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Occupy All Streets: D0x on Lamar Seeligson Smith, the founder of SOPA.

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 10:19:25 -0400

Occupy All Streets: D0x on Lamar Seeligson Smith, the founder of SOPA.:

You can tweet Lamar on twitter and tell him what your think about SOPA

Lamar Seeligson Smith

U.S. Representative for Texas’s 21st congressional district, serving since 1987, and the founder of the Stop Online Piracy Act, better known as SOPA.

Birthplace: San Antonio, Texas
Date of Birth: Nov…

Texas tells springbreakers to avoid all of Mexico

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 10:19:17 -0400

univisionnews:

Too dangerous? In a recent travel warning the Texas Deparment of Public Safety said that spring-breakers should stay clear of Mexico, even from Cancun. (Flickr:Kaysha)

By MANUEL RUEDA
Channel: Latin American Affairs, Travel

As the spring break season begins, Texas is telling its students to avoid traveling anywhere in Mexico during the holidays, angering Mexican officials who claimed the travel warning has “political motivations.”

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BUDS IN ACTION - DALLAS, TX

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 10:19:07 -0400

autobuds:

Triple royal blue Toyota FJ Cruisers? On the road? This is like seeing three Wilt Chamberlains at the same time. One’s dunking, one’s blocking a shot, and one’s fucking over 20,000 women. Thanks to Matthew from Dallas for sending us our first non-parked Auto Buds. But safety first, guys, wait for the red light before snapping a pic. Drive an hour out of your way if you have to.

manufacturisation: Bird house for mintgreenlovers.

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 10:18:59 -0400

for mintgreen loving singing birds

sing aloud, little birdie!

and the belt

manufacturisation:

Bird house for mintgreenlovers.

Spotify=Amazing

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 10:18:51 -0400

die-wirkliche-tam:

Download it now.

Probably the coolest thing ever invented.

Recent Articles in the Creek: A Guilty Agent: The Shadowy Role of Timothy McVeigh

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 10:18:44 -0400

Recent Articles in the Creek: A Guilty Agent: The Shadowy Role of Timothy McVeigh:

On the left, McVeigh in Waco in 1993. On the right, an alleged McVeigh from recently surfaced video at Camp Grafton, North Dakota fi lmed in August 1993— well after McVeigh was honorably discharged from service in May 1992. Was McVeigh being secretly trained, as he told his sister, to be a…

*: AWP 2012: LIVEBLOG

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 10:18:37 -0400

*: AWP 2012: LIVEBLOG:

muumuuhouse:

Mallory Whitten, Jordan Castro, Sam Pink, Andrew Weatherhead, Lily Dawn, Noah Cicero, Brittany Wallace, Ben Brooks are liveblogging AWP 2012 in this post. The format is “[liveblog] ([person who liveblogged], [time of liveblog])” chronologically.

THURSDAY (PRE-PARTY IN…

Univision Radio’s first bilingual music fest boasts performances by Paulina Rubio, Juanes and ... Snoop Dogg!

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 10:18:30 -0400

univisionnews:

By AMARIS CASTILLO
Channel: Entertainment

Juanes and Snoop Dogg have more in common than some may think.

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stanleykorshak: MONIQUE PÉAN TRUNK SHOW “We continually work...

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 10:18:20 -0400

Monique Péan Trunk Show Invitation

Monique Péan photo by Thomas Prior

stanleykorshak:

MONIQUE PÉAN TRUNK SHOW

“We continually work around the natural rock formations we find—it’s fascinating to see what nature creates,” Monique Péan on Vogue.com.

Jewelry designer Monique Pean is at Stanley Korshak this weekend, February 3rd & 4th, to provide a sneak peek of her INTI collection of exquisite eco-friendly pieces that will be exclusively available to our clients.

Monique Pean’s career has sky rocketed in recent years (hello, September Vogue feature!) due to her unique designs, bold colors, exquisite details, and sustainable materials. And, what’s new for spring 2012? “There’s a lot more color than I’ve used before,” Monique said to Vogue magazine of “the ombré tourmaline, sliced emerald, and opal discoveries from the region (Peru), which have been expertly converted into shimmering adornments such as drop earrings, necklaces, and those signature diamond pavé rings.”

I had the pleasure of sitting next to Monique at the Tutu Chic event in December, and she truly is beautiful, interesting, and incredibly creative. Come meet Monique for yourself and see her stunning pieces this weekend!

Can’t make it in? Shop Monique Pean online.

linemagazine: Solar Pavilion: Karen Forbes ‘Pavilion’...

