“Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.”
- Michelangelo
Eating Dogs Is No Worse Than Eating Pigs
“…do pigs have any more or less of a soul than dogs? Are they any more or less sentient? Do they suffer any more or less in death? Are they any more or less part of the mysterious unity of life? I think not.”
(via The New York Times)
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a song from San Mateo High School’s winter musical, 42nd Street.
shout out to my cousin, Ally, who’s on the far left! i’m so proud of her!
“Practice safe design: Use a concept.”
- Petrula Vrontikis
Plitvicka Jezera National Park is one of Earth’s jewels. This mountain valley holds many large emerald lakes, each of which drains into the next in spectacular series of waterfalls.
Reblogged from Things like that.
Groove Armada’s video for “Paper Romance”
The new single from the forthcoming Black Light album.
Directed by Hope Audikana
Fire, Agriculture, Design: How Human Creativity Built Society
“Ever since the Renaissance, we have been told that art is a product of a noble society, one that is rich enough and functional enough to support the muse. Maslow’s hierarchy of needs made that belief into science: In order for humans to reach the peaks of artistic thinking, he postulated, they must provide for their most basic needs such as food, shelter, sex and more. This social science axiom has been introduced to me more than once in meetings about design, effectively suggesting that design (and art) are secondary and may exist only at the benevolence of functionalists, those people who satisfy our core existential needs first. With that idea so deeply ingrained in our culture, society is now programmed to see art and design as luxury we can afford only after our basic “needs” are met.”
(via Fast Company)
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Coca-Cola Goes Completely Green at Olympics
“In Ambitious Eco-Friendly Push, Sponsor Big Red Vows to Produce Zero Waste During the Vancouver Games”
Does this mean their farm lobbying arm will stop petitioning the government for corn subsidies (i.e., cheap high fructose corn syrup) that cause systematic overplanting and the accompanying water table depletion and overfertilization (not to mention an epidemic of obesity and skyrocketing healthcare costs)? Or does their “greenwash” only extend to meaningless gestures?
(via Ad Age)
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“If you can’t love me at my worst, then you don’t deserve me at my best.”
- Marilyn Monroe
I would be here tonight if I were in NY
