— Simone Weil, born in 1909
Former top cop Gary Jubelin gets six figures for tell-all memoir
The former NSW homicide detective Gary Jubelin is in the midst of preparing his book which is due out in September.
These are affirming poems–songs, truly.
In the title poem, Wesley writes
“Let me come to you at dawn, my children,
my calabash, wet from the early dawn’s
water-fetching run.”
Wet, tired, and yet determined:
“Let me come to you bearing tears on my face
after the war, after the villages have crumbled
under the weight of grave hate.”
The power of Wesley’s collected work here is established in the book’s first poem,
“Some of Us Are Made of Steel,” blessedly inspirational verse for a world that needs it:
“life has made us cry.
But in our tears, salt, healing, salty, and forever,
we are forever. Yes, some of us are forever.”
Books That I Cannot Wait Not to Read
“Boats, like books, are a means of transport. They allow us to travel and discover worlds whose existence we hadn’t suspected” Waterlines: On Writing and Sailing
The Power Of Negativity
Being in a bad mood can improve your memory. Aspirin helps not just for headache, but for heartbreak. (Hmm.) Indulging nostalgia in a cold room can actually warm you up. ‘List your blessings.’ (Thus avoiding the corny phrase ‘count your blessings’.) Being a ‘good-enough’ parent or teacher is all you need. Just don’t bebad. – The Spectator
Whispering gums
Researchers Link Autism To A System That Insulates Brain Wiring.
In this short multi award-winning film, Sam Gainsborough uses “a hybrid of claymation, pixelation and live action to paint a visceral portrait of internal struggle.” Beautiful and yet haunting. If you’ve struggled with these kinds of bouts with anxiety, this might ring some uncomfortable bells but worth a viewing for sure.
Sam says he wanted to create a film that resonated with people who struggle with anxiety, or often feel isolated from others. “[It’s] about a character who struggles to interact with other people,” he tells It’s Nice That. “The main character is someone who has learned to repress his emotions. If he feels sad or angry, his skin physically restricts him from showing these emotions. This means his skin is constantly swirling and transforming, meaning he can never be truly comfortable in his own skin.”
Above: NYC’s most beautiful new restaurant: Veronika, inside the New York City outpost of Swedish photography museum Fotografiska, designed by Roman and Williams. Photography by Adrian Gaut
What's the meaning of a hotel? Henry James regarded it above all as a place of public performance — where society came to see and be seen
Digging Through The Thames’ Mud For The Unwritten Records Of Several Nations
London’s thoroughfare is a tidal river, and when the river retreats, the mudlarks emerge. These mudlarks are people, and they find cool things: “A gold ornament from the 16th century, ancient Roman coins, shards of medieval pottery, prehistoric flint – these are just some of the thousands of historical treasures … Lara Maiklem has found searching the banks of London’s River Thames.” –NPR
Today
we learned that in the wake of the Super Bowl halftime show, novelist
Jennifer Weiner and many of her “middle-age mom” Facebook friends felt
personally implicated by 50-year-old Jennifer Lopez’s physique—or, to
put it in Weiner’s words, “judged by dat ass.” In a New York Times opinion piece, Weiner waxes in…
We Think Poverty And Opportunity Are In Cities. Here’s Another Way Of Looking At It
Newly released Index of Deep Disadvantagelooks at poverty and disadvantage across all the nation’s counties and 500 of the largest US cities. The index was based on three categories of data:income, health, and social mobility. While the most advantaged communities in the U.S. rank alongside the most developed parts of the world, those struggling the hardest measure up with countries like North Korea and Bangladesh. From among the list of 100 most disadvantaged communities, 80 are rural. – Daily Yonder
Actor Duncan Regehr Discusses His Glorious Moment As Star Trek's 'Sex Candle Ghost'
“Sub Rosa” was a very strange episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, an old-school gothic adventure featuring a haunted candle, a ghastly Casanova, and just enough scifi nonsense to keep the whole thing from being magic.
In one video, Ms. Higgins Clark, who was grand marshal of the St. Patrick’s Day parade in Manhattan in 2011, discussed the role of the Irish narrative heritage in her work and her legacy.
“Let others decide whether or not I’m a good writer,” she said. “I know I’m a good Irish storyteller.”
Some quite stunning work by Cream Electric Art
created for an ad campaign for United Airlines in Australia. These are
quite made-up by assembling two different landscapes in a dreamlike 90°
angle but I’m posting them here to take us back to a favorite movie of
mine, Inception, and the architect scene in Paris where Ellen Page’s character Ariadne bends the dream
in a similar fashion. Less well known but even more interesting because
it bent an actual map’s perspective was the dearly departed BERG’s Here & There project.
That ninety degree scenery thing
The projection works by presenting an image of the place in which the observer is standing. As the city recedes into the (geographic) distance it shifts from a natural, third person representation of the viewer’s immediate surroundings into a near plan view. The city appears folded up, as though a large crease runs through it. But it isn’t a halo or hoop though, and the city doesn’t loop over one’s head. The distance is potentially infinite, and it’s more like a giant ripple showing both the viewers surroundings and also the city in the distance.That whole piece is a great read for a tour of perspectives from Alfred Wainwright’s hand-drawn walking maps, to China, to GTA and SimCity.
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McKay Coppins, via The
Atlantic
Rather
than shut down dissenting voices, political leaders have learned they no
longer need to silence the dissident shouting in the streets; they can use a
megaphone to drown him out. Scholars have a name for this: censorship through
noise
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Darren Halpin and Bert
Fraussen, via The Power to Persuade
What’s
the difference between involvement, access and prominence for interest groups
participating in the policy process? Why do some groups seem to make more
headway than others when it comes to influencing policy?
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