Erika Larsen, Sámi (2007-2011)
Sámi is the result of a four-year-long project in which Washington DC based photographer Erika Larsen immersed herself in the life of the Sámi people. The Sámi (Joni Mitchell and René Zellweger are both descendents), are an indigenous tribe living within the Arctic circle in the northern parts of Scandinavia and Russia.
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from the spam
Well known holding period is forever.
Megan Amram on Last Call
One of my favorite Twitterers, Megan Amram, was on Last Call with Carson Daly.
Redington
“And this is where it starts.”
Living in the county long enough, you begin to feel that you know every road, every creek, and even every cow; but there are still places hiding out there, waiting, scattered amid the leaves, in the lonely hollows.
But where are we? Where have we gone?
Somewhere Beyond the Corn.
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from the comments
Update: The story behind the image.
quotes out of context
Great products, he said, were a triumph of taste, of “trying to expose yourself to the best things humans have done and then trying to bring those things into what you are doing.”
Forget the double rainbow. This year, the quadruple rainbow is all the rage.
Cheney makes Nixon, even in his darker days, seem almost dignified.
The costs of sequencing are falling so rapidly it will soon make sense for everyone to carry their entire genetic code with them on a USB drive.
Good
We Won Backyard Garden of the Year
Kristopher designed this four years ago. Subcontractors did the structures and masonry, we did the garden. This year, the garden grew into the space it was meant to be.
Louis Mensch
People like this delightfully baffle me, but I do wonder why they always seem to be British:
Then July brought Rupert and James Murdoch’s appearance before the culture select committee, from which she emerged a surprise star. Within minutes, however, Piers Morgan was taunting her live on CNN for misquoting him to the committee, and subsequently extracted a public apology. Somebody else evidently also took exception, because she received an email from a pseudonymous investigative journalist claiming to have proof that she took drugs and danced drunkenly with the musician Nigel Kennedy in a nightclub in the 1990s, in full view of journalists, while working as an EMI press officer.
Her response will probably be studied by students of political spin for years to come: “Although I do not remember the specific incident,” the MP wrote in a press release, after reprinting the allegations in full, “this sounds highly probable.” She went on, “I’m sure it was not the only incident of the kind; we all do idiotic things when young. I am not a very good dancer and must apologise to any and all journalists who were forced to watch me dance that night.”
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(thanks, Lex)
Reactions to the First iPod Announcement in 2001
Apple fans were not kind to Steve Jobs’ new digital product.
“iPoop… iCry. I was so hoping for something more.” –elitemacor
“Sounds very revolutionary to me. hey – heres an idea Apple – rather than enter the world of gimmicks and toys, why dont you spend a little more time sorting out your pathetically expensive and crap server line up? or are you really aiming to become a glorified consumer gimmicks firm? ” –Pants
“I still can’t believe this! All this hype for something so ridiculous! Who cares about an MP3 player? I want something new! I want them to think differently! Why oh why would they do this?! It’s so wrong! It’s so stupid!” –WeezerX80
Hindsight is a bitch.
Here’s to the crazy ones
Steve Jobs version of the the Think Different ad that never aired.
headline of the day
German fashion designer makes clothes from milk
dear clusterflock
Steve Jobs.
slow breaking news
Emily Roose’s thesis project, via Public School
Sugar Von Tassels
I’m almost done with a process I started in January of evaluating all the footage I collected for a documentary I’ve been working on that started as an exploration of costume culture. This phase has been long, tedious, a real slog. I’ve been going back through each section of footage, evaluating clips, making notes, and roughing out speculative timelines. After nine months, I’ll just say I’ve gotten tired of evaluating, and wanted to make something. So, I dove into a section of footage that may or may not end up in the film (I ended up getting more footage of Sugar at a performance that may be more relavent to the larger themes of the movie), but I liked a lot of moments in this interview session, and like I said, I was tired of looking and wanted to make something. It’s still a little rough, but I hope you enjoy it.
from the comments
One of my favorite books, Kiln People, is about a society where you can create clay copies of yourself to do various tasks (menial, dangerous) while you do something else, then at the end of the day you download their memories back into you. This got me into a really creepy conversation with a friend about the difference between experiencing something first hand and remembering something. If the memory is yours (these clay copies have your personality, tactile sensations, everything) what are you losing by not experiencing it? Each moment is fleeting, at what point does something become memory instead of experience? Your senses take a measurable amount of time to transmit information and your body to physically react to things. Something 1/100 of a second ago, something 1/10 of a second ago, something 1/2 a second ago, something 5 seconds ago?
I think a harder question might be: would you rather travel the entire world asynchronously by surrogate and inload the memories, or travel 1/100th or 1/1000th as much but experience it all first hand in real synchronous time? I’m not sure which I’d pick.
Steve Jobs, 1955 – 2011
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dear clusterflock
Would you give up the experience of reading to have instant recall of all books?
from the archives: August 25, 2009
Driftless: Stories from Iowa By Danny Wilcox Frazier:
Life in Iowa can be punishing. Many Iowans expend their lives sweating over soil and spilling the blood of livestock; they endure the hardships associated with a life inextricably bound to the ups and downs of nature. Today, those challenges and a shift in our nation’s economy have pushed the youth of rural communities to migrate to the metropolises of America. Those left in the wake of this out-migration continue their lives, seemingly unchanged from the generations that preceded them, and entombed in obscurity.
I’m holding out for the iPhone Final
log cabin?
from the comments
Bear with me here, It’s gonna get stream-of-conscious-y for a sec.
