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solar luminosity increased, the global temperature of the modern Earth would be too hot for nearly all forms of present-day life (Kump et al., 2000). The suggested solution to this problem is once again a silicate weathering-CO2 negative feedback. Higher temperatures and larger continents would have increased continental silicate weathering rates, thereby decreasing the CO2 greenhouse effect and cooling the Earth. Thus, many regard the silicate weathering-CO2 negative feedback as a thermostat that prevented permanent freezing of the early Earth and, later, prevented permanent temperatures too hot for life.
It should be emphasized, however, that much of what has been said above is based more on models and inference from evidence of warmth on early Earth than on conclusive proxy evidence. In addition, some have argued that methane may have been an important constituent of the early atmosphere (Kasting and Catling, 2003; Rye et al., 1995; Catling et al., 2001; Hessler et al., 2004) and that production of volcanic CO2 may have been an important source of the early Earth's higher CO2 greenhouse effect (Ruddiman, 2001). More speculative solutions of the Faint Young Sun Paradox suggest that the early Sun might have been hotter than previously thought (Wuchterl and Klessen, 2001) or that a decreased cosmic ray flux, resulting from an early Sun's stronger solar wind, may have reduced cloud cover and raised global temperatures (Shaviv, 2003).
Geological evidence also suggests that atmospheric CO2 changed dramatically on timescales of a few to tens of millions of years during the Phanerozoic (Figure 3-2). These changes are on the order of 5 to 10 times present atmospheric level. The record suggests that for at least two-thirds of the last 400 My (million years), levels of atmospheric CO2 were much higher than at present. It appears that these oscillations in atmospheric CO2 were linked to recurring changes from greenhouse to icehouse climate states.
The cause of the large atmospheric CO2 changes during the last 400 My is hotly debated. One view, known as the Berner-Lasaga-Garrels (BLAG) hypothesis, proposes that atmospheric CO2 changed in response to changes in seafloor spreading rates (Berner et al., 1983). Higher spreading rates increase volcanic activity at both divergent and convergent plate boundaries, thereby increasing the rate of release of volcanic CO2 from the large rock reservoir of carbon. Plate motion reconstructions for the last 100 My (the limit for which this can be done) suggest that at about 100 Ma (million years ago), spreading rates were 50 percent faster than today; however, during the last 15 My, CO2 levels fell at the same time that spreading rates increased, calling into question any simple relation between spreading rates and CO2 (Ruddiman, 2001).
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What would happen if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90% the speed of light?
- Ellen McManis
Let's set aside the question of how we got the baseball moving that fast. We'll suppose it's a normal pitch, except in the instant the pitcher releases the ball, it magically accelerates to 0.9c. From that point onward, everything proceeds according to normal physics.:
The answer turns out to be "a lot of things", and they all happen very quickly, and it doesn't end well for the batter (or the pitcher). I sat down with some physics books, a Nolan Ryan action figure, and a bunch of videotapes of nuclear tests and tried to sort it all out. What follows is my best guess at a nanosecond-by-nanosecond portrait:
The ball is going so fast that everything else is practically stationary. Even the molecules in the air are stationary. Air molecules vibrate back and forth at a few hundred miles per hour, but the ball is moving through them at 600 million miles per hour. This means that as far as the ball is concerned, they're just hanging there, frozen.
The ideas of aerodynamics don't apply here. Normally, air would flow around anything moving through it. But the air molecules in front of this ball don't have time to be jostled out of the way. The ball smacks into them hard that the atoms in the air molecules actually fuse with the atoms in the ball's surface. Each collision releases a burst of gamma rays and scattered particles.
These gamma rays and debris expand outward in a bubble centered on the pitcher's mound. They start to tear apart the molecules in the air, ripping the electrons from the nuclei and turning the air in the stadium into an expanding bubble of incandescent plasma. The wall of this bubble approaches the batter at about the speed of light—only slightly ahead of the ball itself.


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The Wu-Tang's self-defeating unique album
I've had a couple of requests to write about the economics of the The Wu – Once Upon A Time In Shaolin, the new album from the Wu-Tang Clan. The album is being released in a beautiful box, in an edition of exactly one:
Like the work of a master Impressionist, it will truly be one-of-a-kind.. And similar to a Monet or a Degas, the price tag will be a multimillion-dollar figure.
Wu-Tang's aim is to use the album as a springboard for the reconsideration of music as art, hoping the approach will help restore it to a place alongside great visual works–and create a shift in the music business.
This might be innovative, but it's also more than a little bit peevish. Go to the official website for the album, and you'll find a manifesto, of sorts, which basically boils down to art-market envy.
History demonstrates that great musicians such as Beethoven, Mozart and Bach are held in the same high esteem as figures like Picasso, Michelangelo and Van Gogh. However, the creative output of today's artists such as The RZA, Kanye West or Dr. Dre, is not valued equally to that of artists like Andy Warhol, Damien Hirst or Jean-Michel Basquiat.
Is exclusivity versus mass replication really the 50 million dollar difference between a microphone and a paintbrush? Is contemporary art overvalued in an exclusive market, or are musicians undervalued in a profoundly saturated market? By adopting a 400 year old Renaissance-style approach to music, offering it as a commissioned commodity and allowing it to take a similar trajectory from creation to exhibition to sale, as any other contemporary art piece, we hope to inspire and intensify urgent debates about the future of music…
While we fully embrace the advancements in music technology, we feel it has contributed to the devaluation of music as an art form…
The music industry is in crisis. Creativity has become disposable and value has been stripped out.
Mass production and content saturation have devalued both our experience of music and our ability to establish its value.
Industrial production and digital reproduction have failed. The intrinsic value of music has been reduced to zero.
This is all rather misguided, on a number of levels.
Firstly, you shouldn't aspire to being like Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat, for the very good reason that Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat are dead. Posthumous market success can make lots of money for dealers, collectors, and heirs — but neither Warhol nor Basquiat ever sold a painting for anything near $50 million during their lifetimes.
Secondly, the contemporary art market is in the midst of an unprecedented bubble right now. Different bubbles have different dynamics, but all of them are based, in one way or another, on price spirals. The general public needs to be able to see a given asset — tulips, dot-com stocks, houses, Richters, you name it — going up in price at an impressive clip. In order for any asset, or asset class, to become expensive, it first needs to start cheap, and work its way up. The Wu-Tang Clan not only want to create a whole new asset class; they also want that asset class to be valued at bubblicious levels right off the bat. Sorry, but markets don't work that way.
Thirdly, the Wu can't work out if they want their album to be treated as a piece of fine art or as a luxury good. They say that their approach "launches the private music branch as a new luxury business model for those able to commission musicians to create songs or albums for private collections". It's true that the distinction between art and luxury is eroding, with artists like Takashi Murakami and Damien Hirst at the forefront of that trend. But there is still a distinction, and the Wu-Tang Clan clearly want their album to be on the art side, rather than on the luxury side: they want to be artists, not artisans. At the same time, however, the ornate packaging of their album signifies an emphasis on artistry, rather than art. I suspect that they would have been better off selling a simple USB thumb drive for a couple of million dollars, rather than trying to create a new class of luxury object.
