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2014: The Year That Taught Me Exactly What I'm Made Of
I don't know how to start this entry so I'll just launch right into the heart of it:
I spent most of this year homeless, broke and starving on the streets of Europe.
And I wouldn't have changed a thing.
Most of you read this blog soley for all the amazing street art that I find (as you should, I have found some incredible and moving stuff!), and I don't really talk about myself on this blog anymore. I've barely posted any photographs of me on here this year, so let's change that right now before I launch into it all…
Ahhh, that's better.
So here's the skinny
I will try not to ramble on for brevity's sake and because everyone has ADD, but perhaps you might take 5 mins to read this, as this post, like most of my posts, will be mostly photographs anyway.
I started off the year in London. It was rough from the beginning. I was freelancing a lot to pay my bills, but money was still tight tight tight! My friends kept insisting on paying for me just because they wanted me to come out and see them, but I felt pretty shitty about having my friends pay for me. I mean, they offered, but what kind of woman does that make me? Always relying on the generosity of friends? I refused the majority of the time.
Still I managed to have some wonderful early experiences in London, like being invited to speak THREE TIMES at Spark London, which is a live-storytelling event.
This below video is from my first and most popular story. It has almost 6,000 views on YouTube, I guess it resonated with people.
Also, as many of you remember, I was cast in Channel 4's documentary series, First Dates. My episode, the premiere episode of the season, had millions of viewers and broke the internet. Here's the trailer and some screencaps from my small screen glory:
But life in London was still giving me headaches. I won't go into too much detail on this point, but I was being sexually harassed by someone who had stolen all of my contact details and had been to my house. I had to call the police just to get him to stop. I couldn't even get him arrested, I could only get them to force him to stop. It was truly frightening to be the victim of something like this that was completely out of my hands. I didn't know this person at all, and to have my details stolen like that and used for such nefarious purposes really shocked my system. I didn't leave my flat for a week because I was petrified to walk outside and find him there. Bless the London Police, they were so kind and understanding and helpful and full of useful information.
But the money issue started to grate on me. London is too expensive for a freelancer like me, and when my uptight and awkward landlady (who would burst into my room when I was sleeping naked and demand I get her a paracetamol because she was sick… or would bore me to tears by yammering on about her ridiculous love life like it was any of my business) decided to raise the rent on me for no good reason, I decided enough was enough. London clearly doesn't want me here, so fuck it, I'm leaving for something better.
I consciously chose to be homeless. I stuffed everything I owned in the world into my backpack, and set off for mainland Europe. I didn't have the money to pay rent, so I decided I just wouldn't pay rent. I would get by with Couchsurfing and Housesitting. And those housesitting gigs would last for months, so I would get to stay in these cosmopolitan European capitals for free; places like Copenhagen, Berlin, Paris, Amsterdam and Brussels (and a smattering of smaller rural towns).
But it wasn't easy. I was so broke that I was living off of €40 a week. A WEEK. That's how much most people spend in one meal, and that is what I was LIVING off of for a week. There were some really lean moments where I was like, "Should I put the peanuts in the yoghurt, or have the peanuts as a side-dish?" For example, the entire month that I lived in Paris, I only spent €150 in total, and that's being generous. I couldn't afford to take the trains anymore between cities, so I started hitchhiking… which any woman will tell you is, well, interesting. (The one time that I posted on Facebook about my hitchhiking, a friend that I haven't seen in about 15 years since high school transferred money into my PayPal and wouldn't take no for an answer. She was like, "TAKE IT AND GET ON A TRAIN DAMMIT" and I was moved to tears. People can be so kind). I'm ashamed to admit that I did a bit of dumpster-diving when I needed to. But the worst it ever got was when I was attacked in Brussels and in Paris. In Brussels, this guy smacked me right across the face in broad daylight. On the Paris Metro, I walked away with a huge welt on my thigh that lasted a month, and the tissue there is still sore, if I'm being honest.
Life as a waif isn't all romantic and adventure. Sometimes it is pure depravity and despair.
But, for as bad as it was sometimes, I felt like going through all of this was good for me. Like I really needed it. The whole point is to go through a river of shit. The whole point is to crawl up a long ladder on your knees. That's the whole point. Because it taught me exactly what I'm made of. I am resilient when the shit hits the fan. I am resourceful and crafty, sometimes hustler-charlatan, and sometimes the lucky beneficiary of the kindness of strangers. I never gave up. Going through the worst time of my life, oddly, was the best thing for me. I truly feel like the worst year of my life was also the best year of my life. I am so grateful this happened to me.
So how did I end up back in Toronto?
I was making some money freelancing, so I wasn't completely in the shitter. I was even translated into Swiss-German when I sold a couple of articles to AufBau Magazine (and they paid me in SWISS FRANCS too! When you exchange that into Canadian dollars, it was more than double. I was like PIZZA FOR EVERYBODY!). But I couldn't afford the planet ticket home. Then, the Polish Ministry of Economy who sent me on my #Polska14 adventure that you can read about here, paid for my transatlantic flight home. Without that, I would still be a wandering European nomad with no fixed address. So thanks, Poland!
Finding Meaning
Along this strange 12 month journey that was 2014, there were a lot of poignant and unique moments that will never come again. I was in Copenhagen during the Eurovision Song Contest, I was in Berlin when Germany won the World Cup, I was in Paris during the 70th anniversary celebrations of the liberation of Paris, I was in Amsterdam for their Remembrance Day, and I was in Brussels during Nuit Blanche.
I think one of my favourite moments of the entire year was in Amsterdam when my friend Laser 3.14 dedicated some street art to me.
But my favourite thing to do in all of these places (other than photograph street art, of course) was to visit the flea markets every weekend. Because I had no space in my backpack to actually buy anything of substance, the only thing I could buy on the flea markets were old love letters and monochrome photographs from 1900-1940s. The only spot I could keep them was in the space between my iPad and its case, because it was the only spot to keep them flat and safe. After a while, that little slot was bulging.
Here are some examples of what I managed to procure:
Most days I would spend all the money I had saved for eating on these photographs. I usually only ate 2 small meals a day anyway, and would load up on coffee during the day to suppress my appetite.
The small moments I never blogged…
Dancing with friends in London! Everybody in this photograph looks cool except for me. I need to increase my cool-game.
Celebrating World Cup in Berlin with friends! Aw Eric, tu me manques!
Enjoying the view of Berlin from the Klunkerkranich with my two favourite Germans!
Acrobatic performers at the Boxhagenerplatz flohmarkt in Berlin!
This photograph and street-art-hunt made it to the front page of WordPress!
In London, I was cast in a movie, and the costume/hair/makeup would take an hour every day. I was playing a 16th century Spanish lady in King Phillip's court. My hair was teased, pinned, curled, and yanked within an inch of my life. That hat had to be SEWN INTO MY HEAD to keep it in place. And the corset & neck piece dug into my skin and took out huge chunks of flesh.
This is what my hair looked like after all the pieces were taken out of it.
Hanging out inside an 800-year-old tree in Copenhagen.
Overlooking Copenhagen!
At the Jewish Memorial in Berlin, which is a re-staging of a photograph I took of myself 8 years ago…
Berlin olympic stadium … fuck yeah jesse owens.
Fireworks soar above the Brandenburg Gate the night that Germany won the World Cup
A massive drumming/capoeira parade in Paris that I just happened to stumble upon. They basically shut down Boulevard Saint-Denis!
Click on the volume button to hear! I made this and many other Vines, btw.
My last night in Paris, I cycled to L'Arc de Triomphe and just sat there, watching the city run circles around it.
