Photographer Hal: Shrink-Wrapped Couples

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The Box Tiger – Little Letters

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Melvin the Machine by HEYHEYHEY on Vimeo

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This Summer Deadbeat mixtape is awesome

Deadbeat Summer Mixtape by Happy End_ings

“You want me to act like we’ve never kissed, you want to forget; pretend we’ve never met, and I’ve tried and I’ve tried, but I haven’t yet… You walk by, and I fall to pieces.”

Patsy Cline

100-Year-Old Color Photos from the Russian Empire

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John Cassavetes: To Risk Everything To Express It All

India’s Boom Creates Openings for Untouchables – NYTimes.com

Mr. Khade probably would not be in business with a prince had he not attended a networking cocktail reception hosted by the Dalit Chamber of Commerce and Industry at the five-star Taj Mahal Hotel in Mumbai this year. There he met the Indian businessman who introduced him to the Arab sheik, who helped him to globalize his company.

These kinds of connections are crucial to the nascent Dalit business community. Because Dalit businessmen often lack the social connections that lead to business ideas, loans and other support, a group of Dalit entrepreneurs created the chamber in 2005. It aims to build those networks so Dalit business leaders can help one another grow. The group has about 1,000 members, all of whom run companies with an annual turnover of at least $20,000.

It recently organized a meeting where Dalit businessmen pitched ideas to Tata Motors, one of India’s biggest car companies. Mr. Kamble, the Dalit contractor, said that of the 10 companies that attended, 4 had signed deals and 4 more were in negotiations. “There was a time when people like us could not even approach a company like Tata Motors,” he said. “Now we go meet them with dignity, not like beggars. We are job givers, not job seekers.”

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Ben Lerner: Leaving the Atocha Station

We shook hands and I said I liked your reading and he thanked me but didn’t say anything back, I guess because he didn’t like my poetry and because Tomás couldn’t lie for the sake of politeness when it came to the most sacrosanct of arts. I was surprised how furious I became and how fast, but I didn’t say anything; I just smiled slightly in a way intended to communicate that my own compliment had been mere graciousness and that I in fact believed his writing constituted a new low for his or any language, his or any art.

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GoGoGo Airheart – When the Flesh Hits.

That’s why I always…

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Neolithic Anatolian settlement extraordinaire.

The Skinny Dipping Report

 

 

Billie Holiday & Louis Armstrong – The Blues Are Brewin

Documentary: Design the new Business

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Beckett on language

“Since we cannot dismiss it all at once, at least we do not want to leave anything undone that can contribute to its disrepute. To drill one hole after another into it until that which lurks behind it, be it something or nothing, starts seeping through – I cannot imagine a higher goal for today’s writer.”

Letter to Axel Kaun, july 9, 1937

Ducks, dolphins and dinner: visiting the Hunter

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Today we saw a pod of dolphins frolicking at the beach in Newcastle, introduced the ducklings to the dam, and ate an amazing lamb roast. Pretty pretty good.

Graffiti Printer Uses Arduino & Seven Mounted Spray Cans [Video] @PSFK

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UVA: Connection, Toronto

Connection from United Visual Artists on Vimeo.

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Photo essay: The 7 Fastest-Growing Cities in the World

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William Eggleston. Outskirts of Morton, Mississippi, Halloween. 1971

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System D: the shadow economy

In 2009, the OECD concluded that half the world’s workers (almost 1.8 billion people) were employed in the shadow economy. By 2020, the OECD predicts the shadow economy will employ two-thirds of the world’s workers.

This new economy even has a name: “System D.”

- from freakonomics.com