brevity

Aug 16
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a perfect example of why i can’t watch cable news.
Aug 15
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this song is amazing!
Aug 13
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new orleans, 1951.  (via)
new orleans, 1951.  (via)
Aug 12
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the main caption reads: “Whoever reads bourgeois newspapers becomes blind and deaf. Away with these stultifying bandages.”  the other, in part, reads: “I AM A CABBAGE HEAD. DO YOU KNOW MY LEAVES? FROM WORRIES I AM AT MY WIT’S END, BUT I KEEP QUIET AND HOPE FOR A SAVIOUR… I DON’T WANT TO SEE AND HEAR ANYTHING, OR TO INTERFERE WITH PUBLIC AFFAIRS…”  taken from that errol morris essay linked below. can i just offer a thought: it occurs to me that there is an interesting parallel between this sentiment that newspapers in the 1930s were war propagandists (and if you read the errol morris essay, you’ll see that the photomontage movement was borne from that) and today’s critique of media (oh, how we’ve diversified since the ’30s!) as not adverserial in reporting on government.  but we would never refer to the media as bourgeois and wouldn’t suggest not consuming them either.  i’d love to see the 21st-century take on the image above.

the main caption reads: “Whoever reads bourgeois newspapers becomes blind and deaf. Away with these stultifying bandages.”  the other, in part, reads: “I AM A CABBAGE HEAD. DO YOU KNOW MY LEAVES? FROM WORRIES I AM AT MY WIT’S END, BUT I KEEP QUIET AND HOPE FOR A SAVIOUR… I DON’T WANT TO SEE AND HEAR ANYTHING, OR TO INTERFERE WITH PUBLIC AFFAIRS…”  taken from that errol morris essay linked below.

can i just offer a thought: it occurs to me that there is an interesting parallel between this sentiment that newspapers in the 1930s were war propagandists (and if you read the errol morris essay, you’ll see that the photomontage movement was borne from that) and today’s critique of media (oh, how we’ve diversified since the ’30s!) as not adverserial in reporting on government.  but we would never refer to the media as bourgeois and wouldn’t suggest not consuming them either.  i’d love to see the 21st-century take on the image above.

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“ If you want to trick someone with a photograph, there are lots of easy ways to do it. You don’t need Photoshop. You don’t need sophisticated digital photo-manipulation. You don’t need a computer. All you need to do is change the caption.
— errol morris, from his too-seldomly updated blog, this time about the photoshopped iranian missle-test.
Aug 08
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WTF?!??!1!?  i don’t know if you can tell, but john mccain is in that picture.  that’s him above the neck of freight train, which apparently won a contest for eating several children.  i thought, not unseriously, that in the democratic primary the new york times made their choice between obama and hillary clear from the pictures they published (especially of hillary, evidence here and here and here), but i don’t think you can blame them for this one.
WTF?!??!1!?  i don’t know if you can tell, but john mccain is in that picture.  that’s him above the neck of freight train, which apparently won a contest for eating several children.  i thought, not unseriously, that in the democratic primary the new york times made their choice between obama and hillary clear from the pictures they published (especially of hillary, evidence here and here and here), but i don’t think you can blame them for this one.
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i’ll probably watch all of 15 minutes of the summer olympics, mainly because i don’t have television and the olympics are mostly boring.  that doesn’t mean i can’t look at the pretty pictures.
i’ll probably watch all of 15 minutes of the summer olympics, mainly because i don’t have television and the olympics are mostly boring.  that doesn’t mean i can’t look at the pretty pictures.
Aug 06
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j dilla - two can win
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yes, i started watching ‘the wire’ again.  i’m so bored.
Aug 05
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if this was me, i’d start crying and/or faint. (via)