Ms. Jen Bekman

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A sign. (at San Francisco, California)

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Just released: four photographs by NASA astronaut Donald Pettit. These images are composites of a series of images photographed from a mounted camera on the Earth-orbiting International Space Station, from approximately 240 miles above Earth. Get them here.

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Pretty excited about today's new editions! Have been looking forward to doing them for years now. So cool!

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1. Get paid!

2. Find your perfect 20x200 edition (take our quiz to find your match!) and order on youshouldbuyart.com. Hopefully you can do it with your paws!

3. It’s here! The time has come! Today is the first day of the rest of your life!

4. You ...

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Obligatory sparkly city shot.

[photosbychinwe]

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So beautiful. By Chinwe Edaeani, via noarchitect.

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Today also happens to be 20x200's birthday. It's been an admittedly weird year for my beloved Art for Everyone initiative, but months of insane stress + drama—tempered by generous doses of dogged persistence, irrational optimism + the unconditional support of loved ones, friends + colleagues—have resulted in me getting my baby back. There's still a lot (al lot) to do, but we're in full-on reboot mode and hope to be online again soon. Hallelujah + amen.

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LASF #1 from @CrownPointPress = Ed Ruscha joining the board of @SFMOMA presaged? (A print from this edition is my most prized possession.) 

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Group IV, No. 7, Adulthood by Hilma af Klint

(via NYTimes.com)

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All partners at Union Square Ventures and at Benchmark, all principals and managing directors at Lerer Ventures, everybody at Shasta Ventures, all partners and principals at General Catalyst, the entire investment team at Khosla Ventures, the entire investment team at Matrix Partners. (Previously on 100percentmen: Sequoia Capital, Greylock Partners, Andreessen Horowitz.) (That’s seven ouf of the ten most powerful venture capital firms, according to these guys, and then some.)

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That's a lot all-male VC partnerships, hey? (Plus several other 100 percent male firms that were not included.) Not that it makes a difference, of course. Nothing to see here... move along!

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Would you rather be the one who keeps fooling people or the one who keeps trying?

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Current status, on so many levels.

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Adorable widdle @WilliamWegman puppy goes awound and awound. Thanks, BIll... I needed that today!

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People Will Talk. (Oh yes, they will.)

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PSA: Do Not Clip Your Fingernails on the Train! That Jason @Polan, I love him immeasurably. 

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If you’re an aspiring author, director, musician, startup founder, these long stretches of nothing are a huge reason why it’s important to pick something personally meaningful, something that you actually love to do. When external rewards and validation are nonexistent; when you suffer through bouts where of jealousy, wondering “How come so-and-so got signed/is successful/got a deal/etc?”; when every new development seems like a kick in the stomach, the love of what you are doing gives you something to hang onto.

Ang Lee and the uncertainty of success | jeffjlin.com

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Saving Russia’s Wooden Churches

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Kimzha, Arkhangel region, Church of the Virgin Hodigitria (1763) by Richard Davies