Fourthly, there actually isn't as much of an economic difference between the contemporary art market and the contemporary music market as the Wu would seem to think. Kanye West and Dr Dre, to use their own examples, are making just as much money as any contemporary fine artist you might care to mention: both markets have skewed themselves towards a winner-takes-all model where a very small number of people are making gobsmacking amounts of money, while everybody else struggles. That said, the gross size of the contemporary music market, however you measure it, is still orders of magnitude greater than the gross size of the market in contemporary art. And musicians can always tour — an option which isn't even available to fine artists. All in all, while there are many struggling artists in both camps, the average professional musician is probably still going to be better off than the average professional artist.
Fifthly, industrial production and digital reproduction have not failed — they have succeeded enormously. While the profits of record labels have fallen, the global experience of music is broader and deeper than ever. Today, everybody has a music player in their pocket — and billions of hours of music are listened to every day. Music consumers have never had it so good, and musicians have never had access to a larger audience. The business being lost is just the business of selling physical objects on which music can be imprinted. But it's silly to say that the value of those physical objects is, or ever was, the same as "the intrinsic value of music". After all, if the price of a CD really was the intrinsic value of the music on that CD, then essentially all music would have identical value.
Lastly, and most importantly, the Wu-Tang Clan here are flying in the face of the very nature of music itself. Art and music are at two different ends of an important spectrum: art appreciation is fundamentally a solitary experience, which is one reason why people like to live with art in their own homes, and generally dislike overcrowded museums and galleries. Music, by contrast, is fundamentally a social experience. You might prefer small venues to large arenas — but you'd still rather go see a gig at a small venue than have a band play a set for you and you alone. That would be weird.
It's true that recorded music is often enjoyed in a solitary manner, through headphones. But even then the shared experience is important: file-sharing sites exploded in popularity not only because they allowed free access to music but also because the first thing that you want to do, when you listen to something you love, is to share it with others. The world's biggest recording artists, including the Wu-Tang Clan, don't achieve success purely through the intrinsic value of their music; they achieve success through the way in which their music is loved and shared. The love of music is a fundamentally communal experience, in a way that the appreciation of fine art is not. To turn an album into a unique object, belonging to just one person, is to defeat the very nature of music and music-making. This model from the Wu-Tang Clan does nothing for the cause of "reviving music as a valuable art", to use their words. Instead, it simply mummifies and fetishizes it. It's silly, and I hope it doesn't catch on.
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Peven Everett is an artist who will go down in music history. Most of the people around today are actually infamous. Music is still around it's not invested in as these marketing scams and easy targets are.
A very poor article by someone who clearly has a very limited understanding of the music industry – and indeed how capitalism works. Asset classes simply do not have to start out cheap and work their way up – they might do in an ideal world – but this isn't an ideal world. It is arguably that a long standing music brand is a developed asset in itself.
And I think the author would do well to consider the realities of the music industry – especially for the little guy. A world in which file sharing sees most musicians unable to sustain a living is clearly flawed. This may not be a solution but its rather more valid a contribution than the faintly ludicrous assertion here that everything is great in the music business
The act of producing the album itself is a wonderfully pointed commentary on the pretensions of the art market. Besides, they will surely find some fool willing to pay millions for it. Then they can produce another and repeat (having established the principle).
Your articles are usually about finance, politics and occasionally art.
I thought this one was about art, but I had never listened to the Wu-Tang Clan before. I looked them up and listened to some of their… stuff, I guess you could call it that… it's certainly not art. Hell, it's not even music.
At first, I thought this article was a little out of character for you, then I remembered that you often mix some great humor with your written thoughts.
Thanks, Felix. I had a great laugh over this one. And thanks, Wu-Tang Clan. Your attempt at trying to get people to regard your audio endeavors as great art is absolutely hilarious.
Best laugh I've had in years. I'm still chuckling over it.
They also overlook the fact that even if there is a bubble in the art market today where some art sells for many millions, most art does not. The vast majority of working artists still struggle to make any money at all. But I suspect that the Wu Tang are not really expecting to be taken so strictly literally. And if a vacuum cleaner in a box can be in a museum, then why not a record in a box?
seems that art and music markets mirror life
" both markets have skewed themselves towards a winner-takes-all model where a very small number of people are making gobsmacking amounts of money, while everybody else struggles"
one percenter markets
It's a symptom of the new era of dynastic wealth. They compare it to a Pharoah's Scepter.
Music will be art again when most listeners start to listen to good music again. The music industry died in 1980 with the election of Ronald Reagan and the increase in facist brainwashing. The thing is, you can brainwash many people and they will follow you, but they are morons and not a useful army. They also don't buy music that is thought provoking or increases introspection, which are exactly the best types of music. They also are not productive people and so unless you subsidize them, they have no money to buy music.
"Bazooko's Circus is what the whole hep world would be doing Saturday nights if the Nazis had won the war. This was the Sixth Reich." The Nazis lost the war, but they lived on and came to america in the form of corporatist bankers and the GOP. Their message is in the music and radio and television they work so hard to control. The message of consumption and conformity.


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Today's theme is simple (in theory); recovery.
It shouldn't be so hard to just move forward. To let go when you have made mistakes and just forge ahead. But, at least for me, these are some of the most difficult things to do.
Fortunately, I have a lot of options for support in doing this and I plan to use each and every one of them. One of the most helpful, of course, is this blog.
Basically, my life just got completely jumbled up in the last week and true to form I used eating to deal with it. Of course, eating only made things worse. It made me feel shitty about myself, feel shitty physically, and just was all around not helpful in any way. It got so bad, in fact, that yesterday my body just completely crashed. It was compounded by a number of other factors, but I felt TERRIBLE when I woke up yesterday and ended up spending most of the day in bed.
But today.
Today is a different day. And as I said all through my Jenny Craig experience, I refuse to give up. This is going to be a lifelong battle for me and I acknowledge that.
So this recovery thing. To me, its just about forgiving yourself and allowing yourself to move forward. Accepting the mistakes you made, but not focusing on them. Because they are done. Over. Moving on.
Today I went to the gym and had a good workout and have been trying to reestablish my eating patterns. I am also going to get organized in my new house (particularly in the kitchen). I am going to go to Weight Watchers meeting today and face the music as they say. But I am not going to let it get me down when I see the damage that I have done. I am instead going to just take it, accept it, and move forward.
This is how I do the "recovery" thing. How do you all deal with your struggles?
As always, thanks for reading. I will probably be posting again after my meeting to ensure that I don't get too down on myself and really can move forward.
