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This is my garage. I had high hopes for this place, but it more or less just turned into overflow storage. I’m still hoping that before I move out at the end of April I might get a little garage workshop time in. What should I use it for?
(P.S. This is partially just an excuse to use the new Tumblr “photo reply” thing. I really am a sucker for new features.)
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Yup.
It seems like the most recent trend in web design is to figure out exactly what you want to say, find an excellent photo of who you’re talking about and otherwise shut the fuck up.
I like this trend. I hope it continues.
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Seriously guys, you gotta check this out. From SOF Observed:
Vodou Brooklyn
Trent Gilliss, online editorFinding a lead image to complement our show delving into Haitian Vodou was a moment of diligent serendipity. I struggled to present images that capture the spirit and tone of a tradition — one that has been caricatured in so many ways for such a long time — and still remain surprising, respectful, and true to its practitioners and its rituals.
Stephanie Keith’s photographs deliver and endure because they do just that — respect the tradition. They also take us into a neighborhood (in the United States), into a life that most of us probably would never encounter. We see how a tradition survives, evolves, and flourishes through immigrant life.
And, here was a photographer who was personally invested in her subjects — at least my intuition said so — and not just documenting them. When I contacted Stephanie Keith for permission to use a few photographs, I asked her why she got started on this project — a Vodou priest at a Buddhist peace rally invited her to learn more about his religion at a “party.”
That was enough for me. The result: “Vodou Brooklyn,” a narrated slideshow of her images and story fused with the vibrant, percussive rhythms from Angels in the Mirror: Vodou Music of Haiti.
Several years later, Keith’s words and images endure. And I’m glad to have played a part in spreading her work and sharing a bit of these Haitian-Americans’ lives with those of us who may have been clueless, but remain curious.
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![“The streetwise citizens of Charlotte Street have taken to putting up signs in the South Bronx for visiting politicians. Here, Ronald Reagan says a few words with ‘decay’ staring him in the face. Other signs read ‘broken promises.’ The people of the urban ruin plan a counter-convention to the Democratic one 8/11 to emphasize the fact that many people visit the site but none do anything to improve conditions here.”
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“The streetwise citizens of Charlotte Street have taken to putting up signs in the South Bronx for visiting politicians. Here, Ronald Reagan says a few words with ‘decay’ staring him in the face. Other signs read ‘broken promises.’ The people of the urban ruin plan a counter-convention to the Democratic one 8/11 to emphasize the fact that many people visit the site but none do anything to improve conditions here.”
(“Ronald Regan [sic]” via MajoraCarterGroup)
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The idea is that if a gravitational wave passes through GEO600, it will alternately stretch space in one direction and squeeze it in another. To measure this, the GEO600 team fires a single laser through a half-silvered mirror called a beam splitter. This divides the light into two beams, which pass down the instrument’s 600-metre perpendicular arms and bounce back again. The returning light beams merge together at the beam splitter and create an interference pattern of light and dark regions where the light waves either cancel out or reinforce each other. Any shift in the position of those regions tells you that the relative lengths of the arms has changed.
Damn, science is cool. Oh, by the way, our world may be a giant hologram.
(h/t Joe O’Sullivan)
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I’ll bet that if Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs had even one woman on his executive team, the iPad would have been given a different name. Otherwise why would Apple (AAPL) give its new device a name half of the population equates with feminine hygiene?
“Addressing the Dearth of Female Entrepreneurs” (BusinessWeek)
via jenbee:
Ran into a colleague at breakfast yesterday morning and we were discussing the iPad. I was surprised by how horribly awkward it felt to say it out loud in polite company. I’m pretty sure that I don’t want to buy one now. (Which has nothing to do with the product itself, which I totally covet.)
Related: If There Were More Female Executives, We Would Have a Different Business World
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Ohne Titel (Kunstakademie, R 218), Andreas Gefeller
(via erasing:veryverybeautiful)
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