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The Future of Manufacturing is Local – NYTimes.com
The Future of Manufacturing is Local – NYTimes.com More easily understood as something akin to terroir, geographic ingredient branding emphasizes “pride of place,” which runs deep in cities like San Francisco and New York. “I saw this as a way to ‘brand’ the history, culture, personality and natural beauty of our city as a means…
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Werner Herzog’s approach to documentary filmmaking. – By Leo Robson – Slate Magazine
Werner Herzog’s approach to documentary filmmaking. – By Leo Robson – Slate Magazine Herzog’s advice to students at his Rogue Film School—where he teaches how to pick locks and forge shooting permits—is “read, read, read, read, read, read, read—if you do not read, you’ll never be a filmmaker,” but he isn’t interested in talking about…
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theweekmagazine: Quinoa, a grain-like superfood, has become so popular in Western markets that Bolivians can no longer afford to eat it. Instead, they’re turning to cheap, processed foods, raising concerns about malnutrition in a poor country where it has long been a problem. For centuries Bolivians lived off quinoa, and it was “little more than…
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huntedandgathered-blog: Jon-Kyle Mohr
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DC Women Kicking Ass: RIP Geraldine Ferraro
DC Women Kicking Ass: RIP Geraldine Ferraro dcwomenkickingass: Geraldine “Gerry” Ferraro, the first woman to run on a major party presidential ticket, died yesterday. She was 75. Women had run for president in the past (I have an aunt who has a button she saved from when Shirley Chisolm ran in 1972) but no woman…
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iwdrm: “Monday, we burn Miller … Tuesday, Tolstoy … Wednesday, Walt Whitman … Friday, Faulkner … and Saturday and Sunday, Schopenhauer and Sartre. We burn them to ashes and then burn the ashes. That’s our official motto.” Fahrenheit 451 (1966)
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My parents were always worried when we innocently said we were playing doctor.
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Even if the original lyrics are off-limits to old media, it’s clear to everyone that the profane versions of the songs are going to be heard. The enforced innocence of broadcasting is no longer a cultural firewall; it’s barely an inconvenience. “The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it,” the Internet-freedom activist John…
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Tim Liddy’s photorealistic paintings of old board… Ekphrasis in action
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On the wall are Penn’s ten game design rules, and it’s these that form the structure of the brainstorming process. There’s no sense that the team is just picking genres and trying to come up with new spins on old ideas. Instead, there’s a sort of organic, industrial design approach – they start by considering…