2008

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Dress by Li Xiaofeng, made from shards of traditional...

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In the Heat of the Moment, by Ryan Jones. Via Juxtapoz.

By Si Scott, who works almost exclusively with pencil and...

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“Who was ‘Venn’ and his diagrams? Was he the most boring...”
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— Richard Hofstadter

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— Francisco Goya

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By Stephan Doitschinoff (aka Calma), via Juxtapoz.

How to Tell If Your Cat is Plotting to Kill...

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“No door slams like a screen door.”
— J.D. Salinger

Two hundred-year-old vampire killing kit, which was recently...

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By Al Farrow, whose Reliquaries collection is made primarily...

“I think that a lot of us, whether we are religious or not —...”
— Salman Rushdie

Hiroshima: The Lost Photographs

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Self-Trepannation Self-Portrait by the wonderful Madeline...

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“Belgian photographer Filip Dujardin makes images of...

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“I’m nihilistic, antagonistic, violent, horrible - but not...”
— Lydia Lunch (via luminol)

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Madonna con Clon, by artist and geneticist Hunter...

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Amazing stuff by Joana Vasconcelos, discovered via Preik.

“Don’t fuck it up or I’ll kill you. All right, I love you....”
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I Believe I Can Walk through Walls, by Reed Barrow. Via who...

“I do not like assassins, or men of low character.”
— Gene Hackman

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By Nick Asbury, via Preik.

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Saut dans le vide (Leap into the Void) documenting Yves...

The Supreme Court and FCC on the...

Justice Ginsburg: Are those the only two words in the FCC's new policy or are there other words on the list?
General Garre [FCC]: Well, certainly, the FCC's action in this case focuses on the use of the F-Word and the S-Word, and I think everyone acknowledges that a word like the F-Word is one of the most graphic, explicit, and vulgar words in the English language for sexual activity. And I think even the networks here concede that it was -- its use was gratuitous and inappropriate here. And that would control --
Justice Stevens: Isn't it true that -- isn't it true that that is a word that often is used with -- with no reference whatsoever to the -- the sexual connotation?
General Garre: It can be -- it certainly can be used in a non-literal way. It can be used in a metaphorical way, as Cher used it here, to say "F them" to her critics. But the -- the non-literal/literal distinction is not unique to the isolated expletives versus the repeated effort -- expletives.
Justice Stevens: You think it's equally -- it's equally subject to being treated as indecent within the meaning of the statute regardless of which meaning was actually apparent to everybody who listened to it?
General Garre: I wouldn't say equally, Justice Stevens, but what we would say is that it can qualify as indecent under the -- under the Commission's definition, because even the non-literal use of a word like the F-Word, because of its core meaning of that word as one of the most vulgar, graphic, and explicit words for sexual activity in the English language, it inevitably conjures up a core sexual image.
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Justice Stevens: Maybe I shouldn't ask this, but is there ever appropriate [sic] for the Commission to take into consideration at all the question whether the particular remark was really hilarious, very, very funny? Some of these things you can't help but laugh at. Is that -- is that a proper consideration, do you think?
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Source: http://www.supremecourtus.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts.html

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This. Fucking. Election.

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Hang Over by Fred Tomaselli: leaves, pills, acrylic and...

Benito Mussolini’s bookplates, via Confessions of a...

From this week’s PostSecret.

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“She’s high on her own fumes.”
— Henry Rollins on Sarah Palin

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— Nick Cave

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— John Hodgman

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“Your whole personality is in your nose.”
— Edith Piaf

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From March 1997 Vogue Italia, via foto_decadent.

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“Mona Lisa looks as if she has just been sick, or is about to...”
— Noël Coward

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“While You Were Sleeping” by Su Blackwell. Via...

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From this week’s PostSecret.

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By Shepard Fairey, via Onion Magazine.

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— Sarah Vowell

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William Hope’s spirit photography, via vintagephoto.

The dEEr Hunter, by Mayo. More at Juxtapoz.

Curb Your Enthusiasm to Resume Production [!]

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Waiting for Nov. 4th, by Larry David

By Anna James, via Design Milk.

If the World Could Vote