Neat little keyboard.
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Not sure where else to put this, so…
No paywall: https://archive.ph/aDhYp
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It begins…
IMDb: : Orca
Orca (1977) - IMDb
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Weisman uses New York City as a model to outline how an unmaintained urban area would deconstruct. He explains that sewers would clog, underground streams would flood subway corridors, and soils under roads would erode and cave in. From interviews with members of the Wildlife Conservation Society who developed the Mannahatta Project[24] and with the New York Botanical Gardens[25] Weisman predicts that native vegetation would return, spreading from parks and out-surviving invasive species. Without humans to provide food and warmth, rats and cockroaches would die off.
Weisman explains that a common house would begin to fall apart as water eventually leaks into the roof around the flashings, erodes the wood and rusts the nails, leading to sagging walls and eventual collapse. After 500 years, all that would be left would be aluminum dishwasher parts, stainless steel cookware, and plastic handles.[26] The longest-lasting evidence on Earth of a human presence would be radioactive materials, ceramics, bronze statues, and Mount Rushmore. In space, the Pioneer plaques, the Voyager Golden Record, and radio waves would outlast the Earth itself.[27]
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Dolls for the End Times. Good band name.
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I thought the end of A.I.had some pretty pertinent scenes.
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Each piece explores the representation of the human figure from behind, a concept that has profoundly influenced both modern and contemporary artists.
Additionally, the gallery’s second floor houses the intriguing pendant presentation titled “Full Frontal.”
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I love that book.
I read it the year it came out.
I met Alan Weisman (an excellent human) at a conference in Abiquiu, New Mexico, when he was doing translating (Spanish to English) for Paolo Lugari.
Weisman wrote a book that still burns in my mind as one of humankind’s real-life hopes for making a better world in a simple, just, ecological way:
I cannot recommend this book strongly enough, often enough.
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‘The good thing about our Rembrandt is you could take your Rembrandt to the beach,’ says Henk Schiffmacher
Unless it’s Impressionist territory.
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Very cool, but also somehow wrong. (I hope there was a CO alarm inside with the stove and heater.)
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That’s taking car camping to an extreme! Not half as impressive as she thinks.
All new equipment (even the Jeep?), way too much equipment, all terribly expensive equipment, leaving an open fire during a storm (what if the wind changes?), bringing fresh food (even in winter) that require so many tins to keep track of, the thinnest of gloves and short boots with no gaiters or even tucking in the snow pants so that the ankles don’t get frozen from having snow caking the socks (this is winter camping 101)….oh, I could go on.
Makes me think of all the spoiled brats getting in everyone else’s way for the ‘gram’.
Meanwhile, who’s the poor sucker who has to film all that, mostly by standing outside? That can’t all be with a tripod.
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It’s a performance, not that all camping videos aren’t to a degree. (All that work to position a camera to catch some B-roll of themselves breaking new trail through the snow.)
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