Who knew researching could bring up some addictive benefits — here are 2 songs playing on the site of the beautiful Joah Love (which does cute, fine children’s togs). Total boogie material!! (:
(I really like the instrumental version playing on the Joah Love site!)
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be sure to check out the latest NYT magazine, a compilation of women issues. it includes a lovely story on how microfinancing has allowed opportunities to groom female breadwinners in developing countries. just yesterday, the site was updated with reader-submitted photographs of women around the world — in this gallery are some of the most gorgeous ladies i’ve seen, faces of strength than power.
clockwise from top left:
- an aspiring model in the village of Ghana recycles a pair of sunglasses discarded by a volunteer
- a factory worker at a ceramic tile workspace in Yunnan
- a cancer battler/survivor
- Maheena from Kenya went the distance to seek treatment for an ailment, but could not return home as she did not know where she’d really lived
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What do you love at work most?
Here are six things I love:
1) Thinking about ideas and content freely — with the deadline far away.
2) Working without interruption on a single project.
3) Using a wide variety of tools and techniques.
4) Travelling to new places.
5) Working on projects that matter to me.
6) Having things come back from the printer done well.
- Stefan Sagmeister
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Salvador Dali – Rose Meditative (1958)
On toiling:
“Baba, you cannot practise art on an empty stomach – let me first make enough money from the lighter forms, then I’ll be able to devote myself to classical,” says Shyamji.
– Amit Chaudhuri; The Immortals
On living:
The only dream worth having, I told her, is to dream that you will live while you’re alive and die only when you’re dead… …To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never, to forget.
– Arundhati Roy; The End of Imagination
On love:
There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.
– 1 John 4:18
He is love.
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10 April: Happy Good Friday! Do you know that it always rains at this time? Today, they screened a B-grade film and I kept tearing. It was beautiful. And a good reminder that aesthetics is secondary to message.
For there is a proper time and procedure for every matter, though a man’s misery weighs heavily upon him. Since no man knows the future, who can tell him what is to come? No man has power over the wind to contain it; so no one has power over the day of his death. As no one is discharged in time of war, so wickedness will not release those who practice it. All this I saw, as I applied my mind to everything done under the sun. There is a time when a man lords it over others to his own hurt. – Eccle 8:6-9
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21 April: And then I won’t get student discounts to concerts ever again! I can’t decide if that’s good or bad news!
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1 May: Hopefully, I get to make the girls suffer! It’s called DDD – De Daily Dare… Hehehe… ;)
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Beyond May — May 2040 that is — I hope to own a dusty bookstore and live in a magical little home. (And attain the 2Cs — children and crockery — along the way.) That’s all I ask for, Lord!
Shakespeare & Co., Paris
Home of Maximilla and Guy, Los Angeles
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Strangely, Lil Wayne appeared in a test I had to sit for today. I still wonder why, and I wouldn’t have known who he was if not for the sick beats of 3 Peat. Add to that a recent awesome Rolling Stone cover by Peter Yang — way sleeker than the earlier U2 one (as much as I love the band)! On the other hand, I couldn’t spell out the name of the prime minister of Thailand, so at this point it is tragic where my news values are heading….
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June 30th marks the beginning of the U2 360° tour. It will visit 14 cities across Europe, followed by dates in North America. Featuring an innovative new stage design, fans can enjoy the show from every angle.
Long-time U2 Show Director Willie Williams has worked again with architect Mark Fisher (ZooTV, PopMart, Elevation and Vertigo), to create an innovative360° design which affords an unobstructed view for the audience. U2 360° also marks the first time a band has toured in stadiums with such a unique and original structure.
In keeping with their long-standing tradition, U2 will welcome a number of different support acts to the tour including Glasvegas, Elbow, Kaiser Chiefs, Snow Patrol and Black Eyed Peas with additional artists to be announced.
need to watch U2 before i die. it’s just insane — scary, even — how the band materialises the musical experience.
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there was a boy named Jack and a girl named Jill. While Jack was often forgetful, Jill could be too incessantly self-absorbed. These were obvious problems in the eyes of others, but Jack and Jill couldn’t quite see that in one another. It was not that they were blindly in love, because if you stood from a distance you would notice strange puffs of clouds hanging between them. A little piece covered Jill’s eyes where she could have seen Jack’s forgetful spot, and another concealed Jack’s eyes where he would have gotten glances of Jill’s self-absorbed nature. When they walked, the clouds shifted along, like those of the big blue sky. Jack and Jill’s eyes were quite like the sun — all-knowing, though not all-seeing — shining through only to the parts that needed illuminating. Then one day, they tumbled down the hill after fetching a pail of water. The clouds rolled along with such great speed that they broke out into thunder and rain. But later, the sun quickly cleared the skies for the cotton to come together again, just right between the two and just right at the parts that called for shade. With all the elements back in the places where they belonged, Jack and Jill once more lived happily ever after,
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