February 2010
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Philip Bond is drawing Female Astronauts!
My favorite comic book artist (besides Jamie Hewlett) is drawing female astronauts. These are all by Philip Bond. Bond worked on many Vertigo comics titles including Kill Your Boyfriend, The Invisibles, Hellblazer, Deadenders, Shade the Changing Man, etc. He was also part of Deadline magazine and collaborated on Tank Girl too. I hope to eventually own...
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“We should be looking at technologies that might lead to really big...”
– Peter Thiel on the state of the economy in an interview with Wired
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WatchePhilanthropy, Micropatronage, and Crowdfunding
Thanks to technology, there are many ways to donate money. The American Red Cross raised $32m through their strategic texting campaign of donating $10 to Haiti. $32,000,000 is an enormous gift. Other a than natural disaster, what else is there to give money to? Well, I certainly didn’t have a problem finding something.
I gave $40 to help...
“To patronize the faculty of taste is to patronize oneself. For taste governs...”
– Susan Sontag from Notes on “Camp”
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“Instead of awakening us to new possibilities, popular art tranquilizes us; it is...”
– from “Dumbing Down Art in America” by David Swanger. (Access it on JSTOR). I read this article three times today. Swanger articulates everything I have thought and debated through my journey into Arts Administration. His argument is powerful. I wish I wrote this article!
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