Ham and Heroin

“Book” by YOY. Book uses the disguise of a novel...

Sun, 19 May 2013 10:10:01 -0700

“Book” by YOY.

Book uses the disguise of a novel named “The Life of Plants” to hide the soil and roots of whichever plant you’d like to display.

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Sat, 18 May 2013 00:53:45 -0700

"We are not nouns, we are verbs. I am not a thing — an actor, a writer — I am a person who does..."

Sat, 18 May 2013 00:49:21 -0700

“We are not nouns, we are verbs. I am not a thing — an actor, a writer — I am a person who does things — I write, I act — and I never know what I am going to do next. I think you can be imprisoned if you think of yourself as a noun.”

- Stephen Fry

“Love Poem Medley” by Rudy Francisco Beautiful.

Wed, 15 May 2013 14:37:09 -0700

“Love Poem Medley” by Rudy Francisco

Beautiful.

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Sun, 12 May 2013 23:29:17 -0700

nevver: The Dead and the Dying

Sun, 12 May 2013 23:27:44 -0700

nevver:

The Dead and the Dying

Planning Ahead Can Make a Difference in the End

Sun, 12 May 2013 22:57:53 -0700

Writer and performer Aaron Freeman, isn’t a person who does much planning ahead. However, if you like to look ahead to the future, he has some advice for you, advice on planning your funeral.

“You want a physicist to speak at your funeral. You want the physicist to talk to your grieving family about the conservation of energy, so they will understand that your energy has not died. You want the physicist to remind your sobbing mother about the first law of thermodynamics; that no energy gets created in the universe, and none is destroyed. You want your mother to know that all your energy, every vibration, every Btu of heat, every wave of every particle that was her beloved child remains with her in this world. You want the physicist to tell your weeping father that amid energies of the cosmos, you gave as good as you got.

And at one point you’d hope that the physicist would step down from the pulpit and walk to your brokenhearted spouse there in the pew and tell him that all the photons that ever bounced off your face, all the particles whose paths were interrupted by your smile, by the touch of your hair, hundreds of trillions of particles, have raced off like children, their ways forever changed by you. And as your widow rocks in the arms of a loving family, may the physicist let her know that all the photons that bounced from you were gathered in the particle detectors that are her eyes, that those photons created within her constellations of electromagnetically charged neurons whose energy will go on forever.

And the physicist will remind the congregation of how much of all our energy is given off as heat. There may be a few fanning themselves with their programs as he says it. And he will tell them that the warmth that flowed through you in life is still here, still part of all that we are, even as we who mourn continue the heat of our own lives.

And you’ll want the physicist to explain to those who loved you that they need not have faith; indeed, they should not have faith. Let them know that they can measure, that scientists have measured precisely the conservation of energy and found it accurate, verifiable and consistent across space and time. You can hope your family will examine the evidence and satisfy themselves that the science is sound and that they’ll be comforted to know your energy’s still around. According to the law of the conservation of energy, not a bit of you is gone; you’re just less orderly. Amen.” [via.]

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Sat, 11 May 2013 00:16:26 -0700

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Thu, 09 May 2013 21:58:24 -0700

“Two Chips” by Adam Patch.

Fri, 03 May 2013 17:04:00 -0700

“Two Chips” by Adam Patch.

Here Is Today

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 07:46:47 -0700

Here Is Today:

Site of the day.

“The minimum wage machine allows anybody to work for...

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 07:46:41 -0700

“The minimum wage machine allows anybody to work for minimum wage. Turning the crank will yield one penny every 4.97 seconds, for $7.25 an hour (NY state minimum wage). If the participant stops turning the crank, they stop receiving money. The machine’s mechanism and electronics are powered by the hand crank, and pennies are stored in a plexiglas box.”

For more work by Blake Fall-Conroy, click here.

As someone who once had a minimum wage job, I think this is genius. What a brilliant way to comment on what nearly two million people in the US work towards everyday.

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Sat, 27 Apr 2013 00:37:18 -0700

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Sat, 27 Apr 2013 00:26:22 -0700

Her Anxiety

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 11:00:56 -0700

Earth in beauty dressed
Awaits returning spring.
All true love must die,
Alter at the best
Into some lesser thing.
Prove that I lie.

Such body lovers have,
Such exacting breath,
That they touch or sigh.
Every touch they give,
Love is nearer death.
Prove that I lie.

- William B. Yeats

Scott Campbell - check out more of his stuff here.

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 10:59:02 -0700

Scott Campbell - check out more of his stuff here.

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Sun, 07 Apr 2013 00:05:07 -0700

"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear..."

Sun, 07 Apr 2013 00:02:24 -0700

“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’ You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”

- Eleanor Roosevelt

“Untitled” by Cy Twombly.

Sat, 06 Apr 2013 23:55:05 -0700

“Untitled” by Cy Twombly.

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Sat, 06 Apr 2013 23:54:35 -0700