A Brief History of ‘It’ Girls. —Rudyard Kipling Julia Wick is a native Angeleno who writes about literature, Los Angeles, and cities. She is currently finishing an Urban Planning degree at USC. Clara Bow was the original It girl, so much so that her 1927 film, titled—what else? —“It,” more or less defined the phenomenon. This piece, from Petersen’s Scandals of Classic Hollywood series, offers a perfectly juicy take on Ms. Bow. Stewart goes beyond the usual Edie clichés and delves into Sedgwick family lore, as well as Edie’s post-Factory return to Santa Barbara. McInerney’s piece—a semi-seminal take on uber-It girl Chloe Sevigny in the early days of her downtown reign—captures a weird freeze-frame in time: Sevigny pre-Kids fame, and downtown New York in its last gasps of grittiness.
“Perky, pretty, and remarkably plugged-in, a pack of young publicists have become the darlings of New York’s demimonde. Ksenia Sobchak is the Russian Paris Hilton, if Paris Hilton all of a sudden took an interest in revolutionary politics. 8 Books For a Higher Existence. Books are magical inventions. By carrying meaning, they gives us glimpses of experience and knowledge from a different world. Phonetic language, being cut-off from time and place, the Now, helps both to encapsulate the ego more, but also to offer guidance to make it poriferous, letting Eros free. Without books we would lose this guidance.
And in these times of dire ecological and cultural crisis, we need new ways to respond to the ecosystem that we simultaneous are and are imbedded in. These are the books that can lift our spirits to a necessary higher existence. If you’re done reading this list and want to level up more – check out part two! Thus Spoke Zarathustra – Friedrich Nietzsche Becoming Animal – David Abram Abram’s first book The Spell of the Sensuous convincingly argued that being human is inseparably interconnected with everything that is not human.
Cloud-Hidden, Whereabouts Unknown: A Mountain Journal – Alan Watts The Story of B – Daniel Quinn Original photo by June. Loose Cannon Buchanan. Ufology as a reflection of mythology and imagination On any given night instead of looking skyward to contemplate the mysteries of the universe most people look to TV Ufologists for answers about questions of alien life. What would it look like ? How did they get here ? But people seldom ask the whys. Of aliens has many problems certainly. If you are to believe the half dozen “science” and “history” channels programs then many of the simpler questions about UFOs and ET are all too easily answered. In the cult of the individual everyone wants to be the centre of some intergalactic drama. The short answer is , probably not.
I think the so called Abduction phenomenon is a misreporting of misremembered natural occurrences. When you consider the practicalities of alien day trips to our planet the tinfoil and ray guns rapidly go out the window. Earth could be an accidently discovered curiosity or a highly valued control planet. Phoning home, detecting and communicating with ETs. Need A Little Focus Music? Add These 10 Songs to Your Playlist. I need music to concentrate. Shutting out the sounds of the world with a good song stimulates my brain and focuses my thoughts. Those of you who share this likeness understand that the only thing harder than actually focusing is finding music to help you do it.
It’s taken me years to compile a solid playlist of focus music. I know there are websites with prepared playlists that are meant to help you concentrate, but – eh. I wanted to make my own. Even if you’re more inclined to working in silence, my hope is that you’ll discover some new tunes to enjoy. I must warn you, though; I give outlandish song descriptions. 1. This has been my go-to focus song for the last three or four years. If you’re interested, I recommend starting the song around 00:30. 2. This is one of those beautiful yet mildly depressing songs that you want to wallow in. 3. I won’t lie. 4. 5. 6. I love this because it makes me feel like I’m in some sort of underwater control room (I warned you about the outlandishness).
Here's Where to Stream 23 Sundance Grand Jury Prize Winners for Free or with Subscription. This week, the Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner "Fruitvale Station" will open in theaters, but 23 past Sundance Grand Jury Prize winners are currently available to stream for free or with a subscription to one of the more popular streaming sites. READ MORE: Here's 10 Of Our Favorite Sundance Jury Prize Winners, In Honor Of 'Fruitvale Station' Take a trip through Sundance history with these sometimes beloved, sometimes forgotten Sundance winners from yesteryear.
