Month: March 2016

  • 5centsapound: Nadia Myre, Indian Act Indian Act speaks of the realities of colonization – the effects of contact, and its often-broken and untranslated contracts. The piece consists of all 56 pages of the Canadian Federal Government’s Indian Act mounted on stroud cloth and sewn over with red and white glass beads. Each word is replaced…

  • 5centsapound: Nadia Myre, Indian Act Indian Act speaks of the realities of colonization – the effects of contact, and its often-broken and untranslated contracts. The piece consists of all 56 pages of the Canadian Federal Government’s Indian Act mounted on stroud cloth and sewn over with red and white glass beads. Each word is replaced…

  • npr: Comic books from several discrete decades get mashed up in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, while swaths of real estate — uninhabited swaths, we’re repeatedly assured — just get pulped. But no text is quoted more directly than The Dark Knight Returns, Frank Miller’s influential 1986 tale of an over-the-hill Batman coming out…

  • npr: Comic books from several discrete decades get mashed up in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, while swaths of real estate — uninhabited swaths, we’re repeatedly assured — just get pulped. But no text is quoted more directly than The Dark Knight Returns, Frank Miller’s influential 1986 tale of an over-the-hill Batman coming out…

  • npr: wnyc: New York City Sanitation Department worker Nelson Molina has been finding and organizing discarded gems for 30 years. He calls his collection Treasures in the Trash. That, and other great things the internet gave us this week: http://www.wnyc.org/story/sideshow-chorus-line-rihanna-rip-phife-dawg/(via Studio 360) Expert Furby curation. -Emily

  • I am going to be rather hard-nosed and say that if you have to find devices to coax yourself to stay focused on writing, perhaps you should not be writing what you’re writing. And if this lack of motivation is a constant problem, perhaps writing is not your forte. I mean, what is the problem?…

  • I am going to be rather hard-nosed and say that if you have to find devices to coax yourself to stay focused on writing, perhaps you should not be writing what you’re writing. And if this lack of motivation is a constant problem, perhaps writing is not your forte. I mean, what is the problem?…

  • superheroesincolor: Super Black: American Pop Culture and Black Superheroes  by Adilifu Nama “Super Black places the appearance of black superheroes alongside broad and sweeping cultural trends in American politics and pop culture, which reveals how black superheroes are not disposable pop products, but rather a fascinating racial phenomenon through which futuristic expressions and fantastic visions…

  • superheroesincolor: Super Black: American Pop Culture and Black Superheroes  by Adilifu Nama “Super Black places the appearance of black superheroes alongside broad and sweeping cultural trends in American politics and pop culture, which reveals how black superheroes are not disposable pop products, but rather a fascinating racial phenomenon through which futuristic expressions and fantastic visions…

  • What you think about Millennials says a lot about you, nothing about them

    mostlysignssomeportents: Adam “Ruins Everything” Conover was asked to give a keynote to a conference on marketing to millennials, and he brought the house down with an amazing speech about the absurdity of generalizations about generations, and about how all of the generalizations hurled at millennials have been slimed over every other generation, too. Moreover, all…