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The way people recall the Kennedy assassination? Colombians know where they were when government forces cornered and killed Escobar on a Medellin rooftop. Yolanda Perdomo, wbez reporter on her memories of the death of Pablo Escobar in Colombia. (via pritheworld)
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Dear RISD Alumni,I’d like to share with you the following important message from RISD Board Chair Michael Spalter: To the esteemed members of the RISD community, In my role as the Chairman of the Board I want to share with you news about our President John Maeda. He has informed me that he will be…
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DIY Kindle Scanner, E-Books Loops Creator | Neural
DIY Kindle Scanner, E-Books Loops Creator | Neural Deep in the core of the Kindle (Amazon’s e-book reader) terms and conditions there is one clear sentence concerning the ownership of digital content: “Kindle Content is licensed, not sold, to you by the Content Provider”. This means that every Kindle owner only has a license for…
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pencil line
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theatlantic: The Things You’ll Miss My mom died on July 18, 2013, of pancreatic cancer, a subtle blade that slips into the host so imperceptibly that by the time a presence is felt, it is almost always too late. Living about 16 months after her diagnosis, she was “lucky,” at least by the new standards…
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blakegopnik: DAILY PIC: This is a second of Ad Reinhardt’s Black Paintings in the current Zwirner show, from the week’s worth that I’ll be Daily Pic’ing. If you were looking at it in good lighting, you’d be able to tell that it was different from yesterday’s choice, but it wouldn’t be easy. Among other things,…
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Small human beings learn by mimicking and so they learn patience by mimicking patience. Perhaps this means that a larger human being somewhere many thousands of generations back took a long and patient breath as the smaller human being in his or her arms squirmed. Perhaps the smaller human being saw this long and patient…
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blakegopnik: DAILY PIC: If you can barely make out this image, that’s as it should be. It’s one of the black-on-black Black Paintings made by Ad Reinhardt between 1960 and 1966 and now on view in the important survey of them at David Zwirner in New York, where I spent a solid four hours the…
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Susan Kare print.
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From Cotton To Shirt, In 4 Gifs
seedtoshirt: After months of reporting and thousands of miles of travel, our T-shirt project is live. Check it out: planetmoney.com/shirt. Thanks to everyone who ordered a shirt and followed us along the way. Please accept these four gifs as a small token of our gratitude. 1. The cotton for our shirts came from the Mississippi…