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Happy Easter from Corinne and Juliet!

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That is a lot of power for one little button! #timecontrol #sb

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Juliet, a.k.a. "Bobo," at 2 months. #sb

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Coke’s Wild Assertion That Other Languages Exist Stirs Controversy

ATLANTA (The Borowitz Report)—The Coca-Cola Company ignited a firestorm of controversy on Sunday with a Super Bowl ad that appeared to make the inflammatory claim that other languages besides English exist.

Continue reading: http://nyr.kr/1j7EcxP

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Juliet back from the doctor and freshly fed. Time for a nappy-nap!

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Juliet Cassandra Ward. By the look on her face, she seems unimpressed, but it will grow on her.

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Day two with Juliet. Still working on the whole middle name thing. Eating and sleeping like a champ so far!

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Juliet has quite the mop-top! Maybe she'll let us brush it, unlike Corinne.

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Frosty, the 2014 edition. Courtesy of Corinne.

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Afterlife

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Really inspired stuff!

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#ThinkKit Day 30: Finding Purpose

I have no direction.

Let me clarify. I spend most of my time moving, but with no final destination in mind.

That sounds awfully bleak. I guess it can be, when I stop to think about the ramifications of the fact. But I rarely do. It is a stark realization, like what I do has no meaning beyond the immediate future. It is not unlike combing the desert for your next drink of water, then looking out at the landscape and realizing that there is only more thirst to follow...

Read the full article here, on the SmallBox blog.

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Hooray! Presents!

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Before Corinne did her damage.

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Queen Elsa, with Rapunzel's hair.

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#ThinkKit Day 15: Thanks, from Accidental Cyclops!

A shout out to all of our supporters.

Muchos Gracias to:

Nick Klooz, for your work on the upcoming website

Dustin Lynch, for your design thinking

Jeff and Nathan at Cosmic Wombat, for your partnership

Jason, Mikey, Adam and Erik @ Accidental Cyclops

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#ThinkKit Day 14: Picture This

During May of 2013, I made a weekend trip to Pittsburgh to visit my friend, Jimmy, who had just moved there a few months earlier from Austin. Austin is a great town, with a lot of unique experiences. Jimmy had yet to discover any similar unique aspects to Pittsburgh. So I made it my mission that weekend to help him do so.

Thusly, we found...

Yep, that says "The Church Brew Works." A brewery in an old church. Genius!

The bar area was really cool, with stained glass windows behind the brewing tanks. The food was pretty good too, and the beer was top-notch!

And that is indeed a series of brewing apparatuses where the alter used to be. It is an awesome sight!

I'm pretty sure I never ended up sharing these pictures with anyone, but let me know if you want to know more. I recommend a visit here if you ever make your way to Pittsburgh.

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#ThinkKit Day 13: Silver Screen

Beasts of the Southern Wild

This was a phenomenal film. I'm not alone in this opinion. But beyond the acting of the young girl in the film, and beyond the story itself, there was one staggeringly beautiful attribute that this film possessed.

The setting.

I'm not talking about The Bathtub, or even the "deep south." 

By setting, I mean the foundation that the story rests upon. That foundation is...

Poverty. Not the sort of poverty that we see every day in the breakfast lines of our public schools, or on the streets of our aging inner ring suburbs. The poverty that undergirds Beasts of the Southern Wild is something entirely different. 

The setting is nearly post-apocalyptic in its visual and textural elements. There are remnants of a post-industrial society evident in The Bathtub, but they seem out of place to the people who subsist somewhat happily (in spite or the turmoil and destruction) among the wreckage. These are a people who forage, fish and farm what they need, and they seem happier in that reality than most of us do amongst the gears of capitalism and consumerism. 

That striking discontinuity between the lack of consumerism and the abundance of satisfaction is perhaps one of the most beautiful elements in an amazing film.