May 2010
2 posts
WatchTwo men living near the U.S.-Mexico border offer their perspectives. Excellent storytelling from California is a Place.
February 2010
1 post
“I am not what happened to me; I am what I choose to become.”
– Carl Jung
January 2010
1 post
“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via hilaryalehman)
November 2009
1 post
October 2009
1 post
“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers...”
– Rumi (via jtwells)
September 2009
1 post
August 2009
3 posts
“Data is journalism like the phone book is narrative. Data informs journalism....”
– Aron Pilhofer, editor of Interactive News Technologies at The New York Times
“I suspect there is something inherently misguided and self-defeating and...”
– Tim Kreider, Averted Vision (via Lyndsey Lewis)
July 2009
4 posts
“[…] I don’t pretend that not buying much (or not driving much, or not...”
– Derrick Jensen, Forget Shorter Showers (via Herbiv.org)
We Choose the Moon →
Forty years later, follow the activities of the Apollo 11 mission in real time with archival audio, video and photos. (via jimray)
“Just because the journalism business is going to hell … doesn’t mean...”
– Jack Shafer, Keeping the Fizz in the Journalism Biz
June 2009
8 posts
WatchJean-Luc Godard interviews Woody Allen in a 1986 short film (via Khoi Vinh)
“This is it. The big one. This is the first revolution that has been catapulted...”
– Clay Shirky on Twitter and Iran
How David Beats Goliath →
Malcolm Gladwell examines cases where underdogs win by breaking the rules.
WatchLuceo Images’ Still Hoping presents a collection of letters addressed to President Obama, from people wondering if he’ll follow through on his promises of change.
“I was thinking as small children think, as if my thoughts or wishes had the...”
– Joan Didion, “The Year of Magical Thinking”
WatchSoul of Athens captures the essence of the community in and around Athens, Ohio. The innovative multimedia project is produced annually at Ohio University.
May 2009
11 posts
WatchA moving story about a mother waiting for her son to come home. He disappeared while hiking in India in 1985. (via APAD)
In Defense of Distraction →
Sam Anderson wades through a range of perspectives on overstimulation. If you only have the attention span for one page of this article, skip to page 7.
What makes us happy? →
Is there a formula—some mix of love, work, and psychological adaptation—for a good life? For 72 years, researchers at Harvard have been examining this question.
“Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or...”
– Jim Jarmusch’s Golden Rules
William Fitzsimmons - “Even Now”
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Sonic Youth - “Sacred Trickster”
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