Nuit Blanche in Brussels was a rainy, glorious night I will never forget. I love Brussels so much!
Overlooking the small medieval-walled village of Regensburg in the south of Germany.
Leaving Berlin, and for the last time too…
Dancing with the gang in Dalston… as all the hipsters do.
This was my housesit in Paris; a two-bedroom flat all to myself. Yes, I am a huge asshole.
And this was my housesit in Amsterdam. Being homeless isn't all that bad.
Somedays I would wake up in my housesit and just be so happy!
Although, when I was Couchsurfing, some days I would wake up looking like this. Ugh. Don't fuck with a recently-awoken woman!
Snugglecat in Brussels loves his kisses!
I saw Nils Frahm live in concert four times this year (for a total of 5 if you include last year). Luckily he performed free concerts, so my broke-ass could still get a little culture. I saw him twice in Copenhagen….
…once in Berlin…
…and then in Toronto!
Favourite 2014 Street Art Hunts
I found some amazing works this year, so it's hard to pick the BEST, as everyone is a winner, but here are some highlights!
#1 Space Invader does Star Wars in London!
#2 Accidentally finding a Banksy in Copenhagen!
#3 El Bocho in Berlin, baby!
#4 Icy and Sot on the streets of Amsterdam!
#5 Finding 183 Space Invaders in one month in Paris!
#6 Jimmy C's Ziggy Stardust mural in Brixton!
#8 JR's "wrinkles of the city" in Berlin!
#9 Roa in Dulwich!
#10 Phlegm in Dulwich!
Here are my greatest street-art hits from Instagram! What a year it's been!
Favourite 2014 Albums
#1 Spaces by my beloved Nils. Although it came out in late 2013, it really picked up steam in 2014 so that's why it's included here. I would walk around my neighbourhood in South London (Crystal Palace) and would listen to Spaces as I wandered up and down the hills, and it kept me sane. Lend an ear to song "Says," it will be the best 8 minutes of your life, I promise.
#2 Are We There by Sharon Van Etten. I would wander around Kreuzberg and Neükoln in Berlin, along the canal, sit on Admiralbrücke, drink a cola from the Späti, and listen to "Our Love" or "I Know" off this album and feel like someone else understood me finally.
Favourite 2014 Singles
#1 Enemies by Hannah Georgas. The song is simply gorgeous, but it was the music video for it that left me breathless. There's something about that man's face. I think it was his eyes. He broke my heart.
#2 Habits by Tove Lo. I know this song was pretty overplayed by the end of the year, but when it first came out, I would walk around Berlin during those hot summer nights when it's still light out at 9pm, photograph street art, listen to this, and sing when I was sure no one was listening.
Favourite 2014 Films
#1 Grand Budapest Hotel, obviously! I saw this in London with Robin and we couldn't stop talking about how great it was for hours afterward.
#2 Boyhood. I saw this in Berlin with David and he fell asleep during it, so it could have used a tighter edit (3 hours is too long, guys!) but it was still a tour-de-force.
Speaking of men…
I was never lonely this year, let's put it that way.
Also… OMG BEARDS. EVERY MAN I KNOW HAS A SWEET, SWEET BEARD.
When it comes to the end…
Like I have for the past three years, I will be spending New Years in a country other than my own (2012 in Germany, 2013 in London, and now 2014 in….)
New York City!!
I'll be housesitting (obvi) for a month (until the end of January) in the Upper West Side. Another place to live rent-free, another amazing city. I haven't been in NYC since 2012 so it will be great to rediscover all my favourite places (Bushwick here I come!!) and also discover places I never knew before (I'm coming for you, Adele Bloch-Bauer).
NYC, like all the other cities I have lived in this year, is one of those places where you're never bored. And if you are, you are doing it wrong.
So I'd like to end 2014 on a similar note:
"I'm bored' is a useless thing to say.
I mean, you live in a great, big, vast world that you've seen none percent of. Even the inside of your own mind is endless; it goes on forever, inwardly, do you understand? The fact that you're alive is amazing.
So you don't get to say 'I'm bored."
-Louis C.K.
2014 was never boring. May that continue in 2015.
See ya in NEW YORK CITY!!!
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Nuit Blanche Brussels: If you undress me, I'll undress you
In the past I have frequented Toronto's Nuit Blanche, so I knew that the event in Brussels would encompass performance art, light installations, concerts, film, and a mash of everything in between. The entire city was alive with ideas and provocative thoughts from 8pm until 5am. As I ran around all night in the rainy, haunted, winding streets of Brussels, I couldn't have been giddier. I love Brussels so much. It is the city that saved me, and suffused me.
This poetic light installation was in Place Des Martyrs.
Always take the stairs.
If you undress me, I'll undress you.
The body as a pendulum.
Homoeroticisms projected onto Place de la Monnaie.
Inside the beautiful Bourse, which has been empty for many years because of the expanding Stock Exchange, they projected 14 moving images (and when I say moving, I mean emotive and literally moving in slow mo) of a modern day crucifixion with a live quintet playing an aria called 14 Emotions.
I stumbled home sometime around 2am, after having taken the nightbus (which was free for Nuit Blanchers), and as the bus wound through the streets, I just kept repeating to myself, "I love this fucking town. I love it so much."
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Carlos Calaca has kidnapped El Presidente's Daughter, and he plans to sacrifice her in order to merge the Worlds of the Living and the Dead.
Juan Aguacate, an agave farmer who stumbles upon a Legendary Luchador mask, must find the strength and courage to stop him.
Travel through a mystical and mysterious Mexican world as a Luchador using the power of your two fists to battle evil. Uncover hidden wrestling techniques like the Rooster Uppercut, and Dimension Swap to open new areas and secrets.
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Moody's Microblog Daily Digest 121029 - http://bit.ly/PEb0Bx yesterday's tweets as a single Web page #MMDD
Serving Science or #Monsanto? - http://bit.ly/YhHAsS disgraceful #fud: all my respect for the #AAAS just vanished #gm
EU ministers back deep cuts in shipping fuel emissions - http://bit.ly/TRmk8rlong overdue
Supreme Court seeks a way around "perpetual copyright" on foreign goods -http://bit.ly/TSnfLT ridiculous question even being considered
Rien ne serait arrivé sans la loi de Moore - http://bit.ly/RtfM1s hmm, this seems strangely familiar #opensource
Cancer specialist supports Seralini, condemns his critics - http://bit.ly/YhIg1eFrench Academy of Medicine said asbestos safe - in 1996 #GM
Climate models get smarter, but uncertainty just won't go away -http://bit.ly/S9pFAg complex problem
Greek journalists warn over press freedom - http://bit.ly/RlvzgK situation in#greece looks dire from every angle
Bulgarian Banks Try To Silence Web Site That Called Them 'Bad Apples' -http://bit.ly/PiwC4N not good #bg
#India changes its internet governance position — backs away from UN proposal - http://bit.ly/Q3Hepy welcome
Decreto Crescita 2.0, proposte operative per l'Openness - http://bit.ly/Scy7Qcgood to see more of this coming through #it #opendata
Google's extreme digital capitalism is just a different form of socialism -http://bit.ly/V3IMB8 ha! nice analysis
RT @europeanprivacy#Open #Internet: presidential candidates ignore #onlinecontroversy - http://bbc.in/V3KEK7 >>that & #climatechange
Sicily Election Results Shock Italy - http://bit.ly/W1Efk8 "results of regional elections in Sicily herald a new era in Italian politics"
From #OpenSource to #Crowdfunding - http://bit.ly/TrUDaf all part of the big trend towards openness & collaboration
Google News wars are here again: France, Brazil, Germany front up -http://bit.ly/ScWpcS crazy stuff
Looking Beyond #TPP: US & EU Planning More Bad IP Rules In 'US-EU Free Trade Agreement' - http://bit.ly/Ts9OQA push for #transparency now
Privacy in #Ubuntu 12.10: Amazon Ads and Data Leaks - http://bit.ly/RtL9ck#EFF not happy bunnies
A 10-year #EFSA controversy: Time to tackle industry bias and reclaim food safety! Conference in Parma - http://bit.ly/Tln1pZ long overdue
Review of #OpenAccess in Economics - http://bit.ly/SdZetZ useful look at #oaoptions for economists
UK's Intellectual Property Obliteration office attacked by Parliament -http://bit.ly/Q4c5T4 not true: just by a few copyright maximalists
Indian Music Industry Files Petition Supporting IT Rules - http://bit.ly/Pj8Sh5i.e. content takedown without notice (v @Atul_Desh)
Have EU orphans found a caring home? - http://bit.ly/YiX6on confirms how#hostageworks directive was butchered by #copyright maximalists
Three former Environment Ministers speak out on NK603 and Roundup -http://bit.ly/Tsgq1q more doubts about #gm approval process #monsanto
US judge coming to tell stupid Brits what to think about terrorism -http://bit.ly/RqPX3I & sabotage extradition reforms (v @jrodwyer @4b5)
Brazil's Indigenous battle corruption in land administration - http://bit.ly/SrUG5Pdepressing
Is it Time to Police the Police? - http://bit.ly/TRXHbL well past the time...
