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19 Mar 20:44

"Replace me", Digitaldruck, 2009, Rosemarie Trockels...



"Replace me", Digitaldruck, 2009, Rosemarie Trockels eigenwillige Version von Gustave Courbets Skandalbild "Der Ursprung der Welt". Arbeiten der deutschen Künstlerin sind jetzt im Kunsthaus Bregenz zu sehen (Courtesy Sprüth Magers/© VG Bildkunst, Bonn 2015)

19 Mar 18:45

The Anti-Bucket List

by zenhabits
By Leo Babauta

Have you ever made a bucket list? For me, they’re incredibly seductive — I love reading other people’s bucket lists, and making my own.

But here’s what happens when you make a bucket list:

  1. You put this huge burden on yourself to get the list accomplished. As if we don’t already have enough on our to-do lists already!
  2. If you don’t do well at pursuing the things on the list, you feel guilty or underaccomplished.
  3. If you do well at pursuing the list, you are probably pursuing less-than-meaningful activities. They’re usually just there because they sounded cool to do.

The truth is, most of the things we put on bucket lists are just ideas that popped into our heads, not anything connected to meaning. We put things like “skydiving” and “learn to surf” and “visit the Amazon rainforest” and “kiss in the rain”— all of which are excellent activities … but we rarely put things like, “change someone’s life” or “find meaningful work that I care about” or “be compassionate toward my family”.

Why put pressure on ourselves to achieve a huge list of things that aren’t that meaningful? Why feel guilty if we’re not pursuing them? Why not let them go?

Life isn’t a big todo list, nor is it about optimizing all the things we do in life.

The most amazing things are right in front of us, right where we are. Right now. We don’t have to go anywhere or see some incredible sights or do daring activities to experience the wonder of life.

And we can do meaningful work, right where we are. What would a shorter list of meaningful activities look like? What would your anti-bucket list contain?

And if you don’t know what’s meaningful to you … isn’t that what you should be pursuing instead of a bucket list?

19 Mar 18:08

Cancer coming to your television

by PZ Myers

The longer you live, the more likely you are to get cancer. Therefore, party hard and burn out young. Wait, no, that’s not the lesson: therefore, you should all learn about cancer, and a good starting point is The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer. I’ve recommended it before, and I’ve used it as assigned reading in a biology of cancer course, so you know I think highly of it.

But, you say, it’s so long. It is a rather substantial text. But there is going to be an alternative.

The Emperor of All Maladies has been made into a three-part television documentary! You must watch it. This is a required assignment.

Watch for it on 30,31 March and 1 April, on your PBS station.

19 Mar 17:55

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19 Mar 00:37

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18 Mar 20:47

Northern Lights!

by ryantischerphoto
Cary

My niece texted me last night that the Aurora was impressive back home... I guess that she was right.

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The aurora borealis started off early last night as soon as the sun had set. I captured this image just outside of the Duluth city limits. Enjoy!

The post Northern Lights! appeared first on Perfect Duluth Day.

17 Mar 23:44

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17 Mar 01:33

dustrial-inc:Where’s my Kick Murder Squad at?Available here [ X...

Cary

I want an animated t-shirt...





dustrial-inc:

Where’s my Kick Murder Squad at?
Available here [ X ]

16 Mar 04:13

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Cary

How I expect to die (at the age of 90).



16 Mar 04:08

msflamingo:Here is your St Patrick’s Day activity, courtesy of...



msflamingo:

Here is your St Patrick’s Day activity, courtesy of the Catholic Church.

15 Mar 20:34

Coming to America

by jessige

Sharita Turner

In which Karl Ove Knausgaard’s NYT series about travelling to the United States visits Duluth, Superior and more.

My Saga, Part 2: Karl Ove Knausgaard’s Passage Through America

The post Coming to America appeared first on Perfect Duluth Day.

