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<rss version="2.0"><channel><atom:link rel="hub" href="http://tumblr.superfeedr.com/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"/><description>Focused distraction</description><title>Brett Roegiers</title><generator>Tumblr (3.0; @brettr)</generator><link>http://brettr.tumblr.com/</link><item><title>The art of handcrafting a book is revealed through 3,000...</title><description>&lt;object width="400" height="336"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/l9a5hH5idQc&amp;rel=0&amp;egm=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/l9a5hH5idQc&amp;rel=0&amp;egm=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;The art of handcrafting &lt;a href="http://www.pressejanvier.com/abigail/complex.html"&gt;a book&lt;/a&gt; is revealed through 3,000 photographs taken over two months. An inefficient yet beautiful process.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://brettr.tumblr.com/post/258694125</link><guid>http://brettr.tumblr.com/post/258694125</guid><pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:52:00 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>"Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that..."</title><description>“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; - &lt;em&gt;Rumi (via &lt;a href="http://jtwells.tumblr.com/post/216851473/your-task-is-not-to-seek-for-love-but-merely-to"&gt;jtwells&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/em&gt;</description><link>http://brettr.tumblr.com/post/222904562</link><guid>http://brettr.tumblr.com/post/222904562</guid><pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 13:20:09 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>Birds perched on wires silently craft a melody, and a musician...</title><description>&lt;object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="225" data="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=6428069&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;fullscreen=1&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=0&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=00ADEF"&gt;&lt;param name="quality" value="best" /&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /&gt;&lt;param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /&gt;&lt;param name="scale" value="showAll" /&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=6428069&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;fullscreen=1&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=0&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=00ADEF" /&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=6428069&amp;server=www.vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=0&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=00ADEF&amp;fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="225"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Birds perched on wires silently craft a melody, and a musician records the song he sees in a newspaper photograph.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://brettr.tumblr.com/post/180832410</link><guid>http://brettr.tumblr.com/post/180832410</guid><pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2009 22:49:27 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>"Data is journalism like the phone book is narrative. Data informs journalism. Data is not..."</title><description>“Data is journalism like the phone book is narrative. Data informs journalism. Data is not journalism.”&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; - &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://twitter.com/pilhofer/statuses/3579138806"&gt;Aron Pilhofer&lt;/a&gt;, editor of Interactive News Technologies at &lt;i&gt;The New York Times&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/em&gt;</description><link>http://brettr.tumblr.com/post/173217422</link><guid>http://brettr.tumblr.com/post/173217422</guid><pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 16:20:21 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>Long-exposure photography reveals flight patterns as bugs dance...</title><description>&lt;object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="265" data="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=5676816&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;fullscreen=1&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=0&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=00ADEF"&gt;&lt;param name="quality" value="best" /&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /&gt;&lt;param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /&gt;&lt;param name="scale" value="showAll" /&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=5676816&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;fullscreen=1&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=0&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=00ADEF" /&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=5676816&amp;server=www.vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=0&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=00ADEF&amp;fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="265"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Long-exposure photography reveals flight patterns as bugs dance beneath a street light. (via &lt;a href="http://lilacina.tumblr.com/post/155885240/flight-patterns-on-vimeo-via-vimeo-and-first"&gt;lilacina&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://brettr.tumblr.com/post/156471274</link><guid>http://brettr.tumblr.com/post/156471274</guid><pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 12:03:00 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>"I suspect there is something inherently misguided and self-defeating and hopeless about any..."</title><description>“I suspect there is something inherently misguided and self-defeating and hopeless about any deliberate campaign to achieve happiness.”&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; - &lt;em&gt;Tim Kreider, &lt;a href="http://happydays.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/02/averted-vision/"&gt;Averted Vision&lt;/a&gt; (via &lt;a href="http://lyndseyl.tumblr.com"&gt;Lyndsey Lewis&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/em&gt;</description><link>http://brettr.tumblr.com/post/154998220</link><guid>http://brettr.tumblr.com/post/154998220</guid><pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 13:05:39 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>"[…] I don’t pretend that not buying much (or not driving much, or not having kids) is a..."</title><description>“[…] I don’t pretend that not buying much (or not driving much, or not having kids) is a powerful political act, or that it’s deeply revolutionary. It’s not. Personal change doesn’t equal social change.”