The American economy, industry and stability has ventured into very uncertain territory. After the enduring the battle of the wills that nearly resulting in a suspension of government services and furlough, I kind of lost interest in the posturing and mime that pushes the crisis but affect no real positive good. Some have described the atmosphere in Washington as bellicose, and though the work of exercizing democracy is not meant to be neat and courtly and hard decisions face America, it seems that the will and welfare of the people is not what's being won by all these histrionics and summoned rage.
Wednesday 3 August 2011
sisyphus or the united states of austerity
catagories: America, economic policy, labour, revolution
Tuesday 2 August 2011
bรผcherbox
The English daily, thelocal, reports on a urban, ad hoc library project in Berlin that revitalizes two not-obsolete but lower-tech institutions. The Institute for Sustainability in Education, Employment and Culture (INBAK) is installing bookshelves in disused telephone booths and filling them with donated literature. Some villages in the UK apparently are doing the same thing with their iconic red telephone booths. Even with whole annals and archives and borderless communication totable, it is welcoming to see the chance to take time out with real books and real totems to language.
trist dag
Possibly not so much attention should be directed to the fact that this duo of lifesavers is a married lesbian couple (I suppose headlines focus on such quirks of heroism--like grandmother saves football player from burning building), but the rescue efforts of this pair, who saved forty youth from drowning during the shooting rampage on Utรธya, are commendable and touching. The Massacre in Norway is too raw, frightening and disturbed to properly address, and maybe the only way one can approach such a situation is by recognizing help and heroics, neither because nor despite of who people are. Their story and the accounts of survivors strike me too now because of conservative factions in the Germany government refusing to entertain, at the same time these incidents occurred, debate on married equality. Proponents demurred, conceding that change cannot be forced, but in light of this rescue and heroines and in light of the xenophobia and stereotypes that propagated these attacks in the first place, one should take away the lesson that respect and tolerance are the stuff of civility and prosperity.
catagories: ๐ณ๐ด, ๐, ๐ณ️๐
huckleberry hound or pantone 222
Slate magazine (via Neatorama), after reflecting on the big-screen revivals of the Smurfs and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, who are rather uniform, monotone visually--made up this brilliant colour-wheel of other endearing cartoon-characters. On the website, one can scroll over the swatches and learn about each character. There is not an over-abundance of the classics, and most are squarely recognizable to audiences of the 1990s with the Snorks, Tiny Toons, Cat-Dog, Thundercats, but maybe the hue and cry of Hanna-Barbera and Tex Avery alone could not cover the entire spectrum.
catagories: graphic design