February 2012
5 posts
kevinnuut:
Tumblr Staff: Policy Against Self-Harm staff:
One of the great things about Tumblr is that people use it for just about every conceivable kind of expression. People being people, though, that means that Tumblr sometimes gets used for things that are just wrong. We are deeply committed to supporting and defending our users’ freedom of speech,…
Option 1 seems like a clear...
Microsoft's Biggest Miss
minimalmac:
One of the benefits of a long car trip with my wife is the opportunity to have really great and insightful conversations with the smartest person I know. Yesterday, on the first leg of our trip, we spent some time discussing Microsoft’s many missed opportunities. The failure to take the iPhone seriously. The failure to take the iPad seriously. And, on. And on…
Then I brought up to...
McD's scores big: an all-natural ad that's illegal...
adverve:
The story goes that designer Sean Click seed-bombed a California highway with flowers in the shape of the McDonald’s logo. The company’s staying mum on whether this is an official guerrilla execution, but here’s a fun fact: the seeds Sean used are golden poppies, the California state flower — which means it is illegal to uproot or pick them.
Owners of the land where the “ad” appears...
January 2012
11 posts
“It’s not hard to decide what you want your life to be about. What’s hard, she...”
– “Bittersweet” by Shauna Niequist (via julie911)
There are a lot of videos on YouTube
adverve:
And even more are being uploaded as we speak. If you’ve ever wondered what that all looks like, here’s the YouTube video upload traffic, visualized. From @escalante
Ken Ehrlich
nicksteinhardt:
Ken Ehrlich, an artist and one of my university instructors, was dragged and arrested by the police in a protest against the rise of fees in the UC system. He was always incredibly supportive, encouraging open discussion and free thinking. If you feel like donating to a good cause, here is a link to help with his bail and legal fund....
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20 Images That Will Change Your Life →
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Responsibility and Protest
Today the Internet collectively joins in protest against SOPA / PIPA. Several major sites that practically hold up the entire Internet on their backs chose to completely blackout their own website or at least censor their logo/website in an attempt to simulate our world without freedom of speech on the Internet. It is very important for these websites to stand up and get people to comprehend the...
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Wikipedia Blackout →
Wikipedia is considering shutting down its own website as a protest to the Internet Censorship bills. But they need people to help support them with donations during their blackout. Spread the word and pledge to donate if you can. If these bills are passed, websites like YouTube, Vimeo, Flickr, Etsy, Twitter, Tumblr and Facebook would all be heavily censored or completely shut down. Freedom of...
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Five ways to re-Occupy in 2012 →
Occupy Campus
Go Corporate
Social Media
Street Theater
Political Action
December 2011
15 posts
Roger Ebert: I'll tell you why movie revenue is... →
The myth that small-town moviegoers don’t like “art movies” is undercut by Netflix’s viewing results; the third most popular movie on Dec. 28 on Netflix was “Certified Copy,” by the Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami. You’ve heard of him? In fourth place—French director Alain Corneau’s “Love Crime.” In fifth, “The Girl with the...
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M.I.T. Game-Changer: Free Online Education For All →
For Wall Street Occupiers or other decriers of the “social injustice” of college tuition, here’s a curveball bound to scramble your worldview: a totally free college education regardless of your academic performance or background. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) will announce on Monday that they intend to launch an online learning initiative called M.I.T.x,which will offer the...
Send me your old Sharpies, Get an Illustration
keepsdiary:
I was telling my friend George how much I want to get back into fashion illustration. He told me there’s a monthly meetup with old school illustrators and invited me to join them.
Dried out Sharpies have always been my favorite to illustrate with since they offer pressure sensitive line qualities, with their permanence forcing confidence in your lines.
In my fine art days I used...
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One teachers approach to preventing gender...
togetherforjacksoncountykids:
“It’s Okay to be Neither,” By Melissa Bollow Tempel
Alie arrived at our 1st-grade classroom wearing a sweatshirt with a hood. I asked her to take off her hood, and she refused. I thought she was just being difficult and ignored it. After breakfast we got in line for art, and I noticed that she still had not removed her hood. When we arrived at the art room, I...
Smurf Village reports boost in happiness, dreams.
adverve:
Six months ago, the Spanish village of Juzcar was painted entirely blue for the filming of The Smurfs 3D, clocking over 1000 gallons of blue paint, making it the world’s first official Smurf Village. (Yes, as if there will be more.)
Sony had planned to make the houses white again following filming and promotions. But last Sunday, locals voted to keep the houses blue, in part because...
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I Work For The Internet →
This is a great idea for an online petition. It definitely creates more of an impact than a simple list of names. It gives each name a face and a job at the same time.
However, I wonder if it would be possible to place a physical value on these jobs as well. For example, if every person had to input their salary in as well, and there was a grand total on the top of the page. The people on board...
LA Times: "We Cannot Hide Important News" →
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“If this is signed into law, it will shred the remaining tenants of the Bill of...”
– “US Senate declares the entire USA to be a ‘battleground’” on NewsVoice referring to the new NDAA bill that just got passed by the Senate in a 93-7 vote
I give up on the world.
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“To be innocent in times like these is to be a criminal.”
– “The Best Among Us” by Chris Hedges on Adbusters
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The Best Among Us
Chris Hedges on the struggle to Occupy Wall Street. Chris Hedges, 30 Sep 2011
There are no excuses left. Either you join the revolt taking place on Wall Street and in the financial districts of other cities across the country or you stand on the wrong side of history. Either you obstruct, in the only form left to us, which is civil disobedience, the plundering by the criminal class on Wall...
November 2011
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The Shocking Truth About the Crackdown on Occupy
Naomi Wolf | Friday 25 November 2011 12.25 EST
The violent police assaults across the US are no coincidence. Occupy has touched the third rail of our political class’s venality
Occupy Wall Street protester Brandon Watts lies injured on the ground after clashes with police over the eviction of OWS from Zuccotti Park. Photograph: Allison Joyce/Getty Images
US citizens of all...
Have you ever covered a song and posted the video...
liberationthroughtruth:
Congratulations! You’re now legally liable to be sued and/or arrested thanks to the Stop Online Piracy Act!
Thank your mega corporate search engines, Hollywood and plutocratic fascists in Washington. They deserve your adoration.
In Democratic America, Media Censors You!
ltsahardknocklife:
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StopCensorship.org →
Add your name to the list to be read by Senator Wyden during his filibuster against the bill when it comes to voting.
This Internet censorship bill is still seriously standing a very strong chance of passing. Websites like Youtube, Google and TUMBLR could not exist under censorship. Makes sure you take a couple seconds to sign your name and don’t forget to call in on Tuesday.
THIS IS...
hitrecordjoe:
Militarization of Campus Police leftcoastjane:
This UC Davis prof,
Bob Ostertag
Composer, historian, journalist, and Professor of Technocultural Studies and Music at UC Davis
responds to the violence on the Davis campus, I saw it via OhPauline and alyson-noele, it appeared first in HuffPost.
alyson-noele:
Yesterday, police at UC Davis attacked seated students with a...
October 2011
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September 2011
2 posts
What should you do if someone puts a gun to your... →