RafaelFajardo

Category: words

  • The significance of plot without conflict

    stilleatingoranges: In the West, plot is commonly thought to revolve around conflict: a confrontation between two or more elements, in which one ultimately dominates the other. The standard three- and five-act plot structures–which permeate Western media–have conflict written into their very foundations. A “problem” appears near the end of the first act; and, in the second…

  • found her on curb near Kaladi on Evans. Dusted her off and sat her on their window sill. Hope she found her way home. (at Kaladi Coffee Roasters)

  • auras from the outside

  • dinosaurparty: (via She Persisted, a children’s book by Chelsea Clinton) This looks lovely.

  • Two infants treated with universal immune cells have their cancer vanish

    Two infants treated with universal immune cells have their cancer vanish

  • iostopan: Today I made a simple double-core endband with just plain white cotton thread. No silk, no gilded thread, nothing fancy. I was so happy with the end result that I started to wonder, why have I been running away from such simple things before.

  • lafilleblanc: Sol LeWitt Outdoor Structure, 1995 (via)

  • “Blacks/Latinos/non-whites don’t value education like whites do. They don’t work as hard as whites do. They spend more than whites do on junk,” says your standard white guy at the end of the bar dissecting the large racial wealth gap in the United States. “They just need to get off their butts and bootstrap it…

  • Humans Made the Banana Perfect—But Soon, It’ll Be Gone

    Humans Made the Banana Perfect—But Soon, It’ll Be Gone Bananas and politics. An excerpt of an article in Wired, which is itself an excerpt from a book, Never Out of Season In 1950, most bananas were exported from Central America. Guatemala in particular was a key piece of a vast empire of banana plantations run…

  • Wickin out with Diego