February 2009
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a poem by cameron hockly
the silence is humming (or is that the stereo)
(or is that the neighbours)
(or is that the traffic)
the silence is humming
stronger than the ring that remains when noise has faded
the hum of silence
music to fall asleep to
(music to dream to)
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“We live in imaginary worlds. We live in the world of the possible, a possible...”
– [extracted from a long piece in a back issue of OFR magazine, now offline] (via megpickard)
this reminds me of ‘poetic terrorism’ and i like it.
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What everybody else is doing is irrelevant - 37... →
Absolutely true. Do what you need to do and don’t stop doing it because of what someone else is doing if it is right for you.
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thoughts on webstock
the third webstock has come and gone, leaving me feeling bereft (as the passing of all great things do).
when we left auckland wednesday night i felt exhausted, a frazzled string of christmas lights. i don’t think i was the only one. over the 2 days of the conference it was as if each section of cord and each bulb slowly untangled itself and re-lit. by friday night i was tired but...
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The Lumière Reader » Film » On Slumdog Millionaire →
the second amazing movie I have seen in 2009 as reviewed by sapna samant, eminently more qualified to review & smarter than myself.
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“If you tell people they can upload their content, you should have a clear and...”
– ASCII by Jason Scott / Eviction, or the Coming Datapocalypse (via adactio)
This absolutely horrifies me, especially when I think about how much I believe in and advocate for people to document online. Read the comments in particular that Jason quotes.
HOW can we take a stand?
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Teenagers 'spend an average of 31 hours online' -... →
my second hellyeah of the day via aja:
They spend some three and a half hours communicating with friends on MSN, and around two hours on YouTube and in chat rooms.
Just over an hour is devoted to looking up cosmetic surgery procedures such as how to enlarge breasts and get collagen implants, an hour and a half is spent on family planning and pregnancy websites and one hour 35 minutes is spent...
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“It is not only that this law denies the accused any due process, it is that it...”
– Russell Brown with a backgrounder on section 92(A) of New Zealand’s soon-to-be-enacted new copyright legislation that will require internet service providers to summarily disconnect the accounts of users even accused of copyright infringement. Twitter users are blacking out their avatars on social...
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Watchkrislane:
Pixar University’s Randy Nelson explains what schools must do to prepare students for jobs in new media.
Learning and Working in the Collaborative Age: A New Model for the Workplace
copycats:
Heroes by TV on the Radio originally by...
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film review > man on wire
Amazing, amazing documentary about Philippe Petit and the high-wire walk/dance he performed in the mid-1970s.
I really enjoyed the story & the way it is told: the unfolding of such an audacious act would have been quite compelling even if it hadn’t been produced in such a beautiful way.
This is definitely worth seeing on the large screen - the photography and the reconstructions...