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The Omen. (R) The 1976 original, in which Gregory Peck adopted Satan's son, was a mildly creepy, well-made, and well-acted shock fest with a hollow core. This remake, like the Antichrist at its center, is a whole lot like its daddy. Directed by John Moore (who made the similarly great-looking but empty Behind Enemy Lines), the film is simply too big for its britches. The cast (including Liev Schreiber as an ambassador who secretly adopts the wrong baby, Julia Stiles as his wife, and Mia Farrow as Satan's wet nurse) is excellent, but the Hand of God is a lousy excuse for gaping plot holes. Still, for those looking for shocks, the cat scares and deaths are top-notch, including the best on-screen decapitation you may ever see. If the movie didn't take itself so seriously, it could have been a great popcorn muncher. As is, it'll still work fine for those willing to forgive its trespasses. (Jordan Harper) ARN, DP, GL, J14, KEN, MR, OF, RON, STCH, STCL
Russian Dolls. (Not Rated) The entertaining sequel to Cédric Klapisch's hip 2002 hit L'Auberge Espagnole catches up with the filmmaker's former student roommates five years later, all scattered from Barcelona now and approaching the landmark age of 30. They're still holding some fun tickets, but annoyances like maturity and melancholy are also creeping into their lives. The focus here is on Romain Duris's Xavier, now a struggling writer in Paris who's searching for a new romance. Among others, ex-Auberge residents Martine (Audrey Tautou), Isabelle (Cécile De France), and William (Kevin Bishop) also return, each with new comic quandaries and new directions. Shot on glamorous locations in London, Paris, and St. Petersburg (the site of a wedding that occasions the characters' reunion), Klapisch's busy, bittersweet farce fairly wallows in the youth-obsessed worlds of media, high fashion, and publishing. Those who loved the original Auberge will likely be eager to book rooms once again. (Gallo) TV
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Police were called to a home at 25 Millville Circle on Monday at about 8:55 a.m. A homeowner reported that two women had stolen two of his credit cards and a quantity of cash and had fled his home in a small car with, police said. Police found the vehicle on North Broadway about 10 to 15 minutes later in the area of the Salem Depot.
Officers determined the women had already stopped several times at local ATMs and a convenience store, making withdrawals and purchases totaling more than $1,800, police said. Police recovered $1,500 in cash, the credit cards, six personal checks and cartons of cigarettes.
Police say they are investigating the relationship between the homeowner and the two women.
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Five years ago Morgan Tsvangirai was leading Zimbabwe's presidential vote and appeared set to end Robert Mugabe's rule of the southern African nation before violence cut short the balloting. With new elections due July 31, he appears ever further from his goal.
Zimbabwe's state-controlled newspapers have exposed alleged fraud and inflated salaries at government companies, stoking speculation of ruling party infighting over who will succeed 89-year-old President Robert Mugabe.
Zimbabwe's Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai had his scheduled marriage to Elizabeth Macheka tomorrow canceled by a court that ruled he had committed himself to another woman under customary law.
Zimbabwean politics is being shaken up by an unexpected source, a Facebook page being run by "Baba Jukwa," who produces daily revelations of wrong-doing by the southern African nation's leaders.
Enos Chikwere spills nine uncut diamonds from a bag at Restaurante Piscina in Mozambique near the Zimbabwe border and says they're worth $75,000 .
The Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front nominated Simon Khaya Moyo as its candidate for Parliament Speaker, the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corp. reported, citing Zanu-PF spokesman Rugare Gumbo .
Zimbabwe's ruling party criticized Impala Platinum Ltd. and Aquarius Platinum Ltd.'s plan to cut 100 jobs at their Mimosa operation in the southern African nation because of a decline in prices.
Zimbabwe has little chance of holding free and fair elections unless steps are taken to ensure security forces aren't biased toward President Robert Mugabe, Human Rights Watch said.
President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe will be allowed to try and extend his 33-year rule for another decade, according to a new constitution agreed to between his party and its main opponents to pave the way for elections.
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It is true there is an ebb and flow, but the sea remains the sea.
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Be clearly aware of the stars and infinity on high. Then life seems almost enchanted after all.
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In 2011, on this day U.S. radio host, filmmaker and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones escaped from his incarceration at the FEMA camp in Travis County, Texas.
EndgameIn accordance with a decision approved by President Bush, President Fox and Prime Minister Martin at the March 2005 summer in nearby Waco, Mexican and Canadian troopers were charged with maintaining civilian government in the former United States. Because a fundamental assumption of the "Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America" was that "foreign troopers" could achieve a degree of emotional detachment from the nationalist reaction of libertarians such as Jones.
However quite by chance the men charged with incarcerating Jones included Canadian officers responsible for security at meeting of the Bilderberg group in Ottawa on June 8, 2006. In a protest outside the Brookstreet Hotel, they had heard his crank-sounding predictions about Canadian Sovereignty, and his warning that "the answer to 1984 is 1776".
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Ringo Starr for John Varvatos
Posted July 9, 2014
Ringo Starr is celebrating his 74th birthday in style in John Varvatos' Fall 2014 Ad Campaign.
This film, created by YARD, directed by Milkt's Danny Clinch and edited by Arcade Edit's Jen Dean, uses the hashtag #PeaceRocks – every time it is used in social media, Varvatos will donate $1 to the Ringo Starr Peace and Love Fund. Learn more here.
Whoever We Are
Posted July 4, 2014
Honey Badger directorial duo The Kolton Brothers have directed and animated the latest film from the Pepsi® Beats of the Beautiful Game album.
The short film, "Whoever We Are" by Grammy Award-winning producer/songwriter/rapper Timbaland and featuring Rachel Assil, serves as the score for the enchanting short film. To Bring this sweet football story to life, The Kolton Brothers use live action cinematography and animation, blending traditional hand-drawn rotoscope animation and digital motion tracking. View a behind the scenes video below.
The Heather Project
Posted May 12, 2014
Toronto-based photographer and director Christopher Wahl has launched TheHeatherProject.org, a microsite which features a detailed portrait of Heather Ogden, a principal dancer from the National Ballet of Canada, and her daily routine to maintain physical strength via exhaustion and exertion.
Wahl says that the project is an extension his still portrait work, "a photographer's view of the moving image, as if to point the camera but not press the button."
First Kiss
Posted March 10, 2014
Awkward and adorable.
L.A. fashion label Wren got 20 good-looking strangers to kiss in this short film to promote their Fall 2014 collection. It's directed by Tatia Pllieva.
The Story of VIN 903847
Posted February 12, 2014
Once More, The Story of VIN 903847 is the story of a 1955 Volkswagen Beetle that went around the world three times, and is still on the road 59 years later.
Volkswagen Canada, Red Urban and Untitled Films director Hubert Davis have brought the story of this car to live. Initially through a documentary film, that began airing on Bravo and Discovery earlier this year. It's a story for anyone who's ever loved a car. The film was edited by Paul Jutras at Rooster Post, and features a beautiful soundtrack by Imprint Music.
