February 2012
38 posts
"I can’t believe I burned down a tree older then... →
motherjones:
26-year-old Sarah Barnes’s alleged response to allegedly burning down the fifth oldest tree in the world—a 3,500-year-old, 118-foot-tall bald cypress—while (allegedly) on meth. Barnes is allegedly from Florida.
“This is a timely exhibition. At a moment when too much art is dependent for its...”
– ‘Cindy Sherman’ at Museum of Modern Art - NYTimes.com (via photographsonthebrain)
JMC: That comment about “art’s political and moral effects” and “deep, in many ways selfish, psychological needs” - that’s easy to mis-read in many different ways, and at its core...
Raw Data: How Registration Affects Comments
motherjones:
A few weeks ago Mother Jones started requiring registration with email verification for commenters. So how has that worked out? Here are the basic stats from our tech wizards:
22% decrease in total comments
22% increase in Twitter logins
257% increase in Facebook logins
45% decrease in comments our moderators decided to delete
And anecdotally, the comments seem much more...
"[T]he Death Star requires .03% of the GDP of each... →
motherjones:
Most excellent article on our site today, vol. 1: “The Death Star is a Surprisingly Cost-Effective Weapons System,” by Kevin Drum.
Don’t get any ideas, Gingrich.
The Incoherent Light: Re: Meditations →
theincoherentlight:
This image is from the latest installment of Joerg’s excellent series Meditations on Photography and, as ever, he raises some fascinating points. The photograph always involves some kind of complicity with its subject and this is, of course, especially disturbing when that subject is…
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Blankpaper Grant for Photographic Projects →
eyecurious:
I almost never post about competitions or call for entries seeing as there are enough of these cluttering up our inboxes already. I’m making an exception for the Blankpaper grant. This Spanish school seems to be a great laboratory for interesting photo projects (Ricardo Cases and Julián Barón, both of whom produced terrific books last year, teach at the school). The Blankpaper grant...
“Photography is too easy in a superficial way, and in consequence is treated...”
– Alvin Langdon Coburn, in: The Future of Pictorial Photography, 1916
A post I wrote for the New Yorker photo blog on... →
Just one comment: Grannan’s Boulevard was photographed digitally, not with a 4x5.
“Proposition 8 serves no purpose, and has no effect, other than to lessen the...”
– Judge Stephen Reinhardt, in a federal appellate court’s majority opinion overturning the notorious California anti-gay marriage law. (via motherjones)
A very good day for civil rights and human decency!
Cool, just never eat chicken again. →
motherjones:
liberalyouth:
Survey results seem to indicate that about 80 percent of poultry growers don’t ever sanitize their crates, according to an Auburn University survey of 10,317 farms. What’s more, just 18.3 percent sanitize their trucks and trailers—two areas that contribute to the spread of Salmonella and Campylobacter.
Seriously, the title isn’t a joke. Prepare to be grossed out...