food for thought/conversation/action? … i don’t think advertisers are malicious or that the industry is a cancer. i do think there’s an important conversation to be had around the visual pollution of ads in public space though. why would our governments sell our space without asking us? indicative?
http://www.publicadcampaign.com/Think%20Of%20Me%20As%20Evil%20-%20PIRC-WWF%20Oct%202011.pdf
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7:29 pm • 9 March 2012 • 8 notes
“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life. And I am horribly limited.”
— Sylvia Plath (via human-voices)
(Source: emotional-algebra, via human-voices)
6:04 pm • 26 November 2011 • 293 notes
motherjones:
UC Davis police officer pepper sprays sitting students because, well, just because.
Think that’s %$#ing horrible? The video’s worse.
Via John Aravosis at AmericaBlog:
I’m sorry, this has gone too far. This has happened in police department after police department, and it has gone too far. Our police look like the goons in Russia and China. Please watch this video and send it to everyone you know. This has gone too far.
3:37 am • 19 November 2011 • 6,226 notes
“We’re all born wanting the freedom to imagine a better and more beautiful future. But modern America has become a place so drearily confining and predictable that it chokes the life out of that built-in desire. Everything from our pop culture to our economy to our politics feels oppressive and unresponsive. We see 10 million commercials a day, and every day is the same life-killing chase for money, money and more money; the only thing that changes from minute to minute is that every tick of the clock brings with it another space-age vendor dreaming up some new way to try to sell you something or reach into your pocket. The relentless sameness of the two-party political system is beginning to feel like a Jacob’s Ladder nightmare with no end; we’re entering another turn on the four-year merry-go-round, and the thought of having to try to get excited about yet another minor quadrennial shift in the direction of one or the other pole of alienating corporate full-of-shitness is enough to make anyone want to smash his own hand flat with a hammer.”
—
Matt Taibbi
Preach it. (via joshuanguyen)
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1:52 am • 17 November 2011 • 601 notes