The newly launched interactive site OnceMore.ca uses the film as a backbone to an immersive exploration of the Beetle's 58 year (and counting) history. The unique interface of the site combines the film with a map of the Beetle's day-to-day travels, enabling viewers to explore Paul Loofs' (the man who took it around the world) journal entries, photographs, and other artifacts as they correlate to the story. Alternatively, the site can be explored organically, using the map to access specific locations on the Beetle's journey. Together, the documentary and the website provide a unique interactive experience, allowing viewers to fully immerse themselves in the story of 'Once More'.
The full documentary is posted above, but you should check out the extras on OnceMore.ca.
Farmed and Dangerous
Posted January 27, 2014
Chipotle Mexican Grill today announced plans to launch "Farmed and Dangerous," a Chipotle original comedy series that satirically explores the world of industrial agriculture in America.
The series is produced by Chipotle and Piro, a New York- based studio headed up by Tim Piper, known for Dove Evolution who also directed the series, and Daniel Rosenberg, an executive producer who credits include Inside Man and Righteous Kill. The series trailer is posted above, and the initial four-episode season will be presented weekly on Hulu and Hulu Plus beginning Monday, Feb. 17, 2014. The show integrates Chipotle's values and commitment to serving food made with the highest quality ingredients through the content and themes of the show itself, without any explicit Chipotle branding.
Denham Psycho
Posted January 21, 2014
Clothing line Denham has recreated the business card scene from American Psycho with jeans and hipsters. Written by Ben Clark and directed by Hugo Keijzer. Nice.
The Story of a Beetle
Posted January 6, 2014
Everyone has loved a car once, no? I loved VW Cabriolet that I named Joey. He sacrificed himself to save my life on an icy road. I'll never name a car again.
Volkswagen Canada has teamed up with Red Urban and Untitled Films director, and Academy award nominee, Hubert Davis to tell the story of a very special 1955 Volkswagen Beetle.
Once More. The Story of VIN 903847 premiered last night on both Bravo and Discovery. And it's a great story about a man and a car that took him around the world 3 times. The car has been exhibited the World Trade Fair and its story was featured in an ad that was awarded at the ADC.
The trailer is posted above and if you missed it last night, you can watch it again on the days and times below (eastern time). I watched it. It's great. I may have cried. Rooster Post edited the film and music is by Imprint.
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The Beer Fridge – Project Indonesia
Posted December 19, 2013
Remember the Molson Beer Fridge that only opened by scanning a Canadian passport? Well today the brand released a 2:45 second online spot, The Beer Fridge – Project Indonesia, that will air during the Canadian World Junior hockey tournament at the same length. Essentially taking up entire commercial breaks.
The previous beer fridge commercial was the 2nd most viewed commercial online in Canada last year. This new film is directed by Untitled Films' Tyler Williams via Canadian ad agency Rethink.
The new spot chronicles the journey of three real friends, two of them surprising the other one (who's a rabid hockey fan) currently living 10,000 miles away in the Gili Islands in Indonesia where there are no motorized vehicles whatsoever. The friends come armed with precious cargo: a satellite system for the olympic games, and of course a red fridge stocked full of Molson Canadian. A 30-second version of the ad is set to debut on Dec. 26h.
Dre and Kendrick Lamar
Posted December 11, 2013
Here's a nice bit of branded content for Beats by Dr. Dre featuring Kendrick Lamar and Dre working on a new track in the studio. I love the slice of life/doc feel of the spot and that the brand decided to share the director's cut – that's rare these days.
It's directed by Paul Hunter of Prettybird and edited by Paul Martinez, Arcade Edit.


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And in other news and internal investigation conducted by Hamas concluded that there was no anti-semitism within the organization…
What a bunch of crap. They investigated themselves ?????
Reminds me of the scene from THE NAKED GUN in which Leslie Nielsen stands in front of the exploding fireworks factory and bellowed"Nothing to see here;move along.." Can't wait to see this pathetic "Justice" department exposed.
Nothing political about…all Eric "The Coward" Holder sis was tell the Civil Rights Division to drop it. Nothing political about that. Silly white citizens, civil rights are for minorities.
In related news Bill Clinton "did not have sex with that woman".
And my name's "Jesus Christ"….
This stupid case is blown WAY out of proportion. Whitey's nightmare (and a dated nightmare at that) writ small. Time to move on to more pressing matters. No one cares about this case, and that's as it should be.
As Bluto said in his committee hearing (cough) "bullsh**" – I'm calling it.
The Justice Department's Office of Professional Responsibility! Remove the words "Office of Professional Responsibility" and insert "Cover for Eric Holder" and you have the proper name
Earth to Robert Duprey. Did you forget your meds today? Geesch…..
don't be so terrified all of the time. BO will be gone soon and then justice will be back at the Department of Justice
This report pretty much settles the issue about the New Black Panther's violating civil rights. It pretty much settles it in that we now know that the Obama Admin has a Justice Dept that is filled with bias American hating pro Black Panther people with Holder being the nead……………. There is no justice in this country when the justice dept., can't enforce immigration laws; can't enforce voting rights laws; refuses to prosecute those who do violate the laws. Like Obama, Holder and company need to go and be prosecuted and held in Gitmo as enemy combatants against the enforcement of civil rights and voter rights in America.
Laughing…."no political meddling"
This reminds me of a Chinese story about a man who invested his wealth in silver. He had 300 pieces of silver and had to hide it somewhere.
So he went to his plot of land and buried the 300 pieces of silver.
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Nope….no political meddling in this Panther case…
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Food and wine events slated for Sebring LSA Expo
The 2013 U.S. Sport Aviation Expo in Sebring, Florida, will bring back the food and wine tasting events for Friday and Saturday of the show.
Flying the Evektor Harmony
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Sebring LSA Expo breaks records
The U.S. Sport Aviation Expo, held in Sebring, Florida, Jan. 19-22, posted record-breaking attendance this year.
Sebring LSA Expo kicks off
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Happy New Year! Everyone in aviation from hang gliders to jets is hoping for a year of improvement in 2012. Certainly it's been a tough four years since 2008's tumble.
Many see hope and promise in the arrival of a new year and that mood is powerfully amplified by the Sebring LSA Expo in January. Starting its eighth run with new management, the Florida event, slated for Jan. 19-22, is a welcome respite. More than 10,000 attendees will flock to the Sunshine State to catch the action in the newest, most dynamic slice of the aviation pie.
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Bulgaria is known as The Land of Roses. The Bulgarian rose essential oil is one of the most expensive products, sold all over the world.It is mainly used for the production of high quality perfumes.
Bulgarian rose essential oil is produced in a valley called "The Valley of Roses." This is a region located between the Balkan Mountains, to the north, and Sredna Gora Mountain, to the south. The region's administrative center is the town of Kazanluk, and the Valley of Roses encompasses the nearby villages of Rozovo, Srednogorovo, Kunchevo, Krun, and the town of Shipka.