Food crisis: The fight for corn [er, maize] - http://bit.ly/W2xzSN long, detailed piece about important issue
Village Voice sues Yelp for using "Best of" - http://bit.ly/Tsil6g to think I used to read this, too...
5 Things You Need To Know About Chinese Social Media -http://onforb.es/Tsiw1k useful #china
Indonesian Compulsory Licenses Show Values of Pro-Access TRIPS-Flexibility Terms in Voluntary Licenses - http://bit.ly/TRZE85 indeed #id
Greece gave birth to democracy. Now it has been cast out by a powerful elite -http://bit.ly/V4WYda kudos to the #guardian for pursuing this
Participatory #Innovation Conference 2013 - http://bit.ly/WYcPei "how people outside an org. can contribute to its innovation" (v @hleman)
Supreme Court Justices Worry About 'Parade Of Horribles' If They Agree You Don't Own What You Bought - http://bit.ly/PF34Qr good summary
Proof that #EFSA used double standards to attack Seralini -http://bit.ly/W2RpgN worse & worse #gm #monsanto
RT @glynwintle Police saying they need #ccdp so they can catch young people communicating using game consoles>>desperate or what?
#Mozilla's Learning/WebLiteraciesWhitePaper - http://mzl.la/UdWsnD "a reference point and framework to help develop web literacies"
A new wave of surveillance in Pakistan - http://bit.ly/Sf4PAd more details of worrying moves #pk
MT @bengoldacre#BMJ insist that all data for trials they publish must now be accessible. http://bit.ly/VBBHDm >>hugely important #opendata
Hello people of the past: you... seriously used Dr Who and the Daleks to advertise tobacco? - http://bit.ly/WYHaJv wow, is that real?
Digital revolution lights up #Africa with maps, mobiles, money and markets -http://bit.ly/Sc7vOw important shift, happening rapidly


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K.J. Ray Liu develops 'brain' for concealed weapon detectorProfessor K.J. Ray Liu (ECE/ISR) is in the news for his work with Pharad, LLC, in Glen Burnie, Md. Liu is optimizing Pharad's portable system for detecting concealed weapons on individuals from a distance. The system can be used in a variety of indoor and outdoor environments, including airport concourses and passenger train terminals, public buildings, shopping centers, stadiums, and retail centers.
Liu is creating a state-of-the-art signal processing algorithm that first detects if a weapon is present, then classifies what kind of weapon it is. Each weapon has a unique signature defined by a set of electromagnetic resonances that reflect differently depending on its physical makeup. Pharad is testing various weapons to develop a signature library. While the initial system will detect concealed weapons, Pharad plans to add signatures to find disguised weapons, as well as bombs and explosives.
The system is currently in the development phase and could be on the market within two years.
Liu's work with Pharad is a project in the MIPS (Maryland Industrial Partnerships) program, administered by MTECH, the Maryland Technology Enterprise Institute. The MIPS program provides matching funding for university-based research projects that help companies develop new products. MIPS projects deal with innovative technological or scientific concepts and have direct commercial applications.
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Digital Sins, Inc. v. John Does 1–245, 2012 WL 1744838 (S.D.N.Y. May 15, 2012)
Plaintiff Digital Sins filed a copyright lawsuit against 245 anonymous BitTorrent users. The court dismissed the case against all but one of the unknown John Does, finding that the defendants had been improperly joined in one lawsuit. The judge observed that "there is a right way and a wrong way to litigate [copyright infringement claims], and so far this way strikes me as the wrong way."
Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 20(a)(2) provides that defendants can be joined into one case if, for example, the plaintiff's right to relief arises out of the same transaction, occurrence, or series of transactions or occurrences, or if there is any question of law or fact common to all defendants.
In this case, the court found that those requirements had not been met. Plaintiff's allegations that the defendants merely commited the same type of violation in the same way, did not satisfy the test for permissive joinder under Rule 20. There was no basis, according to the court, to conclude that any of the defendants was acting other than independently when he or she chose to access the BitTorrent protocol.
The court went on to find that having all the defendants joined in one action would not give rise to any valid judicial economy. Any such economy from litigating all the cases in a single action would only benefit plaintiff, by not having to pay separate filing fees to sue each defendant. Moreover, trying 245 separate cases in which each of 245 different defendants would assert his own separate defenses under a single umbrella would be unmanageable.
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Google's long-awaited eBookstore is now live in the US and this billion dollar industry has just got a little more crowded. With 3 million titles available from Google's online store, users can now download from an enormous library of ebooks to their Google account, which can then be synced and read on any web browser, mobile devices and eBook readers, including the Nook and Sony Reader. To make the experience more seamless on the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad, the Google Books app is also now available on the App Store.
While the Google Books app isn't as fully featured as eReaders like Stanza, it still has some basic options for font, search and night-reading mode. Best of all though is the automatic page position syncing function across all devices, meaning that no matter whether you're reading your ebook via a laptop or iDevice, you won't have to worry about finding the last page where you left off. Sadly, the Google's eBookstore is only available in the US, so international users will have to wait a bit before the promising service is introduced elsewhere. Check out the video demo and more info after the break.
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To my Wife my Best Friend You've been there to laugh with me, to cry with me, to be proud of me, and to be happy for all the good things in my life...
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You've also shared my disappointments and listened as I worked out my thoughts and feelings about so many things that troubled me... You're the most important part of my world, and you always will be. I love you. Happy Birthday


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Dear Lifehacker,
In light of all the natural disasters wreaking havoc across the globe, I've realized I should take a home inventory to document everything I own for insurance purposes. What's the best way to do this?
Happy Homeowner
Hi Happy,
You're smart to want to document your possessions in case of burglary, damage, or fire. The short answer to your question: The best tool for the job is the one you'll actually use.
Taking a home inventory isn't really hard, it's just time consuming. It's also extremely important; a good inventory will speed up the insurance claims process and ensure your insurance takes care of everything you lost. (You do, of course, need the insurance.)
