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Tribute to Václav Havel This celebration is a tribute to Vaclav Havel the man who contributed to the Czech Republic's freedom from communism and our curre...
Nice job, Google! Thank you, Mr. Havel, once again and always. You sure are missed.
When Naomi Parker-Fraley first saw the iconic poster, she recalls, “I did think it looked like me, but nobody ever mentioned it”
Did you know the model for Rosie the Riveter had been misidentified until last year? Meet Naomi Parker-Fraley, 95.
“I just wanted my own identity. I didn’t want fame or fortune, but I did want my own identity.”
(above: the image of Naomi that’s thought to have inspired the Rosie the Riveter image)
This is so cool!
Wasn’t Rosie the Riveter modeled after a woman of color?
There were a ton of WoC riveters working in the war effort, for sure! There’s a whole article on their contribution right here. This isn’t meant to take anything away from any of those awesome ladies!
In terms of direct photo reference, though, the first image is the one museums have pointed to as the primary source, having looked at what photo reference Norman Rockwell had around at the time (it wasn’t even his first take on Rosie - that used a totally different model!). Said museums misidentified Parker-Fraley as someone else for about six decades, and she’s been fighting it for a while - thought it was a story worth sharing.
(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tYtLeWN5NQ)
Share the joy. And the terror. All Hallow’s Read.
Final Sentences:
“[The stone is strong, Bran told himself, the roots of the trees go deep, and under the ground the Kings of Winter sit their thrones. So long as those remained, Winterfell remained. It was not dead, just broken. Like me, he thought.] I’m not dead either.”
from A Clash of Kings
“And in their hands, the daggers.”
from A Dance with Dragons
“The other two pulled away from her breasts and added their voices to the call, translucent wings unfolding and stirring the air, and for the first time in hundreds of years, the night came alive with the music of dragons.”
From A Game of Thrones
“Up into the air he jerked, kicking and twisting, up and up and up.”
from A Storm of Swords
(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RkzDSEQ0xE) So, does it? I liked the idea that the difference between individual art and demand-driven content is more of a spectrum than just two mere opposites.
This presidential election, people are choosing someone they can put their faith in when terrible events inevitably happen.
Book of Hours, W.215 by unknown creator, Flemish ca. 1400-1415 via Walters Art Museum, Creative Commons
Google executives talk Snowden and NSA backdoors during AMA
Ditch the Paper and Increase Productivity with These 6 Apps!
NPR is working on ways to help people discover podcasts — and we need your help! We’re looking for podcasts from public radio and beyond, and we’d love for you to share some of your favorite episodes with us. Here’s the ONLY rule: If you are someone who creates radio or podcasts, please don’t recommend anything produced by you or the organization you work for.
Over the next few weeks we’ll compile your suggestions, wrangle them into a sortable guide, and publish a tool that will help connect you with great listening. We can’t wait to read your recommendations!
Andy Goldsworthy’s art
My default holiday gifts are Andy Goldsworthy’s books of photographs of his art…
Very nice. And mystical.
Hubertus Knabe: The dark secrets of a surveillance state #TED :
In The Hospital, A Bad Translation Can Destroy A Life
Lovecraft and the issue of racism.
Understanding Society Through 3 American Classics Reading society through books.
I like short books. And I wanted to write one. You mention a play, and it certainly has things in common with a play. It takes place mostly in one location—four people in a house. And if you have a central conflict that is compelling enough I think you can pull that off.
The Rumpus Interview with David Bezmozgis. (via therumpus)
Writers are outsiders, and usually not by their own choosing. It’s why they’re writers. If they didn’t feel alienated from human experience, they wouldn’t feel so drawn to writing to make sense of their lives. It’s not the outsider’s facility for language that makes her a writer — many a student body president or homecoming queen can turn a phrase — but her ability to howl at the moon, on the page.
Karen Karbo writes for Powell’s Books’s blog about how much publishing has changed in the last 20-some years, but she also has a lot of great words about why people would want to deal with writing and publishing in the first place. Pair her smart essay with our own Nick Ripatrazone‘s piece “Practical Art: On Teaching the Business of Creative Writing.” (via millionsmillions)