June is the time for the traditional ritual of rose petal picking in the Valley of Roses. Rose petals are collected at dawn, before the flowers have blossomed. It is believed that at that time of day the concentration of rose oil is at its highest. A little before sunrise, the rose-pickers enter the rose fields singing and jesting, and begin picking the fragile rose petals in their straw baskets. Visitors to the region are invited to join in, and become part of the magic of this ritual, which has become a means of livelihood for the local population.
Rose essential oil, or so-called "rose otto," is produced by a water distillation process in copper stills. Yields can differ depending on the quality of flowers and the method of distillation: it may take 3,000 to 5,000 kg of flowers (more than one million flowers!) to produce 1 kg of rose oil. A collector usually gathers 25 kg of blossoms a day. It is thus not difficult to understand why genuine rose oil is so expensive.
Rose water is a by-product of the distillation process, being the remaining water obtained when the oil has been recovered from the distillates.
The legend
Greek mythology says that white roses were born with Aphrodite to challenge her beauty. One day Eros, playing in the gardens of Mount Olympus, was stung by bees while gathering the flowers. His blood colored the blossoms. Then Aphrodite in her eagerness to heal him dropped a bottle of perfume, which gave its fragrance to the roses.
The rose has always been a symbol of love, youth and beauty. There could not possibly be a flower which has been more cherished and praised from antiquity to modern days. Perhaps because of its intoxicating fragrance, with which one immediately falls in love, it has always been connected with something divine. The Bulgarian oil-bearing rose (Rosa Damascena Mill) obtained as a result of 300 years of breeding is the most valued of all oil-bearing roses. Its refined scent and dermatological qualities make it an irreplaceable component in perfumery and cosmetics.
The Bulgarian Rose Damascene is precious in an irrefutable way - the rose oil is the most valuable essential oil with a fragrant, calming and purifying effect. There have to be processed thousands of rose blossoms in order to obtain a single drop. The rose oil is the liquid gold of Bulgaria. It is of highest quality due to the favorable climate conditions and the ecological environment where the essential rose plants are grown - the so cold Rose Valley, which is considered to be their natural environment not only within the country but in the whole world. The unique curative characteristics of the rose oil and rose water that are famous from the remote past are used successfully in the production of cosmetic products. They clean and refresh the skin, moisturize and maintain the hydro-lipid balance, stimulate cells regeneration, soothe and remove inflammatory processes. They have an anti-oxidant effect slowing up the appearance of wrinkles.
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justifiably titled Queen of Flowers.
Her heavenly fragrant blossoms bring not only joy to the eye but also heal. Rose oil is a natural product extracted by distilling the flowers of the oil - producing Bulgarian rose Rosa damascena. The precious liquid extracted from the fragrant rose petals is known since ancient times for its anti-inflammatory, softening and anti-allergic anion, promoting regeneration of sore and aging tissues.
The ROSE OIL OF BULGARIA line features products containing 100% organic ingredients, physically extracted from plants grown in environmentally clean areas without any use of pesticides and chemical fertilizers.Each product in the line is infused with natural Bulgarian rose oil, the most precious and non-toxic essential oil in the world.
It brings benefits both to skin and soul and spirit, energizing and vivifying each cell. Anything we apply to skin penetrates in a couple of minutes and is transported into the blood circulation. Chemical and synthetic substances are unknown to the human body and it is unable to metabolize them.
It turns out that after all incredible wonders of technology and amazing anti-aging agents, the best cosmetic laboratories are again embracing the 'back to nature' concept. Everything natural appears to be fashionable and most of all efficient, against the signs of aging.
The worthless natural compositions created by evolution in plants and herbs greatly exceed those artificially produced in labs. Organic products have really become a craze in cosmetics. In the modern polluted world, they offer a skin health panacea. Modern technology meets the unique power of nature. The products in the ROSE OIL OF BULGARIA line pass stringent quality control testing and tests by dermatologists and volunteers.
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Very often Bulgaria's name is readily associated with the celebrated Bulgarian yoghurt containing a bacillus that the human system benefits greatly from.
Bulgarian Yoghurt (Bulgarsko kiselo mlyako ) - popular for its specific taste, aroma and with its reputed gift of longevity for those Bulgarians who consume it regularly.
Yoghurt means
"firm-set milk" and it was the Bulgarians who discovered it.
More than 1,300 years ago the people in the region of today`s Bulgaria were making "Katuk" from sheep`s and buffalomilk. Today scientists speak of Lactobacillus bulgaricus and by this mean the natural equivalent of the probiotic dairy products produced and marketed in Europe at a cost of tens of millions. The trademark of Bulgarian yoghurt is very famous in China, Japan and on the European market.
Bulgaria is famous for its folk music, dances and ancient folk customs and these traditions are still upheld. So when you go out for dinner in a folk tavern, you will be entertained with performances of dance and music.
A Bulgarian folk song was recorded on the Voyager Golden Record which was sent into outer space by NASA.
Bulgarian Evergreen
Good evening, young friend
Good evening, my comrade.
Be welcome to our town,
Be welcome to Bulgaria.
In this beautiful day,
take one Bulgarian rose from me.
May it tell you in its flavoured voice
Of the Balkan, of the sea, and of every
one of us (every one of us).
And when, my young friend,
And when, my comrade,
You are leaving our town,
And you're leaving Bulgaria.
And don't forget, even for a day, about
this Bulgarian rose, and about me.
Bulgaria has become one of the 10 most popular destinations to buy within the last 6 years.
Bulgaria is the ideal destination for the European companies to minimize taxes and avoid heavy bureaucratic procedures. Bulgaria has a stable economy and the lowest taxation rates within the European union. It is often called the "tax heaven" of Europe. The country is a preferred location for companies and individuals who provide services or trade goods within the EU
Why Bulgaria is the right place to relocate your business?
