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“Last Tuesday a 25-year-old white student was wandering around Union Square in New York when she was set upon by four black teenage girls who pushed her, pulled out her earphones, and spat in her face. She was wearing a T-shirt proclaiming “Obama is my slave” that she had bought from Apollo Braun’s Lower East Side store in Manhattan. This isn’t the first controversial T-shirt Braun has printed about the Democratic presidential hopeful, Barack Obama. His body of work includes such slogans as “Jews Against Obama”, “Obama = Hitler” and “Who Killed Obama?” - which he told New York’s Metro was his most popular yet.“
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People see in Obama what they want to see - that’s a blessing and a curse

I probably would have spat in her face, too. Good god.

Me as well

(via robot-heart)

(via mathewparkin)

The assault was totally made up. The Metro editor responsible for the story has been fired.

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A gardener clipping hedges at Blickling Hall in Norfolk, England. Photo by Anne Nellis. Pruned: Prunings XLVI)

A gardener clipping hedges at Blickling Hall in Norfolk, England. Photo by Anne Nellis.

Pruned: Prunings XLVI)

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Gilbert & George on Art and Life

via Conscientious

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Bora Baskan via It’s Nice That

Bora Baskan

via It’s Nice That

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“Forty journalists, including such leading correspondents as Dan Balz of The Washington Post, will be aboard his plane for next week’s swing through Jordan, Israel, Germany, France and England. The campaign received 200 requests for press seats on the plane. Among those for whom there was no room was Ryan Lizza, Washington correspondent of The New Yorker. The campaign, which was furious about the magazine’s satirical cover this week, cited space constraints in turning him away.“
— Obama’s Revenge: New Yorker Reporter Banned From Press Plane For Overseas Trip
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ill doctrine: How To Tell People They Sound Racist
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xkcd - A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language - By Randall Munroe
xkcd - A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language - By Randall Munroe
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Zefrank is possibly my ideal man.
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“We have enough now for the present, but this is a young and a growing nation. It swarms as often as a hive of bees, and as new swarms are turned out each year, there must be hives in which they can gather and make their honey.“
— Stephen Douglas, on the acquisition of new land by the United States.
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“Seventy-five percent of Americans in a new Washington Post-ABC News poll said homosexuals who are open about their sexual orientation should be allowed to serve in the U.S. military, up from 62 percent in early 2001 and 44 percent in 1993.“
— Just Add Time For Progress » Oliver Willis
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Andreas Gursky - Chicago Board of Trade II, 1999 I posted his photograph of the Kuwait Stock Exchange a few months ago.

Andreas Gursky - Chicago Board of Trade II, 1999

I posted his photograph of the Kuwait Stock Exchange a few months ago.

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Information Design Watch: Wardrobe Infographic of the Week. also via Max

Information Design Watch: Wardrobe Infographic of the Week.

also via Max

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“Their most well-known specimen is an 85-tentacled Common Octopus captured in 1957 at nearby Toshijima island. This remarkable creature — which, like the Shima Marineland octopus, has 8 main arms that branch out to form scores of tentacles — made quite a stir when it first went on display at Toba Aquarium a half-century ago.” Monster Octopi with Scores of Extra Tentacles via Max

“Their most well-known specimen is an 85-tentacled Common Octopus captured in 1957 at nearby Toshijima island. This remarkable creature — which, like the Shima Marineland octopus, has 8 main arms that branch out to form scores of tentacles — made quite a stir when it first went on display at Toba Aquarium a half-century ago.”

Monster Octopi with Scores of Extra Tentacles

via Max

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“white people have a history of using that word in very hateful, vile ways. In our hands, the word was and is a weapon, a way to strip status or reinforce lack of status, an expression of ultimate, brutal contempt. Any time a white person uses that word, all of that history is invoked. It is simply the context of our lives, the common framework by which we understand the meaning of things. White people have to avoid the word because there are very, very few instances in which the term will not convey a deeply racist message, even if no racism is intended.“
— Too Sense: Whoopi Goldberg On Who Gets to Use the “N” Word
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hautetopic: Karl Lagerfeld mastered wearable elegance for Chanel haute couture. Galliano bridged fantasy and glamour for Dior. Christian Lacroix eschews most notion of functionality, reality and comfort - and I adore him for it. His vision of haute couture is so unique and unmistakable that I could not imagine the Paris shows without him. He brings a perspective that is often brushed aside in today’s cutthroat marketplace - that of one not concerned with sales or giving birth to the next “big thing.” Opulence is the name of the game for his Fall Couture collection. It’s like a trip through Versailles circa 1700 with Russian military and punk sensibility. He gives us a lavish, unattainable vision, but injects elements that are sure to appear in the fall looks of many recessionista in the fall. Dichotomies are the name of the game - frills with strong shoulders and wild hair, black and white, futuristic insect eyes paired with lacy, vintage-inspired full length dresses. Each season it seems unlikely that someone with such grand, but still masterfully cohesive visions could top themselves, but Mr. Lacroix once again shows why he is always one of the hottest tickets in Paris. Check out the entire show here.

hautetopic:

Karl Lagerfeld mastered wearable elegance for Chanel haute couture. Galliano bridged fantasy and glamour for Dior. Christian Lacroix eschews most notion of functionality, reality and comfort - and I adore him for it. His vision of haute couture is so unique and unmistakable that I could not imagine the Paris shows without him. He brings a perspective that is often brushed aside in today’s cutthroat marketplace - that of one not concerned with sales or giving birth to the next “big thing.”

Opulence is the name of the game for his Fall Couture collection. It’s like a trip through Versailles circa 1700 with Russian military and punk sensibility. He gives us a lavish, unattainable vision, but injects elements that are sure to appear in the fall looks of many recessionista in the fall. Dichotomies are the name of the game - frills with strong shoulders and wild hair, black and white, futuristic insect eyes paired with lacy, vintage-inspired full length dresses.

Each season it seems unlikely that someone with such grand, but still masterfully cohesive visions could top themselves, but Mr. Lacroix once again shows why he is always one of the hottest tickets in Paris.

Check out the entire show here.