Sanguine

sanguine |ˈsa ng gwin|adjective1 cheerfully optimistic : they are not sanguine about the prospect.• (in medieval science and medicine) of or having the constitution associated with the predominance of blood among the bodily humors, supposedly marked by a ruddy complexion and an optimistic disposition.• archaic (of the complexion) florid; ruddy.• archaic bloody or bloodthirsty.2 poetic/literary & Heraldry blood-red.nouna blood-red color.• a deep red-brown crayon or pencil containing iron oxide.• Heraldry a blood-red stain used in blazoning.DERIVATIVESsanguinely |ˈsøŋgwənli| adverbsanguineness |ˈsøŋgwən(n)əs| nounORIGIN Middle English : from Old French sanguin(e) ‘blood-red,’from Latin sanguineus ‘of blood,’ from sanguis, sanguin- ‘blood.’(Edward Tufte)

Untitled (One Day This Kid...)

1990

DAVID WOJNAROWICZ

Green School in Bali

(via TED)

Eating Designer

After ten years of working on food projects, Dutch product designer-turned-eating designer Marije Vogelzang has developed a philosophy about food incorporating eight points: senses, nature, culture, society, technique, psychology, science, and action. She's published two books about food, and this summer opened a restaurant in Amsterdam called Proef. Learn more about Vogelzang in this interview by Gestalten.

Marije Vogelzang from Gestalten on Vimeo.

(via Serious Eats)

RSA: Changing Education Paradigm

(via Nathan Bond via RSA)

Aqueous Delite

My pictures over recent years engage traditions of landscape, seascape, and architectural photography. Working with a large-format camera and historic process (wet-plate collodion), I have concentrated on locations that are close to or directly on the water. At this juncture between land and sea, I explore subject matter in a constant state of transition. .

For the last year I have been drawn to the people present at these locations, specifically the surfers in Montauk's Ditch Plains, at the eastern end of Long Island. Their avocation is on the water; they are persistent elements in a shifting scene. We overlap on the periphery of two powerful elements; the land and the sea. The singular, primitive act of surfing on the water is eclipsed by the social and negotiated state of human interaction on the shore. The surfers act as a bridge between the sea as an unbridled force of nature and the shore line, a place of leisure and cultural phenomena.

Working with a "wet" instantaneous process that must be prepared and developed on location serves me well. It draws spectators as well as entices new subjects. Using collodion compels me to compose carefully before sensitizing the plate, yet its very nature is spontaneous and unknowable. The raw quality of the process suits the subject matter, and the distinctive appearance of the finished works echoes nineteenth-century traditions of anthropological photography.

-Joni Sternbach

People of SF

Elegant video on San Francisco's people.

San Francisco's People. Canon 5DmkII 24p from Philip Bloom on Vimeo.

(via Philip Bloom)

The Empathetic Civilisation

Bestselling author, political adviser and social and ethical prophet

Jeremy Rifkin investigates the evolution of empathy and the profound ways

that it has shaped our development and our society.

(via RSA - more animated videos)

Witty Wit Kin

Joel-Peter Witkin (1939~ )

American photographer based in Albuquerque, New Mexico

Queer Saint, 1999

Crucified Horse, 1999

Story from a Book, 1999

Poussin in Hell, 1999

Shoe, Hat and Eggs, 1999

Anna Akhmatova, 1998

Beauty has Three Nipples, 1998

Cupid and Centaur, 1992

Studio of the Painter, Courbet, 1990

Daphne and Apollo, 1990

Apollonia and Dominatrix Creating Pain

in the Heart of the West, 1988

Las Meninas, 1987

The Result of War - The Cornucopian Dog, 1984

Sanitarium, 1983

The Bird of Quevada, 1982

La Baisier, 1982

Arms Broken by Windows, 1980

The Emperor of Japan, 1978

from Anonymous Atrocities, 1977

URGE

Urge and urge and urge,

Always the procreant urge of the world.

-from Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman

Two Souls Shootin' the Breeze

Taliban Cribs

Not quite -

but a glimpse into a "typical" day

in the Taliban Clan.

(via Adbusters)

Care-whack

After briefly being on the road,

I decided to give Kerouac's book another read.

I curiously wanted to hear what he sounded like and stumbled across

a beautiful reading on The Steve Allen Show -

Mast Brothers Chocolate

A beautiful glimpse into the Mast Brothers' philosophy

in their approach on chocolate/life.

The Mast Brothers from The Scout on Vimeo.

Learn to Fly

we had to look at chimps and babies to find out we're good at heart!

(From another assignment from Ben Katchor's Visual Narrative class -

2 minutes on each drawing via dictated passage)

The Baby Antichrist Incident

Bic Pen

© Yong Shin

"Of course every animal must to some extent be selfish to survive. But the biologists also see in humans a natural willingness to help.

...not something imposed by parents or culture...

Humans putting their heads together in shared cooperative activities are thus the originators of human culture.

We evolved to be nice to each other,

in other words,

because there was no alternative.

The only people emotionally immune to another's situation...

...are psychopaths.

One can shudder at the thought that the humaneness of our societies would depend on the the whims of politics, culture or religion.

"Warefare is ultimately not a denial of the human capacity for cooperation, but merely the most destructive expression of it." - Lawrence H. Keeley"

(via NY Times)