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 10:18:11 -0400

linemagazine:

Solar Pavilion: Karen Forbes

‘Pavilion’ is the catchword of our over-biennialised artistic moment. As a term, it is thickly suffused with the complex, contradictory ethos that seemingly underpins international art exchanges in the twenty-first century: at Venice, pavilions are jingoistically-clad stations for a sort of artworld free trade that is itself riven between the bohemian and the neoliberal. The Giardini is a place of concrete anachronism: its multiple architectural outcrops speak of the need, in an artworld that is ostensibly more diverse, more pluralist and more horizontally-structured than ever before, to continue in creating stages for representatives who objectively outshine all others. The pavilion is the most profuse and publically-accessible structure known to the gallery world, and simultaneously one of the most problematic.

In creating her ‘Solar Pavilion’ for the 2011 Edinburgh Art Festival, Karen Forbes offers a revised version of this structure. The Pavilion, based at the foot of the Melville Monument on St. Andrew’s Square, will offer a multi-faceted and ever-shifting programme of events which speaks to all levels of the Festival – 26 institutions, from the National Gallery to Sierra Metro, have applied to make use of the pavilion to extend their respective programmes into this key patch of city-centre real-estate. The success of this venture is, as Line goes to print, yet to be gauged, though in conception at least it certainly fleshes out the other raison d’etre for Forbes’s commission: architectural statement. Commissioned by Edinburgh Art Festival and supported by the Scottish Government Edinburgh Festivals Expo Fund, the Solar Pavilion belongs very much to the realm of the Showpiece architecture that is the twenty-first century artworld’s other great problematic structure. Forbes, who works primarily in Europe and for whom this first major project in her native land represents a significant career milestone, has designed a building of great novelty for the New Town site. The scallop-shell shaped pavilion is clad entirely in glass, and will thus play host to all sorts of carefully calibrated reflections and refractions. What’s more, the structure’s specific location will channel the shadow of the great column under which it bunkers, turning the whole edifice into a gigantic sundial.

An exercise in transparent construction, the pavilion will nonetheless be ‘opaque’ in one very important aspect: what emerges in talking briefly to Forbes is the extent to which she sees her structure as an artwork in itself, a mechanism for ‘drawing with light’, a ‘futuristic representation of time’, to which the label of ‘pavilion’ is attached for public convenience and nothing more. Similar props have been awarded to ‘iconic’ artworld structures such as Frank Gehry’s Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, and yet you’d be hard-pressed to find an advocate to argue that this form of architecture fosters a healthy and productive attitude to either the culture of display or to the cultural politics of arts funding: rather, such examples seem often to pave the way for a politics which gives prestige to ‘iconic’ international outreach over integration at the level of local, grass-roots institutions. Forbes’s effort seems different, however. Her conception of the pavilion reveals a distinctly harmonic relationship between the architectural experimentation it embodies and the significant artistic dialogue it is set to contain. Forbes sees her project as part of a burgeoning ‘raft of commissions’ (this year’s other big commission is Martin Creed’s long-awaited marble re-fit of the Old Town’s Scotsman Steps) that will hopefully come to define not just the unique outlook of the newly re-invigorate Edinburgh Arts Festival, but also the uniquely pro-active (within Coalition-era Britain at least) approach of Creative Scotland as a whole. By supporting projects such as the Solar Pavilion, Scotland’s powers-that-be look prepared to pursue a growth model in the arts. One can only hope that a rise in productivity will be accompanied by an attendant rise in intelligence and integrity, the entrance of a genuine dialogue with the city’s smaller institutions that leaves behind more than an empty shell.

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Luke Healey

timessquarestudio: Camel Smoke Ring Billboard designed by...

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 10:18:02 -0400

timessquarestudio:

Camel Smoke Ring Billboard designed by Douglas Leigh, 1941

“Times Square is the most familiar and most frequently reproduced fragment of urban real estate on the planet.” James Traub

