Here is my supposition about photographs: The photograph is not the moment. The photograph can never be the moment. It might allow those who were there to relive the moment, or another, but it is not the moment. More often it attempts to construct a moment that never was. Regardless of the attempt, a photograph is always it's own new moment ( Read more... )

I finally got around to reading it, after about 10 years on my reading list. I think it's probably my favorite book. There are writers who write better, there are writers who worked harder, but something about the way Vonnegut wrote that book just clicked in my head. It was the first time in a long time that after reading something it felt like ( Read more... )

This Youtube madness has been making it's way around the web for a year or so, but I'd never seen it. Props to J for digging this one up.

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Edit: I'd seen the version done with someone's hands, but yeah, this is definitely a step up ( Read more... )

Merry Christmas, gang :)

One of my favorite remixes right at the moment, and sums up how I felt the last two months.

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Ha. Someone has slipped "Rick Astley" into my Itunes playlist somehow. Ha. Kudos to you, whichever brother or girlfriend you happen to be.

If you are on my friends list, I want to know 36 things about you ( Read more... )

If you're tired of it, ignore it. I hope to see more things like this because it paints both the candidates as far more interesting and more human figures than the retarded circus of the election was allowing for ( Read more... )

(From a conversation earlier today about Obama's rise to power and how it has uncomfortable echoes of history, even if the tone and message content are different)Person 1: Does it also weird you out that Obama's political rise is similar to Hitler's ( Read more... )

You were a hard-working author, and attempted to stand up for what you believed in, even if I did not always agree (particularly on global warming). And your best works were examples of one of the traditions handed down to storytellers since the time of shamans and cave paintings: creating worlds that we do not have to live in and often would not ( Read more... )