January 2011
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Animated Soviet Propaganda →
Neat.
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Byronmuller / Darkitectura →
The bookshelves!
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The Art of the Perfect Cup of Coffee →
Sage advice from Intelligensia barista, Michael Phillips. “Coffee, like wine, needs to breathe.”
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Nostalgia Tripping: Toronto's Morality Police →
Forgotten history of Toronto women. “In the eyes of social reformers, if your date bought you a dinner and you went home with him, you were considered a prostitute, and your daytime work was only an excuse to avoid being arrested for vagrancy. Dance halls were perceived as the central locale of the semi-professional type of prostitution…”
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Death in the Snow →
essayist:
by Paul Berczeller (thanks to Reccos)
It was just one of those crazy little stories buried in the morning paper. “News of the Weird,” as it’s sometimes known, true stories about real life events so unlikely and ridiculous that they attain a kind of absurd magnificence in the retelling. “Cult film sparked hunt for a fortune,” was the small headline that attracted my attention that...
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Papelote Stationery Shop / A1Architects →
I love stationery…and pretty paper….and handwriting. Why don’t people write letters anymore? Sigh.
Procession (Exodus) - Clinton De Menezes,... →
"Barbie, we may be plastic but our love is real." →
This is why you have best friends. To send you amazingness like this to give you a laugh after a long week.
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A 12-YEAR-OLD EXPLAINS THE INFORMATION AGE'S FACTS... →
It’ll give you a chuckle.
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The art of good writing →
“Vigorous writing is concise,” Strunk wrote. “When a sentence is made stronger, it usually becomes shorter.”
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Things I love: The Essayist
The Essayist is a new addition to the blogosphere, and not-so-coincidentally, it just happens to be one of my newest blog obsessions. As an academic, I’m prone to finding methods of procrastination that feel legitimate. After all, is it laziness to read a 10-page analysis on society’s pornification when I should be reading a 10 page analysis on economic’s correlative relationship...
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Francis Ford Coppola: On Risk, Money, Craft &... →
One of the greats talking about what he does best.
What We Can Learn from Babies: Experimentation,... →
Great article on tapping your creativity.
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Ricky Gervais on the Principles of Comedy | Ricky... →
Just watch. Ricky speaks for himself.
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A Love Letter For You →
“A Love Letter to You” is a beautiful ongoing graffiti love letter by street artist Steve Powers aka ESPO, stretching across 50 buildings facades and 20 blocks in West Philadelphia. I wish Toronto had something equally as beautiful running along our transit lines.
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