Doug Aitken
(Source: milanlucheck, via fuckyeahclaudegiroux)
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One day I’ll have a clean desk at home…but not today. (Taken with instagram)
Republican presidential candidate MITT ROMNEY, when asked if he stood by comments he made on Sean Hannity’s radio show saying that President Obama wanted to make the U.S. a “less Christian nation.”
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As egos collide, Black Widow—street name, Natasha Romanova—is the only character who does not throw a monstrous hissyfit. The only character to gather actionable intelligence against Loki from Loki. The character who not only literally kicks sense back into the brainwashed Hawkeye, but then absolves him of any sins performed while under the loony god’s spell.
You want fearless? When midtown Manhattan is swarming with thousands of robo-aliens, the dreaded Chitauri, Black Widow commandeers one of their slippery aero-sleds and flies it to steal Loki’s glowing phallic scimitar so as to save the world so Iron Man can blow up the aliens.
” — From an article about the reviews downplaying/ignoring the importance of Black Widow in the film, and the role of women in action in general. (via honeyspider)(via whatswithtodaytoday)
Canadian psychologist Jayne Gackenbach says avid gamers are more likely to have lucid dreams, and are better able to turn bad dreams into more positive experiences. Gackenbach hopes her theories can help sufferers of post-traumatic stress disorder overcome their symptoms.
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While stress is an unfortunate and unhealthy part of modern life, going on a destructive rampage isn’t usually a socially acceptable way of dealing with it. Enter the Anger Room, an inconspicuous storefront in a Dallas strip mall where fed-up Americans can act out.
Inside, proprietor and founder Donna Alexander and her staff offer up rooms of stuff — TVs, office furniture, glassware — for patrons to smash.
“Stuff that you can’t do to other people, you can do here,” one customer says. “I can’t afford going to the psychiatrist, but I can afford this.”
Need this today.
Atlanta Magazine story: http://www.atlantamagazine.com/eldredgeatl/blogentry.aspx?BlogEntryID=10382986
I don’t know what universe I woke up in this morning, but I hate it.
Hanging with my kitten. (Taken with instagram)
“The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.” — Samuel Butler
Leica Announces World’s First Digital Camera Dedicated To Black-And-White -
File under: things to lust after that I’ll probably never afford.
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