September 2011
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thefactyoureheremeanssomething- asked: Your work is amazing!
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My Family’s Experiment in Extreme Schooling →
By Clifford J. Levy, September 15, 2011
The phone rang, and my stomach clenched when I heard her voice. “Daddy? I want to go home,” said my 8-year-old daughter, Arden. Two hours earlier, I dropped Arden and her two siblings off at their new school in a squat building in a forest of Soviet-era apartment blocks on Krasnoarmeyskaya (Red Army) Street in Moscow. They hugged me goodbye, clinging a...
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What if the Secret to Success Is Failure? →
By Paul Tough, September 14, 2011
Dominic Randolph can seem a little out of place at Riverdale Country School — which is odd, because he’s the headmaster. Riverdale is one of New York City’s most prestigious private schools, with a 104-year-old campus that looks down grandly on Van Cortlandt Park from the top of a steep hill in the richest part of the Bronx. On the discussion boards...
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Learn How to Shave Like Your Grandpa →
Proper shaving has become a lost art. Today’s average male has no clue about the fine art of the traditional wet shave that their grandfathers and some of their fathers used to take part in. Instead, they’re only accustomed to the cheap and disposable shaving products that companies market. I’m not sure when or why it happened, but the tradition of passing down the secrets of a clean shave...
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“Whether you’re painting, singing, acting or dancing, do it with passion,...”
– J. Ferrie
http://about.me/erichu →
Vote for me! You don’t need an account. And you can vote once everyday until setp.20. I know i’m probably not going to win. but I might have a chance if every one of my followers here helped. ;)
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Poor Models →
By Ashley Mears, September 14, 2011, The New York Times
AS the designers, stylists and editors of Fashion Week pack up to leave New York City today, one group of participants isn’t going anywhere: hundreds of young models, the surplus labor of the fashion industry.
Ten years ago, I was one of them. When I told my dad excitedly that I would be walking in a fashion show — which paid in dresses...
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Ashley Mears' "Pricing Beauty": What a sociologist... →
By Libby Copeland, September 7, 2001, Slate Magazine
There’s a long tradition among academics of embedding in an occupation to study it. In the middle of the last century, social psychologist Marie Jahoda worked in an English paper factory to learn about about the lives of factory girls. More recently, sociologist Loïc Wacquant studied boxers by becoming one, while Sudhir Venkatesh...
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Walking Out on China →
YUNNAN PROVINCE, in southwestern China, has long been the exit point for Chinese who yearn for a new life outside the country. There, one can sneak out of China by land, passing through pristine forests, or one can go by water, floating all the way down the Lancang River until it becomes the Mekong, which meanders into Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam.
So each time I set foot there,...
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Disease-spreading mosquito found in San Gabriel... →
oh I remember these things back in china…
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http://about.me/erichu →
if you would, please vote for me top right. :) you don’t need an account to vote!
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World’s First ‘Blue’ Rose Soon Available in U.S. →
Long a symbol of the unattainable, blue roses will be for sale this fall in the United States and Canada.
Named “Applause,” the rose is genetically modified to synthesize delphinidin, a pigment found in most blue flowers. The rose was first released in in Tokyo in 2009, after 20 years of research by Suntory, a Japanese company that also distills whisky, and its Australian subsidiary, Florigene...
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The Dark Side of the Placebo Effect: When Intense... →
They died in their sleep one by one, thousands of miles from home. Their median age was 33. All but one — 116 of the 117 — were healthy men. Immigrants from southeast Asia, you could count the time most had spent on American soil in just months. At the peak of the deaths in the early 1980s, the death rate from this mysterious problem among the Hmong ethnic group was equivalent to the...
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The Creativity of Anger →
Many of my favorite Steve Jobs stories feature his anger, as he unleashes his incisive temper on those who fail to meet his incredibly high standards. A few months ago, Adam Lashinsky had a fascinating article in Fortune describing life inside the sanctum of 1 Infinite Loop. The article begins with the following scene:
In the summer of 2008, when Apple launched the first version of its iPhone...
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The expressive web →
Power of HTML5 and CSS3
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How to grow your own bridge →
Deep in the rainforests of the Indian state of Meghalaya, bridges are not built, they’re grown.