&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; - &lt;em&gt;Derrick Jensen, &lt;a href="http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/article/4801"&gt;Forget Shorter Showers&lt;/a&gt; (via &lt;a href="http://blog.herbiv.org/post/152175126/are-we-really-what-we-eat-or-how-we-act"&gt;Herbiv.org&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/em&gt;</description><link>http://brettr.tumblr.com/post/153250017</link><guid>http://brettr.tumblr.com/post/153250017</guid><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 19:14:48 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>We Choose the Moon</title><description>&lt;a href="http://wechoosethemoon.org/"&gt;We Choose the Moon&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;p&gt;Forty years later, follow the activities of the Apollo 11 mission in real time with archival audio, video and photos. (via &lt;a href="http://jimray.tumblr.com/post/141050793/we-choose-the-moon"&gt;jimray&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://brettr.tumblr.com/post/141615368</link><guid>http://brettr.tumblr.com/post/141615368</guid><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 15:19:22 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>Xavier Chassaing’s experimental film uses 35,000...</title><description>&lt;object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="170" data="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=3114617&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;fullscreen=1&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=0&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=00ADEF"&gt;&lt;param name="quality" value="best" /&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /&gt;&lt;param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /&gt;&lt;param name="scale" value="showAll" /&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=3114617&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;fullscreen=1&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=0&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=00ADEF" /&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=3114617&amp;server=www.vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=0&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=00ADEF&amp;fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="170"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Xavier Chassaing’s experimental film uses 35,000 photographs and a combination of stop motion and live projection mapping techniques. (via &lt;a href="http://mashable.com/2009/07/05/vimeo-design-videos/"&gt;Mashable&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://brettr.tumblr.com/post/136819266</link><guid>http://brettr.tumblr.com/post/136819266</guid><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 23:26:04 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>MediaStorm workshop participants reflect on the journalism...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://19.media.tumblr.com/R9SNOlXYHpfhl6znbgdeWEsVo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;MediaStorm workshop participants reflect on the journalism industry and their time together. &lt;a href="http://mediastorm.org/workshops_0008.htm"&gt;Behind-the-scenes&lt;/a&gt; video by Tim Hussin.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://brettr.tumblr.com/post/134349289</link><guid>http://brettr.tumblr.com/post/134349289</guid><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:41:00 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>"Just because the journalism business is going to hell … doesn’t mean that journalism..."</title><description>“Just because the journalism business is going to hell … doesn’t mean that journalism isn’t thriving.”&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; - &lt;em&gt;Jack Shafer, &lt;a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2221856/"&gt;Keeping the Fizz in the Journalism Biz&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;</description><link>http://brettr.tumblr.com/post/133234166</link><guid>http://brettr.tumblr.com/post/133234166</guid><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 21:08:47 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>Jean-Luc Godard interviews Woody Allen in a 1986 short film (via...</title><description>&lt;object width="400" height="322"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.dailymotion.com/swf/xg1hk" /&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /&gt;&lt;param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" /&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.dailymotion.com/swf/xg1hk" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="322" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Jean-Luc Godard interviews Woody Allen in a 1986 short film (via &lt;a href="http://www.subtraction.com/2009/06/30/jean-luc-godard-interviews-woody-allen"&gt;Khoi Vinh&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://brettr.tumblr.com/post/133171216</link><guid>http://brettr.tumblr.com/post/133171216</guid><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:48:00 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>Heading to East Atlanta tonight for The Tallest Man on Earth and...</title><description>&lt;object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="225" data="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=4092495&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;fullscreen=1&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=0&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=00ADEF"&gt;&lt;param name="quality" value="best" /&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /&gt;&lt;param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /&gt;&lt;param name="scale" value="showAll" /&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=4092495&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;fullscreen=1&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=0&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=00ADEF" /&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=4092495&amp;server=www.vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=0&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=00ADEF&amp;fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="225"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Heading to East Atlanta tonight for The Tallest Man on Earth and John Vanderslice. Hoping to try vegan night at Graveyard Tavern beforehand.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://brettr.tumblr.com/post/125917485</link><guid>http://brettr.tumblr.com/post/125917485</guid><pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 12:54:00 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>"This is it. The big one. This is the first revolution that has been catapulted onto a global stage..."</title><description>“This is it. The big one. This is the first revolution that has been catapulted onto a global stage and transformed by social media.”