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Saw a short documentary last night on the quilters of Gee's Bend.
Gee’s Bend is a small rural community nestled into a curve in the Alabama River southwest of Selma, Alabama. Founded in antebellum times, it was the site of cotton plantations.... During the Great Depression, the federal government stepped in to purchase land and homes for the community, bringing strange renown — as an "Alabama Africa" — to this sleepy hamlet.Really cool stuff although unfortunately, there are only a few images on their website, and they don't even seem to be the really nice ones. Google image search turns up some more though.
The town’s women developed a distinctive, bold, and sophisticated quilting style based on traditional American (and African American) quilts, but with a geometric simplicity reminiscent of Amish quilts and modern art. The women of Gee’s Bend passed their skills and aesthetic down through at least six generations to the present. In 2002, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, in partnership with the nonprofit Tinwood Alliance, of Atlanta, presented an exhibition of seventy quilt masterpieces from the Bend. The exhibition, entitled "The Quilts of Gee’s Bend," is accompanied by two companion books, The Quilts of Gee’s Bend, and the larger Gee’s Bend: The Women and Their Quilts, both published by Tinwood Media, as well as a documentary video on the Gee’s Bend quilters and a double-CD of Gee’s Bend gospel music from 1941 and 2002.
The "Quilts of Gee’s Bend" exhibition has received tremendous international acclaim, beginning at its showing in Houston, then at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York and the other museums on its twelve-city American tour.
Mac started acting real slow, so I did a restart. After a long wait, a folder with a question mark shows up. Dead disc? Time for posthumous apple care?
wolf t-shirt comment thread
Micro Four Thirds is a new digital camera technology developed by Panasonic and Olympus that is starting to find it's way into products.
SLR cameras were designed for the film era. The "reflex" refers to the mirror inside, which redirects light to the viewfinder and then flips out of the way when the shutter is fired, letting the light fall onto the film. Because of the mirror, the body of an SLR is relatively large, and because the lenses are so far away from the film plane (or, these days, the sensor chip), they have to be big, too. Look at the size difference between a compact camera and an SLR for an instant example of this.Panasonic was first to market with the G1, which really doesn't look that much smaller than a full on SLR. But now Olympus has just announced a much more compact offering. Love the retro styling on that one. This might be a really great camera, combining the best of both worlds with a super compact body, super large sensor, and interchangeable lenses. I really like it.
Micro Four Thirds does away with the mirror, making the camera much smaller. The gimmick is that you can still change lenses, just like an SLR. And because the sensor size is standard across Micro Four Thirds cameras, the confusion of focal length multipliers disappears (although if you do want to know the 35mm equivalent, just times multiply by two), and you you don’t have to sell all your glass if you swap from one camera brand to another.
Children who are able to pass the marshmallow test enjoy greater success as adults.
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A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages
not sure what to say about this other than its 335am and im looking a designer axes.
burning up the twitters. apparently real. (anybody smell chicken soup?)
shark (no coffee yet)
I gotz iPod tuch 2 play with mobile video. Expect typoz!!!
eargate could turn art world on ear. ear!
sears '72
May Day!
Steeleye Span, Padstow May Song
Padstow, ‘Ome of the ’Obby ‘Oss!
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Quoting from Scalia's recent Fuck/Fuck/Shit/Fuck opinion, which is quoting from an FCC ruling ...
The Commission determined, moreover, that the broadcast was “patently offensive” because the F-Word “is one of the most vulgar, graphic and explicit descriptions of sexual activity in the English language,” because “[i]ts use invariably invokes a coarse sexual image,” and because Bono’s use of the wordwas entirely “shocking and gratuitous.”
I, for one, believe the FCC needs to get out more. If they had ever seen and heard Andy Dick describing a rusty trombone, I think they'd worry a lot less about Bono's "fooking brilliant".
talk about buggy... very accommodating sort ultimately, and isnt that whats important in a relationship?
my highschool facebook friend posted this project today, an open source content management thingy. . .
my "your MoMA" jokes:
well, your MoMAs so dumb it thinks Claes Oldenburg is a planter in the sculpture garden.
your MoMA is so dumb when sailing though the gallery it always gives joseph beuys a wide berth.
your MoMA so dumb, it thought Sol Lewitt was a french comedian.
sure tom and possibly others are well versed but new to me. steampunk primer primer...
catch the weekend forecast?
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