Blogarians.
Blogarians - Dreams
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New and talented community of illustrators that post their work based on weekly themes. This week: DREAMS.
Blogarians.
Blogarians.
The amazing story of Jason McElwain
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Jason is autistic, and for years he helped coach his high school basketball team. The last game of the season, the coach let him play.
China's 12 Billion Tree Project
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Picture shared by Iguana Jo.China has planted 12 billion trees over the past five years in an effort to restore its scarce forest cover and combat flooding and the loss of farmland blamed on excessive tree-cutting.The new trees, many planted by volunteers, covered 80 million acres, Jia Zhibang, director of the State Forestry Administration said at a news conference in Beijing on Monday. (Emphasis Added). Read full story.
Pick of Postsecret
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PostSecret is an ongoing community art project where people mail in their secrets anonymously on one side of a homemade postcard.
PostSecret.
PostSecret.
David Doubilet - Ocean Photography
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David Doubilet's work has featured prominently in the National Geographic. Go figure. Pretty run of the mill stuff this...
The Amen Break Explained.
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This fascinating, brilliant 20-minute video narrates the history of the "Amen Break," a six-second drum sample from the b-side of a chart-topping single from 1969. This sample was used extensively in early hiphop and sample-based music, and became the basis for drum-and-bass and jungle music -- a six-second clip that spawned several entire subcultures. Nate Harrison's 2004 video is a meditation on the ownership of culture, the nature of art and creativity, and the history of a remarkable music clip.
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Picture shared by mikrophon.
Cuban Television Sets
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In Cuba, television is the most important communication medium and a national pastime. No matter that the TV sets themselves are outdated, pre-revolution relics imported from America or sets from Russia over fifteen years old; green-hued beasts jimmy-rigged with ancient computer parts and fantastically adorned like religious altars.
In Cuba the government controls all media, including the three main newspapers as well as the two television stations. They broadcast news reports, baseball, educational programs, soap operas, and Hollywood movies. Whether used for information or as a background for socializing and drinking rum, during broadcast hours, all TVs in Cuba are ON. simone lueck
Cuban Television Sets.
The Road Map to Peace is going really well.
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The Israeli occupation army has bulldozed a US-funded public park, including a children's playground and swimming pool, in a West Bank village, witnesses and officials said.
The bulldozer, protected by a force of Israeli soldiers, demolished the park in Azzun, close to the northern town of Qalqilya on Wednesday, on the grounds that it had been built without permission of the Israeli authorities in the occupied territory.
Construction work on the park had begun in November and was almost completed, the mayor of Azzun, Ihsan Abd al-Latif, said.
He said that the project, which cost around $120,000, had been financed by the US Agency for International Development (USAid). Full Article.
1000
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Hoy por primera vez Spy's Spice ha logrado sobrepasar los 1000 visitantes. Por tanto, me toca emborracharme esta noche a la salud de esos 1000 valientes. Ole!
Today, for the first time, Spy's Spice has surpassed one thousand visitors in one day. Yay! I'm gonna get pissed tonight in honour of those 1000 people!
Today, for the first time, Spy's Spice has surpassed one thousand visitors in one day. Yay! I'm gonna get pissed tonight in honour of those 1000 people!
Kidulthood
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This sounds good!
From the website:
British newspapers have already called for a new British film that portrays crime, bullying and sexual abuse to be banned, the Independent reports. Set among a group of white and black teenagers in west London, from working-class and middle-class families, and based entirely on true stories, Kidulthood claims to be the first feature film to accurately reflect what life is like for urban kids.
There are graphic scenes of drug-taking, violence, casual sex and organised crime. The characters are all 15. The film opens with a middle-class schoolgirl being horrifically bullied in a classroom. When her preoccupied businessman father picks up her from school, he fails to spot the bruises. Ten minutes later, she has hanged herself. In another sequence two girls trade sexual favours with older men for pocket money to spend at Topshop. A young black boy cuts a man's throat to impress his drug-dealer uncle. Running parallel, however, are story- lines about coping with bad skin and how to choose your friends wisely.
Kidulthood
Independent Article
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Blogarians - Fear
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Blogarians is a website where some art students (or somfink like that) post their takes on a weekly theme. I've posted some of their creations on the theme 'Samurai' before. Now, 'fear'. This was actually the first theme they took on, but hey. Next up: 'dreams'.
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