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[May. 18th, 2008|07:54 pm] |
"* The creative commons is all around us. Any creative mind
reaches a point where it realises that its work is part of an
ongoing cultural conversation.
* We are all the product of -- at the head of the notional
genestream of -- generations upon generations of culture.
We all take from what's around us to make our art. We
engage in the conversation. Raise our voices. And we
identify our voice with a copyright mark. That isn't some
hideous, stultifying lock on the culture. The commons
*is* the cultural conversation. You want to join in? Get
up on your hind legs and do it. Get your own copyright
mark. So the next person along knows that they have
to speak for themselves and identify their voice, rather
than using your words and pretending it's them.
* If the fact that Mickey Mouse will be under copyright
control for the next thousand years really bugs you?
Kill yourself. You're no use to me or anyone else.
It's fun when things drop out of copyright, sure. But
it's not *important* to the process of creation. I could
easily cause to be created illustrations in the styles of
penny dreadfuls and woodcuts to achieve the same
hauntological effects. It's just a way to instantiate
an idea. I'm not going to roll on the floor and curse
Western society for a cultural jailer because it turns
out someone still has the rights to the illustration for
an old MR James story or something. The world is
not broken because you can't make your own Mickey
Mouse cartoons (and frankly, if you could, YouTube
would already be broken under the weight of LOLMickeys
and Mickey Mouse Buttsecks and WineMickeyMouse
videos).
* If you really need some legal language to help yourself
feel good about the state of being a 15 year old in an art
class making a collage out of newspaper clippings... well,
great. That was great fun when we were 15, right? But
listen. The mark of being an adult is to internalise our
influences and express them through our own personalities
and filters. The last thing our culture needs is a licence
to be 15 forever."
-Warren Ellis |
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[May. 18th, 2008|05:35 pm] |
Its been almost a year since Ive done any recons. I moved to a new place, and my roomate gave me a mens x-large operation ivy shirt (!!) that I absolutly loved, but of course, wayy too big.
( after + 1 ) |
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| Kids these days |
[May. 18th, 2008|04:40 pm] |
Went to MacDonalds and ordered a $1.49 cheeseburger. The clerk rang it up for a final total well over $2.50. When I observed that that seemed unlikely, he supported the case that it was $2.50+ by observing that that value was what the machine told him to charge. I was grumpy and would have ended the conversation by cancelling my order.
In the end, he figured out that he had punched the wrong button but it took the manager to straighten things out.
On the "the issue isn't "kids" but clerks - possibly tired clerks - who may be too dependent on their registers" front, I know that I also managed to completely derail a woman at a grocery store by handing her some extra coins after she rang in the value of bill I had given her. The idea was to make the change come out to a nicer value (non-penny containing) but the actual result was that she was terribly confused, couldn't work out the right change even with a calculator, and then took my word for what it was supposed to be. |
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| T-shirt + denim |
[May. 18th, 2008|10:20 pm] |
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( What do you think about it? ) |
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[May. 18th, 2008|02:50 pm] |
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my cousin gave up his seat on an overbooked flight leaving atlanta. he got $400 and a night at a hotel.
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[May. 18th, 2008|02:14 pm] |
so i just had the worst time dyeing a shirt ever
so well my friend and i got 2 over side ugly blue gray pocket tee at the dollar store
and well we bleached them they turned a light pink
so i was like yeah this color sucks more than what we started with
so we went to wall mart and got some of the dye in craft area
i was like pink or red orange would be best but we went with black witch i didn't think would work and it ended up gray well we also got a thing of purple so we went ahead and did it over the black that was really gray and got almost the same color we started out with it was mostly restarted and a wast of time and $
i so wish i would of taken pics
but theres all so some $2 a yard fabric its white and has a white print on it but it comes out freaking amazing when you dye the print stays white and the fabric goes what ever color you use on it the
prints are kinda dumb but why would you put white on white like that |
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| Goldman-Sachs: Oil to Average $141/bbl in 2nd Half of 2008 |
[May. 18th, 2008|10:23 am] |
That means they think the high price by xmas will only be $150. Can we say wishful thinking? OPEC promised $200, 25% higher than GS's weak prediction. Of course, they're often wrong but this is a very conservative estimate. It would be nice if it only rose enough to average $141, but these are the same clowns that said oil would never reach $60, then never reach $80, then would collapse back to $30 but up and up it goes.
Article from Marketwatch.com.
Here in the REAL world, oil has been rising at around $3/week, sometimes $5. I've been hoping for a more modest $1.25/week rise in oil as that gives more time for adjustment, but no such luck. |
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| searched the memories, but... |
[May. 18th, 2008|10:34 am] |
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How would i remove a screen printed name brand from a shirt? It's pretty small |
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[May. 18th, 2008|05:18 pm] |
Problem debt 'hitting affluent'
A national debt advice organisation says its offices in some of the most affluent parts of the UK are being overwhelmed by demands for help.
It said demand for advice was rising across the country, but the increase was dramatic in middle-class areas.
In Haywards Heath in Sussex and Congleton in Cheshire, for example, there had been a 100% rise in inquiries over the past year.
