December 2011
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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.