Bulgarian Taxation
Corporate Income Tax – 10%
Personal Income Tax - flat rate – 10%
Dividend Tax for individuals – 5%
Dividend Tax for companies – 0%
Withholding Tax for some services – 10%
VAT for Tourist services – 7%
VAT within EU – 0%
Social charges (due from the employer) – 18.5%
Social charges (due from the employee) – 12.9%
In addition to the low taxation rates Bulgaria offers:
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- Fast registration process for new companies;
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- Stable banking system – there is no foreign currency risk as the local currency, the Bulgarian Lev (BGN), has a fixed rate to the Euro;
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I recently read an article about the North Korean government executing about 80 people, and, in some places, forced citizens to watch the executions. Some were executed for owning a Bible or watching a South Korean movie. Moral relativists would say that we cannot condemn the North Korean government, because there is no standard of […]
N. Korea should be condemned for senseless killings
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Time to ratify nuke test ban pact
07/17/13 at 11:53am by Letters Editor | Comments
It was July 16, 1945 when the first atomic bomb test was carried out by the United States. Since that time over 2,000 nuclear test explosions have taken place, most of them by the United States and Russia. The most recent tests though have been by North Korea. It's in the best interest of all […]
A way to dissuade N. Korea
04/15/13 at 11:57am by Letters Editor | Comments
The quickest way to stop all of North Korea's threats is to send them a picture of Hiroshima after the atomic bomb attack and tell them that this is what your country will look like if you attempt any unprovoked attacks. Carl Baumann, Dayton
Progressives fear an armed citizenry
04/08/13 at 4:55pm by Letters Editor | Comments
It is a disservice to Enquirer readers to publish such artless progressive propaganda as "The GOP and the battle over guns" (April 7). E.J. Dionne poses the question: "Is Congress on the verge of turning away from the lessons of the slaughter in Newtown?" Then further: "Is the gun lobby hellbent on aligning our country […]
Military action needed in North Korea
03/29/13 at 11:52am by Letters Editor | Comments
Without sounding bellicose or engaging in saber rattling energies, perhaps it is time to simply put an end to the ongoing, outrageous and increasingly threatening statements being made on a daily basis by North Korea's new leader once and for all. With America's state-of-the-art so-called advanced weapon systems, both defensive and offensive, it may be […]
Interceptor missiles are costly, unproven
03/18/13 at 4:57pm by Letters Editor | Comments
The headline read, "U.S. to expand missile defense vs. North Korea." Though a life-long Democrat, I am disturbed that the article did not relate the U.S.'s and South Korea's conducting military exercises at North Korea's borders. It reminds me of President Kennedy creating a crisis with the Soviet Union over missiles in Cuba while simultaneously […]
Socialism looks a lot like North Korea
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Associated Press writer Jean H.Lee might have family in North Korea, explaining her deferential treatment of that nightmare nation, "UN: Food shortages hurt physical, mental growth of N. Korean children" (June 13). Her article fails to do justice to the routine atrocities committed against their own citizens by the ruling family, military, cadre of snitches, […]
Hawks forget intervention has big costs
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In the past months there have been quite a number of columns suggesting stronger policies and intervention in Syria, North Korea, Iran, etc. In the arguments by Charles Krauthammer ("Responsibility is a board game," April 27) and others supporting these actions, I see no accounting for the costs in money, lives, and resources. US action […]
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Thanks go out to The Enquirer for sharing with its readers the thrilling story of the North Korean savior Kim Il Sung ("Kim family's legend born at North Korea's Bethlehem" April 8). Not only did Kim Il Sung eliminate wasteful and time consuming elections with their tiresome campaigns and false promises, do-nothing legislatures and courts […]
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North Korea's dictator Kim Jong-Il wanted desperately to gain world stature by negotiating with a US president during George W. Bush's administration. Bush refused and forced him to join the now famous six-party talks. Kim left those talks and has now finally achieved his goal of at least forcing one ex-US president to visit his country and speak […]
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"For me, language is a freedom. As soon as you have found the words with which to express something, you are no longer incoherent, you are no longer trapped by your own emotions, by your own experiences; you can describe them, you can tell them, you can bring them out of yourself and give them to somebody else. That is an enormously liberating experience, and it worries me that more and more people are learning not to use language; they're giving in to the banalities of the television media and shrinking their vocabulary, shrinking their own way of using this fabulous tool that human beings have refined over so many centuries into this extremely sensitive instrument. I don't want to make it crude, I don't want to make it into shopping-list language, I don't want to make it into simply an exchange of information: I want to make it into the subtle, emotional, intellectual, freeing thing that it is and that it can be." Jeanette Winterson
I've been seeing a lot of friends swarm to "Ello" very recently (a new, seemingly clean, transparent and "ad-free" social network). But to be honest, I'm pretty damn suspicious of it.
Aside from the fact that I think my brain would explode if I brought another social network into my life right now (tumblr, instagram, and facebook are ENUFF, thanks), I've also stumbled upon a few articles that confirm my belief in doing a little bit of research before putting faith in or supporting a new project, especially one of this nature.
From "Ello is not the answer", an op-ed piece by Chris Lee on The Media:
For a platform that brands itself as transparent, however, it seems difficult to string together three more insidious-sounding words than "stealth mode startup." If you're unfamiliar with the term, it's probably because you aren't involved in the "startup biz,' and so don't subscribe to the entrepreneurial canon of Businessweek or Inc. Magazine. Both of these publications do, in fact, define the term, specifically describing it as a form of savvy strategy with considerable advantages for launching new products: in not disclosing certain projected features or agendas, stealth mode companies acquire good will and seed money — presumably, with the hopes of ultimately rolling out a sellable concept.
There are many, many more questions about Ello that will undoubtedly surface as it moves through its beta phase, but the most pressing of these right now is who is running Ello, where it gets its backing, and for what reasons. Ello might very well be innocuous (there is always a slim chance of this), or at least innocuously framed; more likely, though, it's the work of an entrepreneurial think tank; and even more likely, Ello is evil — a lesser one, perhaps, but evil nonetheless.
From "Ello, Goodbye", an article written by "social entrepreneur" Aral Balkan:
They seemed genuine in their desire to build an ad-free/privacy-respecting network and I felt like their hearts were in the right place. I knew Ello would not be the long-term solution we needed as it was closed and centralised but I thought it could be a good stopgap.
What I didn't know at the time was that they'd taken $435,000 in seed funding from FreshTracks Capital, a Vermont-based Venture Capital firm. This had apparently been announced by FreshTracks Capital in March.
When you take venture capital, it is not a matter of if you're going to sell your users, you already have. It's called an exit plan. And no investor will give you venture capital without one. In the myopic and upside-down world of venture capital, exits precede the building of the actual thing itself. It would be a comedy if the repercussions of this toxic system were not so tragic.
Let me put it bluntly: if a company has taken venture capital, you have already been sold. It's not a matter of if, it's simply a matter of when. (Unless the company goes under before it can exit, that is.)
A venture-capital funded startup is a temporary company that has to convince enough people into using their platform so that they can make good on the exit they promised their investors at the very beginning. It is the opposite of a long-term, sustainable business.
And so it is doubly disappointing and worrying that Ello doesn't mention that they are venture capital funded anywhere on their About page. Instead, as Andy Baio points out in his post on Ello, "[t]he About section makes it seem like Ello was built independently".
There are a number of other articles you can find online that address similar issues with the startup or critique various other aspects of it, such as the flimsy privacy settings and poor design. I am interested to see how Ello responds to some of these criticisms. Perhaps their heart and mind is in the right place, perhaps Ello IS the alternative to Facebook that we've all been waiting for. But until then, I'm certainly in no rush to join, and I'm not so sure that others should be either.
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Greetings. I just came back from the opening reception of "It's about Comics" at Scott Eder Gallery in DUMBO. I found out about the show after being invited by a friend via Facebook. Despite my ent…
This is about my experience attending a gallery opening focused on comic art. Warning, it's pretty intense. I haven't written anything while this pissed off in a long long longgggg while, and I'm a bit frightened I'm going to wake up to some death threats or something similar. But, well, I also think it's important. Read on if interested.