15 Mar 18:22

Everything according to plan

15 Mar 18:06

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15 Mar 17:57

Required Reading

by Hrag Vartanian
Cary

Sparklemuffin

Two new species of peacock spiders have been discovered in southeast Queensland, Australia, including this one with vivid reds and blues. This one is nicknamed "Sparklemuffin." This image was taken by Jürgen Otto, an entomologist who specializes in photographing spiders. (image via Colossal, My Modern Met)

Two new species of peacock spiders have been discovered in southeast Queensland, Australia, including this one with vivid reds and blues nicknamed “Sparklemuffin.” The image was taken by Jürgen Otto, an entomologist who specializes in photographing spiders. (image via Colossal, My Modern Met)

This week, considering why museums publish online, destroying an Islamic museum, a new peacock spider, Mac’s original icons, male shaming, and more.

 How should we assess the success of museums and their online publishing endeavors?

For museums to become significant publishers online, they need to accept that playing the metrics game will mostly only preserve the status of certain institutions: those with name recognition and large encyclopedic collections that can be digitized and utilized in diverse ways, from research to a Tumblr, appealing to an audience that varies from the art historian to the occasional user based thousands of miles away from the museum. This strategy has been incredibly successful for museums that already top the list of visitor counts — the likes of the Met, MoMA, or the Tate and their millions of Twitter followers and Facebook fans. This is not a digital strategy that would work for a contemporary art space in a mid-size city. In the past decade, as institutions internalized the importance of digitizing, a number of attitudes toward online presence emerged. The building of online publishing platforms relates to a traditional role of museums — to support research, then publish and publicize it — and indeed, many museums large and small publish catalogues, books, and sometimes also magazines. But publishing on the internet differs from these initiatives because of the pressure to attract a global audience. If most text online goes unread, how to explain the incentive of these institutions to publish?

 Felice Picano talks to Lambda Literary “On Remembering the Past, the AIDS Crisis, and Gay Activism“:

It is the job of a writer to convey a world that is gone. There are so many different types of people, some well-known and some not known at all. All are good subjects, and all the people who have been around us define who we are. I find them fascinating. I’m the dullest of them.

 The story of a car bomb that detonated outside Cairo’s Museum of Islamic Art last year. It demonstrates how dysfunctional the Egyptian museum system is when confronted with emergency situations:

The problems began immediately after the blast. Amid the chaos, curators were unable to locate the distinctive Allen key required to lever open the intricate locking mechanisms for the few showcases that withstood the explosion. As water from the sprinkler system seeped into the cracks, desperate workers resolved to smash their way in, but succeeded only in chipping other valuables and mixing new glass among the fragments of 1,000-year-old lanterns and urns.

 Museum of Modern Art Curator Paola Antonelli has acquired Macintosh’s original icons, designed by Susan Kare:

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 Writing for the Boston Globe, Michael Andor Brodeur sees a rise in male shaming by the media:

Where did this intensified attention toward the male body come from? It’s easy to conjure some likely culprits: The 24/7 validation cycle of social media has stoked hyper-consciousness of appearance among the famous and non (even the most dashed-off selfies are the product of several takes); and the Internet joins the already noisy shame-scape of gossip magazines, fitness advertisements, movies, and TV shows that regularly sport more six-packs than the parking lot at Gillette Stadium.

But according to Dr. Jennifer Greenberg, a research director at Massachusetts General Hospital who works with patients suffering from severe fixations on appearance, while men and women are both subjected to unattainable ideals and altered images, men may put more emphasis on them.

 It was revealed this week that the NYPD has been editing the Wikipedia pages of the people they’ve killed, like Garner and Diallo. According to Capital New York:

Computer users identified by Capital as working on the NYPD headquarters’ network have edited and attempted to delete Wikipedia entries for several well-known victims of police altercations, including entries for Eric Garner, Sean Bell, and Amadou Diallo. Capital identified 85 NYPD addresses that have edited Wikipedia, although it is unclear how many users were involved, as computers on the NYPD network can operate on the department’s range of IP addresses.

 Xkcd tackles the topic of “art projects“:

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 DC’s Holocaust Museum is receiving collection donations at a rate of four a week, something it never predicted when it opened in 1993.

