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Rebecca Solnit & Rebecca Snedeker Unfathomable CIty - A New Orleans Atlas 27 Aug 2013 | 06:14 am
I am not sure how Rebecca Solnit manages to turn out so much work or such uniformly high quality. But she does. And I am grateful. This forthcoming atlas of New Orleans promises to be provocative and ...
Distance - A View 25 Aug 2013 | 07:57 pm
“I don’t get up close and cuddly with my subjects. I didn’t follow these people home. It’s not a documentary. . . . I think it’s all an illusion; That there’s a perfect rapport established in the bes...
Business Insider Scandallized to Discover Sexism in Fashion Advertising 25 Aug 2013 | 05:41 am
It seems from this report that the nice folks at Business Insider are simply shocked! ... and, of course, appropriately dismayed . . . to discover that purveyors of fashion are sexist. Apparently, the...
Unions and Socialists: The Folks who Brought you ... the 1963 March On Washington 24 Aug 2013 | 06:24 am
Where did all those people come from? As part of my ongoing effort here to resist sanitized depictions of American political history, let's recall that the March on Washington, yeah the event where ML...
My LEGO Wizard 24 Aug 2013 | 05:16 am
This is August, my LEGO wizard, with his latest creation. He is 7, the set is rated for 16+ and we figured it would take him forever to build. The things has 1334 pieces to it. So, I'm not hear to br...
Being Here ~ Radhika Philip 23 Aug 2013 | 06:10 pm
This new book consists of interviews Radhika Philip has done with jazz musicians in NYC. Her aim is to explore the creative processes and practices that inform improvisation rather than to compile end...
" Today . . . it is politically effective, and socially acceptable, to deny scientific fact." 23 Aug 2013 | 07:14 am
Two things about this Op Ed - "Welcome to the Age of Denial" - from The New York Times caught my eye. The first is that the author, Adam Frank, is a colleague from the University of Rochester. The sec...
Peter Norman 22 Aug 2013 | 05:25 pm
My friend Gissur Erlingsson sent me a link to this story at The Independent about the fallout to the late Australian Olympian Peter Norman for his role in the famous black power protest at the 1968 Me...
On the Aestheticization of ... 20 Aug 2013 | 12:32 am
... calamity here in a spread in yesterday's edition of The New York Times. So the question is, do complaints about aesthetization arise only when there are sick, dislocated, deceased, suffering (or w...
Privacy? 19 Aug 2013 | 08:29 pm
From: The Neighbors. Photograph © Arne Svenson. At The Guardian you can find this report on the outcome of a first amendment case involving photographer Arne Svenson who made pictures of his neighbor...
