February 2012
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Kinetic Rings Mimic the Flight of Birds | Colossal →
Other people’s art which I like.
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Why I Make Jewelry Out of Rubber
I’ll be adding bracelets to the etsy store soon, btw.
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Interesting article by David Graeber on bridging... →
His three key points, which I found especially potent:
• Jokes and little stories, often off-set like quotes, are helpful. Zizek pioneered this but I think it works out (though some of his own are getting a bit repetitive at this point). Mainstream editors don’t seem to like Bourdieu-style alternating between different fonts or styles of print, but if they can be prevailed upon, readers actually...
“In Pop Mode, one affects an accessible and breezy style, much easier to...”
– David Graeber
Out of context, without permission →
“Let us, then, look with new eyes at the fact that when a dictator takes out a loan from a Western bank – pledging as his surety the future revenues produced by the people who he uses men with guns to rule — we can be utterly sure that long after he is dead and gone, that debt will live on. Banks will not only claim the right to be paid back, but the moral force of the world’s political and...
L'Hôte: if only →
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… if only someone on the Internet was willing to blog about the influence of the magazine Sassy … if only someone on the Internet would share their thoughts on Mad Men … if only someone on the Internet…
If only …
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The Need to Fail →
Quoted for truth:
“I’ve had to learn (the hard way) that the only failures that move us forward are the ones where you prepare and execute to the best of your ability … and then things just don’t work out.
There is plenty of room for that sort of failure.
What there is no room for is the sort of things that get labeled as “failure” but is...
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Stone Cold Optimist →
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When it comes to the future of the arts, especially the industry I work in - the live performing arts, I am very optimistic. I see the wide range of work being produced, from sold out theatres in NYC, to intimate productions being don…
“The arts industry is going to have to prove it’s value and relevance in the world of 2012, not the world of 1992...
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