
instantfilm:
With an assist from Lady Gaga, The Impossible Project pushed new black-and-white film back on the market this week, promising that color film is coming soon. However, apparently some of the endearing aberrations of the film have been (accidentally?) fixed.
“The colors feel quite different,” Cookman says. “They are not crisp and...
“I resent the sacrilege Nicholas Sparks commits by even mentioning himself in the...”
– Roger Ebert, on Nicholas Sparks’ claim that he is a greater novelist than Cormac McCarthy. (via leitch) (via meredithbklyn) (via brendanmc)
Maybe Sparks meant he’d written more books. Like, “The number of books I’ve written is greater than the number of books McCarthy has...
“The point is living well, working well, supporting, encouraging and lifting up...”
– Michael Ruhlman
Watchlonelysandwich:
blakewhitman:
Do you ever shoot video with your point and shoot or iPhone and never do anything with it? Of course. Who has time, or the know-how, to edit a crazy involved video? It’s tedious and hard.
Not true! At Vimeo, we have a super simple project call ‘5 Vignettes’. It’s easy and a great solution for your lack-of-editing prowess. Take five, five second clips and string...
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THREE HIGHWAYS TO DENALI — Kickstarter →
krispayne:
The first person to donate $25 to make this 50% gets a special thank you reward in addition to the postcards!
“…there remains a sizeable part of the art world that simply does not get...”
– THEORY: “Paul Graham - The Unreasonable Apple” (2010) (via jenbee) (via kateoplis) (via krispayne)
girlperson:
“Q: Why has Esquire published a piece of allegedly horrible fiction by James Franco, apart from his probably having a really, really good agent? A: BECAUSE YOU WILL READ IT, DUH. You will read it and talk about it and keep loading up online ad impressions while searching for particularly horrible sentences, and you will do this to an extent that absolutely dwarfs what would happen if...
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The Antiquarian's Apartment in Chelsea
fromme-toyou:
Home of Whats Up Stairs
Lovely photographs
And I get this feeling this guy and I? Either pretty good friends, or bitter, bitter enemies. There’s rarely any in-between with a legit antiquarian.
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Storychord, issue #1
He put up a thing in the laundry room that said he would buy a real mattress for thirty-five dollars and someone called and he went.
“It’s two mattresses,” the woman said. “I’ve just been sleeping on both. It’s two on top of the box spring.”
“Three mattresses,” he said. “How much for two? I forget what I put. On the paper.”
She hesitated. “Thirty-five,” she said. “You can have the third...
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Here is an idea
A series of photographs in which the photographer takes self-portraits of him- or herself reflected in the eyes of other subjects.
I don’t have the talent or the time, but it seemed like a neat idea when I thought of it this morning.
Fair warning: Though I haven’t checked, I’m sure it’s been done. Someone should do it again.
RNC rejects joint "civility" statement →
azspot:
RNC communications director Doug Heye said Steele chose not to agree to the statement because “we don’t need to do anything on their schedule or on their timetable.”
I’d be so pissed, were I a republican. You know, if the Libertarians could work out an extremists swap, they might really have something going come 2012.
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100 Open Courses for Bibliophiles →
mkarmstr:
You scoundrel, Ms. Poetbabble. How will I ever get another thing done? Oh, phew—at least the poetry section’s a bit weak. You had me worried. (poetbabble)
At first glance, this looks like a valuable list, especially for folks interested in getting started.
Kickstarter - THREE HIGHWAYS TO DENALI →
krispayne:
44 days to go, with less than 50% funded! The rewards are, in my opinion, really cool and worth it. I mean, $250 for a portrait session with me?! That’s worth like $2,000,000,000. I mean that. That’s how much it’s worth. A lot, but you get it CHEAP if you help fill my car with gas.
What comes from this project will be amazing. I’m sure of it.
I’ve already...
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Life is hard. Here is someone.: digital mediocrity →
I keep trying to write stories that in actuality either start or end on the computer (because, let’s be honest! i can’t write a sex book without the internet!) and find myself looking for a better way to portray that interaction and I’m wondering when we will admit this part of our lives in art in…
It doesn’t work on the computer because the conversations between people are boring....
“In terms of citizenship, the danger of replacing the polis with the polls is...”
– The Polls and the Polis
by Rufus F.
(via azspot)
Christmas in Havana
magicmolly:
Diary entries! Here is a little piece I wrote for n+1. It just went up today.
good stuff
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“If you cared about music — or food or movies or sex or politics or anything at...”
– Jim Emerson (via savingpaper) (via bestrooftalkever) (via nickdouglas)
Lose a follower, gain a follower
Au revoir; bonjour.
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