August 2012
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Photographers of Color 2012 feature →
daniellescruggs:
The Maynard Institute featured me along with some truly legendary artists for their month-long series on Photographers of Color. (Among those listed? Gordon Parks and Carrie Mae Weems. What?!)
*applause* !!!!!!!!
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“If you’re really listening, if you’re awake to the poignant beauty of the world,...”
– Andrew Harvey, The Return of the Mother (via emotional-algebra)
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The Countless Things She Served With Her Eyes:... →
myfirstfeaturefilm:
Anyway, I think we should be a bit wary of labelling certain techniques ‘experimental’ as if it’s just a set of tools one picks up to lend whatever you’re writing a trace of hipster cool… it’s like those superstores of ‘alternative’ hipster taste; American Outfitters and so on… I hate that idea. Everything I do is an attempt to get close to the real, as I experience it, and...
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Watchatane:
Underground System Afrobeat - Monsanto (live)
It just dawned on me that this is the first afrobeat band that I’ve seen with a woman as the leader. Her name is Domenica Fossati, and she’s awesome.
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“I beg you… to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try...”
– Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
(from)
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“Poetry turns all things to loveliness: it exalts the beauty of that which is...”
– Percy Bysshe Shelley (A Defense of Poetry, 1821)
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“…and not till we are completely lost, or turned round—for a man needs only to be...”
– Henry David Thoreau, Walden: or, Life in the Woods (via etonnement)
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“You swallowed everything, like distance. Like the sea, like time. In you...”
– Pablo Neruda (via malihasmuse)
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The closing of American academia →
newmodelminority:
elephantsandmangoes:
Yet another article about academia and adjuncting and poverty wages. I am sooooooo fucking sick of all this. What all adjuncts (including myself, now that I will be one in the fall) need to do is form some sort of national union, threaten a strike and start negotiations over the summer, and if they don’t give in by fall, go on a fucking strike. Can you...
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“Don’t allow your wounds to transform you into someone you are not.”
– Paul Coelho (via freelymelody)
*note to self*
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“Gods always behave like the people who make them.”
– Tell My Horse by Zora Neale Hurston (via blackwomensaid)
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“Writers don’t write from experience, though many are resistant to admit that...”
– Nikki Giovanni (via amandaonwriting)
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“Gen Y – those born between 1979 and 1989 – spent the most money on books in...”
– Wow, well this seems like good news.
So much for that “young people don’t read” nonsense. (via thebronzemedal)
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“Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us.”
– Paul Theroux (via itssoverymuchpastmybedtime)
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“Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.”
– Anaïs Nin (via fetishhhh)
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“The second moment, also belonging to the 1980s, is that of Detroit Techno. This...”
– Speed Machines - Ben Noys (via circulationwithinmyskull)
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“What is death, Phoenix? What world lies beyond it?
Why do you like to die, to...”
– Adonis, Resurrection and Ashes (via gazawia) 