So it was basically one guy's personal collection, and their taste sucks. And apparently, nobody else was really shocked since they didn't even bother to show up and take a look. Maybe because they read the list of artists and didn't go looking for something nobody said was going to be there in the first place?
I don't know, I don't get what is important here. Somebody went to something they knew they weren't going to like, then proceeded to prove to themselves they didn't like it.
Get this: I just finished reading the entirety of Happy Mania - a comic which is frankly (imo), better than any single work by any of the artists featured in this show. Affordable and obtainable to anybody who loves comics and has a little a money to throw around. It was written and drawn by a very talented woman, and is one of my favorite comics of all. I'm currently half way through the first volume of Aya of Yop City, another great comic written by a woman. Beyond that I know dozens of women, professional and amateur, who're making good comic work. One douchey's guy's personal douche-bag opinion about comics and art is not really worth a damn. In the big scheme of things, practically nobody is going to go to this gallery or care about this guy's take on things. It's not even worth considering, let alone worrying about.
You can go to a book store and buy something created by women, that's selling thousands of copies. Why does it matter that some art-gallery snob is trying to (not) sell their collection of old stale art by (mostly) old timer guy artists, for absurd prices? Lately Saga is one of the best selling graphic novel series, but no - let's not consider that, because some dickhead who means nothing to 99.999% of people who read comics doesn't think women artists make anything very good - and therefore everything is wrong in comics. Step back and get a little wider perspective on things will ya, tumblr?
I'm sorry for the rant, but people sometimes seem so determined to keep everything negative on this site, and so incapable of giving praise where praise is due, that it drives me nuts.
Hello my dear. A few things:
1. I went to the opening excited to see the artwork and to meet and speak to some cartoonists and have interesting conversation and a generally good time. I did not go seeking disappointment.
2. Despite being a kind of lame gallery, they are not meaningless to 99.99% of the comics population. Few people attended this particular opening because it was poorly advertised/thrown together at the last minute, and it was thunder storming outside. In fact, this gallery has had a number of successful NYC shows, and also often tables at comic cons such at NYC Comic Fest this very weekend, and at MoCCA, CAB, and more. In other words, they have a valuable place in the comics world.
3. Believe it or not, this was not some random, isolated incident for me. I'm sorry you don't think my experience is important, perhaps you are not a female involved in the comics industry and do not frequently have to deal with gatekeepers of this nature. I do. The truth is, there are many, many, many folks in the industry who still hold such similar beliefs, and unfortunately, they are often the ones on the pedestal with the megaphone.
This is of course true for most artistic areas, and professional areas in general. Consider this post on how women have been represented in the field of science. Same goes with comics. For example, I always think about how I had always thought that Art Spiegelman was the editor of RAW, having no idea for years that it was co-edited by Francoise Mouly. Why is this? Well, whenever I read about RAW growing up (on internet blogs run mainly by men or what have you), her name was almost always excluded. Thankfully this is now changing, and she is getting the recognition she deserves. My point is though, women frequently get written out of history because men are often the ones controlling what information gets circulated. Only since the internet I feel that tables are starting to turn, and the new, younger generation of alternative cartoonists generally seems to have their heads in the right place. But just because you can get Saga at your local Barnes and Nobles doesn't mean we don't still have a longggggg way to go.
4. I'm sorry you're bummed out by us ladies and other "others" being so gosh-darn negative, man, about the injustice and general bullshit we have to deal with on a regular basis. Really, so sorry. But you know, when other people who experience prejudice in ways that I do not (because, I am white-passing, cis, straight, etc), the best way for me to better understand and learn about their experiences is from their own narratives, including blog posts. I think it's important for people to share their stories, because, 1. Solidarity is important — i.e., whenever someone writes about a frustrating experience similar to my own, I am comforted in knowing that I am not the only one experiencing such things, and that my feelings about it are not irrational, and 2. Education is important — Again, I have learned a lot about the world just from reading other people's personal experiences on things, and I expect I'm not the only one. You can't get it all from the press, kiddo!
In the end, I feel the only way for change to occur is for the people to become more informed, and those personal narratives are nothing to turn your nose up about. Nothing is wrong with feeling angry about the state of things, and there sure is a helluva lot to feel angry about these days. And my dear, I think you might be mistaken in your thoughts that no one ever has anything positive to say on here. Take a look at the wordpress blog in which this post originated from, and notice that EVERY OTHER POST is a glowing review of a comics work. So, no, I'm NOT just dwelling on the negative. In fact, I'm almost always trying to shift my focus on the positive, because being angry all the time is tiring and depressing and difficult.
However, every so often, something negative happens that you just can't ignore. Thanks for taking the time to read my experience, regardless, and hopefully this has been somewhat informative to a few people out there. Y'all the best!
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Listen: I love superhero comics. I have loved them for most of my life. My desire for more women in superhero comics—writing them, starring in them, drawing them, whatever—is all-consuming. I love the silliest excesses of the genre. I love its history. I love sound effects and ridiculous origins and the Merry Marvel Marching Society. I have six books on comics history in this room with me alone. I love superhero comics.
But I want to emphasize something that I don't think is said often enough in the women-in-comics sphere: the endgame is not female superheroes. I mean, I want them. Like, really, really badly, with the kabooms and the day saving and the underwear on the outside. But superhero comics, at their core, are still fundamentally masculine. They're about victory through force, they're about saving those you perceive as unable to save themselves—they are, as they have always been, male power fantasies. And that's not all bad! I love fight scenes and rugged individualism—honestly, I still love Lois Lane swept to safety in Superman's arms. And I want comics about women that involve and even embrace these values—we need stories about competitive women, violent women, brash women, domineering women, even chauvinist women.
But honestly? We cannot operate entirely within the arena of superhero comics as they exist now and consider that "winning." 50/50 gender parity within that slim slice of genre will be wonderful, but if it exists alone, it will be a failure. I want comics—tons of comics, enormous chunks of the industry—devoted to women and female concerns. I want classically feminine values to be celebrated. I want stories about sisters and wet nurses and cleaning ladies. I want Wonder Woman to save the day through empathy and I don't want it to be seen as the lesser option when compared to victory through force. I want introspective meanderings devoted to a sixteen-year-old girl's crush on Penny who lives next door. I comics that look nothing like comics do today.
Victory for women in comics means exploding the concept of "superhero comics" as we know it. It means comics like Spider-Man Loves Mary Jane, which look at the genre from a radically different perspective while leaving it intact—but it also means comics like Utena, which burn conventional notions of womanhood and storytelling to the ground. It means "revolutionary," "transgressive," and "alternative" comics that feature more than one female character and don't include a rape scene to up their grit quotient. It means hundreds of pages devoted to Boring Chick Stuff, the type even the most ardent male feminists tend to shy away from. It means hearing about Phoebe Gloeckner just as often as we hear about R. Crumb. It means reimagining what "good" "exciting" and "worthwhile" means. We need to create comics—lots of comics—that maybe don't appeal to men. We don't have to have to trash cape-and-cowl fare entirely—but we need to surround it with other stories, other perspectives, and massively different definitions of heroism. Different definitions of story. The rules of the game are rigged. We have to write new ones.
