Archive for February, 2008
tweet tweet for 2008-02-29
Feb 29th
- off on a busy day of fun in minneapolis. got a few inches of snow, but not too bad. #
tweet tweet for 2008-02-27
Feb 27th
- @iammikeb You are welcome. :-) I’m glad you liked it. It was fun writing about a local whose photography I enjoy. #
tweet tweet for 2008-02-25
Feb 25th
- @textbench that’s too bad. I would have attended her book tour. I did add her book to my wishlist, so I’ll eventually get it. #
- @AcmePhoto depends on how your friend formatted it. I use hard drives between my Mac and PC all of the time. #
- @davidteter we had that weather yesterday. We got some good snow out of it — that heavy spring snow. :-) #
- [daily photo] dreamt land http://tinyurl.com/2uj4sk #
- I find it amusing when so many northerners are amazed at my snow photography. It snows in Arizona? Oh, yes…we get *more* snow than you! #
tidbits
Feb 25th
I wanted to share a few things, today, that I’ve been saving to share.
“Should buying sex toys be as easy as buying a gun?”
Yes, that is the byline to an image of a gun seller in response to the change in the Texas law allowing the sale of sex toys. Is there a disconnect here? Are sex toys *really* on the same level of destruction as guns? Don’t you love the pathos being employed in this situation?
Check it out at viz, where there is a whole blog post about it.
the way I am
I love this video/song because it’s really what love should be about. Things suck, but I still love you. You’re falling apart, I’m a mess, but I still love you. It’s not a conditional love.
the future of reputation
I haven’t read it yet, but I love that the entire book is online and I have the opportunity to read it this way. If you are interested in identity, reputation, technology, and / or law, you might want to check out this book by Daniel Solove.
youtube as portfolio
I was actually up late enough to see a segment on Jimmy Kimmel Live (which is an odd occurrence for me because I don’t watch that show and I’m rarely up late enough anyway). However, what I did see, I really enjoyed. This young man, Brandon Hardesty, is using YouTube for his acting portfolio, and is being featured on Kimmel’s show. What a great use of social media.
This is something instructors should look in to for their portfolio needs. How can YouTube, blogging, wikis, podcasts, etc. be used to promote your students?
New Directions in Critical Theory
This conference, held at the University of Arizona in Tucson, has extended its call for papers. While the extension dates are not listed, I just received this on Friday from the University so I know that it didn’t close on the 15th. You may want to check it out if you’re interested in presenting a paper this year.
princess bride on steroids
Feb 24th
I love The Princess Bride. It’s one of those movies that I can watch a million times and still enjoy it. The acting is fun. The story is interesting. It’s one of those cult classics that still lives up to the hype.
A friend recently sent me the condensed version. Omigod! It is hilarious. I loved it.
courtesy of Your Studio Blog
at a certain age
Feb 24th
american life in poetry: column 138
by ted kooser, u.s. poet laureate, 2004-2006
You’ve surely heard it said that the old ought to move over to make room for the young. But in the best of all possible worlds, people who love their work should be able to do it as long as they wish. Those forced to retire, well, they’re a sorry lot. Here the Chicago poet, Deborah Cummins, shows a man trying to adjust to life after work.
At a Certain Age
He sits beside his wife who takes the wheel.
Clutching coupons, he wanders the aisles
of Stop & Save. There’s no place he must be,
no clock to punch. Sure,
there are bass in the lake, a balsa model
in the garage, the par-three back nine.
But it’s not the same.
Time the enemy then, the enemy now.As he points the remote at the screen
or pauses at the window, staring
into the neighbor’s fence but not really seeing it,
he listens to his wife in the kitchen, more amazed
than ever–how women seem to know
what to do. How, with their cycles and timers,
their rolling boils and three-minute eggs,
they wait for something to start. Or stop.
American Life in Poetry is made possible by The Poetry Foundation (www.poetryfoundation.org), publisher of Poetry magazine. It is also supported by the Department of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Poem copyright (c) 2007 by Deborah Cummins, and reprinted by permission of the author. Deborah Cummins’ most recent book of poetry is “Counting the Waves,” WordTech Communications, 2007. Introduction copyright (c) 2007 by The Poetry Foundation. The introduction’s author, Ted Kooser, served as United States Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 2004-2006. We do not accept unsolicited manuscripts.
tweet tweet for 2008-02-23
Feb 23rd
- New Directions in Critical Theory Graduate Conference Call for Papers http://snurl.com/2079l #
lost and found
Feb 23rd
This is awesome. If I lost my camera, I’d be heart-broken, and would hope that someone would want to get it back to me. More than just the cost of the camera (and some of my cameras are really expensive), the photographs on the film or memory cards are priceless to me.
Bookmark I found your camera. If you find or lose a camera, it should be one of your first stops.
