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And another. The app is fabulous, by the way.
The other day, we ran into an old man who is also an old fan. He loves the Roots and what we do. Someone mentioned the changing nature of the pop-culture game, and it made him nostalgic for the soul music of his youth. โItโll be back,โ he said. โThings go in cycles.โ But do they? If you really track the ways that music has changed over the past 200 years, the only thing that goes in cycles is old men talking about how things go in cycles. History is more interested in getting its nut off. There are patterns, of course, boom and bust and ways in which certain resources are exhausted. There are foundational truths that are stitched into the human DNA. But the art forms used to express those truths change without recurring. They go away and donโt come back. When hip-hop doesnโt occupy an interesting place on the pop-culture terrain, when it is much of the terrain and loses interest even in itself, then what?
[gallery] How have you gotten by all these years without a detailed diagram of Maradonaโs famous goal against England?
Via @supriyan on Twitter.
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRLLhwXyqSA?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1&origin=http://safe.txmblr.com&wmode=opaque&w=250&h=141] davidjphooker:
๋์๊ธฐ์ ์๊ณผ์ (์ข ํฉํธ) (by ์ด์ฒ์์ฒญ)
I believe a man is happier, and happy in a richer way, if he has โthe freeborn mindโ. But I doubt whether he can have this without economic independence, which the new society is abolishing. For economic independence allows an education not controlled by Government; and in adult life it is the man who needs, and asks, nothing of Government who can criticise its acts and snap his fingers at its ideology. Read Montaigne; thatโs the voice of a man with his legs under his own table, eating the mutton and turnips raised on his own land. Who will talk like that when the State is everyoneโs schoolmaster and employer? Admittedly, when man was untamed, such liberty belonged only to the few. I know. Hence the horrible suspicion that our only choice is between societies with few freemen and societies with none.
โ C. S. Lewis, โIs Progress Possible?โ
[gallery] thegetty:
In anticipation of Earth Day,ย the wonder of looking up at ancient giants.ยThese giant sequoias are in Californiaโs Sierra Nevada mountains. Watkins spent decades photographing this area, opening the Yosemite Art Gallery in 1867.
Among the Treetops, Calaveras Grove,ย about 1878, Carleton Watkins, albumen print. J. Paul Getty Museum.
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Tree #11, Myoung Ho Lee, 2005.
The J. Paul Getty Museum, 84.XM.893.1.
Purchased with funds provided by the Photographs Council.
ยฉ Myoung Ho Lee, Courtesy Yossi Milo Gallery, New York
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Treehouse Freese Road, Varna, New York
Rhea Garen
American, Varna, New York, 1993
Chromogenic print
15 x 18 ยฝ in.