Many tools can guide you through taking your inventory and storing it (we'll list some below), but the basics are pretty simple. You'll want to take pictures of all your stuff. (It's also a good idea to snap pictures of serial numbers of your gadgetry.) If you've got a video camera, you can simply walk through your home and film every room for a good and simple start.
It's also very important that you store your inventory outside your home in some form. You could store it at your office or somewhere else outside of your home. If it's digital, upload it to a server somewhere. Videos can go to YouTube or Vimeo (marked as private), images can be uploaded to Flickr, synced with Dropbox, or emailed to yourself. Of course, that's sort of the minimum.
We've covered a lot of home inventory software, tips, and ideas at Lifehacker, so let's take a look at some of your options for managing your inventory.
- Know Your Stuff Inventories Your Home - This free Windows/Mac download from the Insurance Information Institute not only keeps a database of all your stuff, it also lets you export the file for offsite storage.
- Inventory Your Home or Office with StuffSafe - A free web site that stores pictures, descriptions, and other vital information about the stuff you own. It's web-based, so you don't have to worry about losing your inventory if something happens to your home.
- Photo Inventory Your Stuff - At the very minimum, free online photo storage sites like Flickr make great safehouses for photo documentation of your belongings. Just take some pics and make a "home inventory" set; it's better than nothing.
- Declutter Your Home with a Detailed Inventory - A nice side benefit of a thorough home inventory is that you can declutter and get rid of things you don't need along the way.
- ManageMyHome - Reader wjglenn recommends checking out ManageMyHome.com for tracking home inventory and managing home projects.
Readers, we'd love to know how you manage the monumental task of documenting your possessions. Share your ideas in the comments.
Thanks, Lauren!


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By now you are probably quite busy creating buncees for our 'Buncee Your Holidays' Contest!
Everyone wants to start out their New Year with an iPad mini, right? 🙂
Here's a tip to help your buncees stand out from the crowd, we just added new animated gif 'Stickers' that are a fun way to add holiday cheer to your greetings.
If you've not noticed them, you can find them in the buncee creation window in the area shown here below:
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2) Enter your Title, and select your background
3) Go to 'Stickers', then click on the 'Animation' link on the left as shown in red circles
4) Simply click the sticker you want into the buncee and resize to your liking!
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Arctic Monkeys didn't, so why should you? Come to London, that is, to find your fortunes, bands of this land. The Sheffield foursome were finally made to put pen to paper by a soul of industry significance when Domino's Lawrence Bell followed his nose north of Watford to meet 'em on their own terms, following the band's resistance to label approaches from the south, and was rewarded with signing one of the decade's most successful domestic rock acts. Had they polished their game in the capital? Had they fuck: they'd toured all over, under their own steam, and learnt the ropes without interference from within the M25.
Yet London is, and has been for too many years for these grey hairs to total, the place to make or break your ragtag collectives of greasy-haired bass loons and quiet-at-the-back sticksmen. Or is it? It's a cultural melting pot, for sure, with street-walkers from all corners of the world on any given weekday; but an identifiable scene, or sound, it lacks. Nu-rave? Started as a joke didn't it, in the bowels of the beast that is the business; just happened that leeches sucked it up and reformed the Hoxton aesthetic into a movement capable of limping up the M1. Punk rock? Sure, London was its epicentre this side of the pond, but bands that led from the front weren't always born Londoners – The Buzzcocks rolled down from Manchester, and… Okay, most were residents through and through. But by the time Sex Pistols blew the whole party into the mainstream in '76 the sound had permeated metropolises worldwide.
London is a city without an identity nowadays, with too many bands after too few breaks too quickly for any sense of community to develop. So why do bands come here expecting to take things to the next level? Alongside Arctic Monkeys, Edinburgh's Broken Records are another example of a band who've resisted the lure of London as long as possible – they made the industry come to them, until demand was such that they had to hop the gravy train southwards. The result is a single deal with Young Turks, an XL imprint, and inevitably greater things to come before the year is out.
Says the band's Ian Turnbull, simply: "In somewhere like London there's far too much happening and it's difficult to get noticed." True – from the perspective of the music journalist whose job it is to be instrumental in the exposing of brand new talent, there's simply too much on of an evening to cut through the crap with any degree of accuracy. Also, the capital's culture, the culture of the industry looking down on the populous from shiny towers in Kensington and Hammersmith, is prone to chewing up and spitting out acts when it suits them, another fact Broken Records appear to have been rightly wary of. Says the band's Andy Kennedy:
"If you do something in London that's a bit interesting you end up getting hyped and generate a bandwagon after four gigs when you've not had time to develop yourself. We've had countless gigs in the last year where no-one has noticed us and that's given us time to get tighter and develop to the point where we're ready to move on. So there's no danger of someone saying to us, 'Right that's interesting, go and do this'. Then, all of a sudden… Destitute."
Local scenes rich in community spirit and collective mindsets – progress through combined learning curves, collaborative gigging and recording – has in the past produced some of this nation's greatest outfits. Bristol has spawned the likes of Tricky and Massive Attack, and to a similar extent Portishead, whose Geoff Barrow says of his hometown's scene:
"The (Bristol) sound to me is where punk meets hip-hop and reggae, like The Pop Group and early Massive Attack, and Smith & Mighty. Tricky was absolutely that – he was more a punk than a rapper."
These significant acts may not have made it out of their own ghettos without the spirit that courses through their earliest material, the sounds that ultimately got them noticed by capital dwellers without needing to relocate. Not every local scene is healthy though, of course, as Thomas Wagstaff of Birmingham punks Beestung Lips recently observed:
"There is a lot of dross that you have to wade through. It seems that the younger section of the Birmingham scene want to listen to ironic dance music and get off their faces on pills. And to be honest with you I'd rather do the same thing than face another lacklustre gig at the Dog and Trumpet. Live music and music in general is dying because people are trying to do things the industry's way. People should kick back and spit in the face of the shiny equipment and pay-to-play attitude of the industry. Too many bands are prepared to jump through hoops like performing monkeys. We are not performers."
Vitriolic words, but with good reason: a handful of bands are realising that subscribing to accustomed routes – accustomed through repetition rather than any persistently proven methodology to the madness – isn't likely to benefit their progress. Stateside, local scenes are more obviously prevalent due to distances dividing settlements of truly sizable populations, something Be Your Own Pet's Jonas Stein alludes to:
"There was a really good hardcore scene (in Nashville). DIY hardcore bands. These awesome bands came through (venue Guido's Pizza) with small numbers of dedicated fans and we were the youngest ones there - 13, 14, 15 - and we used to hang around with people in their mid-to-late 20s, early 30s. So we were exposed to this hardcore party environment 'cause they would still sell beer there, everyone would get shit-faced except for the kids. It'd be us getting in the mosh-pit with these 30-year-old dudes. I think that was very important 'cause at that age you're very impressionable and we were lucky to be exposed to that and the four of us understood and bonded with that type of music. I think you can hear the influence from Guido's Pizza still in there today."
There's no shame in adopting a magpie approach to widen personal creative horizons, but the UK has enjoyed its share of local scenes bearing usually press-determined nomenclatures – Madchester, shoegaze (perhaps more of a national thing than limited to a specific region), trip-hop, Grebo (ergh) – and continues to with the (albeit not press-named) 'Bosspop' movement currently coming out of Liverpool, headed by bands like Elle S'appelle – read Kenn Taylor's investigation into the city's present scene here. But occasionally peeps are partial to diving into the deep end a little too swiftly, as was the case with the clumping together of relative randoms to establish 'Thamesbeat'. One act caught up was The Maccabees, whose Orlando Weeks has said:
"Thamesbeat – the only ridiculous thing with that was when people tried to give it a name…Mystery Jets, Jamie T – some of the best bands in the land came from that, but it wasn't that together, more just a bunch of people we met along the way."
