Jean Fouquet, ‘Madonna Surrounded by Seraphim and Cherubim’ 1452
Nicky Da B backstage after his show, Brooklyn
KT onstage with Quack at the Nicky Da B show, Brooklyn
RuRu and Nicky, Brooklyn
Me and Quack, Brooklyn
"In terms of user experience Facebook is like an NYPD police van crashing into an IKEA, forever"
“When people write critically about Facebook, they often say that “you are the product being sold,” but I think that by now we all get that. The digital substance of our friendships belongs to these companies, and they are loath to share it with others. So we build our little content farms within, friending and upthumbing, learning to accept that our new landlords are people who grew up on Power Rangers. This is, after all, the way of our new product-based civilization — in order to participate as a citizen of the social web, you must yourself manufacture content. Progress requires that forms must be filled. Thus it is a critical choice of any adult as to where they will perform their free labor. Tens of millions of people made a decision to spend their time with the simple, mobile photo-sharing application that was not Facebook because they liked its subtle interface and little filters. And so Facebook bought the thing that is hardest to fake. It bought sincerity.” (via Kottke)
On Trayvon Martin and Racial Identity
“What does the word “Hispanic” mean? Does it mean that a Peruvian (which some sources say is the home of origin of George Zimmerman’s mother) cannot be white? Are people born in Spain not white? Are Peruvians and Puerto Ricans the same race? What should we call Brazilians—Portuganics?
Then we must ask the taboo question: what is white? This term gained forceful meaning in America when Christian European men found themselves between the indigenous peoples (that they slaughtered) and Africans (whom they enslaved). These so-called white men’s ancestors didn’t consider themselves one pandemic race. In the old days Vikings weren’t the same race as Greeks, Picts didn’t think they came from the same blood as Scots. To call a man a “white man” is racist terminology in itself. Terminology perpetrated and promoted by the media.”
How they make Easter Eggs.
“Mom, poly is the new gay.”
“As I audibly sighed with relief, he reminded me gently, “Mom, poly is the new gay.” If I wanted to keep my cred as a liberal parent I would need to accept it. This set me back for a second. I thought about how quick I was to judge other parents who refused to accept their adult children’s homosexual relationships. Poly is the outpost on the sex positive frontier that my children’s generation has reached.” (via)
“ The clitoris was the original Like button.
Twitter / @claytoncubitt
Abolish Corporate Personhood
“Slavery is the legal fiction that a person is property. Corporate personhood is the legal fiction that property is a person. Like abolishing slavery, the work of eradicating corporate personhood takes us to the deepest questions of what it means to be human. If we are to live in a democracy, what does it mean to be sovereign? The hardest part of eliminating corporate personhood is believing that We the People have the sovereign right to do this. It comes down to us being clear about who’s in charge.”