Fuck yes.
"It means hearing about Phoebe Gloeckner just as often as we hear about R. Crumb."
"No matter how well intentioned college reading lists, a thousand essays on state violence will not do the work of a single encounter with hostile cops; all three books of Capital fade in comparison to the unmediated education in capitalist exploitation that you get by working a low-wage job. If most "critical" art seems to presume an audience who is ignorant of the most basic general conditions of life, it could well be because most art institutions are run by people with little direct experience of the shittiness of the world. This could explain why many artists' idea of an invigorating and shocking social critique is to point out that museums require money to run, hire low-wage staff, and in all other ways are not hermetically sealed islands standing outside of the general principles of capitalism." —Hannah Black
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"The Art Workers' Coalition (AWC) was a loose group of artists, writers, and members of the creative community formed in January 1969 after the artist Takis protested the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) by removing his sculpture from their exhibition, The Museum as Seen at the End of the Mechanical Age. In the case with Takis, the artist was concerned with his ability to control the exhibition of his work after it had been sold (the Museum had exhibited his work against his wishes because they owned it and felt that their right of ownership superseded his rights as an artist to control its exhibition).This initial protest was a spark that ignited the coalition—which gathered members and concerns exponentially throughout the early months of 1969. At the time, the Art Workers' Coalition was concerned with the responsibility of museums to artists and aimed their efforts at building a dialogue between themselves and MoMA."
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WOW WOW WOW this is such an important article on Fvck The Media, wish I could have been at Smash It Dead!!
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Do you think wikibooks or other open textbook projects can cut around the barriers by making a quality free learning product that addresses standards without bowing to white supremacy?
Well, short answer, yes. Are we there yet? Omg, not evenclose.
Not only that, but we also need to take a good, hard look at who is getting paid for anti-racism education works, and who is not getting paid OR credited for their activist work.
As a non-Black person of color who writes (maybe too often) about Black people in art and culture, I absolutely try to be hyper-aware of how I fit into the context of my writing.
I do my best to metaphorically eat this article for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Gradient Lair is one of the academic blogs I owe an unpayable debt to, as I have mentioned before.
If you look at the history of activism in the U.S., a clear pattern emerges of Black Americans, especially Black women, blazing a path, and then being plagiarized, spoken over, and rejected from movements they created. This rather disgusting trend has perpetuated itself in the information age, via social media.
I know for a fact that many academic blogs run by people of color are regularly plagiarized by white academics for their own benefit. It is a racist double standard that white academics are expected to make a living off anti-racist activism, and yet Black activists are expected to do these things for free, despite the double burden of experiencing racism while trying to teach or write about it.
The disgrace isn't that social media is at the very cutting edge of academia today, it's that the same people are benefiting at the expense of others, i.e. white supremacy in action. A white, male anti-racist educator commands a higher fee to speak than a Black, female anti-racist educator, and that is unacceptable.
I say all of this because, unwittingly, your question is extremely loaded. Bloggers of color are very familiar with the experience of creating activist theory and providing priceless content, then having it stolen and sold back to us by the white supremacy you mention. And yet, we keep going because the alternative is to be silenced completely.
The basic and most essential crux of this problem is that whiteness itself is framed by our culture as "objective", no matter the topic. As if the less something effects you, the more of an authority you are on it? And yet, this only works one way: A white male is an "authority" on racism, but a Black woman's writing on white patriarchy can be dismissed, ignored, or stolen without credit?
A "free learning product that addresses standards without bowing to white supremacy" would require that the above issues be addressed and corrected before that could be possible. You can't achieve equality by adding three pounds to each side of a weighted scale. To address standards, we must change what we think of as "objective", because objectivity doesn't exist.
If you think that I am objective, dispassionate, calm, polite, or neutral, you are wrong.
And if you think any of the sources I use to either supportwhat I say OR that I use to demonstrate bias in education are objective, dispassionate, calm, polite, or neutral, you are wrong.
I'm doing my best to analyze what we consider "facts" by stuffing them back in the mouth they came out of, and taking a good look at the source. The recent development of an avalanche of accessible info redirects the responsibility onto the learner to think critically about what they choose to accept as facts. In many ways, we need to consider how what we give our voices in support of says about us, which narratives we accept and which we reject, and how that functions within society.
good post is good
I've also been really frustrated when I try to incorporate social justice-related concepts I've picked up through educating myself online into a paper and am then stymied because so many profs will only allow peer-reviewed sources on a paper. I don't want to plagiarize and I don't want to appear to be pulling things out of my ass. I've seen plenty of blog posts that basically gather links to a ton of sociological studies or whatever and synthesize/interpret them just as any other peer-reviewed paper might but for whatever reason (lack of access, institutional bias, straight up rightful disinterest in being a part of the white supremacist circlejerk that is academia, or even the fact that a lot of journals will subsequently not allow you to publish your work for free once it's inside their EXTREMELY EXPENSIVE publication) this work only exists on a blog out on the internet.To rehash this work in my paper (by citing the peer-reviewed studies they used but "drawing my own conclusions" more like "agreeing with what someone else already concluded") is exactly the kind of appropriation I don't want to partake in.
& for me this is intrinsically connected to the ways that certain sources are (wrongfully) considered objective - white, supposedly anti-racist intellectuals are neutral on the topic of racism while poc are not, men are neutral on issues of sexism while women likely have a bias, etc. It's not an accident that the institution that validates academic work is hostile to all of these groups, who are then squeezed to the margins, seek to publish their work online on their own instead, and are then further discredited for lack of peer review they could never access in the first place. Academia, you are garbage.
I want to thank you for putting into plain language exactly how this happens.
It's basically the story of how they/we got here. The current sociopolitical climate is incredibly hostile to Ethnic Studies in the U.S.; as each new generation is less homogenous racially, culturally, and in a host of other ways, more and more legislation on restricting diversity in education is being passed.
This is the ABCs of gatekeeping, academic elitism, and how the process of marginalization happens in academia.
re: wiki books and other free resources for education
free resources won't do much to adequately address the problem
recently the idea of MOOCs (massively open online courses) has basically collapsed because they don't do anything but reinforce the status quo:
A global survey of almost 35,000 MOOC students engaged in courses of the online education service Coursera found that the majority were already well-educated and employed, and mostly males.
The survey's results, published today in a letter to Nature, suggests that MOOCs reinforce the advantages of the rich rather than educating those who most need access to free education.
add to this the reality that:
the shockingly low number of students who actually finish the classes, which is fewer than 10%. Not all of those people received a passing grade, either, meaning that for every 100 pupils who enrolled in a free course, something like five actually learned the topic. If this was an education revolution, it was a disturbingly uneven one.
so if mostly affluent white men are taking these classes and, even then, most aren't finishing them….
as medievalpoc points out, the problem isn't lack of access or some other technological issue
it is a cultural problem


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