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Dark Rye, an online magazine by Whole Foods Market, has produced a short video profile of media theorist Douglas Rushkoff, focused on his 2013 book, Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now. A play on the title of Alvin Toffler’s 1970 best-seller Future Shock, Ruskoff’s book explores the anxiety and dissonance of our always-on digital culture.

The only kind of people that were interrupted this frequently and insistently used to be 911 operators and air traffic controllers. They would only do it two to three hours a day and they would be medicated in order to live that way. Present Shock is the human response to living in a world where everything happens now.

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Watching this (and fearing broken ankles with each loop) I can’t helping thinking about that old quote Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, except backwards and in high heels.

But no, if you watch closely you’ll see she doesn’t even step on the last chair. That means she had to trust that fucker to lift her gently to the ground while he was spinning down onto that chair. That takes major guts. I’d be pissing myself and fearing a broken neck if I were in her place. Kudos to her. 

This is such badass dancing. Look how effortless they make it appear. just amazing

First published 75 years ago in 1939, the Depression-era epic and Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “The Grapes of Wrath,” by John Steinbeck, chronicles the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s. It tells the story of an Oklahoma farm family, the Joads, driven from their homestead and forced to travel west to the promised land of California. Events to commemorate the landmark book are being held this weekend in Sag Harbor, N.Y., and Monterey, California, among other places.

Farmer and sons walking in the face of a dust storm. Cimarron County, Oklahoma, 1936. Photographer: Arthur Rothstein.

The real story was told through a remarkable collection of more than 200,000 photographs, which were gathered over the course of seven years. The Farm Security Administration commissioned this photographic treasure, including the works of talented photographers such as Walker Evans, Russell Lee, John Vachon, Arthur Rothstein, Marion Post Walcott, and Dorothea Lange.

Dorothea Lange, Resettlement Administration photographer, California, 1936. Photographer: Unspecified.

The photographer above is using a Graflex 4×5 single-lens reflex camera.

Floyd Burroughs, cotton sharecropper. Hale County, Alabama, 1935 or 1936. Photographer: Walker Evans.

Toward Los Angeles, California, 1937. Photographer: Dorothea Lange.

Destitute pea pickers in California. Mother of seven children. Age thirty-two. Nipomo, California (Often referred to as “Migrant Mother”), 1936. Photographer: Dorothea Lange.

Corn planting, Jasper County, Iowa, 1940. Photographer: John Vachon.

“And then the dispossessed were drawn west — from Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico; from Nevada and Arkansas, families, tribes, dusted out, tractored out. Car-loads, caravans, homeless and hungry; twenty thousand and fifty thousand and a hundred thousand and two hundred thousand. They streamed over the mountains, hungry and restless — restless as ants, scurrying to find work to do — to lift, to push, to pull, to pick, to cut — anything, any burden to bear, for food. The kids are hungry. We got no place to live. Like ants scurrying for work, for food, and most of all for land.” ~ John Steinbeck (from “The Grapes of Wrath”)

A huge dust storm moves across the land during the Dust Bowl of the 1930s. Photographer: Unspecified.

Through these amazing photographs, the hardships of displaced farm families, migrant workers, and sharecroppers were brought to the attention of the nation. Since these photos belong to the government, the rights to these photos belong to the people. You can order reproductions of these amazing historical images, and many more, through The Library of Congress.

To experience more hidden treasures in the world’s public photography archives, visit The Commons.

Photos from Brianna Scott, The Library of Congress, and U.S. Department of Agriculture.

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inquiring minds want to know, how does the hippie non-gluten non-dairy almond milk ice cream taste?

mildly like cookies and cream cardboard quite frankly.

like a “gutless store brand” if i’m being generous.

lesson learned: up my game on finding a recipe for a dessert that my sister-in-law can have that doesn’t taste like shredded tax documents.

boss fight.

Ever since sites like Silk Road showed the dark side of anonymous Bitcoin transactions, governments have been trying to regulate the crypto-currency. But a group of coders -- headed by 3D-printed gun creator Cody Wilson and Amir Taaki (above) -- want...

elesheva: This White House PSA on sexual assault is really, really important.

because one is too many.

A Villareal fan throws a banana at Dani Alves before his corner kick. Dani Alves, a prominent victim of racism in Spain, eats it.

Alves: “I don’t know who threw the banana, but I’d want to thank him. It gave me energy to give 2 more crosses that ended up in a goal.”

via http://otakugangsta.com/post/60177590785

Photographers, disaster-relief organizations, and emergency responders capture the devastation caused by tornadoes that took lives and tore through multiple U.S. states this week.

