February 2012
16 posts
“I think the reports of my survival may be exaggerated. I’m in Babo Amr....”
– Slain reporter Marie Colvin’s last dispatch, posted to a Facebook group for conflict journalists and rights reporters. She was killed this morning in a mortar attack. (via newsweek)
“Locked in my skinny box,
I want to be at least
one of the branches
leaning...”
– Terrance Hayes, from “Clarinet” (via the-final-sentence)
Watcharchiemcphee:
Luis is a breathtaking stop-motion video created by Niles Atallah, Cristobal Leon, and Joaquin Cociña. The video was shot frame by frame using a digital camera. The crew used charcoal, dirt, flowers, found objects, and cardboard to create a simultaneously menacing and enchanting scene enacting a childhood dream, complete with a creepy whispered narration, where inanimate objects...
“Most people think it’s wonderful when someone says, “I’m willing, Lord! I’ll do...”
– Bill Maher, Religulous (via improvisions)
January 2012
1 post
December 2011
1 post
November 2011
11 posts
Technology Brings Digital Memories To Grave Sites... →
charlespowell:
A story from NPR about a unique new use for QR codes (those little square barcodes) to reveal stories and information about the dead.
On a side note about QR codes: I’ve started to see these things popping up in all kinds of places like for sale signs on houses and even now at museums. The Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago used QR codes in a recent exhibition to provide...
“Remember that life is short and death is long.”
– Fritz Shoulder (via tumbletower)
“We insist, it seems, upon living.”
– From The Waves by Virginia Woolf. (via bookoflead)
October 2011
9 posts
“We threw ourselves into the sea at Kamakura that night. She untied her sash,...”
– Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human (translated by Donald Keene) (via bookoflead)
“”Unable are the loved to die. For love is immortality.” —Emily Dickinson”
– Tonic.com (via vmburkhardt)
2 tags
2 tags
“Clinton, Kennedy, they all carried out mass murder, but they didn’t think that...”
– Noam Chomsky (via noam-chomsky)
5 tags
“[I looked at what Sam had written. Her last words to me, ever.] Love never dies.”
– James Patterson, Sam’s Letters to Jennifer (thanks, lovechocolat3)
September 2011
1 post
3 tags
July 2011
4 posts
June 2011
7 posts
