On Jacques-Yves Cousteau, adventuremaker:Adventure is also the perfect pretense to get people on your fantasy train. Exploration involves a certain amount of guesswork and a whole lot of flimflam, so explorers need to wrap themselves in a cozy blanket of believers. To do so, the explorer must be irresistible. The Shackletons and Scotts were ringmasters of the first order. Cousteau too was damn good at making people believe his vision. “I am not a scientist,” Cousteau told The Christian Science Monitor in 1986. “I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.”“We enjoy imaginative experiences because at some level we don’t distinguish them from real ones.” —The Pleasures of Imagination
Television is how I know Cousteau. Growing up, I saw him as one of the idyllic explorers. Fraught in a landlocked state, I adventured through him and his sea. In Stefany Anne Golberg’s words, he “made exploration accessible.” And Stefany again:
[T]he single most exciting part of exploration — exploring is incomplete.One week from today would have been Cousteau’s 100th birthday. And decades after moving on from that television series, I’m happy to report that my own expeditions are far from complete.
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Отличный кадр с Кристиной Хендрикс из глубины черновиков.
Modeling for an Etsy Shop: Shibori Style Felted Scarf in Shades of Fall — Shibori style scarf — moss green and aubergine
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It’s easy to view the current business climate as a culling of the herd, but newspapers are not barbershops; the closing of a hair-cutting business in Oklahoma wouldn’t much affect people in New Hampshire, but the closing of a paper would, because the nation’s news publications are sewn together in a crazy quilt of shared cost and effort.
The News and Eagle, the Laconia Citizen, the Biloxi Sun-Herald, the Deer Park Tribune, and a thousand more such papers are all but monopoly suppliers of local news, they all train young reporters who go on to work elsewhere, they all employ the stringers who are on the scene when a tornado hits, and they all buy syndicated content from the Associated Press or King Features, who in turn lower costs for some publishers while raising revenue for others. When a paper fires reporters or closes outright, it further weakens that fabric.
Why We Need the New News Environment to be Chaotic « Clay Shirky
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Right now, there are brilliant students from all over the world sitting in classrooms at our top universities. They’re earning degrees in the fields of the future, like engineering and computer science. But once they finish school, once they earn that diploma, there’s a good chance they’ll have to leave our country. Think about that.
Intel was started with the help of an immigrant who studied here and then stayed here. Instagram was started with the help of an immigrant who studied here and then stayed here. Right now in one of those classrooms, there’s a student wrestling with how to turn their big idea—their Intel or Instagram—into a big business. We’re giving them all the skills they need to figure that out, but then we’re going to turn around and tell them to start that business and create those jobs in China or India or Mexico or someplace else? That’s not how you grow new industries in America. That’s how you give new industries to our competitors. That’s why we need comprehensive immigration reform.
President Obama in Nevada today, laying out a four-part plan for comprehensive immigration reform (via barackobama)
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Доброе утро, Мордор
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Летающие кошки и CCTV (at Santorini Park (ซานโตรินี พาร์ค))
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А также мюзикл «жывтоне: мы к вам приехали на чёс» (at Hua Hin Market Village (หัวหินมาร์เก็ตวิลเลจ))
