May 2011
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July 2010
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“We must learn to reawaken
and to keep ourselves awake,
not by mechanical...”
– Henry David Thoreau
Pedagogy of the Oppressed review →
paulo freire, pedagogy of the oppressed
began february 22, finished march 1
183 pages
Check out this review of Pedagogy of the Oppressed on tumblr.
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WatchEat Food, Not to Much, Mostly Plants.
-Michael Pollan
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“This experiment of out sourcing our food preparation to corporations has failed...”
– Michael Pollan, from an interview on ABC’s Nightline 5/9/2008
“If you don’t stand for something you will fall for anything.”
– Malcolm X (via scientologist)
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“True generosity consists precisely in fighting to destroy the causes which...”
– Paulo Freier, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
I had a conversation with a friend last night that reminded me of Paulo. He is a truly revolutionary thinker.
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I'm not Libertarian, I just ask questions...
$451,154,049,950.63 = interest paid in 2008 (1) $125,635,000,000.00 = education + transportation (2) I mean it’s not like I want to abolish the state. I’m all for the government filling pot holes and providing a free education to everyone. The problem is they spend more money just paying the INTEREST on the federal debt then both of those things combined. I’m not Libertarian,...
June 2010
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the myth of sustainability?
I agree that the entire system that we live in is unsustainable. But we have to qualify that statement. What I mean is, until now the system, no matter how many crises it has had, has not completely collapsed. So this system that we have has sustained itself until now. The million dollar question is, until when can the current system sustain itself? Or put another way, over what time frame/time...
May 2010
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Sapiosexual
Sapiosexual (n): a person who is sexually attracted to intelligence in others.
Sapiosexual (adj): of, or relating to, finding intellectual stimulation sexually arousing.
(via buongiorno via ellib)
Cool! I think I am sapiosexual.
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Read This Before You Debate Immigration Reform →
He grew up in Mexico, growing corn, peppers, onions, and other crops on his family’s land. But after NAFTA passed, the corn in the grocery store became cheap. So cheap that it was cheaper than the corn his family produced. He couldn’t sell his corn anymore, unless he sold it at a loss. Without a way to support his family, he had to come to America to work.
Others, he said, went to the cities...
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Normalcy is very much underrated.
(via obliteratedheart)
I agree. And I would add you can be normal and an artist at the same time.
“If you’re someone who only reads the editorial page of The New York Times, try...”
– President Obama (via southpol) (via abcsoupdot) (via robot-heart-politics)
This kind of thinking is why I voted for Obama.
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“To be acutely conscious is a disease, a real, honest-to-goodness disease.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from the Underground (via buongiorno) (via procrastinationgirl) (via dostoyevsky)
If that is true, then I am getting sicker and sicker every year.
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Tormented Artist myth is bullshit.
“Let’s not forget that small emotions are the great captains of our lives.” — Vincent Van Gogh (via nogreatillusion via buongiorno)
But do they really have to be? I mean, it seams like this is saying that we have no choice or freedom in our lives, that we are just controlled by our emotions. Vincent Van Gogh was surely a great painter, but lets face it, he failed at many other aspects of his...
April 2010
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Must Man Search for Happiness?
“Must Man Search for Happiness?”
I read this on an advertisement as I biked home from work today, and I thought, no. We can also plant the seeds of happiness and watch them grow.
Hunting and gathering only got Man so far, agriculture has gotten us so much further. And so to will searching for happiness only get you so far. If you want to truly reap the rewards of happiness, you...
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The wheat is planted.
I can breath a sigh of relief now that the seeds are in the ground. It was a bit late this year, so the plants and harvest might be a little smaller, but that is okay because it is not about feeding our bellies, it is about feeding our souls. No matter who you are or where you come from, you have to eat, therefore we are all connected, we are all human. It is the idea and the thought that...
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Wheat Wisdom in exhibition
My Wheat Wisdom project just got accepted to be in an exhibition this summer. I get to install a wheat field on the plaza for a week in June. Go me!
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On Aspirations
nogreatillusion:
It’s such a fucking juggling act, you know? Being honest and putting on a brave face every day. Balancing our emotions with our fantasies, our fears with our desires. And to be happy at the end? That’s the real struggle, and that’s what these women are striving for with their seize the day attitudes. To do things now and to do them well and to do them happily, and without...
WatchThe Man Who Planted Trees
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Frédéric Back - The Man Who Planted Trees(1987) →
“The Man Who Planted Trees” tells the story of a solitary sheperd who patiently plants and nurtures a forest of thousands of trees, single-handedly transforming his arid surroundings into a thriving oasis. Undeterred by two World Wars, and without any thought of personal reward, the sheperd tirelessly sows his seeds and acorns with the greatest care. As if by magic, a landscape that...
“The energy of hatred won’t get you anywhere; but the energy of forgiveness,...”
– Paulo Coelho, the Zahir (via emayeare)
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“Unreciprocated love is torture for the soul.”
– John Gilbert (via ssilviasilvia)
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March 2010
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“You must have long-range goals to keep you from being frustrated by short-range...”
– Charles C. Noble (via emayeare)
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making plans is important, even if they always...
In response to Heraclitus a Buddhist friend said:
“Yes, so we’d better not plan too much for our lives because the change might ruin all our plans”
To which, I responded:
NO!!!!!!!! That is not what Buddha meant! Actually I used to think the same thing for a very long time. I thought, how can we make plans about the FUTURE when Buddha says we should always be in the PRESENT...
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“There is nothing permanent except change”
– Heraclitus
“When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why they are...”
– Hélder Pessoa Câmara
WatchColbert Nation | The Colbert Report | Comedy Central
I love the Stephen Colbert show!
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Fall in love when you're ready, not when you're...
(via wordvomit219)
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Wheelchair dream
I had a dream the other night that I got hurt as a child and was paralyzed. They told me I had to be in a wheelchair. After a long time in the wheelchair, so long that I was an adult now, I got frustrated and finally tried to stand up on my own two legs, and I could. I walked with a little limp but I could walk and it got better the more I focused and practiced. Then I realized I could have walked...
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Artist Statement
As an artist I am interested in how we perceive and construct reality, identity and society. I see contradiction as inherent in any attempt to understand it all, our selves, the universe, everything. I am influenced by artists such as James Turrell as well as by mathematics such as Gödel’s incompleteness theorems. I explore sculptural as well as digital and robotic mediums.
In my work I...