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newyorker: newyorker: African drumming is polyrhythmic: conflicting rhythms are played simultaneously. Skilled dancers can move two, three, or even four parts of their bodies to different rhythms at once. A master drummer is said to be able to “make the djembe talk.” Such speech acts may be figurative or literal. The Yoruba “talking drums” can…
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Because the knife is polished they think it’s sharp. William Carlos Williams, The Embodiment of Knowledge, “Science and Philosophy” (via interruptions)
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museumoflatinamericanart: Lola Álvarez Bravo (1903-1993) was one of Mexico’s most prolific photographers, with a career that spanned nearly fifty years. The exhibition Lola Alvarez Bravo:The Photography of an Era will be on view at MOLAA from September 23, 2012-January 27, 2013. Image credit: Lola Álvarez Bravo (Mexico, 1907-1993) Diego Rivera, 1945 Gelatin silver print Familia…
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robotcosmonaut: Emiliano Zapata via mudwerks
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rgr-pop: fossoaposto replied to your quote: One day someone knocked at my studio door…. what do you have to say about the GI Bill – inquiring minds want to know! BRIEFLY: the U.S. dominated colonized dominated the postwar art economy because the U.S. profited off of World War II. The war basically obliterated France, Germany,…
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Numerous studies in fields ranging from social psychology to magazine cover design have proved that nothing grabs people’s attention more than other people, especially other people’s faces. We are hard-wired with a desire for congenial places to gather. That’s why it’s particularly surprising how much we overlook the importance of public places today. Jay Walljesper…
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SKULLFOOD: NEW MODEL SF
SKULLFOOD: NEW MODEL SF kidshirt: Assume the following to be true: 1) Within 10 – 20 years there will be so much degraded space-junk and ping-ponging micro-debris in orbit that launching satellites, let alone leaving the Earth on a space ship will become impossible, so Mankind will become auto-imprisoned on our own planet. Scratch rocket-ships…
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Bogotá had been “a cause,” as Mr. Mockus put it. Now it has become a problem. “We’re Latin,” he explained. A deadpan, wry, highly unconventional politician and former mathematics and philosophy professor, Mr. Mockus famously mooned student protesters as a university president and as mayor went on television while taking a shower to demonstrate the…
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Colombian writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez is suffering from dementia and has been forced to stop writing, his brother told students at a lecture in Cartagena, reports the BBC. Jaime Garcia Marquez is the first to talk about his brother’s health woes publicly as the number of rumors surrounding his memory problems have increased. The Nobel…
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emmyc: kateordie: Today will forever remain in history as The Day I Trended In Canada, and also The Day J H Williams III Retweeted Me. If you’re not following my twitter, there’s a whole conversation about sexist attitudes towards comics you might be into. SO AWESOME