40 Years of Photographing Street Art

How do we archive works of art that are inherently temporary? For four decades, Martha Cooper has used photography to memorialize and record public works of street art and graffiti.

Read full article here...
https://www.lensculture.com/articles/martha-cooper-40-years-of-photographing-street-art-around-the-world

See more of Martha Cooper's photos here....
http://www.brooklynstreetart.com/theblog/2017/04/20/martha-cooper-solo-exhibition-reveals-many-unseen-action-shots/

https://www.instagram.com/marthacoopergram/?hl=en 

https://i-d.vice.com/en_us/article/3kbnmv/documenting-the-70s-golden-age-of-nyc-graffiti-culture

Three Videos to Warm the Soul X

When We Were Knights
https://vimeo.com/167054481

HuF NYC
https://vimeo.com/176817356

Stylo G x Jacob Plant “Bike Engine”

https://vimeo.com/183252171

When Einstein Visited Japan

“On the exquisiteness of the Japanese woman, this flower-like creature—I have also remained reticent; for here the common mortal must cede the word to the poet.”

Read more here...

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/albert-einstein-visited-japan-180968737/

How “Seinfeld” and “The Simpsons” Changed TV Forever

 The debuts of “Seinfeld” and “The Simpsons,” like the debut of "Citizen Kane" or Bob Dylan's ‘electric’ performance at the Newport Folk Festival, expanded the boundaries of genre and medium. Television, comedy, and American culture have permanently changed.
 
 Read more here...

https://www.wilsonquarterly.com/quarterly/summer-2014-1989-and-the-making-of-our-modern-world/how-seinfeld-and-simpsons-changed-tv-forever/

Mexican Masters

Master artisans in the Mexican state of Michoacan produce exquisite works of Art....

Pottery

https://vimeo.com/249752354

Copper

https://vimeo.com/249749574

Stonemasonary

https://vimeo.com/249743267

L.A. Dreamers

Five Japanese girls meet in Los Angeles. They are far from home but they have same goal, chase the dream of becoming hip hop dancers.

Shot on Arri Alexa Mini and Zeiss Standard 2.1
Directed By
Dani Fortuny

Watch Video here....
https://vimeo.com/153879475

Stories from the Sinai

Excerpt:   "We were sitting on a dune overlooking the glittering Red Sea east of Sinai. The mountains of Saudi Arabia could be seen in the distance. It was 1984.

With me were the renowned smuggler-poet Ayaad and his eldest son, Salim. They had asked me to join them “to discuss something serious,” out of earshot of those who were encamped with them. We knew each other well. I had been recording and studying Bedouin poetry for some fifteen years, and Ayaad was the best poet in Sinai.

Once we were seated in the sand, our legs folded before us, Salim, facing me, opened the...

Read more here...
https://hudsonreview.com/2018/04/stories-from-sinai/

Want to feel unique? Believe in the Reptile people.

He who believes bin Laden is still alive will have something in common with she who believes the 1% are reptiles masquerading as humans: the need to feel unique. For someone with a conspiracy mentality, what matters most is their exclusive knowledge.

READ FULL ARTICLE HERE....

https://aeon.co/ideas/want-to-feel-unique-believe-in-the-reptile-people

The Problem of Hyper Liberalism

Excerpt:  "In institutions that proclaim their commitment to critical inquiry, censorship is most effective when it is self-imposed. A defining feature of tyranny, the policing of opinion is now established practice in societies that believe themselves to be freer than they have ever been."

Read full article here...
https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/john-gray-hyper-liberalism-liberty/

The Body Modifiers

Humans have been altering their bodies permanently for thousands of years. Tattoos, piercings, and scarification have been practiced to demonstrate tribal allegiances, to show a life history, to say a constant prayer, to give a warning, or simply to act as an amazing work of art.....

SEE FULL AMAZING GALLERY HERE...
http://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2015/02/body-modifiers/385122/

The Antidote to Apathy

Great talk...share it!

Local politics — schools, zoning, council elections — hit us where we live. So why don't more of us actually get involved? Is it apathy? Dave Meslin says no. He identifies 7 barriers that keep us from taking part in our communities, even when we truly care.

http://www.ted.com/talks/dave_meslin_the_antidote_to_apathy

New Discovery Puts Humans in South America 22,000 Years Ago

Fascinating article...

Researchers here say they have unearthed stone tools proving that humans reached what is now northeast Brazil as early as 22,000 years ago. 

Their discovery adds to the growing body of research upending a prevailing belief of 20th-century archaeology in the United States known as the Clovis model, which holds that people first arrived in the Americas from Asia about 13,000 years ago.

“If they’re right, and there’s a great possibility that they are, that will change everything we know about the settlement of the Americas...

Read more and see video here...
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/28/world/americas/discoveries-challenge-beliefs-on-humans-arrival-in-the-americas.html?_r=0

See more interesting articles here...
http://ajarnmike.blogspot.ca/search/label/Native%20Americans

Do Foreign Jokes Work in English?

 

People tell a joke in their own language and then translate it into English....Is the joke lost in translation, check it out...

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/19/best-jokes-young-people-around-world

 

Carnival 2014 Around the World

http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2014/03/carnival-2014-around-the-world/100691/

The Craigslist Killers

Very good read, enjoy!

More than 100 men replied to an advert on Craigslist offering work on a farm. Some of them were shot dead. The killers thought no one would miss their victims but, as Hanna Rosin reports, their story reveals a surprising truth about the emotional lives of men in a time of recession and family breakdown

READ MORE HERE...
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/10/craigslist-killers-murder-story-family-breakdown

READ MORE ABOUT "LONELY HEARTS KILLERS" HERE...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lonely_hearts_killer

10 Questions for Woody Allen

Great interview because the questions were from the public and not the mainstream media!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLAYYrxtJfI

Why have young people in Japan stopped having sex?

Good read...

Is Japan providing a glimpse of all our futures? Many of the shifts there are occurring in other advanced nations, too. Across urban Asia, Europe and America, people are marrying later or not at all, birth rates are falling, single-occupant households are on the rise and, in countries where economic recession is worst, young people are living at home....

Japan's 20-somethings are the age group to watch. Most are still too young to have concrete future plans, but projections for them are already laid out. According to the government's population institute, women in their early 20s today have a one-in-four chance of never marrying. Their chances of remaining childless are even higher: almost 40%.

READ MORE HERE...

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/20/young-people-japan-stopped-having-sex

How to Explain Japan in 7 Words or Less

Very interesting...Can you explain your country in 7 words?

http://www.japan-talk.com/jt/new/7-most-important-Japanese-words

Also interesting...

Tokyo Girl DJs
http://www.japan-talk.com/jt/new/tokyo-DJ-girl-style 

Japan Loves Uniforms!
http://www.japan-talk.com/jt/new/japan-loves-uniforms

Confessions

Very interesting and a great idea!

http://candychang.com/confessions/

Language at risk of dying out – the last two speakers aren't talking

Trouble in Tabasco for centuries-old Ayapaneco tongue as anthropologists race to compile dictionary of Nuumte Oote...

Read more here...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/apr/13/mexico-language-ayapaneco-dying-out 

Also...

The Devil's Backbone...an incredible stretch of road through No Man's Land...
http://photos.denverpost.com/2013/06/30/photos-the-devils-backbone-mexico/