Since its beginning just over a hundred years ago, Times Square has been through many incarnations, each one a reflection of the social and economic condition of its time. The square, which is not technically a square, has gone from being the epitome of urbanity in the early decades of the 20^th century to the urban collapse of the 60s and 70s. Its revival in the early 90s, which many New Yorkers decried as the Disney-fication of Times Square, has led to its present guise as a capital of popular culture, with the corporate headquarters for such giant media companies as Condé Nast, Viacom and Reuters competing for space with the world’s busiest McDonald’s outpost and the largest Toys ‘R Us store. Yet what really attracts the thousands of tourists daily is its manifestation of global marketing, Times Square’s famous “Spectaculars,” so-called since before World War I. The first billboard on Times Square went up on Broadway in 1904, and by 1907 electric billboards began to dazzle the crowd. The most eye-catching early billboards were designed by O.J. Gude, dubbed the Sign King of Times Square, who in 1917 installed a 200-foot long spectacular on the west side of Broadway between 43^rd and 44^th, complete with 12 gleaming moving spearmen. Gude also cunningly joined the Municipal Arts Society, a leading opponent of big signs at the time, and influenced the city to adopt zoning ordinances that eliminated big electric signs anywhere in midtown except Times Square. The man who dominated the billboards from the mid-30s is the pioneering lighting designer Douglas Leigh. Some of his most memorable and spectacular signs for Times Square include A&P’s sign for Eight O’Clock Coffee with clouds of steam emanating from a large cup of coffee and a Camel billboard that blew smoke rings from a steam generator. For Pepsi Cola, he designed a spectacular that featured a 120-foot waterfall pumping 50,000 gallons of water a day. Leigh’s creations led to ever more innovative, colossal and dazzling displays on Times Square. Today the leading spectaculars are made up of millions of L.E.D.’s, capable of transmitting live footage and unimaginable pyrotechnics. As befitting the current environmental consciousness, 30 of the spectaculars in the area have switched to wind power via an electric supply agreement with ConEdison. The rent of these billboards, which run from $100,000 to $260,000 a month, has rendered the 1 Times Square building–the very one that lends its name to the square–empty of tenants except on the first 3 floors. The building is far more profitable to run as a billboard. With millions of people flocking to Times Square every year, and billions of people around the globe watching it daily on the news and on New Year’s Eve, advertising here has become a premium. Tourists come to gawk at the signs, which feeds their attraction for advertisers, who dream up ever more spectacular creations. But in the end, what makes this carnival of lights in Times Square different from Las Vegas? What will be the future incarnation of Times Square if it is to avoid devolving into Las Vegas? As it has done over a century, Times Square will undoubtedly change as the city of New York moves forward in the 21^st century. As James Traub wrote, “The last word on Times Square will never be written.”

- posted by Ngoc Minh Ngo

a page of tumbling madness: you - yes, you! - can teach yourself how to program.

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 10:17:55 -0400

a page of tumbling madness: you - yes, you! - can teach yourself how to program.:

in the beginning was the question

do you think it’s possible to teach yourself programming?

a friend of mine asked me that a couple of nights ago, to my delight. my answer, of course, was

hell yes!

as a matter of fact, any self-respecting programmer you’ve ever met is mostly…

What we’re reading this week: Latino unemployment rate drops to 11% and other top business stories

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 10:17:44 -0400

univisionnews:

U.S. Labor Secretary Hilda Solis welcomes the latest jobs report, Latino unemployment drops - finally. (Photo: Fox News)

By STEPHEN KEPPEL
Channel: Economics

The big economic news of the week is that unemployment fell again in December as nearly 200,000 jobs were created in the month. The official unemployment rate dropped slightly to 8.5%, the lowest rate in almost three years. The Latino unemployment rate, which had been stuck for two months at 11.4%, also dropped - to 11% - in the month.

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Minimal Musings: Travel, Style, Slimming Down.: Wardrobe Mega Sale - Day 4 (New Items Added)

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 10:17:34 -0400

Minimal Musings: Travel, Style, Slimming Down.: Wardrobe Mega Sale - Day 4 (New Items Added):

minimalmusings:

Thanks for anyone that has bought my items so far. I’m going to try to make this even a better deal - buy any 2 items and get 10% off, any 3 and get 15% off, any 4 and get 20% off. Spread the word!

As you may or may not know, I am moving across the country in less than a month. I’m currently…

: Casting Crowns continues to inspire audiences of all ages

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 10:17:23 -0400

: Casting Crowns continues to inspire audiences of all ages :

theknoxvillejournal:

Photo submitted

Popular Christian music group Casting Crowns will perform at the Knoxville Civic Coliseum Nov. 26, along with the groups Sanctus Real, the Afters and special guest Lindsay McCaul.

By J.J. KINDRED

J.Kindred@theknoxvillejournal.com

With multiple Dove, Grammy and other awards…

Suit w/ Sneakers: SXSW 2012 Debriefing....

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 10:17:14 -0400

Suit w/ Sneakers: SXSW 2012 Debriefing....:

suitwithsneakers:

Me and my DJ, Joules, got to Austin early on Tuesday morning, experienced our first taste of SXSW traffic, and got our badges at the Austin Convention Center. We then scoped out where the Flamingo Cantina was, which was an entirely overwhelming experience. It was not even the beginning of the…

theresnoplacelikeyourmouth: ROADTRIP JOURNAL #1 “The Cheapest...

