March 2011
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Mar 16, 2011 Ganbare: Japan’s energy conservation posters
Like a lot of you, I've spent the last several days keeping watch over the situation in Japan and trying to keep it together. With so much happening and so many questions unanswered, it's been hard not to lose focus and despair--or, worse, to get sidelined by frustration and cynicism. While the most effective thing...
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Mar 14, 2011 AT&T, Verizon and Sprint offer free service to Japan
According to engadget, AT&T, Sprint and Verizon have lifted fees to place calls and send texts to Japan in light of the ongoing situation there. As of today, AT&T will extend the service till the end of March, and Sprint and Verizon till April 10. Find more information here....
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Mar 14, 2011 Mixed feelings collage
Torre Blanca (2010) by self-taught and twenty-something Colombian illustrator Randy Mora His newish website is here....
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Mar 14, 2011 Help Japan
The footage coming from Japan since Friday has been heartbreaking. I know many of us far away from the physical damage feel closer than ever to the loved ones struck by the disaster(s). Here are some ways to send aid. Red Cross. Text "REDCROSS" to 90999 Citizen Effect, where Google CEO Eric Schmidt is now matching all...
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Mar 14, 2011 Love Letter to Japan, Yoko Ono
My dear people of Japan, I feel numb now, as if I was there myself and hit with this disaster as you have been. Only just recently I visited Tokyo, and was delighted how beautiful, clean and quiet the city was! I didn’t expect a disaster like this to happen to the country I love so...
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Mar 14, 2011 Butoh on the streets of Osaka
"The day after the disastrous earthquake and tsunami, a Butoh performer on the streets of Osaka's poorest district enacts a symbolic rebirth." via Momus...
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Mar 11, 2011 A Vandal Reminds Muscovites That They Have The Freedom of Speech
A vandal reminds Muscovites that they have the freedom of speech by writing out the Russian Constitution on a wall near Kremlin. Constitution of the Russian Federation, Article 29: 1. Everyone shall be guaranteed the freedom of ideas and speech. 2. The propaganda or agitation instigating social, racial, national or religious hatred and strife shall not be allowed....
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Mar 10, 2011 Paranoid Cat: Headphones on.
Simple, effective video for a track off Chris Forsyth's new record by Maria Dumlao...