This is simply amazing.
The Eagleman Stag / Stop-motion animation by Mikey Please
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Filmmaker, sculptor, poet, essayist and doodler Len Lye was born in New Zealand in 1901. He was always searching, always experimenting with the relationship between our physical and sensorial experience, and the epic trip-out of “art.” He got kicked out of Australia once for living in an indigenous community as a white person. He worked his way to London trimming coal on a steam ship, and started making experimental films by painting onto the film itself and scratching into black emulsion to make dancing sky shapes and aura explosions — this is his Swinging the Lambeth Walk. He was a quiet and dexterous master of his arts, and we salute him.
PORTLAND — I help lead one of America’s cities – Portland, Oregon. It is known for being a well-planned city. It’s not. At least, not as well as we want it to be. And not as well-planned as every American city must be.
When I talk about planning, I’m not just referencing plotting spots on a map where new bikeways will run, or where new business districts will pop up. Instead, I’m talking about how to understand the specific and real human challenges we face, and then how to establish priorities that are shared by community members and government. This is what creates a real playbook to guide future decisions.
“We need plans based less on politics and more on the facts; plans with integrated strategies and a short list of specific measures to provide public accountability for real results. … For example, Portland’s last city plan, developed over 30 years ago, focused on limiting sprawl, urban renewal, light rail (instead of highways), and helping to inspire new business sectors, including clean-tech. As a result, we have lowered total carbon emissions 6 percent while the rest of the U.S. has increased more than 10 percent. And, we’ve done it while growing our population and jobs.”
I miss this city and the people I met there.
npr:
What American Women Do For Work
Forty years ago, only one in three American workers a woman. Today, it’s one in two. What jobs did all those women get? And how did gender breakdowns change by industry? -Lam Thuy Vo
My cousin from Stavanger, Norway is a professional photographer.
President Barack Obama and Jimmy Fallon slow jam the news on student loan interest hikes.
Pollen in the springtime…
I fear I may have been mistaken for someone else. My name is Jared Nathan Bennett; but that is not my name.
And I must touch,
But not as such,
Not as such.
I mean I must feel.
Feel, what I touch.
For often I touch and not feel;
I know this much,
I know this much.
And O’ too often a touch becomes
a dribble, dangle, drool—
Erotic—
Narcotic—
A blindness, senseless screw.
And so I must touch,
But not as such,
not as such;
Not a muddle in the muck;
a nestle and a fuck.
I know this much, I hope
I know this much.
