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everything-creative: A great idea to connect the future with the past, seal your digital secrets with an old-school wax-sealing. The Top secret usb.
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kottke.org: Welcome to the NFL, here’s your new life
kottke.org: Welcome to the NFL, here’s your new life jkottke: Former NFL player Nate Jackson writes an open letter to future top NFL draft picks Andrew Luck and Robert Griffin III about how their lives are going to change. After negotiating your contracts, you both will surely buy a house in an affluent suburb where…
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Dr. Manhattan in a Martian sand storm
Dr. Manhattan in a Martian sand storm. Made with Paper
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The band has derived their success — and scorn — by turning contemporary punk culture on its head. Where punk was once relegated to musky basements, squats, and other shabby makeshift venues, Pussy Riot makes all public spaces — the streets, the metro, the church — their stage. While punk bands play for punks, Pussy…
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Dolores Huerta turns 82 today and is awarded one of the nation’s highest honors
nbclatino: (Photos courtesy Dolores Huerta Foundation) Dolores Huerta, the civil rights, workers and women’s advocate who co-founded the United Farm Workers of America in 1962, was named one of 13 recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom on Friday. The Medal of Freedom is the nation’s highest civilian honor, presented to individuals who have made…
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There’s always this sense that art is just play,” says Peter Plagens, a New York painter and art critic. “Art is what children do and what retired people do. Your mom puts your work up on the refrigerator. Or the way Dwight Eisenhower said, ‘Now that I’ve fought my battles, I can put my easel…
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heyoscarwilde: haters to the left; hippies to the right photograph by Mags Phelan :: via dark_phaedra
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From Artists in the Workforce (Research Report #48), courtesy of the National Endowment for the Arts (via NEA News Room: Artists in the Workforce Graphics)
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Creativity is a form of expertise,” something a nation that keeps insisting on its status as a democracy has never been entirely comfortable with. No sympathy for the creative class – Art in Crisis – Salon.com
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The musicians, actors and other artists we hear about tend to be fabulously successful. But the daily reality for the vast majority of the working artists in this country has little to do with Angelina Jolie or her perfectly toned right leg. “Artists in the Workforce,” a National Endowment for the Arts report released in…