RafaelFajardo

Category: words

  • 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…

  • heyoscarwilde: haters to the left; hippies to the right photograph by Mags Phelan :: via dark_phaedra

  • 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)

  • 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

  • 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…

  • blech: USA, New Mexico, Farmington: Neighbours by kool_skatkat on Flickr, as seen in an essay by Randy Lewis of the University of Texas Austin entitled God is Watching, and So Am I: The Theology of Surveillance (via). A choice quote: Will the proliferation of small, powerful, and networked surveillance cameras represent an unprecedented expansion of vision,…

  • Dr. Manhattan and Hobbes, first draft

    Dr. Manhattan and Hobbes. First draft. Made with Paper

  • I was an altar boy growing up and to answer your question… no, I wasn’t. Mike Birbiglia (via soxiam) Paul Higgins: When we are all thinking the same thing when someone says this and all have the same question it shows how big the issue is and how embedded it is in the public consciousness.…

  • Robert Reich: The GOP’s Death Wish: Why Republicans Can’t Stop Pissing Off Hispanics, Women, and Young People

    Robert Reich: The GOP’s Death Wish: Why Republicans Can’t Stop Pissing Off Hispanics, Women, and Young People robertreich: What are the three demographic groups whose electoral impact is growing fastest? Hispanics, women, and young people. Who are Republicans pissing off the most? Latinos, women, and young people. It’s almost as if the GOP can’t help…

  • Be kind, be honest, work hard and always be awesome. Wil Wheaton (via moochingwarwidows)