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Photo of the Day: A Rothschild giraffe bends over the camera at Giraffe Manor
Photograph by Robin Moore (Washington, D.C.), October 2011, Nairobi, Kenya
Anonymous asked: doc watson obituary
Remembering Doc Watson ‘with love’
(We also have an archived convo here)
This Photo Uses Every Single Instagram Filter
“How many steps does it take to go from Thomas Kinkade to Mark Rothko?”
→ Is Instagram revolutionizing photography art?
“When we started organizing the farm workers, people would say, how are you going to organize the workers? They don’t speak English. They’re not citizens. They don’t have any money. But we would say to the workers, you have power. And they would say, what kind of power do we have? It’s in your person. You, together with other workers, you can make the difference.” — Still an activist at 82, Dolores Huerta
“I’m not interested in your girlfriends and your grandmother. You don’t know anything. Write about something you have never, ever thought about before.” — Toni Morrison on ‘writing about what you know’
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“I withheld color from all the book. Everything is either black or white or not mentioned, until he gets home, and then those cotton fields are pink before they turn, and then the trees. And he even says, were the trees always this deep green? So, all the palette is pushed toward the end. So the reader feels that comfort and safety of home.” —
Toni Morrison on her latest novel “Home,” which chronicles the story of soldier Frank Money, who returns home after his service in the Korean War only to be greeted with both the institutional and casual realities of daily prejudice.
Floating Architecture: Finding Ways to Live With Rising Water
“The Ark is a hotel by Russian design firm Remistudio and is meant to be self-sufficient. The transparent foil roof would allow light to reach plants inside, and the waste produced in the building would be converted into fuel. The cupola form is meant to be energy-efficient, and its shell basement with cables and arches is designed to distribute weight evenly to make it earthquake- and flood-resistant. ”
Making this a featured comment:
You make me regret that I am 80 and won’t be around to see this great vision of a new world. Oh well, maybe the next time around.