Ancient vines and roots of trees stretch horizontally across rivers and streams, creating a solid latticework structure strong enough to be used as a bridge.
Some of the bridges are over a hundred feet long and can support the weight of fifty or more people.
The Cherrapunji region is one of the...
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Digital camera
I really need to get a digital camera for photographing my oil paintings.
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invinculis asked: i definitely can understand you there.. sometimes i find conversation tiring and i tune people out. or i just stop responding. eh. my friends don't understand how i live in my head. :') it's why my memory is always so bad.
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thedustwhispered replied to your chat: How I lost a friend via text
that happens to me a lot too. people don’t understand that i just don’t start conversations. :/
ya not only that. sometimes… ok a lot of the times I just don’t feel like talking to people. people tire me out. you know the personality test thing, i’m like 56% introverted.
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How I lost a friend via text
Friend: Hi
Me: yo
Me: Hows it goinf
Me: Its 97 degrees here....
Friend: You never talk to me
Me: lol dont be offended, i don't talk to anyone. i'm just like that :p
Friend: Ex friend
Me: ouch.
Me: i am a bad friend sorry
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Are We All Relying Just a Little Too Much on... →
By Oren Katzeff, September 6, 2011
My wife was featured on The Food Network a few weeks ago.
I say this not to boast or to call out how wonderful she is; rather, I do so to point out what a complete failure I was in telling our friends and family to tune in. My strategy for promotion was very simple: two posts on my Facebook wall on consecutive days announcing the day and time of the airing of...
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Post-Industrial, Assembly-Line Art →
Facing larger demand for original pieces, artists don’t always paint the work they sign. A phenomenon that’s rarely discussed in the art world: The new work on a gallery wall wasn’t necessarily painted by the artist who signed it. Some well-known artists, such as Damien Hirst and Jeff Koons, openly employ small armies of assistants to do their paintings and sculptures. Others...
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Denis Dutton: A Darwinian theory of beauty
Human beings have a permanent innate taste for virtuoso displays in the arts. We find beauty in something done well. Yes this is a theory. But it explains why I don’t find many of the contemporary arts beautiful. They’re not done well, they display no skills. They’re nothing more than clever ideas.
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New font for Typewriter
As you can see from my page right now. I got a new font for Typewriter. This font supports bold and italics. I also made some other changes which you may or may not notice. So reapply in a couple of days… however long tumblr takes to approve my changes.
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10 Things Everyone Should Know About Time →
“Time” is the most used noun in the English language, yet it remains a mystery. We’ve just completed an amazingly intense and rewarding multidisciplinary conference on the nature of time, and my brain is swimming with ideas and new questions. Rather than trying a summary (the talks will be online soon), here’s my stab at a top ten list partly inspired by our discussions: the things everyone should...
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Anonymous asked: Hi! First of all - I love your typewriter theme. Have you had a chance to figure out a solution for the problems with italics yet? Thank you so much!
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Rain
It’s raining where I live. I really love rain. The smell and the sound of rain drops. The smell is refreshing and the sound is relaxing. Oh and I hear thunder! That’s icing on the top.
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“As long as you can start, you are all right. The juice will come.”
– Ernest Hemingway
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Let the 80s Roll: In the Design World,... →
Age is often associated with creative obsolescence—so why are so many of the oldest designers still so good?
Recently I turned 60, which is the new 50. However, at 50 I often felt more like 60, and now at 60, I look a lot like 40 but sometimes my body feels around 80, which is the new 70. Age is relative; aging is biological. My own aging made me think more about even older graphic designers...
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The Trophy Wife →
By Deanna Fei, September 1, 2011, New York Times
ONE balmy evening in Shanghai, my boyfriend and I were strolling home from dinner when two boozy blond men called to us. Expecting a plea for directions, we stopped. The men leered at me and grinned at my boyfriend.
“Where’s the party?” they asked jovially. “You know, Chinese girls. Where can we get one of these?”
They meant me.
My boyfriend...
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ericpaints.it →
So this is what I’ve been working on. I completely redesigned the whole thing. Check out my new website domain too. :)
