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Self-Hatred FTW!

September 15, 2008 – 3:15 am

Fran Lebowitz is right: the products of repression and self-hatred are artistically superior to the products of freedom and self-actualization. I mean: Vincent Van Gogh vs LeRoy Neiman. Case closed.
So this is what architects do in their spare time, when they’re not being paid to create soul-killing, fast-buck developments of appalling vulgarity that stain the [...]

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Weightless, by Erika Janunger

April 26, 2008 – 5:33 am

Settle down, class, and pay attention, because you are about to see something breathtakingly beautiful, confoundingly subtle, and stunningly creative.
This is Swedish musician Erika Janunger’s video/dance/design project for her Master’s degree in interior architecture and furniture design. What happens?
Not much. And everything.

via ShapeAndColour
If I have the time, I’ll try to transcribe [...]

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the mansions Jack built, the house Jack lost

April 7, 2008 – 7:22 am

I’ve been working on a post about this for quite some time, but this single comic from AccordionGuy says it better than I could, which will, of course, not stop me from giving it the old college-dropout try, right after the pic:

And you know that Jack’s taxes paid for every one of them. The banks [...]

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Okay, Vancouver, WTF?

March 29, 2008 – 7:05 am

Originally written like, a week ago, and been sitting in the Draft bucket since. For whatever reason, my internet connection also went down. And according to all the news sources, the following never happened.
Sure. Sure…
It’s 2:21am on a Tuesday morning and the BC Hydro “Oh Canada” blast horns have just treated us to an [...]

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pic o’ the day: Needs Fixin’

March 14, 2008 – 9:42 pm

I could totally live there. Needs a bit of work, maybe, but still, it would be worth the renovation hassle just to have that totally cool sky effect. What do you mean it’s Photoshopped? If you can’t believe a random photo you find on Flickr, what CAN you believe in this crazy, mixed-up world?

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T-dot-dot-dot

March 6, 2008 – 2:10 am

Stolen from the Guardian’s travel photo contest

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SLUT: quote o’ the day!

December 17, 2007 – 1:46 am

Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels said,
“I don’t care what you call it as long as you ride it.”

Yes, folks, that’s what we around these parts call a real friendly city.

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The Fortress of the Assassins, DESTROYED!

October 16, 2007 – 10:00 am

marriedtothesea.com
The tragic destruction of the Fortress of Alamut, stronghold of the Assassins, expressed as a charming historical engraving/ironically juxtaposed caption mashup, for your viewing pleasure.
Background, from DamnInteresting:
The story of the Hashshashin, or Assassins, is cloaked in mystery, and much of the truth about them was long ago lost to war and time. Their influence, however, [...]

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my dream house: the floorplan

September 29, 2007 – 6:50 am

It should be Lambos, not Ferraris, but otherwise this sounds pretty good. The only problem is, it seems to give everyone pretty much the same result.
From Nag on the Lake, via Mastercowfish.

Your home is a
Rough Muse’s Mansion

Your kitchen is only used when the weather won’t permit barbecuing. There’s a pantry stocked with beef jerky. Oh, [...]

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Eel City, a wriggle on the wild side

September 25, 2007 – 12:58 am

So Judy was here visiting. It was easy to tell it was Judy when she walked into the train station, because there is, in my wide experience (and surely, few experiencers can have had a wider one, what with me having met in meatspace something over 100 people whom I first [...]

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