Hello, all! I came across this hilarious website this morning:
http://www.foundmagazine.com/find/15843
You can come back each day and see more awesome stuff people have FOUND, or you can--like me--sit down and get addicted to going back through the old archives.
Enjoy!
Thursday, June 17, 2010
Saturday, June 12, 2010
how cool is sweden right now?
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/10/world/europe/10iht-sweden.html?src=tptw
Thursday, June 10, 2010
Franciscan Blessing
I found this whilst poking around the internet and wanted to share it here...
May God bless you with anger at injustice, oppression, and exploitation of people, so that you may work for justice, freedom, and peace.
May God bless you with tears to shed for those who suffer from pain, rejection, starvation, and war, so that you may reach out your hand to comfort them and to turn their pain to joy.
May God bless you with enough foolishness to believe that you can make a difference in this world, so that you can do what others claim cannot be done.
Amen."
Have a great day, all!
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
Star FK Radium
http://www.starfkradium.com/
OK, so I don't know much about these guys, other than that their music is really awesome and relaxing. They describe their genre as 'Visual/Indie/Rock'. If you go to their website, it just plays songs of theirs, but they are also on Youtube, Myspace, Facebook, and elsewhere. I found their business card on a bulletin board at a Sheetz in Clearfield, PA. I came home and listened to them and figured this would be a GREAT place to share my discovery. Enjoy!
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
Friday, June 4, 2010
Encouragement (hopefully)
I do like the things that are going on here on this blog.
Keep up the posts!
No one but me can edit colors and settings and things.
Suggestions are welcome.
I'm currently taking submissions for the "description" section of our blog.
It should say a little something (hopefully in an articulate fashion) about what we are all about and what this blog is all about. The description will go right under the title of our blog. Whatever it is, it should be brief and beautiful. Comment with suggestions please!
Anyone who wants to post but doesn't have permission, just give me your email and I'll let you in so you can start posting!
Keep up the posts!
No one but me can edit colors and settings and things.
Suggestions are welcome.
I'm currently taking submissions for the "description" section of our blog.
It should say a little something (hopefully in an articulate fashion) about what we are all about and what this blog is all about. The description will go right under the title of our blog. Whatever it is, it should be brief and beautiful. Comment with suggestions please!
Anyone who wants to post but doesn't have permission, just give me your email and I'll let you in so you can start posting!
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
the lost finale
i know that a couple of you follow lost, so i figured i'd throw my proverbial hat in the ring and share some of my thoughts on the series finale.
but before that, some background.
i've recently renewed my love of reading, especially fiction, and found a new focus within that, specifically with russian literature. my exploration has found me beginning bakhtin's "problems of dostoevsky's poetics," which is a philosophically oriented literary critique of what bakhtin believed to be the factor which made dostoevsky's novels stand out: namely, the concept of a polyphonic novel.
to the best of my understanding so far, bakhtin believes that the ultimate aim of a novel is to present and reflect the "polyphonic" (which means many-voiced), multi-centered nature of both the world and ourselves. he posits that we do not live in some sort of vacuum, and that our own voices and natures are amalgamations and interpretations of the many others present around us. we affect our world and are affected by it.
bakhtin believed that dostoevsky created his works by refusing to condense the individual worlds and voices of his characters into or under a singular narrative voice, thus creating not the classical aristotelian "closed" text, but an open one, where his characters fully existed in an ultimately unfinalizable world, a world of the dialogical, constantly developing "we" over the monological, narrow "i."
returning to lost, i didn't like the ending.
it's not that it wasn't exciting, or well written, or illuminating enough. it's just that the nature of a series finale, in my opinion, is essentially compromising to a series like lost.
the show was never really about the island. it was about the people. the lives of jack, kate, sawyer, hugo, locke, sayid, ben, claire, sun and jin, and all the others were the points of references for the whole series, and the dynamic effects of their lives and the island on each others' was what made the show so compelling. each character existed as a means to his or her own end. they were never compressed into a monologic narrative; rather the writing chose to show that each character inhabited and experienced his or her own world, with the joys and struggles within it.
in short, lost was a polyphonic television show. lost, while keeping us amused with science fiction, conspiracy theories, and international intrigue was at its core a show about people, and more than that, about people together, trying to make sense of the world and themselves within it. it reflected life, it its own way.
and to be honest, i have to applaud the implication at the very end in the church that their stories really never did end. the ones who survived kept on living, but their lives remained connected as they prepared for whatever would come next, even after death. ending the island's story without necessarily ending the character's story was still nothing short of a remarkable feat.
i don't regret watching lost, because as in life, it's the adventures and the relationships that count. there's no ending to lost that could have done the journey justice.
but i'll tell you, they gave it a hell of a sendoff.
but before that, some background.
i've recently renewed my love of reading, especially fiction, and found a new focus within that, specifically with russian literature. my exploration has found me beginning bakhtin's "problems of dostoevsky's poetics," which is a philosophically oriented literary critique of what bakhtin believed to be the factor which made dostoevsky's novels stand out: namely, the concept of a polyphonic novel.
to the best of my understanding so far, bakhtin believes that the ultimate aim of a novel is to present and reflect the "polyphonic" (which means many-voiced), multi-centered nature of both the world and ourselves. he posits that we do not live in some sort of vacuum, and that our own voices and natures are amalgamations and interpretations of the many others present around us. we affect our world and are affected by it.
bakhtin believed that dostoevsky created his works by refusing to condense the individual worlds and voices of his characters into or under a singular narrative voice, thus creating not the classical aristotelian "closed" text, but an open one, where his characters fully existed in an ultimately unfinalizable world, a world of the dialogical, constantly developing "we" over the monological, narrow "i."
returning to lost, i didn't like the ending.
it's not that it wasn't exciting, or well written, or illuminating enough. it's just that the nature of a series finale, in my opinion, is essentially compromising to a series like lost.
the show was never really about the island. it was about the people. the lives of jack, kate, sawyer, hugo, locke, sayid, ben, claire, sun and jin, and all the others were the points of references for the whole series, and the dynamic effects of their lives and the island on each others' was what made the show so compelling. each character existed as a means to his or her own end. they were never compressed into a monologic narrative; rather the writing chose to show that each character inhabited and experienced his or her own world, with the joys and struggles within it.
in short, lost was a polyphonic television show. lost, while keeping us amused with science fiction, conspiracy theories, and international intrigue was at its core a show about people, and more than that, about people together, trying to make sense of the world and themselves within it. it reflected life, it its own way.
and to be honest, i have to applaud the implication at the very end in the church that their stories really never did end. the ones who survived kept on living, but their lives remained connected as they prepared for whatever would come next, even after death. ending the island's story without necessarily ending the character's story was still nothing short of a remarkable feat.
i don't regret watching lost, because as in life, it's the adventures and the relationships that count. there's no ending to lost that could have done the journey justice.
but i'll tell you, they gave it a hell of a sendoff.
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