&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; - &lt;em&gt;Clay Shirky on &lt;a href="http://blog.ted.com/2009/06/qa_with_clay_sh.php"&gt;Twitter and Iran&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;</description><link>http://brettr.tumblr.com/post/125533987</link><guid>http://brettr.tumblr.com/post/125533987</guid><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 21:14:52 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>How David Beats Goliath</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/05/11/090511fa_fact_gladwell"&gt;How David Beats Goliath&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;p&gt;Malcolm Gladwell examines cases where underdogs win by breaking the rules.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://brettr.tumblr.com/post/122582831</link><guid>http://brettr.tumblr.com/post/122582831</guid><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 19:01:00 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>Luceo Images’ Still Hoping presents a collection of...</title><description>&lt;object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="225" data="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=5022606&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;fullscreen=1&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=0&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=00ADEF"&gt;&lt;param name="quality" value="best" /&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /&gt;&lt;param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /&gt;&lt;param name="scale" value="showAll" /&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=5022606&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;fullscreen=1&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=0&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=00ADEF" /&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=5022606&amp;server=www.vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=0&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=00ADEF&amp;fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="225"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Luceo Images’ &lt;a href="http://stillhoping.com"&gt;Still Hoping&lt;/a&gt; presents a collection of letters addressed to President Obama, from people wondering if he’ll follow through on his promises of change.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://brettr.tumblr.com/post/122575200</link><guid>http://brettr.tumblr.com/post/122575200</guid><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 18:41:00 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>"I was thinking as small children think, as if my thoughts or wishes had the power to reverse the..."</title><description>“I was thinking as small children think, as if my thoughts or wishes had the power to reverse the narrative, change the outcome.”&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; - &lt;em&gt;Joan Didion, “&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/Year-Magical-Thinking-Joan-Didion/dp/1400078431"&gt;The Year of Magical Thinking&lt;/a&gt;”&lt;/em&gt;</description><link>http://brettr.tumblr.com/post/121361221</link><guid>http://brettr.tumblr.com/post/121361221</guid><pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:05:00 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>Soul of Athens captures the essence of the community in and...</title><description>&lt;object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="225" data="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=4856204&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;fullscreen=1&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=0&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=00ADEF"&gt;&lt;param name="quality" value="best" /&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /&gt;&lt;param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /&gt;&lt;param name="scale" value="showAll" /&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=4856204&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;fullscreen=1&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=0&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=00ADEF" /&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=4856204&amp;server=www.vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=0&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=00ADEF&amp;fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="225"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.soulofathens.com/"&gt;Soul of Athens&lt;/a&gt; captures the essence of the community in and around Athens, Ohio. The innovative multimedia project is produced annually at Ohio University.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://brettr.tumblr.com/post/116320730</link><guid>http://brettr.tumblr.com/post/116320730</guid><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 12:46:23 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>Instead of starting with a blank page, writer Austin Kleon picks...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://11.media.tumblr.com/R9SNOlXYHo4ee481Jm5KEvpio1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Instead of starting with a blank page, writer &lt;a href="http://www.austinkleon.com/category/newspaper-blackout-poems/"&gt;Austin Kleon&lt;/a&gt; picks up a newspaper and a permanent marker and eliminates the words he doesn’t need.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://brettr.tumblr.com/post/115460948</link><guid>http://brettr.tumblr.com/post/115460948</guid><pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2009 17:46:00 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>A moving story about a mother waiting for her son to come home....</title><description>&lt;object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="225" data="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=3013863&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;fullscreen=1&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=0&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=00ADEF"&gt;&lt;param name="quality" value="best" /&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /&gt;&lt;param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /&gt;&lt;param name="scale" value="showAll" /&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=3013863&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;fullscreen=1&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=0&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=00ADEF" /&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=3013863&amp;server=www.vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=0&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=00ADEF&amp;fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="225"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;A moving story about a mother waiting for her son to come home. He disappeared while hiking in India in 1985. (via &lt;a href="http://www.aphotoaday.org/blog/?p=733"&gt;APAD&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://brettr.tumblr.com/post/113648000</link><guid>http://brettr.tumblr.com/post/113648000</guid><pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 02:25:39 -0400</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
