August 2008
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isms20080827: learning to love you more
“Locate a small child. Shoot a video about his or her life. The video can be as simple or complex as you want. It can be done all in camera or heavily edited. Make titles and credits even if they are just shot off of a piece of paper. Please limit the length of your movie to five minutes.”
learning to love you more is an interactive art project (participatory website) by miranda...
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“People do not lack strength. They lack will.”
– Victor Hugo
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It's Probably Me, Sting & Eric Clapton
If the night turned cold And the stars looked down And you hug yourself On the cold, cold ground You wake the morning In a stranger’s coat No one would you see You ask yourself, ‘Who’d watch for me?’ My only friend, who could it be? It’s hard to say it I hate to say it But it’s probably me When your belly’s empty And the hunger’s so...
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“I’m eighteen with a bullet
Got my finger on the trigger, I’m gonna...”
– 18 with a bullet, Derrick Harriott
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Inspectah Deck's verse from Triumph
I bomb atomically, Socrates’ philosophies and hypothesis can’t define how I be droppin these mockeries, lyrically perform armed robbery Flee with the lottery, possibly they spotted me Battle-scarred shogun, explosion when my pen hits tremendous, ultra-violet shine blind forensics I inspect you, through the future see millenium Killa B’s sold fifty gold sixty platinum ...
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“The future belongs to the few of us still willing to get our hands dirty.”
– unknown, Chapel Arts
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isms20080819
i’m on this freestyle thought flow.
now that the moon’s not on some crazy power trip, i feel the world returning to normal. except, apparently, normal isn’t something that applies to me (according to my sister, and several other people).
things are weird right now. not in a bad way, but i’m feeling unsettled. suspicious, even.
working through some personal ish, like: is...
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AGD →
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isms20080813: hateration
front cover of the national post today: chinese introduce new sport: deception. i hate to be the one to let the np editors know, but trickery, manipulation, illusion and false presentations were not invented by the chinese, and unfortunately they don’t have a monopoly on lies either. a competition on who’s the best deceiver of them all might turn out interesting.
not condoning the...
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isms20080812: looking for a tracy chapman...
a friend of mine is looking for an instrumental version of tracy chapman’s “born to fight”. if anyone has a copy, or knows where i could find one, please let me know. it would be greatly appreciated. thanks!
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“Did we squander the chance in the rush of the race
The reason we chase is lost...”
– Sleeping Satellite, Tasmin Archer
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“Poetry is both the arrangement of words in space and the organization of sound...”
– author unknown
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“The charm of traveling is everywhere I go, tiny life. I go to the hotel, tiny...”
– from Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk
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isms20080808
what a beautiful number. all curvy and flowy and ish. all those zeroes and eights, just visually pleasing roundness. how could i not post on such a day?
the olympics officially started today. thousands of people are getting married. people wishing other people a happy 080808. good vibes. of course, it helps that it’s friday. and i’ve been consistently getting good news from people for...
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“Tell me, if I caught you one day
and kissed the sole of your foot,...”
– A poem, Nichita Stãnescu
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"The little boat gently drifted across the pond... →
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