Chile has gone through a nutritional upheaval in the past half century. Whereas a few decades ago malnourishment was a worry, now their obesity levels are in the same league as the US. With flaky pastries and tasty breads, it’s easy to see where the temptation lies.
We continue on our culinary adventure to host 194 dinner parties - each featuring the cuisine of a different United Nations member. 35 down, 159 to go! Follow along on our blog, United Noshes.
- Camera: Canon EOS 7D
- Aperture: f/2.2
- Exposure: 1/60th
- Focal Length: 75mm
30th May 2012
Neil Gaiman’s brilliant graduation speech on living the creative life, made into a giant comic, from the same folks who distilled Neil deGrasse Tyson’s monologue on the most astounding fact about the universe into a comic.
A great speech, a great idea.
Reblogged From explore-blog
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We just received the following submission: “Despite his book, which we are all tired of him promoting, The Moth host Dan Kennedy can rock the black frames and clothing.”
[Ed. note: You mean Rock On: An Office Power Ballad? We haven’t read it but we framed the back jacket and put it on our wall of babes. HOT!]
I have 1,564 followers on Twitter. I wanted to do a massive project to learn more about everyone. (Some are people I’m very good friends with, some are people I work with, and some are people I’ve never met before in my life.)
My first idea was to take a portrait of each follower. But then Sebastian suggested asking each of my Twitter followers for a postcard instead. This is a much easier project, given continental drift and my small public radio salary.
I will document the postcards on this blog and in my new apartment, where they will be strung around the walls. I bought a PO Box this afternoon and plan to go to the post office after work today, to show the necessary forms of ID and get this party started.
I’m very excited to see how we can use an ephemeral medium to create something that extends well beyond the Internet.
Stay tuned.
Awesome project.
The Final Words of Texas’ Death Row Offenders Made Visual
by Trent Gilliss, senior editor
The poet Elizabeth Alexander once asked, “What if the mightiest word is love?”
For the 280 men and one woman executed in Texas between 2000 and 2012, “love” was the mightiest word — by an overwhelming margin, with three out of five saying the word in their last living moments.
Dylan C. Lathrop and GOOD created this graphic with a word cloud generated from the offenders’ final thoughts shortly before they were put to death. The word “love” was used by 173 of the 281 people. That’s more than 60 percent. Nearly half of them mentioned religion in some form, using “God” and “Jesus” and “Lord,” to name a few. And note the petitions of prayer, expressions of apology and notions of family are present in their minds. Some were silent, others were defiant — and I’m guessing that’s why “warden” shows up so prominently.
(Source: GOOD)
After the literary maps of the U.S. and U.K., time to revisit a modern classic – the literary map of San Francisco by artist Ian Huebert.
The complete list of authors:
- Alice Adams (Second Chances – 1988)
- Isabel Allende (Daughter of Fortune – 1999)
- Maya Angelou (I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – 1969)
- Gertrude Atherton (The House of Lee – 1940)
- Albert Benard de Russailh (Last Adventure – 1851)
- Ambrose Bierce (The Death of Halpin Frayser – 1891)
- Herb Caen (Herb Caen’s San Francisco – 1957)
- Philip K. Dick (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? – 1968)
- Dave Eggers (A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius – 2000)
- Lawrence Ferlinghetti (Dog – 1958)
- Allen Ginsberg (Sunflower Sutra – 1956)
- Andrew Sean Greer (The Confessions of Max Tivoli – 2004)
- Dashiell Hammett (The Maltese Falcon – 1930)
- Robert Hass (Bookbuying in the Tenderloin – 1967)
- Bob Kaufman (No More Jazz at Alcatraz)
- Maxine Hong Kingston (China Men – 1980)
- Jack Kerouac (On the Road – 1957)
- Gus Lee (China Boy – 1991)
- Armistead Maupin (Tales of the City – 1978)
- Czeslaw Milosz (Visions From San Francisco Bay – 1975)
- Alejandro Murguia (The Medicine of Memory – 2002)
- Frank Norris (McTeague – 1899)
- Thomas Pynchon (The Crying of Lot 49 – 1968)
- Ishmael Reed (Earthquake Blues – 1988)
- William Saroyan (The Living and the Dead – 1936)
- John Steinbeck (Travels with Charley – 1961)
- George Sterling (The Cool, Grey City of Love – 1920)
- Robert Louis Stevenson (Arriving in San Francisco – 1879)
- Amy Tan (The Joy Luck Club – 1989)
- Michelle Tea (Valencia – 2000)
- Hunter S. Thompson (The Great Shark Hunt – 1964)
- Mark Twain (Early Rising, As Regards Excursions to the Cliff House – 1864)
- Sean Wilsley (On the Glory of It All – 2005)
(Source: textsfromhillaryclinton)