Not a strict community then, more some critically-approved artists placed in a temporarily convenient box for the sake of running them on the same page. See also: shit-gaze, and its associating of Eat Skull and Times New Viking with Psychedelic Horseshit. Oh, no, wait.
The point? Got lost somewhere up there, so let's skip to the start again: if Arctic Monkeys have proven that you don't need to move to London to make your band your living, and Broken Records looking likely to follow them, just why do so many bands up sticks to bum around Hackney bedsits 'til it's 10pm and they can play six songs to eleven people over at whatever shitty bar's made itself a nice flyer this week? (Or are these examples true rarities; is the industry full of lazy fatties who can only shuffle as far as the Water Rats once a week?)
Are local British scenes still affluent, or has the spread of social networking sites such as MySpace rendered these geographically-bracketed collectives redundant, as movements can spread faster and wider than ever before? Where are the local scene salvations, the acts sticking to their creative guns and equalling a powerful artistic influence on the up-and-comers about them? Those that have made their cities their own. The Courteeners? Perhaps, perhaps. But they're shite, innit.
Ultimately, will a band like The Ape-Shits ever make it outta Austin, Texas with a name like that?!


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Justin Bieber + Selena Gomez Split Because of 'Trust Issues' But May Get Back Together
Could cheating be behind the split of the year? While neither Justin Bieber nor Selena Gomez have confirmed their breakup, more details about the messy end of their relationship are emerging, and it's not that pretty.
Initial reports of the split pinned the blame on scheduling issues, but it's starting to look like there was more at play than that -- and that the couple's issues go a lot deeper than just different time zones.
A source told PEOPLE, "She broke up with him about a week ago. With them being apart so much it got complicated," the source added. "She had some trust issues. It's not easy, but the relationship needed to end." The fact that Gomez had trust issues with a man who appeared, at least in public, to worship the ground she walks on, doesn't bode well for a reunion. However, some pals think it may still happen -- despite the fact that Biebs was flirting up a storm with Victoria's Secret models this week.
Us Weekly also remarked on Gomez's "trust issues" with Biebs, but also said it may not really be the end. "They are [young] ... it changes from day to day," Us' source spilled. "Right now it is a break and tomorrow it could be back on knowing them ... it's hard to say how they will end up. Maybe she feels more serious about it this time. We'll see."
The split has gone from what was likely once private (and kept under wraps until Biebs' Oprah interview) to a social media maelstrom of drama. Bieber reportedly deleted Gomez from his Instagram account, while Gomez was both the author and subject of passive aggressive tweets directed at Bieber. While it may seem unprofessional on both their parts, the duo were perfectly comfortable being public when things were rosy.
Some fans are speculating that the pair may have just been on a "break," but that Gomez got jealous when she saw Bieber palling around with lingerie model Barbara Palvin. Others believe (see what we did there?) that Gomez dumped Bieber on Halloween but agreed to keep it quiet until after his interview with Oprah -- in which he gushed over how much he adores her -- aired, and that when she saw Bieber and Palvin together she felt like she was being made to look foolish.
Whatever went down, there's a war a-brewin' between Beliebers and Selenators. Here's hoping Jelena wasn't one of the casualties.
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Thursday, November 4, 2010
Best Faculties in Legal History: The Leiter Poll
In the "For What Its Worth" Department, we note that Brian Leiter is conducting one of his "best faculties" polls for American law schools on the field of legal history, here.
Labels: Historians
1 comment:
- Shag from Brookline said...
The link provided includes a comment that Kurt Lash has joined the U. of Illinois faculty, which reminded me, has Prof. Lash published the third part of his take on the 14th Amendments privileges or immunities clause? I had hoped it would have been ready before SCOTUS came down with McDonald v. Chicago. I wonder if that decision has given him second thoughts? The first two parts were great. As for the third, better late than never. Any update on its status?
- November 5, 2010 at 6:57:00 AM EDT
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We recently had the opportunity to spend the morning aboard the Sea Shepherd ship in Melbourne with Paul Watson, it was an amazing experience we both will never forget. Our video interview will be up shortly.
When we get asked about the current situation with Japan, we find that a lot of young people are confused about which whales are killed and why Japan persists when they whole world seems against it. So these are the facts which explains everything you'll need to know-
The International whale comission (IWC) is the organisation responsible for regulating whaling. It was formed in 1946 to manage sustainable hunting of whales. Now it is responsible for conservation of whales.
In 1982 the IWC voted to introduce a Moratorium on Commercial Whaling, to take effect in 1986, however Japan never stopped killing whales as they use a loophole they found in the legislation. They simply declare that they are killing the whales for 'scientific reasons'.
In fact, more than 25,000 whales have been killed since the Moratorium was supposed to come into force.
IWC decisions are based on a vote, and Japan "encourages" small third world countries to join the IWC and vote on their side. Japan is alleged to have handed out more than $400 million in bribes so far.
They also argue it is a cherished cultural tradition for Japanese people to keep killing whales - However a recent Japanese Newspaper poll found only 4% of Japanese regularly eat whale meat.
Whales and whalingBlue whales are the largest, and also the rarest whales. There were once 220,000 Blues in Southern Ocean, reduced to around 500 now (in the sounthern ocean) and worldwide about 3000 exist. This is due to past overhunting. Despite being protected since the 1960s, their numbers have not recovered.
Minke whales are the commonest of the rorquals ('Great whales') - mainly because they are the smallest so have not been subjected to the same hunting pressure yet (they were not targeted by whalers until the 1970s when larger species became too rare). Recent estimates show there could already be as few as 250,000 Minkes from 3 different sub-species in the Southern Ocean, despite Japanese claims of close to 1 million.
The whales Japan hunts are the same ones that migrate past the coasts of NZ and Australia, and breed in the Pacific Islands. In addition to the 'scientific' whaling loophole Japanese whalers defy the Southern Ocean whale sanctuary declared in 1994 by killing them right in the heart of the protected area.
Recent Developments
Japan initially claimed they were taking only Minke whales, but it has since be proven that some meat for sale in Japan during the 1990s came from dolphins, and some from endangered species such as Sei, Fin, and Humpback whales.
Japan continues to demand an end to sanctuaries, and an abolition of the Moratorium to allow a return to commercial hunting. Following Japan's example, Norway and Iceland have also resumed whaling in the Northern Hemisphere in recent years, killing hundreds of Minke whales, along with Fin and Sei whales (both species listed as 'Endangered')
At the 2006 IWC meeting Japan managed to 'buy' enough support to win the vote declaring that the Moratorium on Commercial Whaling is unnecessary and blaming whales for depleting the world's fish stocks.
Following this success, Japan announced its plans to expand its whaling effort to kill the following numbers whales per year, beginning in the 2006-07 season:
In the Antarctic:
Double their current Minke whale kill to 935
50 Humpback whales [the total population estimated to pass through New Zealand waters is only 2000!] (species listed as 'Vulnerable' i.e. facing a high risk of extinction in the wild in the medium-term future)
up to 50 Fin whales (species listed as 'Endangered' i.e. facing a very high risk of extinction in the wild in the near future)
In the North Pacific:
220 Minke whales
50 Bryde's whales (species listed as 'Unknown Status' due to lack of data)
50 Sei whales (species listed as 'Endangered' ie. facing a very high risk of extinction in the wild in the near future)
10 sperm whales (species listed as 'Vulnerable' ie. facing a high risk of extinction in the wild in the medium-term future)
Thankfully, because of all the publicity Sea Shepherd has generated this whaling season, it has forced the issue to be constantly in the media, much to Japan's embarassment.