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 10:17:07 -0400

theresnoplacelikeyourmouth:

ROADTRIP JOURNAL #1

“The Cheapest Resort In Florida” is not actually a resort at all. But the large pool with dozens of deck chairs, cabana with wi-fi/air-conditioning/books/giant tv, and free showers would beg to tell you differently. The laundry with outdoor clothes-line and large open fire pits would also like to remind you that this week there will be two free buses to casinos should you decide to partake. The ice cream social and annual flea market & craft fair are also attempting to direct your attention to the wonders of the 230+ acre park next door; there you’ll find a large natural lake with water slides, awkward looking ducks & more giant sized palm trees than you know what to do with.

So what is this place, strangely set in ultra-lux, show thy wealth Miami, FL? Please feel welcome at the Larry & Penny Memorial Park & Campground! Yes the majority of residents are extended stay, over 55 & brandishing RVs of a serious nature. But the joy of this is that the tents’ area is completely clear and for just $17/night a bright orange Marmot tent can freely perch on its’ rocky dirt ground. Tonight the hookah will flow freely from our damp wooden table, and the the smoke shall obscure the moon. (Or the real clouds will, it’s a toss-up).

Elaborate narrative aside, it is beautiful here. High 70s-low 80s with overcast skies that are courtesy of the thunderstorm rain we had all last night. Our exceedingly good looking and well-behaved dog is technically not welcome in the tent area - why? no clue. no good reason was given. there’s no bears or alligators here - although dogs are everywhere else in the RV area. We snuck him in last night and pled guilty today, begging for an exception for tonight. Thankfully it was granted, and I played mini-soccer with the pug in the back lot while my BF showered after his run.

Shot a set for Zivity in the (controlled?) burned area of palms near the water in my cut-offs & new earrings. It was the fourth of the trip! The first one is already up and can be seen here: http://www.zivity.com/models/Vaunt/photosets/38 We also shot some beautiful art nudes as well I’ll post as soon as I have them. I’m trying to smile more and I swear I’m getting better at it! Practice, worry about face wrinkles, practice, practice.

I don’t want to ramble on forever, so here are some highlights from the month-long trip, which is currently clocking in right in the middle. Jacksonville, Raleigh, Charleston, Richmond & DC coming up!

Trying to outrun snow than getting caught anyways, and being forced to stay at a great hotel & shoot instead.

Stopping in Charleston, WV for a break & being pleasantly surprised! Pies & Pints restaurant, and more vintage & antiques than you can shake a stick at.

Seeing Echo & Colin J. Rae in Tennessee, and the great hang-outs that resulted in me getting to know both of them better.

Overnight stop in Columbus, MS to catch-up with a childhood friend I haven’t seen in 10years. Thanks for the ancient aliens education & taking me to the BEST VINTAGE STORE ON EARTH, The Attic!

Hanging out with my fav super-science major & gorgeous redhead Jess Robinson, then going to the amazing Dolly Python store where I lusted after jars of coral & bone fragments.

Doing a high-end club promotion video & multiple look editorial in Dallas, TX. I fear that I will never again wear so much clothing I personally couldn’t afford, and being hand delivered deeeeelicious BBQ.

Entering the cave of Hattie Watson and her BF in Austin, TX where we watched a documentary on black metal & I bought skunk skins.

The very, very long trek from there to Tampa, FL during which my phone ran out of data usage. Oops!

Meeting the beyond talented & fun Colin Christian and collaborating on ideas for sculptures & latex.

FINALLY meeting Lauren Peralta in Orland, FL + getting to shoot with her and Jose who is my favorite Tito :P

Realizing & exploiting McDonalds for its free wireless & less than $3.00 meals. The good outways the bad on that one, but I can’t wait to eat better when I get home.

And, your two Moments of Zen:

Why are so many elderly folks’ dogs mean & yippie? And why does my nose burn instead of freckle-ing like my cheeks? EXPLAIN, UNIVERSE, EXPLAIN YOURSELF.

RTD Virginia Politics Blog: UPDATED: Webb votes against repealing oil subsidies

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 10:16:58 -0400

RTD Virginia Politics Blog: UPDATED: Webb votes against repealing oil subsidies:

virginiapolitics:

BY WESLEY P. HESTER

Undercutting Democrats’ week of attacks on U.S. Sen. Candidate George Allen, Sen. Jim Webb, D-Va., today voted against legislation that would have stripped $24 billion in tax subsidies from the country’s five largest oil companies.

Shortly after President Barack Obama urged…

conceptvault: Invincible by Ryan Ottley

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 10:16:44 -0400

conceptvault:

Invincible by Ryan Ottley

sadguysontradingfloors: Aw man. The house is a mess, mom’s...

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 10:16:27 -0400

sadguysontradingfloors:

Aw man. The house is a mess, mom’s going to kill me when she gets home.