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Graphic 10- Taking a Line for a Walk
Sketchbook Week This week I am going to post only about sketchbooks. I love getting glimpses into the minds of artist’s through their sketchbooks. It’s so personal and makes you aware of all the thinking and learning they are constantly doing. Graphic magazine ’s issue 10 focuses on over twenty artist’s diaries, notebooks and sketchbooks. There are big photos on each artist with bios and interviews about their work and their books.A collection of the classic, out of print issues of Cometbus magazine, the follow-up to Despite Everything, the best-of collection from the first two decades of Cometbus. Add Toner includes Lanky (a novella), Back to the Land (an oral history of the children of hippie homesteaders), plus sixty other interviews and short stories. The text is lovingly handwritten, interspersed with bold graphics and illustrations.
ADD TONER: A Cometbus Collection
On Slippers, or Respectable Ways of Becoming Famous « The Understander
Slippers are shoes that you wear inside of your home. Now, I can understand why you would need to wear shoes, and I can understand why you would need to be inside of a home, but I was confused as to why you would need a whole other accessory just so you could do both at the same time. Nevertheless, the slipper industry is booming, with total sales nearing a reported $725 million in 2009 . I decided to take a look into the minds of this curious group of consumers. The following examines several possible motivations for wearing slippers: For Reasons of Temperature
Dirty Truths of the “Good War” (2) « Even If Your Voice Shakes
Part 2 of 4 Spreading Democracy (and Heroin) Originally published by Truth-Out . Documents made public by WikiLeaks’ latest file drop show that Afghan President Hamid Karzai pulled strings several times throughout early 2009 to free numerous drug traffickers with whom he had political or economic ties. The documents also show that US officials have held multiple high-level meetings with a man widely viewed as one of the country’s major heroin dealers. That man is Ahmed Wali Karzai: He’s the half-brother of President Karzai and has been investigated by numerous major newspapers for drug allegations. Referred to in many US documents as “AWK,” Ahmed Wali Karzai, has long been on the radar of government officials and journalists for his off-the-books dealings with local warlords, traffickers, Taliban members and Afghanistan government officials.
Do you guys believe in ghosts? It’s kind of a stupid question, because it seems like there are two schools of thought regarding ghosts and they’re this: Uh, totally.
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