Sea Shepherd would have to be the best place to start to get all the info you need on this issue:
To see more, watch this Sea Shepherd video HERE


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Apple will be spending $8 billion in 2012, mainly on its new headquarters, infrastructure and expanding retails stores.
The information, featured in the company's annual report, was highlighted by UBS analyst Maynard Um in a report to investors, GigaOm reported. According to documents filed with the Security and Exchange Commission:
The Company anticipates utilizing approximately $8.0 billion for capital expenditures during 2012, including approximately $900 million for retail store facilities and approximately $7.1 billion for product tooling and manufacturing process equipment, and corporate facilities and infrastructure, including information systems hardware, software and enhancements.
The company's annual report also goes on to say that Apple will open about 40 new retail stores in 2012, with three-quarters located outside of the United States.
The new stores are not only for selling Apple products, but will also be placed in more high-profile areas. "Certain stores have been designed and built to serve as high-profile venues to promote brand awareness and serve as vehicles for corporate sales and marketing activities. Because of their unique design elements, locations and size, these stores require substantially more investment than the Company's more typical retail stores," the report said.
Part of the $8 billion will definitely be spent on Apple's new headquarters because they still have to build it, and Um anticipated that some of the money will go to upgrade and expand data centers and Apple's cloud operations.
It makes sense that Apple is expanding globally because that's where the money is, but we do have to point out that expanding retail is also typically a way for companies temporarily boost stock price. We'll see if Apple's profits stay high after an additional 40 stores with expensive leases.


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The MeCP2 protein binds methylated cytosine residues in DNA. In 1999, the MeCP2 gene was discovered to be altered in many cases of the autism spectrum disorder Rett syndrome. Since then, we have learned much more about the functions of MeCP2 in the mammalian nervous system, including an unexpected role for MeCP2 in mediating responses to certain drugs of abuse. As a whole, this mini-symposium will provide insights into the possible roles of MeCP2 in neurodevelopmental and substance abuse disorders.
The Evolving Role of MeCP2 in Human Neurodevelopmental Disorders
Janine M. LaSalle, Ph.D. UC Davis School of Medicine
The combination of observable traits, also referred to as phenotypes, can be influenced by gene expression and environmental factors, including exposure to drugs. Dr. LaSalle began her presentation by discussing the genes related to neurodevelopmental disorders and what they tell us about epigenetics' role in the development of the social brain. MeCP2, a binding protein known for regulating gene expression, produces one of the essential "readers" of the DNA methylation code, the first layer of epigenetic information in developing neurons. MeCP2 regulates the genes involved in changes to neural activity and growth, as well as the genes that control anxiety and stress response. These genetic mechanisms affect a wide range of neurodevelopmental disorders, particularly autism spectrum disorders. When MeCP2 is deficient, it causes neuronal nuclei to get smaller and chromosome structure to change.
Dr. LaSalle and her team of researchers developed a model that allowed them to map the genomic locations of partially methylated domains in human neuronal cells. This mapping helped them determine how much of a role DNA methylation plays in the neuronal nuclear changes that occur during development. These results indicate that the level of DNA methylation and MeCP2 is critical to the development of the human brain, as reduced DNA methylation caused by exposure of MeCP2 mutant female mice to a common chemical flame retardant resulted in a decrease in sociability in their female offspring. This is a classic behavioral characteristic among individuals with autism spectrum disorders and in individuals known to abuse drugs.
Cocaine-Induced Chromatin Remodeling of BDNF Transcription in the mPFC
Ghazaleh Sadri-Vakili, Ph.D., MassGeneral Institute for Neurodegenerative Disease, Massachusetts General Hospital; Harvard Medical School
The effects of cocaine are not limited to individuals exposed to cocaine. They can be transmitted to the user's offspring through the germ line, even when those generations were never exposed to cocaine, suggesting that the population at risk may be larger than scientists originally estimated. Dr. Sadri-Vakili explained what researchers know about the contribution of epigenetic factors to the risk of cocaine abuse. Using animal models of addiction, the research team demonstrated that drugs cause epigenetic alterations in gene expression that can influence brain development and behavior.
Cocaine-induced alterations in the brain are characterized by behavioral, cellular, and molecular events, including alterations in cocaine self-administration and locomotor sensitization to cocaine, increased BDNF expression, increased histone acetylation, and decreased MeCP2 binding. Dr. Sadri-Vakili and her team of researchers used paternal and maternal animal model to characterize these events across multiple generations. In the first model, male rats self-administered cocaine for 60 days, mated with drug-naïve females, and then behavior and molecular traits were examined in the F1 generation at adulthood. In the second model, pregnant mice received twice-daily injections of cocaine until birth and behavioral and molecular traits of the F1 and F2 generations were examined at development and adulthood. Results showed that male offspring of rodents exposed to cocaine demonstrated a significant change in behavior, brain development, and gene expression in both models in the F1 and F2 generations. More specifically, the male offspring were less sensitive to the rewarding effects of cocaine that was marked by increased levels of BDNF protein and mRNA in the prefrontal cortex.
MeCP2 and Psychostimulant-Induced Behavioral Adaptations
Anne E. West, M.D., Ph.D., Duke University Medical Center
Psychostimulants like cocaine and amphetamine very rapidly enter the brain and increase levels of dopamine. Over the long term, studies show that exposure to psychostimulants results in locomotor sensitization, memory challenges and eventually addiction. However these behavioral changes require chronic exposure to psychostimulants, suggesting that slower biochemical processes may underlie these behavioral changes. Many studies suggest that neural plasticity mechanisms, including changes in the way genetic information is copied into new RNA molecules, are essential in this transition to addiction. Dr. West discussed research measuring the epigenetic mechanisms of chromatin regulation in response to repeated exposure to psychostimulants and its role in these behavioral adaptations.
Dr. West and her team of researchers used a mouse model to determine whether psychostimulants act via the MeCP2 protein, which modulates gene transcription, to influence long-lasting behavioral changes. Her results showed that when the MeCP2 is mutated in a way that prevents it from being regulated by psychostimulants, that mice experience more rapid locomotor sensitization to amphetamine and demonstrate increased sensitivity to the rewarding effects of cocaine.
These results suggest that MeCP2 limits the rewarding and reinforcing properties of psychostimulants like amphetamine and cocaine. Dr. West explored the implications of this data and what they tell scientists about the molecular and cellular mechanisms that influence the development of addictive behaviors.


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Welcome to Taman Ahimsa
Surrender your senses and succumb to the seductive charms of Taman Ahimsa, a seven-bedroom oceanfront villa on Bali's south-west coast, where a beguiling mix of nature and organic design blend together in perfect synergy.
The buildings are designed to resemble boat hulls, sacred spirals and seashells – appropriate symbols for this idyllic retreat. The tang of the salty air, the lulling sound of the rolling ocean and the heavenly scent from the abundant frangipani blossoms all combine in perfect harmony to make your sojourn here a rich, enchanting whole.
Taman Ahimsa provides wonderful spaces for friends and families to come together and enjoy Bali's tropical treasures whilst also offering private opportunity for contemplation and rejuvenation.


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Shadow Dancer - Review
Review by Rob Carnevale
JAMES Marsh may be better known for acclaimed documentaries such as Man On Wire and Project Nim but he proves himself equally adept at drama with Shadow Dancer, an intelligent look at terrorism that quite possibly rates among the year's best.
