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avoidence: Jeff Bridges Honored for His Photography | Jeff has...

Sun, 05 May 2013 22:09:29 -0400

Jeff Bridges Honored for His Photography |

Jeff has some surprisingly great images, but I guess living inside movies for so long gives you a great sense for the pictures you want to create.

On his camera: “The Widelux is a fickle mistress; its viewfinder isn’t accurate, and there’s no manual focus, so it has an arbitrariness to it, a capricious quality. I like that. It’s something I aspire to in all my work — a lack of preciousness that makes things more human and honest, a willingness to receive what’s there in the moment and to let go of the result. Getting out of the way seems to be one of the main tasks for me as an artist.”

Buffalo Springfield

Wed, 06 Mar 2013 19:44:47 -0500

Buffalo Springfield:

What are you listening to this evening? I’ve stumbled into Buffalo Springfield… really nice.

Back a while I invited ideas for a social justice playlist. I...

Wed, 27 Feb 2013 13:55:29 -0500

Back a while I invited ideas for a social justice playlist. I think this is going to post a link to that list on spotify. There are some great songs here. Some are missing because they are not available on spotify (like Twice Thou, Beat Back the Bank Attack). This is a collaborative list so if you want to add to it you can… please do, but no more than three by one artist. Let me know…

In the sink

Sun, 17 Feb 2013 23:32:58 -0500

In the sink

Late evening tune...John McKenna

Wed, 30 Jan 2013 23:53:49 -0500

Late evening tune...John McKenna

disparate world, held together by love. what else?

Wed, 30 Jan 2013 23:27:00 -0500

you're leaving me

stickers on fruit and trucks

work a day world filled with bright splashes

dimly viewed

taking turns

geometry

vintage bully

disparate world, held together by love. what else?

Banana peel 2

Sun, 23 Dec 2012 23:49:01 -0500

Banana peel 2

Banana peel

Sun, 23 Dec 2012 23:47:33 -0500

Banana peel

nprfreshair: Stephen Colbert on the parallel between Elvis...

Sun, 28 Oct 2012 21:31:30 -0400

nprfreshair:

Stephen Colbert on the parallel between Elvis Costello’s relationship with Bruce Springsteen and Colbert’s relationship with Jon Steward:

[Elvis Costello] was trying when he was younger to try to write Bruce Springsteen songs — and that he really liked Bruce Springsteen’s sound. And he said but then he eventually stopped doing that because he would try write these songs like Bruce Springsteen and he would end up writing things that were a little bit wry, sardonic, or even character-based. And they didn’t have that sort of sincere, anthemic quality that Bruce’s songs sometimes has. And that kind of blew me away because he’s describing his relation to Bruce Springsteen kind of like my relationship to Jon Stewart. And Jon’s favorite artist is Bruce Springsteen and my favorite rock artist is probably Elvis Costello. So there’s an odd parallel between Elvis’ evolution from what he was trying to do like Bruce and my evolution from what I was trying to do when I worked with Jon.

laughingsquid: Underwater Dogs, A Book of Dogs Fetching Things...

Sun, 28 Oct 2012 21:30:28 -0400

laughingsquid:

Underwater Dogs, A Book of Dogs Fetching Things Underwater by Photographer Seth Casteel

The fork

Sat, 16 Jun 2012 23:31:56 -0400

The fork

Photo

Sat, 12 May 2012 19:48:51 -0400

Photo

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 03:58:10 -0400

"If you’re an engineer working on a problem and you’re stumped by your technical problem, chugging..."

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 03:55:51 -0400

“If you’re an engineer working on a problem and you’re stumped by your technical problem, chugging caffeine at your desk and chaining yourself to your computer, you’re going to be really frustrated. You’re going to waste lots of time. You may look productive, but you’re actually wasting time. Instead, at that moment, you should go for a walk. You should play some ping-pong. You should find a way to relax.”

- Dear TG: Today’s show with Jonah Lehrer explains why we should have a ping-pong table in the Fresh Air office. (Pretty please?)

Songwriters Against Monsanto

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 06:26:07 -0500

meadowslark:

I have no idea who Michael Hurley is but I love his project. He’s inviting songwriters to submit anti-Monsanto songs. If you are a musician, or know one, think about it. BTW, the graphic was borrowed from an article at Climate-connections.org, which, if you harbor Suspicions about Monsanto, will only feed your fears.

Clementine peel negative.

Sat, 21 Jan 2012 09:22:13 -0500

Clementine peel negative.

low-country: Quentin Szuwarski - untitled (2011) (flickr)

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 21:34:38 -0500

low-country:

Quentin Szuwarski - untitled (2011)

(flickr)

mollyfamous: I want YOU to stop being AFRAID of other...

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 09:37:11 -0500

mollyfamous:

I want YOU to stop being AFRAID of other Americans of other religions of other classes of other nations of speaking out. You’re Americans. Act like it! If you don’t get it, ask an American who does. Let’s change “Americans” to “Human Beings” and make it viral!

avoidence: Carl Kleiner the new IKEA | Wow, I already loved...

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 23:33:05 -0500

avoidence:

Carl Kleiner the new IKEA |

Wow, I already loved how Ikea presented their products, but this is a new level of awesome.

"Today there are more African-Americans under correctional control — in prison or jail, on probation..."

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 11:57:33 -0500

“Today there are more African-Americans under correctional control — in prison or jail, on probation or parole — than were enslaved in 1850, a decade before the Civil War began.”

- Michelle Alexander, on the number of blacks in the criminal justice system. On Monday’s Fresh Air, Alexander details how President Reagan’s war on drugs led to a mass incarceration of black males and the difficulties these felons face after serving their prison sentences. (via nprfreshair)