Lunar Obverse

Classic Beauties Get A Shocking Photoshop Treatment

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 09:04:11 -0800

Classic Beauties Get A Shocking Photoshop Treatment:

“What would have happened if the aesthetic standard of our society had belonged to the collective unconscious of the great artists of the past?” So asks Italian artist Anna Utopia Giordano in her Venus project, which re-imagines classic artistic depictions of Venus with a modern and extreme Photoshop makeover.

A Christian group shows up to a Chicago Gay Pride parade holding...

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:21:58 -0800

A Christian group shows up to a Chicago Gay Pride parade holding apologetic signs including “I’m sorry for how the church treated you”. - Imgur

(via @OfficialKat)

Reblog if you legally purchased something BECAUSE you saw it on YouTube or downloaded it.

Sun, 22 Jan 2012 22:32:20 -0800

watertightvines:

And without the so-called piracy, you would never have discovered or gotten into it to begin with.

Yup.

motherjones: Swap “peppers” with “onions” and you’ve got...

Sat, 07 Jan 2012 11:10:56 -0800

motherjones:

Swap “peppers” with “onions” and you’ve got us.

How about not pepper-spraying or tasing ANYone? Is that an option?

Yup.

Fri, 06 Jan 2012 07:27:23 -0800

Yup.

Brian's 2011 year end wrap up

Sat, 31 Dec 2011 12:56:05 -0800

2011 felt like a year where I spent most of my time dealing with the ongoing but dwindling after effects of previous years. Deaths, breakups, decisions, accidents, mistakes.

Mostly bad. There were some positive consequences, too, but they feel overwhelmed now, in the final waning hours of the year. I’d still like to acknowledge the good, though.

Debt: my debt, as I’ve said many times before, is gone, leaving me in a lucky and awesome place that I wish more could share. My debt was about half the result of overspending, and half the result of a car accident that totaled a rental that I was sure I had insurance on (note: I didn’t. Oops).

Paying off my debt was the result of being inspired by a woman I thought I loved enough to marry, an inspiration that thankfully has lasted longer than the relationship.

I’m writing this while on my way home from a two week Mexican vacation that is fully paid for and that does not leave me scrambling to pay my upcoming bills, a feat that was beyond me just a short while ago.

I’ve contributed more towards charities and causes that matter to me this year than I have in my entire previous life, thanks to the chain of events, bad and good, that have led to my current financial state. I have no idea if my small contributions will have any effect at all on the causes I’ve chosen, or the victims of those sad events, but they just might. And in a small way those positive effects may stem from a broken engagement and a totaled car on a lonely mountain road. And isn’t that a great story? Who knew where those events would lead? Where else might they go?

Goodbye 2011. Hello 2012. Here’s to mapping out as much new territory as I can.

waytoomuchportland: And you wonder why the Post Office is going...

Tue, 27 Dec 2011 15:21:14 -0800

waytoomuchportland:

And you wonder why the Post Office is going broke.

Actually, this is a consequence of the Post Office’s financial troubles, not a cause, most of which stem from the fact that, unlike every other Federal agency, the Post Office is required to fund full pension plans for the next 75 years - for employees that not only haven’t been hired, but haven’t even been born yet. If they could access that money, they would not be in financial trouble, could hire more staff, among other moves that would make them more able to compete with private-industry delivery services like FedEx and UPS.

Cancun Christmas Eve sunset

Sat, 24 Dec 2011 20:44:38 -0800

Cancun Christmas Eve sunset

Some pics

Fri, 23 Dec 2011 14:00:27 -0800

Some pics

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-18)

Thu, 22 Dec 2011 07:17:39 -0800

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-18):

Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-11)

Thu, 15 Dec 2011 17:54:51 -0800

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-11):

Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

#HomeScreenMeme These are my most-used apps. Everything else is...

Fri, 09 Dec 2011 10:32:56 -0800

#HomeScreenMeme

These are my most-used apps. Everything else is in folders and all fits on just one more screen. I typically use Spotlight Search to launch anything not on the main screen. I only have 61 apps installed right now.

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-4)

Tue, 06 Dec 2011 20:20:44 -0800

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-4):

Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

nevver: Occupy Everything Yes, please. Time for a new...

Fri, 02 Dec 2011 09:59:59 -0800

nevver:

Occupy Everything

Yes, please. Time for a new Enlightenment, since the last one worked so well to separate church and state. Wait. Maybe we need to continue and complete the old one first?

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-11-27)

Tue, 29 Nov 2011 13:21:06 -0800

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-11-27):

Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

WIL WHEATON dot TUMBLR: Secret Fed Loans Gave Banks Undisclosed $13B

Mon, 28 Nov 2011 09:42:52 -0800

WIL WHEATON dot TUMBLR: Secret Fed Loans Gave Banks Undisclosed $13B:

soupsoup:

Secret Fed Loans Gave Banks Undisclosed $13B

The Fed didn’t tell anyone which banks were in trouble so deep they required a combined $1.2 trillion on Dec. 5, 2008, their single neediest day. Bankers didn’t mention that they took tens of billions of dollars in emergency loans at the same time they were assuring investors their firms were healthy. And no one calculated until now that banks reaped an estimated $13 billion of income by taking advantage of the Fed’s below-market rates, Bloomberg Markets magazine reports in its January issue.

Saved by the bailout, bankers lobbied against government regulations, a job made easier by the Fed, which never disclosed the details of the rescue to lawmakers even as Congress doled out more money and debated new rules aimed at preventing the next collapse.

As Wil says (from whom I got this post), this is outrageous. It gives me context for all the folks who complain about cities that choose to spend money on cops policing peaceful protests, or the “damage” to city parks caused by those protests.

As we saw in Portland, the Occupiers can police themselves and there is no violence when the robotic stormtrooper riot cops don’t show up. But banks? Banks need policing, and our government is doing a piss-poor job of it.

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-11-20)

Thu, 24 Nov 2011 23:21:51 -0800

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-11-20):

Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

spkent: This is all you need to know about what is happening...

Sat, 19 Nov 2011 16:29:37 -0800

spkent:

This is all you need to know about what is happening here.

from sirmitchell

Yup.

"I was there to take down the names of people who were arrested… As I’m standing there, some..."

Fri, 18 Nov 2011 08:24:00 -0800

“I was there to take down the names of people who were arrested… As I’m standing there, some African-American woman goes up to a police officer and says, ‘I need to get in. My daughter’s there. I want to know if she’s OK.’ And he said, ‘Move on, lady.’ And they kept pushing with their sticks, pushing back. And she was crying. And all of a sudden, out of nowhere, he throws her to the ground and starts hitting her in the head,” says Smith. “I walk over, and I say, ‘Look, cuff her if she’s done something, but you don’t need to do that.’ And he said, ‘Lady, do you want to get arrested?’ And I said, ‘Do you see my hat? I’m here as a legal observer.’ He said, ‘You want to get arrested?’ And he pushed me up against the wall.”

- Retired New York Supreme Court Judge Karen Smith, working as a legal observer after the raids on Zucotti Park this Tuesday, via Paramilitary Policing of Occupy Wall Street: Excessive Use of Force amidst the New Military Urbanism (via seriouslyamerica)

This is obscene and shame on the police officer who did it, and...

Fri, 18 Nov 2011 08:02:38 -0800

This is obscene and shame on the police officer who did it, and the police department who allows it, and the leadership who does not immediately condemn and repudiate it, and the citizens who see it as the expected action by police in response to a peaceful exercise of First Amendment rights.

kateoplis:

Today at Occupy Portland: Protester hit with pepper spray at point blank range.

How can anyone justify this? Or this?