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vaminos
road trip picnic!
the piano teacher
elizabeth olsen by alex prager for w magazine, october 2011.
I generally try to remain mostly apolitical in my use of websites like Tumblr, Facebook and whatever else. I always have the fear that my understanding of these sorts of topics lacks nuance and that I am not informed enough to constructively comment on events, issues, etc. I guess I have those anxieties because that is frequently the case.
But I will never understand how people can argue that education should be a privilege, rather than a basic, human right. In advocating the tuition hikes in Quebec, as well as an education system in which students must pay tuition at all, I think you are making that exact case.
It is kind of self-absorbed to look at such a massive, impressive movement and think about myself, but reading the things that people have written about the student protests in Quebec makes me feel reaffirmed that I want to become a librarian more than anything ever. I guess it’s kind of silly to romanticize librarianship, but there is probably nothing I would rather do than dedicate my life to working in an institution that aims to provide equal access to information, knowledge and, consequently, empowerment.
Cool story. Will delete this in, like, a day.
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Kestrels
—There All The Time Without You
i literally cannot stop listening to this song. too stoked to see them at the end of june.
(via tuesmonpetitechou)
Freelove Fenner do a cover of Chevalier Avant Garde’s song Mint for the CJLO 1690AM station fundraiser comp of Montreal bands covering other Montreal bands, called “You’re Related: Vol 1”.
Listen to the original on Chevalier’s first cassette, back when they were called Postcards.
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alphaville poster from nyc
Among the problems Nabokov’s Lolita poses for the book designer, probably the thorniest is the popular misconception of the title character. She’s chronically miscast as a teenage sexpot—just witness the dozens of soft-core covers over the years. “We are talking about a novel which has child rape at its core,” says John Bertram, an architect and blogger who, three years ago, sponsored a Lolita cover competition asking designers to do better.
Now the contest is being turned into a book, due out in June and coedited by Yuri Leving, with essays on historical cover treatments along with new versions by 60 well-known designers, two-thirds of them women: Barbara deWilde, Jessica Helfand, Peter Mendelsund, and Jennifer Daniel, to name a few. They don’t shy away from frank sexuality, but they add layers of darkness and complication. And like Jamie Keenan’s cover—a claustrophobic room that morphs into a girl in her underwear—they provoke without asking readers to abdicate their responsibility.
(via Recovering Lolita — Imprint-The Online Community for Graphic Designers)
i want that book oh wow
going to reread this when i’m spending ten trillion hours in the airport next sunday.
Dinner Round Grandmas’ (by Alex Woodscalp)
