December 2009
28 posts
On my way to Toronto today for a much needed break from everything day-to-day. Time to stop feeling overwhelmed with busy-work and to start overwhelming my body with booze and food.
How to do HDR photography without being an ass... →
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Belgium Waffles: Two nations, after all? →
From The Weekly Standard:
Ever since it was carved by treaty out of the Dutch, French, and German borderlands after the Napoleonic wars, Belgium has been an odd kind of country—short on space, sunlight, and national identity. It was a shotgun marriage of two peoples, the Dutch-speaking Flemings in Flanders and the French-speaking Walloons in Wallonia, who, apart from a shared Catholicism...
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Myths & Misconceptions About Grid Systems →
From Aisle One:
“Grids can impede creativity.
Definitely the most ridiculous of the bunch, this myth suggests that a grid will cause a designer to be less creative. A grid should never define a design, it should work with it. To suggest that a grid can hinder creativity is the same as suggesting that a music tempo can as well. A grid is a building block that can never, and should never,...
The Future of Activism →
From Adbusters:
“Bringing an end to this descent toward hell is the burden of the activist. But we cannot halt the decline without taking heed of Hawthorne’s story. The dilemma we face is thus: If we burn the world without a change of heart, it will resurrect; if we change our hearts without leveling the world, it will persist. Untangling this difficulty begins with acknowledging the...
The Band and the Beast: Some Concerns about the... →
From the local scholar Justin Smith, on Metal vs Mammals:
“Before I arrive at my real point, let me stress that it is the last of my intentions to seek to condemn heavy metal. As I understand it, this genre emerges out of the auspicious combination of late ’60s psychedelic blues with the multifarious strains of creatively anachronistic neopaganism that became visible in the following...
It’s settled. Sometime I’m the next 8 months, I’m going to New York city. It’s about time.