 The Field Museum in Chicago had this response to the destruction of antiquities by members of ISIS (aka Islamic State):

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 These are some surprising statistics about the religious affiliation of US prison populations:

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 Thanks to @felixsalmon for this laugh:

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Required Reading is published every Sunday morning ET, and is comprised of a short list of art-related links to long-form articles, videos, blog posts, or photo essays worth a second look.

15 Mar 03:59

Saint Jude Thaddeus, I thank you for your support. My...



Saint Jude Thaddeus, I thank you for your support. My masochistic partner had a doubt about his desires. We argued heatedly about it, until the day of the breaking up came. However, four months later he couldn’t stand the separation, and thanks to Saint Jude we returned to each other. He realized what he wanted and accepted who he was. So now, before going to sleep, he asks me to spank him really good.


Mariano Larios
Mexico City, 1960

15 Mar 03:22

‘Bitter is the wind tonightIt tosses the ocean’s white...



Bitter is the wind tonight

It tosses the ocean’s white hair

Tonight I fear not the fierce warriors of Norway 

Coursing on the Irish sea

This anonymous poem is written in the margins of an Early Irish manuscript that now resides in the monastery of St. Gall in Switzerland. Most likely dating from around 850 AD, the text may have been complied in a northern Irish monastery such as Nendrum or Bangor (both in Co. Down). In a just a few, short words it conveys the sense of dread that was permeating through Irish monastic communities in the 9th century AD. During this period Viking raids were an every present danger and the Irish Annal’s record numerous attacks on monasteries. 

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15 Mar 03:18

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15 Mar 02:56

Nuclear reactor start-up (Cherenkov radiation)

15 Mar 02:49

Happy π Day



Happy π Day

15 Mar 02:34

Sacred Heart, thank you for giving me the opportunity to love...



Sacred Heart, thank you for giving me the opportunity to love and be loved. This love is forbidden, but it made me feel everything I had desired. I know it’s a sin, but nobody’s gonna deprive me of this pleasure. I repent of nothing, and I’m never leave him.


Paloma
Colonia Roma, Mexico City
February, 2006

14 Mar 04:10

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13 Mar 17:30

Native american indian knife cherokee blue opal”fire within”...

Cary

If I owned that I think that I would be compelled to perform some sacrifices...



Native american indian knife cherokee blue opal”fire within” master knapper ga

13 Mar 16:33

Surfing Girls of Iran

13 Mar 16:32

Susan Peters in a publicity photo for Random Harvest (1942)



Susan Peters in a publicity photo for Random Harvest (1942)

13 Mar 02:39

The Forgotten History Of The World's First Taco Bell, And Today's Attempt To Save It

A casual visitor to that first location would never have guessed that Taco Bell would eventually become the multibillion-dollar business it is today. It was one of the country's centers of aerospace engineering starting in the '40s, as the NASA facility in Downey built many of the spaceship components for the Apollo Project. The once-beige facade has been painted orange, and the ornamental edifice above the entrance that once housed the titular bell was destroyed in a fire a few years ago. Want to read more from HuffPost Taste?

12 Mar 23:00

This Map Shows Where the Happiest and Unhappiest People Live in the US

by Melanie Pinola
Cary

I'm from the Happiest lil' County in WI... And now I live in the unhappiest county in CA.

All other things being equal, the south, parts of the west, and upper midwest are the happiest places in the United States according to a recent study.

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12 Mar 22:52

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Why I was banned from the life art modeling circuit...



12 Mar 21:44

Karaba Brick Quarry David Pace Karaba is a small African village...



















Karaba Brick Quarry David Pace

Karaba is a small African village in southwestern Burkina Faso. Outside the village, a short distance from the dusty main road, is a quarry where men carve bricks from solid stone using only picks and shovels.

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12 Mar 20:32

Together, fellow miniature creature, we will grow big and strong to rule the world

Cary

Snoopy and Charlie Brown?

12 Mar 19:26

50 Watts

Cary

"...quite possibly the richest source of book-related design and illustration in the universe.

If you're looking for me, I'm lost somewhere in 50 Watts.