Our hearts go out to everyone affected by this disaster.

See more photos from the Tornado aftermath gallery.

Photos from Jon Corvin, American Red Cross Cape Fear Chapter, Dave Malkoff, Tennessee Emergency Management Agency, and brad widding.

The Kiss

Bob Ross

Mona Lisa at the Louvre

Mona Lisa

The Selling of “The Scream”

Wonder Woman

A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte

Inspired in part by the 8-bit graphics of old Atari and Nintendo video games from his youth, artist Adam Lister paints quirky watercolor interpretations of pop culture icons, art world happenings, and famous paintings. Trying to describe his style can be difficult as it’s not quite digital and it’s not quite Cubism (though maybe it’s a tad Etch A Sketch?). While all of Lister’s works are distinctly humorous, many are also strangely nostalgic, recalling moments from the recent past including comic book characters, Star Wars references, and even numerous interpretations of iconic TV painter Bob Ross.

Lister has several limited edition prints available on his website, and his work most recently appeared as part of a group show at Catalyst Gallery. He’s also turned several pieces into 3D printed objects. (via Yatzer, Huffington Post)

A Single Note / 48″ diameter, 150″ (12.5 feet) circumference

A Single Note, detail

A Single Note, detail

A Single Note, detail

A Single Note, detail

A Single Note, detail

A Single Note, detail

With meticulous determination and a steady hand, artist Ben Sack picks up a black 0.05 Staedtler pigment liner pen and begins to draw the dense, intricate details of fictional cityscapes: buildings, roads, rivers and bridges. He draws until the ink runs out and picks up another pen. And another. And another. Sapping the ink from dozens of writing utensils until several months later a canvas is complete. His most recent piece, a vast circular drawing titled A Single Note (top), has a 12.5 foot circumference. It staggers the mind.

The architecture found in Sack’s artwork spans centuries, from gothic cathedrals to towering skyscrapers, underpinned by patterns of urban sprawl reminiscent of European cities with a healthy dose of science fiction. If you look carefully you might even recognize a familiar landmark here and there. He shares as his influence some thoughts on “western antiquity”:

Its this sort of image that I think most people, if not all of society have of western antiquity; stainless marble facades, long triumphal avenues, monuments to glory. In actuality, the cities of the past were far from idealistic by todays standards. Yes there was marble, lots of marble, and monuments galore, however these urban centers were huddled together and unless you were considerably wealthy, life in dreamy antiquity was often a heroic struggle. Though the societies of antiquity were bloody, dirty and corrupt the idea of antiquity has come to represent some resounding ideals in present society; democracy, justice, law and order, balance, symmetry. These ideals are now the foundation stones of our own civilization, a civilization that some distant future will perhaps honor as antiquity.

Sack graduated from the Virginia Commonwealth University in 2011 and has since had work numerous solo a group exhibitions, most recently at Ghostprint Gallery. And just this week he returned from a circumnavigation of the globe as part of a residence aboard the m/s Amsterdam. You can see more of his work on his website, and over on Tumblr. Prints are available here. (via Waxy.org, Laughing Squid)

Some men just want to watch the world burn.

You know when you’re horsing around at the beach and accidentally swallow a nasty gulp of salt water? Well I hate to break it to you but that foul taste wasn’t just salt. Photographer David Littschwager captured this amazing shot of a single drop of seawater magnified 25 times to reveal an entire ecosystem of crab larva, diatoms, bacteria, fish eggs, zooplankton, and even worms. Read more about what you probably don’t want to know at Dive Shield. We do admit the little crab larva in the lower right-hand corner is pretty darned cute. (via Lost at E Minor)

Update: Prints of this photograph are available at Art.com.

Sometimes it is hard to believe what you see in the sky.

In this video, Los Angeles-based vegan calisthenics expert Frank Medrano demonstrates more of his intense bodyweight workouts. Bodyweight exercises are “strength training exercises that do not require free weights,” but use the resistance from your own body weight. We previously wrote about Frank’s superhuman workouts.

via The Awesomer

10 office buildings in China were built out of recycled construction material in one 24 hour period with the help of a 3D printer designed by creator Ma Yihe.

The latest theatrical trailer for The Internet’s Own Boy, a documentary about deceased Internet activist Aaron Swartz by filmmaker Brian Knappenberger, offers a look at what Swartz championed during his life through the eyes of other people and in his own words. The Internet’s Own Boy is currently scheduled for release on June 27th, 2014.

image via The Internet’s Own Boy

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