March 2012
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posted by Emily
In Taipei, my tongue is a few gradations too pale,
the drawl of my Californian scrawling syllabry
into chicken scratch Chinese: mangled and unwieldy,
Something more like sign than syntax.
In the morning, it longed for a bag of Cheetoes,
Homesick.
Wanting to wrap itself in salty-con-limon-con-queso,
Nurture confounding nature
(as lactose intolerance is my ancestral...
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#onrevolution and coming to full-circle with...
posted by Hatty
She stayed in Detroit when so many people had left. She decided that there was something in the life of that city worth throwing her whole lot into. She helped people re-imagine what new urban cores could look like — urban farmers, teachers, labor organizers, journalists, artists, everyone, all connected to the everyday reality of the city, the lives of the residents, the...
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“There’s a heaven now, somewhere else.
There’s a heaven here,...”
– Rob Bell, “Love Wins, Ch. 2”
posted by Molly
Bell describes heaven as a “very earthy place” where we are still planting and harvesting grapes, and manufacturing pots, and some such activities, but in which there are no toxic factories or rapists, or racists, because none of...
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Writing Your Walls
posted by Molly
You paint a landscape into your bedroom wall. What is that landscape of? And when you stick your hand through your wall, Looney Tunes style, where does that landscape take you?
Write it, draw it, paint it, or best of all, put it on your wall and send us the pictures!
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Watchposted by Hatty
Street art that eats up smog? KNOxOUT, a new paint by a Manila-based company Boysen, experiments with a 3,000-plus feet long mural in one of the most polluted cities in the world.
There’s a huge need of air-cleaning paintings and there’s a huge need of visual stimulation.
- Tapio Snellman, Finnish artist and filmmaker
Agreed. I like the idea of art meets science...
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