Slow-burning it may be but this is a film that eschews anything unnecessarily flashy in favour of probing characterisation and mounting tension. As a result, it enables Andrea Riseborough to provide a stunning showcase of her acting credentials, as well as strong performances from Clive Owen and Domhnall Gleeson.
The film picks up in London in 1993 as IRA would-be bomber Colette (Riseborough) is picked up by MI5 while attempting to leave a device on London's Underground.
Coerced into spying on her brothers (Aidan Gillen and Domnhall) by MI5's Mac (Owen), Colette must carefully win back the trust of her family while remaining one step ahead of those who would silence her forever or place her behind bars.
Marsh's film is based on a script from Tom Bradby, who has, in turn, adapted his own novel of the same name and drawn from his own experiences as a TV reporter in Belfast during the '90s.
It provides a gripping insight into the complexities of dealing with terrorism, both from the perspective of those perpetrating it as well as those trying to prevent it. And it unfolds in a resolutely old fashioned kind of way, building a sustained sense of paranoia where no one can really be trusted and absolutely no one is safe.
Marsh also draws from his own experience as a documentary filmmaker to inform the strong sense of character that informs the movie. These people feel like real people, as complex as they are often fatally flawed, and there isn't always a clear hero.
Riseborough's Colette may illicit our sympathy at several points, given her tragic past and the hopelessness of her current predicament, but she's also a stone-cold killer at heart and capable of making decisions that are in her own best interests.
Owen, too, shows a ruthless streak in dealing with her, as well as a compassion that frequently places him at odds with his own conscience and the needs of his superiors. While Colette's brothers, her mother and wider IRA network all add to the complexity of an increasingly claustrophobic situation from which not everyone can hope to emerge unscathed.
Marsh, to his credit, also succeeds in playing his cards close to his chest throughout and delivers a number of surprises, right down to a sucker punch ending that feels perfectly in keeping with the film's overall tone.
Hence, while Shadow Dancer may be a little too real and pedestrian for those who prefer to get their kicks from high-octane terror-driven thrillers, it's an intelligent, even haunting affair that simply oozes with class.
Certificate: 15
Running time: 101mins
UK Release Date: August 24, 2012


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The white marble lamp fitting crafted from solid Italian fine-grained Carrara marble.
Traditionally used around the world in structures ranging from elaborate palace floors to impressive atrium walls, marble is available in an abundant variety of colors and natural patterns that can blend into an existing decor or stand out as the marble table in your home.
Polished calacatta marble Oro is luxry one of Calcite, it is real calacata marble and it is good for bathroom decorations.It is a rare, exceptional marble. It is come from Italy quarry.
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Super middleweight champions Mikkel Kessler (WBA) and Carl Froch (IBF) wrapped up their two day international media tour in Denmark on Tuesday evening. One day after facing the press at the O2 Arena in London, they caught up with the Danish media at a crowded press conference that was televised live all over the Viking Warrior's home country. On May 25, Kessler and Froch will collide at the O2 Arena in London.
"We sold 15,000 tickets on the first day and we're virtually sold out," promoter Kalle Sauerland said. "The interest has been huge, but that's no surprise given the dramatic first fight. Mikkel Kessler and Carl Froch are two very special fighters who will leave it all in the ring once again. Mikkel beat Carl once and I am sure he will beat him again."
Kessler believes his clash with Froch is the "biggest fight in the super'middleweight division" at the time being. He said: "Just look at the fan interest and how fast the tickets have been selling. All over the world the fans really want to see us doing it again because they know it will be a war. No holding, no headbutting, no clinching. Just two warriors going at it from the first bell until the very end. It will be pure action and adrenaline.
"Carl came to my country, now I am coming to his country. I owe him that. I have fought and traveled all over the world, so I look forward to facing Carl in his backyard. On May 25, two true champions will clash. And I will be the winner again."
Said Froch: "It is going to be a toe-to-toe fight, it will be vicious and brutal. This is a fight that could go either way, but I know that I will win. He beat me the first time, no excuses, but May 25 will be different. I will throw punches at him from the first bell and honestly I think that will be too much for him to handle. I know that he will not grab or hold but fight fire with fire and come right back at me, so the fans will be in for a real treat.
"We had a good two day press tour, the interest is huge in the UK and in Denmark and that is what boxing at the top level is all about."
Said Eddie Hearn: "I can't remember a fight to sell out that quickly, this is fantastic and tells you everything you need to know about May 25. Two great champions, a great venue that is virtually sold out and huge TV interest all over the world – it can't get any better than this."
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- Terence Crawford NOT getting Kell Brook fight
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Snake Island Rd (County Rd #6) at Doyle Creek, March 28, 2007.Mike Carroccetto / Ottawa CitizenBrayden Fluet, 4, and brother Matthew, 6, check out a sink hole under the watchful eyes of their mom, Carla, at Tuscany Ravine Mews, June 9, 2005.Ted Jacob / Calgary HeraldWest Pender Street in Downtown Vancouver was closed late Monday morning after a sinkhole formed at the corner of West Pender and Bute Streets, Dec. 26, 2005.JASON PAYNE / PNG Merlin ArchiveTrucks lay fallen over the rubble of the collapsed 'Pinheiros' subway station in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Jan. 15, 2007.MAURICIO LIMA / AFP/Getty ImagesA policeman and a City official look over the mess after a garbage truck got stuck when a sinkhole opened up underneath it in an alley just southeast Yonge and Eglinton in the early morning hours September 08, 2006.Steve McKinley / National Post.A crater measuring about 1 kilometer by 500 meters that swallowed at least one house in St Jude north east of Montreal, Tuesday May 11, 2010.Phil Carpenter / Montreal GazetteConstruction crews assemble a barricade around a large sink-hole on Sheppard Avenue in Toronto, Wednesday April 26, 2006.Tyler Anderson / National PostA man at Taichung Port, 170-km southwest of Taipei, looks at a quake-opened sinkhole, 25 September 1999.TORU YAMANAKA / AFP/Getty ImagesCrews shown working on the services in a giant sinkhole that opened early in the morning in the middle of a downtown intersection in London, Ontario, Wednesday, October 31, 2007.Dave Chidley / NATIONAL POSTCity of Calgary employee Mohammed Kaddoura examines a sink hole that occurred in the middle of the intersection of Sun Valley Boulevard and Sunpark Drive on Thursday July 15, 2009.Gavin Young / Calgary HeraldA broken water main created a 4-metre-wide, 2-metre-deep sinkhole on 116 Street at Jasper Avenue in Edmonton.Chris Schwarz / EDMONTON JOURNALThe Depthx robot is exploring the waters of El Zacaton, a thousand-foot the sinkhole or "cenote" in Mexico near the city of Tampico.University of Texas / PNG Merlin ArchiveVancouver city workers check out a sinkhole that opened under the east bound lanes of S.E. 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Over the weekend, forward-thinking contemporary art information distribution service e-flux released the inaugural issue of Journal, a new online publication dedicated to art criticism. The introduction, written by editors Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, and Anton Vidokle, asks why many "have nearly stopped reading art magazines." The obvious answer is that the web has surpassed print, but the authors here cite "the current climate of disciplinary reconfiguration and geographic dispersal." With Journal, the editors hope to draw on the historical importance of art publications as a forum, and revitalize the practice by translating what was initially a printed object to the web. Issue #0 includes thematic articles and experimental writing by Raqs Media Collective, Omer Fast, Boris Groys, Bilal Khbeiz, Sebastjan Leban, Marjetica Potrc, Irit Rogoff, and Pelin Tan.