U.S. Grand Jury Prize Dramatic "The Trouble with Dick" (1987) on Vimeo "What Happened Was" (1994) on Hulu "Welcome to the Dollhouse" (1996) on Crackle "You Can Count on Me" (2000) on Amazon Prime "Primer" (2004) on Netflix "Forty Shades of Blue" (2005) on Redbox Instant "Padre Nuestro" (2007) on Netflix "Like Crazy" (2011) on Netflix "Paris is Burning" U.S. "American Dream" (1991) on Hulu "American Movie" (1999) on Crackle "God Grew Tired of Us" (2006) on Hulu "We Live in Public" (2009) on Hulu "Style Wars" (1984) on Netflix "Amandla! Irish Jobs, Multimedia & Social Media Editor in Dublin City Centre on Findajob.ie. What is one cool internet trick you've learned? : AskReddit. Www.masterschannel.com/free-videos. What happened in my birth year? Scandals of Classic Hollywood: The Gloria Swanson Saga, Part One.
Gloria Swanson wasn’t here to make friends. She wasn’t “just like us.” She didn’t take out the garbage or “wear cotton” or go to the bathroom. Lady had a gold-plated bathtub. She married a Marquis. She was 4’11,” wore a 2 ½ in shoes, and had a waist approximately the size of my neck. She looked most beautiful when frowning. And for a period in the 1920s, she was the biggest star in the world. Which is part of the reason she’s so unfathomably good in Sunset Boulevard, but we’ll get there soon enough. I also know a ton about her because she, like so many of our grandmothers, was a notorious packrat.
Swanson was born in 1899. At the age of 17, Swanson up and moved to California to appear in a bunch of Mack Sennett comedies. I realize that you’re probably thinking that these girls are wearing more clothes than most high schoolers currently wear to prom. Swanson appeared in a Mack Sennett comedy. Obviously. But Swanson was undeterred in her professional life. And so he did. OMG GLORIA! English Pronunciation. If you can pronounce correctly every word in this poem, you will be speaking English better than 90% of the native English speakers in the world. After trying the verses, a Frenchman said he’d prefer six months of hard labour to reading six lines aloud.
Dearest creature in creation, Study English pronunciation. I will teach you in my verse Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse. I will keep you, Suzy, busy, Make your head with heat grow dizzy. Tear in eye, your dress will tear. So shall I! English Pronunciation by G. Source Breaking News: Fake News Special! Inspector Morse. WWTDG: Faith Cheltenham and BiNet USA. Faith Cheltenham Photographed When Pregnant With Her First Child (Image from Advocate.com) I met Faith Cheltenham while doing standup in a Los Angeles LGBT bar. She was outspoken, bold, brash, extremely opinionated, and totally approachable. Three years later, I saw her in an Advocate article celebrating LGBT activists and I was blown away by the amount of passion she had invested in the bisexual movement. When thirty-two year old Faith was growing up in San Luis Obispo, California, there was less than one percent of African Americans in the city.
VIDEO: Faith Cheltenham Talking About Being An LGBT African American In A Church Community At UCLA in the late 90s, Faith saw LGBT rights activist and former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich’s half-sister Candace Gingrich speak for National Coming Out Day, specifically emphasizing how people of all faiths needed to start coming out of the closet. Faith Cheltenham Marches For Bisexuality at LA Pride in 2010 Faith Cheltenham Wants To Talk To You!
12 great free online courses. Much ado has been made in recent years over the quickly rising cost of healthcare in the United States. But the cost of college tuition and fees has skyrocketed at nearly twice that rate. Going to college today will cost a student 559% more than it did in 1985, on average. In an exciting talk given at TEDGlobal 2012, Stanford professor Daphne Koller explains why she was inspired — alongside fellow professor Andrew Ng — to create Coursera, which brings great classes from top universities online for free. Coursera classes have specific start dates, require students to take quizzes and turn in assignments, as well as allowing professors to customize their course into online chunks rather than simply recording their lectures. Even outside of Coursera, the number of college classes available on a computer screen rather than in a brick-and-mortar lecture hall is staggering.
