February 2011
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15 Most Misspelled Words in English →
brilliant. but “behaviour,” like “colour,” can be someone being pretentious about being British, or reads too many British music magazines while smoking a fag. that can be at the centre of the entire reason for it.
and what about “WTF” misspelled as “FTW”? ;)
but then, spellchecker cannot help you with affect/effect, whom/who, or awhile/while.
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January 2011
25 posts
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10 Commandments, Texted
denallij:
M, pls rte on tabs & giv 2 ppl 1. no1 b4 me. srsly. …2. dnt wrshp pix/idols 3. no OMG’s 4. no wrk on w/ends 5. pos ok — ur m&d r cool 6. dnt kill ppl 7. :-# only w/ m8 8. dnt steal 9. dnt lie re: bf 10. Dnt ogle ur bf’s m8 or ox, or donkey. myob.
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Francesca Woodman Exhibit at SF MoMA in 2011 →
« Francesca Woodman will have a large retrospective at SF MoMA, San Francisco in 2011, travelling to Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York in 2012. »
I cannot find information at the SF MoMA site, so it looks like the latter half of the year. some information at the Victoria Miro site.
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The Woodmans →
« A fascinating, unflinching portrait of the late photographer Francesca Woodman, told through the young artist’s work (including experimental videos and journal entries) and remarkably candid interviews with her artist parents Betty and Charles (a ceramic sculptor and painter/photographer), who have continued their own artistic practices while watching Francesca’s professional...
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The Perfect Moment « Iconic Photos →
« The show, titled “The Perfect Moment”, could easily have been called “The Perfect Storm”. On June 12nd, 1989, the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. announced that it was canceling a traveling exhibition of Robert Mapplethrope photos which was scheduled to open on July 1st. The gallery had been under intense pressure from conservatives to cancel the exhibition, and its Board of...
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-1-16) →
Wire (80)
Rat Columns (48)
David Bowie (36)
Supertramp (35)
The National (26)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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Totoro on Adium →
well, slap me and call me silly, but in customizing Adium for all the accounts and protocols, I came across this. I was using Calvin & Hobbes, but it was not as good… this makes me want to have the icons be at 317px!
(Adium is for Mac only)
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The Mathematics Of Beauty « OkTrends →
I find these geekness into statistics always fascinating. it is great that they have such a resource, but the results are not that surprising… if one thinks a little: it is truly game theory and some of that John Nash Equilibrium.
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Coens and Arbus: True Grit
during a scene in True Grit, when we get to see the two Indian kids at Bagby’s house, some of the close ups made me think that here, and in other Coen brothers movies we get these Diane Arbus moments. not sure why I could not make the connection as far back as O Brother Where Art Thou, but here it was too obvious (to me).
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lens culture: Object of (Sex and) Desire →
« The Object of (Sex and) Desire, curated by Lars Schwander and Liza Fetissova at the Russian Tearoom Gallery, is one of the steamiest photography exhibitions in Paris at the moment. »
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