Interview with Daniel Pianetti and Renato Zulli of FAUND
FAUND is a magazine comprised of images found on the internet. For their first issue, which debuted last month, Switzerland-based editors Daniel Pianetti and Renato Zülli invited artists Peter Sutherland, Guy Meldem and Constant Dullaart to submit their finds. Their second issue comes out today, with images collected by artists Oliver Laric, Samuel Nyholm, Chris Coy, Sorryimissedyourparty, and Justin Kemp. As a seemingly natural extension to sites such as ffffound, the magazine spotlights the curatorial taste and direction of each individual artist. I asked Daniel Pianetti and Renato Zülli a few questions about their project via email. - Ceci Moss
How did you come up with the idea for FAUND?
We noticed that we were spending more and more time surfing for images on the Internet for pleasure, that's how we discovered sites where people can collect found images (ffffound, flickr, as-found...). We often focus our attention on the person who's finding, we think that you can understand a lot about this person judging by his finds. That's why we decided to create a paper magazine that highlights finders by inviting and spotlighting them as guests. Also, by printing the found images they become more durable.
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Usually we choose the artists judging by their approach to general appropriation art. We simply ask them to send us any amount of image links, without imposing a specific theme on them. The only rule is that they can't submit images that they've modified. We select the guests after considering the creativity of their finds. Until now, we've had a good response because it's an unusual request.
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Adult Contemporary and Continuous Partial Awareness Trailer by Cory Arcangel
Cory Arcangel made a trailer (above) for his upcoming solo exhibition at Team Gallery in Manhattan, called "Adult Contemporary," as well as his performance "Continuous Partial Awareness" on November 14th at the New Museum as part of Rhizome's ongoing New Silent Series. For the exhibition, Arcangel will explore the limits of technology from the perspective of a "non-expert" -- instead of seeking out tactics which subvert the intended use of technology, the works in the show will use technology exactly as it was designed, albeit "poorly" and "in an uneducated manner." The performance will touch on the experience of "continuous partial awareness" which the artist describes as an "eroded degenerate modern version of multitasking" explaining, "...you know, like, when you have 3 IM windows open, 2 email inboxs dinging away, are txting 5 different people, and also have 5 tabs open on your browser, each with updated content."
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For those who spent their morning pulling levers, the New York Times took an interesting behind-the-scenes peek yesterday at the storage and transportation of these voting machines, complete with a 360-degree view of New York's Voting Machine Facility. Curious minds who want a more in depth take at the history of voting technology should peruse the online component to the National Museum of American History's 2004 exhibition "Vote: the Machine of Democracy," which is still active.
This is new (2003) - Tino Sehgal
Tino Sehgal, the artist known for scripting scenarios, performed by actors following a set of instructions, brings the arena of news media into the gallery with This is new. For this piece, museum guards quote headlines from the day's newspapers to visitors, encouraging response or feedback on the part of the visitor.
I Wanted to See All of the News From Today (2007) - Martin John Callanan
Artist's statement: Aggregating - daily - the front pages of all printed national newspapers from around the world into one place. (Currently includes 618 titles).
Vote For Anything (1994) - Henry Lowengard
Artist's statement- Vote For Anything is a kind of a social experiment as well as an Internet "game" that was running even before the widespread adoption of the "World Wide Web" HTTP protocol. It originally ran as part of my gopher-based "e-zine" Glum Homebody, on the gopher of ECHO, gopher.echonyc.com (which is no longer available)...As the Web expanded beyond the original confines of CERN, I adapted the underlying program to run as a cgi-bin program on my personal web page at ECHO and also at WFMU.org, where it runs today. A few years ago, I prettied up the color scheme, but it basically runs the same as it always has... It's an interesting art piece that can be hijacked by someone with an axe to grind, simply by writing in people and things they wish to hate or promote. From an early implementation, I've always filtered out HTML in the write-ins, so that no redirection or other spoofing would be possible. By allowing for negative votes, one can actively disapprove of something, which fulfills a real need for voters. No one is restricted from multiple votes for multiple items, which sounds like it should make it easy to jam the election in some way, but in fact, this has never happened. The list of candidates ends up looking a little like lists of search engine search items, but they are a little more intentional. The open ended nature of the list lets incongruous items creep in between more serious entries, if any. In fact, incongruous items tend to take over the list, making a kind of collaborative poem, if there's enough traffic.


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Wednesday, April 18, 2012
All is Right in the World
Go ahead...try. We dare you.
We're not going to spend the rest of this post castigating you like your scolding aunt for having freaked out in the first two weeks of the season over players' tepid performances. It's irrational to do so, but it's probably doubly irrational to expect fans to sit through 500 hours of baseball before they begin jumping to conclusions.
Part of the fun of the early part of the schedule is that you can't help but read too much into every at bat, relief outing or whatever. We waited all winter for this, and it was as painful an offseason as we can remember, so forgive us if we occasionally lose perspective, and we'll do the same. There's some sort of balance to be struck between making bold and angry proclamations after an ultimately insignificant event, and having the disdainful detachment that assumes that nothing matters until some undefined day far down the road.
(Does this sound like a post that's about 68% more crabby than it should be after a win over a divisional rival? We're not sure what got into us. Those off days really mess with our chemistry.)
Ultimately, we're still trying to wrap our head around this team without getting lost in hyperbole. We don't think that we've seen them at their best yet - especially offensively - but they've shown that they have enough depth in the lineup and rotation that they can pull out wins even on days where much doesn't go right. Plus, we still have a sense that the offense has another gear, and that when it starts to roll, it's going to be something to behold.
Then again, don't they say that in baseball, momentum is defined by the next day's pitcher? David Price has held the Jays to a 2.06 ERA over 12 career starts. Yikes.
Happy Anniversary to "We": Leave it to a dude to forget his anniversary. For some reason, we thought that April 18th marked the five-year anniversary of the old blogeroo, but apparently, it was the 16th. Oops.
We won't bore you to death with our self-congratulations or any sort of awards ceremony speech to recognize everyone who had a hand in keeping the blog going. We generally bore our friends' eyelids shut with our ponderous discourses on the blogging process and the meaning of it all, but we'll try not embarrass ourselves today. We would just like to say a quick word of thanks to you all.
To all of you who have read the blog, shared it, linked to it, contributed to it, commented on it, and generally indulged us over these past five years: Thank you. We hope you've enjoyed it, and we'll try to be better.
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- Joanna said...
Happy Blogiversary!!!!
- April 18, 2012 at 12:39 PM
I think between opening day and the Boston series, we have in fact had over 500 hours of baseball. Not complaining...just saying. Those were some long-ass games.
- April 18, 2012 at 1:09 PM
- Jonathan said...
No Tao, thank you. Love that you keep putting this out here.
- April 18, 2012 at 2:31 PM
- Sarah said...
Happy anniversary, sir. You do good business.
- April 18, 2012 at 2:58 PM
It's going to be a year of ups and downs. Everyone except Jose and Ricky are to greater or lesser extent finding themselves. Most of them, maybe even all of them, will find their level, and almost all of their levels are very, very good. Just not everyone at the same time this year, or not everyone at the same time for very long. That would be too much to expect, this year. But that doesn't mean they won't be fun to watch. What i have faith in is the pleasure we will have this year as the bugs are worked out and the confidence grows. We just have to keep our expectations in check.
- April 18, 2012 at 4:02 PM
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Congrats on five years. Its an impressive feat.
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The Great Wall of Houston officially retired from the NBA. Most of us were waiting for the past three years now. Yao was obviously trying his hardest to get back, but the mind finally gave in. He finally accepted it after all this time. Houston moved on a long time ago, but we will never forget what Yao brought to the NBA (besides injuries) such as his skills and the gates opening up for China.Read More


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