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Advice to the 1% from Lemony Snicket

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Advice to the 1% from Lemony Snicket

Lemony Snicket has contributed 13 sharp-eyed and well-worded observations to the Occupy Writers project — I think anyone standing in a glass tower watching the demonstrators down in Liberty Park would do well to read all 13.


1. If you work hard, and become successful, it does not necessarily mean you are successful because you worked hard, just as if you are tall with long hair it doesn’t mean you would be a midget if you were bald.

2. “Fortune” is a word for having a lot of money and for having a lot of luck, but that does not mean the word has two definitions.

3. Money is like a child—rarely unaccompanied. When it disappears, look to those who were supposed to be keeping an eye on it while you were at the grocery store. You might also look for someone who has a lot of extra children sitting around, with long, suspicious explanations for how they got there.

4. People who say money doesn’t matter are like people who say cake doesn’t matter—it’s probably because they’ve already had a few slices.

5. There may not be a reason to share your cake. It is, after all, yours. You probably baked it yourself, in an oven of your own construction with ingredients you harvested yourself. It may be possible to keep your entire cake while explaining to any nearby hungry people just how reasonable you are.

(via Reddit)


Giant Lego Man washes ashore in Florida

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Giant Lego Man washes ashore in Florida

Photo: Jeff Hindman

Boing Boing reader Jeff Hindman says he chanced across a “giant Legoman washed ashore” today while strolling on the beach at Siesta Key Village, Fla.

“It is very big, about 8 ft. tall,” Hindman said. ” … I worked with Lego in my younger days, but this piece is amazing, it’s still there on the beach.”

A photo of the creature shows it beached on a sandbank, in otherwise good condition. On its chest is the message, “No real than you are.”

This suggests it has the same origin as Lego men who washed ashore in Zandvoort, Holland, three years ago, and then in Brighton, England.

A tourist shot footage of the Holland landing:

Some more coverage of the earlier beaching was posted at Emvergeoning.

Further searching reveals the homepage of Ego Leonard.

My name is Ego Leonard and according to you I come from the virtual world. A world that for me represents happiness, solidarity, all green and blossoming, with no rules or limitations.

Lately however, my world has been flooded with fortune-hunters and people drunk with power. And many new encounters in the virtual world have triggered my curiosity about your way of life.

I am here to discover and learn about your world and thoughts.

Show me all the beautiful things that are there to admire and experience in your world. Let’s become friends, share your story with me, take me with you on a journey through beautiful meadows, words, sounds and gestures.

Has this Lego man been afloat for years on a translatlantic journey?


"In the Wake of Dreams"

[Love her new focus on ornamental patterns. -egg]

“In the Wake of Dreams”:


opening night happend last Saturday
“In the Wake of Dreams” at Thinkspace Gallery
with Stella Im Hultberg, Mari Inukai, and Amy Sol.

the show will be up till October 29th, so if you happen to be in the area please stop by. 😉

you can see everyones pieces HERE.
and pics of opening night at Thinkspace’s facebook page HERE.

it was a super fun night! i like the 4 four of us showing together so much!
Thankyou to everyone who came out to the show, and to everyone who showed support! 🙂



“Day Dream”
Oil and graphite on wood 12″ x 24″


“I Know”
Oil and graphite on wood 18″ x 24″


“Don’t Let Me Go”
Oil and graphite on wood 18″ x 24″


“Lovesongs”
Oil and graphite on wood 24″ x 24″


“Ariana”
Graphite and colored pencil on hand cut paper 12″ x 12″


“Maya”
Graphite and colored pencil on hand cut paper 12″ x 12″

.. in progress pics ..


The Disciples: James Mollison’s Portraits of Music Subcultures

The Disciples: James Mollison’s Portraits of Music Subcultures:

From Madonna to Marilyn Manson, or how to worship at the secular altar of pop culture.

From photographer James Mollison, whom you might remember from his poignant series on where children sleep, comes Disciples — a visual study of musical subcultures, reminiscent of the Exactitudes project. Between 2004 and 2007, Mollison travelled across Europe and the U.S. with a mobile photography studio, which he parked in front of music concerts, taking individual portraits of fans outside the respective band’s gig. He then composited the portraits into lineups of eight to ten fans, creating a single pseudo-panoramic image. Disciples gathers 62 of these fascinating images, featuring more than 500 individual portraits that capture the spirit and tribalism of comtemporary music culture, from death metal to Lady Gaga.

Madonna

The Cure

Bjork

Oasis

Kiss

Dolly Parton

50 Cent

Puff Daddy

Sex Pistols

Spice Girls

Jennifer Lopez

Casualties

George Michael

Rod Stewart

Manson

Missy Elliot

Morrisey

An entertaining study of pop culture and its subcultural micro-cults, Disciples offers a curious look at one of our era’s most pervasive secular religions and one of the last remaining social unifiers of our time.

via Quipsologies; images courtesy of James Mollison via Laboite Verte

How To: Use vinegar to diagnose cervical cancer

How To: Use vinegar to diagnose cervical cancer:

In developing countries, a new, inexpensive treatment allows nurses to spot pre-cancerous lesions on a woman’s cervix and remove them—without needing a medical lab, and without surgery. It has huge implications for women’s health, because cervical cancer kills 250,000 women every year.

In fact, before pap smears became commonplace, cervical cancer killed more American women than any other sort of cancer. But in places where the pap smear isn’t practical, this new technique can help. From the New York Times:

Nurses using the new procedure, developed by experts at the Johns Hopkins medical school in the 1990s and endorsed last year by the World Health Organization, brush vinegar on a woman’s cervix. It makes precancerous spots turn white. They can then be immediately frozen off with a metal probe cooled by a tank of carbon dioxide, available from any Coca-Cola bottling plant.

… Dr. Bandit Chumworathayi, a gynecologist at Khon Kaen University who helped run the first Thai study of VIA/cryo, explains that vinegar highlights the tumors because they have more DNA, and thus more protein and less water, than other tissue.

It reveals pre-tumors with more accuracy than a typical Pap smear. But it also has more false positives — spots that turn pale but are not malignant. As a result, some women get unnecessary cryotherapy. But freezing is about 90 percent effective, and the main side effect is a burning sensation that fades in a day or two. By contrast, biopsies, the old method, can cause bleeding.

Via Robyn Lloyd


NONONONO Cat

[Weird.]

NONONONO Cat:

[Video Cat]

Today’s weird animal viral video is, like all great examples of the genre, equal parts funny, creepy, cute, and sad. Apparently, the cat in this video is having a fear/anxiety/aggressive reaction to the presence of a young girl (sounds like under 5 years old?), a friend of the daughter of the guy who shot the video. Or I don’t know, hairball?

I’ve never seen this behavior before, and wonder how the owners might best deal with it. But also, I couldn’t stop laughing.

And is that a Maine Coon? They’re usually so mellow and sociable.

(thanks, Tara McGinley)