At TEDxEastside Prep, Scott Young gave the intriguing talk — “Can you get an MIT education for $2,000?” THE PURSUIT OF SATORI | infinite satori. We’ve all made fear-based decisions in our lives. Fear of the unknown. Fear of the unexpected. Fear of death. Fear of failure. In any decision there’s always a fear of something.. and that’s what most of human lives are based on. Do you know that unexplainable feeling you get.. some sort of natural high? Through my love for photography I found an outlet where I can take that infinite Satori moment, hold it in my hands, and show it to people who may or may not know that feeling and be moved by it. Like this: Like Loading... Karaoke - Perfect Day - Lou Reed. Perfect Day - Karaoke Ver. Ethics Updates Home Page. Moral theory; relativism; pluralism; religion; egoism; utilitarianism; deontology; duty; human rights; anti-theory; gender; race; multiculturalism;Ethics Updates. Sign in to StumbleUpon.
Helps you remember what's happened in your life. Well, At Least There Was Good Stuff to Read: The Books of the Decade. Anybody remember how anxious and thrilled we were in those last months of the 20th century? When we weren't at war and we had a budget surplus and it looked like Al Gore would be president? The prospect of a 21st century filled with new technologies, new art and literature loomed large and bright. But now, as we look back at what was decidedly a shitty decade for an incredible variety of people in an equally incredible variety of ways (evictions/invasions/bombings/etc), it's surprisingly hard to be pessimistic about the books that assessed, satirized, dramatized and distracted us from the events of the past 10 years.
Goethe said that the decline of a nation's literature is the precursor to that nation's fall, and with this look back at the books that defined the decade, we'd like to tell Goethe to suck it. Almost in spite of ourselves, we're still writing, translating, publishing and even occasionally buying good books in this country. Bright Knit Hats and Mittens Holiday Decorations. [ Close Privacy Policy ] Privacy Policy / Your California Privacy Rights Revised and posted as of March 4, 2013 Prime Publishing, LLC ("Company," "we" or "us") reserves the right to revise this Privacy Policy at any time simply by posting such revision, so we encourage you to review it periodically.
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By Maria Popova A brief pictorial history of socially sanctioned sexism. Among February’s vintage Valentine’s Day postcards from the early 1900s was some anti-suffragette propaganda. That brand of misogynist messaging, it turns out, wasn’t reserved just for Cupid’s favorite holiday — in fact, as the suffrage movement swelled into a groundswell in the early 20th century, the picture postcard industry was enlisted in producing propaganda that discredited and denigrated women fighting for the vote.
Here are a few more anti-suffragette postcards from the period, a reminder at once amusing and appalling of our culture’s history of socially sanctioned bigotry. (No doubt, Tea Party signage on marriage rights and immigration will appear in similar contexts in the cultural criticism of tomorrow.) If this wasn’t amusingly appalling enough for you, up the ante with this Victorian list of don’ts for female cyclists, but then lift your spirits with a look at how the bicycle actually emancipated women. Khan Academy.
Waking Life (2001. 47 Mind-Blowing Psychology-Proven Facts You Should Know About Yourself. I’ve decided to start a series called 100 Things You Should Know about People. As in: 100 things you should know if you are going to design an effective and persuasive website, web application or software application. Or maybe just 100 things that everyone should know about humans! The order that I’ll present these 100 things is going to be pretty random. So the fact that this first one is first doesn’t mean that’s it’s the most important.. just that it came to mind first. Dr. Mind-Blowing Story: "Talking to God...". I met god the other day. I know what you’re thinking. How the hell did you know it was god? Well, I’ll explain as we go along, but basically he convinced me by having all, and I do mean ALL, the answers. Every question I flung at him he batted back with a plausible and satisfactory answer.
In the end, it was easier to accept that he was god than otherwise. Which is odd, because I’m still an atheist and we even agree on that! It all started on the 8.20 back from Paddington. What did he look like? Well not what you might have expected that’s for sure. ‘Anyone sitting here?’ ‘Help yourself’ I replied. Sits down, relaxes, I ignore and back to the correspondence on genetic foods entering the food chain… Train pulls out and a few minutes later he speaks. ‘Can I ask you a question?’ Fighting to restrain my left eyebrow I replied ‘Yes’ in a tone which was intended to convey that I might not mind one question, and possibly a supplementary, but I really wasn’t in the mood for a conversation. ..
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