Many of the people Transact sees have taken advantage of easy access to credit or extended mortgages to pay for home improvements or just general spending.
But in recent months lenders have become much tougher and less willing to be flexible over repayments.
And with fixed-rate mortgages coming to an end, higher fuel costs, food bills and council tax, it says many people with decent salaries are struggling. |
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| Abandoned house in Panevezys town, Lithuania |
[May. 18th, 2008|07:08 pm] |
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| Kissimmee, FL |
[May. 18th, 2008|11:37 am] |
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A one-story old Florida crack motel and a school for travel agents complete with dorms. Here are a few decent shots.
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( Central Florida Arachnid Vocational School ) |
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| Australia Should Expect Fuel Rationing Shock |
[May. 18th, 2008|07:39 am] |
http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,23710412-952,00.html
Quoted from the Courier-Mail:
Looming oil shortages would produce the biggest change in society since the industrial revolution, Sustainability Minister Andrew McNamara warned yesterday.
A report by Mr McNamara for state Cabinet on the impact of the fuel crisis is expected to include recommendations on rationing, the future of public and private transport and sustainable population issues.
"I think people are going to be in for a shock when they find it's too expensive to drive their cars to work and then, when they get down to the station, they find the train is full and they can't get on board," Mr McNamara said.
"I cannot overstate this – we need to adopt a wartime mentality," he said. "We're going to face a level of urgency that will require dramatic change."
Private car use was expected to trend towards hybrid vehicles and then to electric. "But will we have enough (electricity generating) capacity when everyone comes home and plugs their cars in to recharge?" he said.
Cheery, isn't it? The new Australian Peak Oil Documentary link: http://www.aspo-australia.org.au/latest/australia-pumping-empty-the-looming-peak-oil-crisis.html |
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| What to do with this top |
[May. 18th, 2008|03:14 pm] |
Ok so a while back i showed you guys my first ever surgery, and the before picture was of a similar top, in different colours. Well now i am stuck on what to do with that one. Heres a picture of the top in case you have forgotten. Any ideas?
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Woaw. I've been so busy and sick lately that I couldn't answer to your sweet comments. I did read all of them though, and really want to thank you :)
I had enough time to reconstruct 2 shirts ^_^
Here we go!
Before :
( BRAINDEAD! )
( And 2 shirts made from scratch! ) |
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| Earth Hour May and bi-weekly challenges |
[May. 18th, 2008|12:18 pm] |
Okay, so it seems people are keen to have our own Earth Hour, so after some thinking I'll suggest we have it on the last day of each month because hopefully that's easy to remember. I'll post a reminder entry the day before, and it would be great if people passed on the message, especially if they're a member of other environmental communities or have green-minded people on the f-lists.
Thus, Earth Hour May will happen on Saturday the 31st, from 8-9pm local time. Once again, what you're encouraged to do is turn off all lights and electrical appliances during that hour (or longer if you wish, heh) to make a statement about climate change and our ridiculously inefficient use of energy resources. Here's the official Earth Hour site for anyone who wants more info.
I've figured out the challenges all the way until the end of august, too (thanks for the suggestions!). These are going to be 'Fortnight Challenges' and will start on sundays and end on saturdays; the first one will be posted on June 1st, and will end June 14th. Generally, the themes and challenges that will be posted span various aspects of sustainable or environmentally-conscious living. The reason it's a fortnight is because I felt that was enough time to encourage habits, but there will be more diversity in the given timespan (until the end of august at the moment) to keep people aware of just how many things we can do. What do you guys think?
Once again, thanks for your input! |
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| Disturbing and more disturbing |
[May. 17th, 2008|11:44 pm] |
At the theatre last week, another patron left the washroom without washing his hands.
What made it worse it that he felt the need to dry them. |
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[May. 17th, 2008|11:11 pm] |
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| | Sneaker Pimps, Destroying Angel | ] |
Downward
A closing book yet unread
A dying relative never appreciated
A setting sun not acknowledged
A corroding machine completely outdated
A departing train splitting lovers
A shutting eyelid submitting to inevitability
5.17.08
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| blankie |
[May. 17th, 2008|07:22 pm] |
i made a blanket for my boyfriend's birthday out of 25 of his band tshirts..
( click for more ) |
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| a collection .. |
[May. 17th, 2008|10:13 pm] |
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.. of abandoned places in the southeast region of georgia.
( follow me )
there's much more in my journal. =] |
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[May. 17th, 2008|09:21 pm] |
Wow, haven't posted in ages.
Being a senior has some serious time hazards.
But, look on the bright side... after the next three weeks, I'll have plenty of time
A whole summer in which my boyfriend is moving to Florida and I'll still be in good old boring PA until August.
Fun, fun.
So anyways, you all might remember the shirt that got me started on recons?
Last year's prom shirt:
well my senior prom was last weekend, and
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| sweater surgery |
[May. 17th, 2008|08:07 pm] |
So I found this book called Sweater Surgery at the library, and it had TONS of awesome stuff in it, including combining a sweater with a heavy knit top to make a dress!
( looky! ) |
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