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Achieving inner peace

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Video essay: The essay film – some thoughts of discontent | Sight & Sound

I cannot recall how the term ‘video essay’ came to be the adopted nomenclature for the ever-increasing output of online videos produced over the past few years by an ever-growing range of self-appointed practitioners (including myself). My own entrance into this field was an organic synthesis of my backgrounds as a film critic and a filmmaker, two modes that had competed with each other in my mind until I started to pursue the possibilities of critically exploring cinema through the medium itself. This practice is readily possible in an age when digital technology enables virtually anyone with a computer (not even a video camera, as images are overly abundant and accessible) to produce media with nearly as much ease as it is to consume it.

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It's the permanence that makes me weep. As if the Joker had made face paints from acid. Your youthful passion for ever on display, like a CD of the Smiths stapled to your forehead. The British Association of Dermatologists recently surveyed just under 600 patients with visible tattoos. Nearly half of them had been inked between the ages of 18 and 25, and nearly a third of them regretted it.

Guardian Article on tattoos.

This mother is over reacting to an immense degree. Although a lot of what she says, including the above quote is actually exactly how I feel about tattoos. They are so final and I have seen so many stupid regrettable 'art' choices on people over the years. It's a minefield of regret. I don't think I will ever get a tattoo. being from a generation where a lot of people have tattoos, amoungst some (a lot) of my peers who have tattoos, not having a tattoo is almost a badge of pride and dare I say, individuality. If you like them, you like them, many get the bug and get many more after their fist. I'm too picky and feel I am out of the age criteria now where one would be the most like to get a gaudy(or not) tattoo.  

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Man arrested at Large Hadron Collider claims he's from the future

A would-be saboteur arrested today at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland made the bizarre claim that he was from the future. Eloi Cole, a strangely dressed young man, said that he had travelled back in time to prevent the LHC from destroying the world.

The LHC successfully collided particles at record force earlier this week, a milestone Mr Cole was attempting to disrupt by stopping supplies of Mountain Dew to the experiment's vending machines. He also claimed responsibility for the infamous baguette sabotage in November last year.

Mr Cole was seized by Swiss police after CERN security guards spotted him rooting around in bins. He explained that he was looking for fuel for his 'time machine power unit', a device that resembled a kitchen blender.

Police said Mr Cole, who was wearing a bow tie and rather too much tweed for his age, would not reveal his country of origin. "Countries do not exist where I am from. The discovery of the Higgs boson led to limitless power, the elimination of poverty and Kit-Kats for everyone. It is a communist chocolate hellhole and I'm here to stop it ever happening."

This isn't the first time time-travel has been blamed for mishaps at the LHC. Last year, the Japanese physicist Masao Ninomiya and Danish string-theory pioneer Holger Bech Nielsen put forward the hypothesis that the Higgs boson was so "abhorrent" that it somehow caused a ripple in time that prevented its own discovery.

Professor Brian Cox, a CERN physicist and full-time rock'n'roll TV scientist, was sympathetic to Mr Cole. "Bless him, he sounds harmless enough. At least he didn't mention bloody black holes."

Mr Cole was taken to a secure mental health facility in Geneva but later disappeared from his cell. Police are baffled, but not that bothered.

Further developments at the LHC: Accident at Large Hadron Collider shunts April Fools' Day to 1 November

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The percentage of Americans struggling below the poverty line in 2009 was the highest it has been in 15 years (14.3% of the US population), the Census Bureau reported Thursday, and interviews with poverty experts and aid groups said the increase appeared to be continuing this year. For a single adult in 2009, the poverty line was $10,830 in pretax cash income; for a family of four, $22,050.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/17/us/17poverty.html?_r=1&hp