Vox’s posts tagged culture

Greener Than Thou

2008-07-26T05:46:26Z

This morning I read an article on Alternet, by a man who gave up having a car: Living Without a Car: My New American Responsibility. It was a rather insulated look at living a carless lifestyle in a city with excellent public transportation that...

Read and post comments | Send to a friend

Cell Phones and Butler Boys: I Love Japan.

2008-07-25T02:41:11Z

So I learned from my mistake from last week and am posting an entry now, to avoid having to wait until Monday or Tuesday and potentially having another extremely long entry. Not too much has happened, but there’s nothing wrong with a short post, ...

Send to a friend

Olafur Eliasson's waterfall at Governor's Island

2008-07-24T00:35:34Z

Read and post comments | Send to a friend

I am not a feminist

2008-07-23T16:40:46Z

I am a pale, roundish Irish American woman. I cook for a living. I read anarchist and philosophical literature in my spare time. I live in a tent and always smell like wood smoke. I wear boots and dirty jeans. I drink beer and listen to metal. An...

Read and post comments | Send to a friend

---> The AFS Information Evening

2008-07-23T04:50:52Z

Since this blog is an exchange blog, I guess I should include everything that I do to do with my exchange....Kinda obvious eh? :-) Last night I went to an AFS information evening... although another girl and I were already going through the sele...

Read and post comments | Send to a friend

Comic Art, Bazaar Bizarre, etc.

2008-07-22T15:28:51Z

Here's a short video of opening night at the Guilford Art Center. You can see my Vampirella painting below Dean McDowell's Joker painting for a second there. The show will be on display until August 14th. I'll be selling prints at the 2008 Summe...

Read and post comments | Send to a friend

20x200

2008-07-21T18:24:28Z

20x200 is a really cool site with a business model sure to promote repeat customers. The basic idea is a place for artists to sell their work via the Internet.Nothing too revolutionary about that. What is really cool about this site thoug...

Read and post comments | Send to a friend

Water in the Desert Festival

2008-07-21T14:48:32Z

“A human being is part of the whole called by us universe ... We experience ourselves, our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricti...

Read and post comments | Send to a friend

1,000 Hands

2008-07-21T05:44:06Z

clipped from www.thejakartapost.com REACHING OUT A troupe performs the dance “The Buddha with a Thousand Hands” during the Chinese Art and Cultural Night held at the Bina Nusantara Mandarin Club in Kedoya, West Jakarta, on Sunday. The eve...

Read and post comments | Send to a friend

Work from Home

2008-07-20T14:42:46Z

Innovate it is a swedish company regulated by swedish authorities. Innovate it is limited by shares(aktiebolag) and must file annual reports to Bolagsverket. Innovate it was started in May 1999 and has since then developed into a stable online bus...

Read and post comments | Send to a friend

Thank God for the Rain!

2008-07-20T11:20:30Z

And thank YOU for just everything in life! clipped from www.thejakartapost.com HARVEST THANKS Residents of Putat village in Gunungkidul regency, Yogyakarta, parade Monday as part of a traditional thanksgiving ritual for a successful harve...

Read and post comments | Send to a friend

Are we intrigued by death?

2008-07-20T04:26:18Z

Are we intrigued by the death of someone that we don't personally know. I think that we are. I know that I am both intrigued and deeply affected, sometimes for reasons that I cannot explain. For example: When Dale Earnhardt was killed in the 2001...

Read and post comments | Send to a friend

Life QotD: Cultural Stereotypes

2008-07-19T23:33:12Z

What is the most annoying stereotype people say about the country or place where you're from? Not so much as what people say, but more so, what they do... If your not interested in a culinary venture, why stop others from seeking solace, especi...

Read and post comments | Send to a friend

Study: See the Crowd from a Distance

2008-07-19T03:13:53Z

Read and post comments | Send to a friend

An Old Song...

2008-07-18T17:44:42Z

The Dottir is due to come over to London at the end of the month, and I was looking for something for a theatre night out when I came across a production of 'They're Playing Our Song' at Menier Chocolate Factory. I hope she gives this musical the...

Read and post comments | Send to a friend

Perhaps The Most Important Book Of The 20th Century.....

2008-07-17T15:26:12Z

Read and post comments | Send to a friend

Skin Inks Exhibition Closing Party

2008-07-17T02:01:22Z

The closing party of the Skin:Inks exhibition on July 10 had to be the coolest Hong Kong party in many months. Party goers, celebrities, über-cool tattooed guys and gals packed Cliq nightclub to celebrate skin art and raise funds for the Kely S...

Read and post comments | Send to a friend

Thoughts About Public Schools

2008-07-16T18:07:14Z

As regular readers of my various blogs over the years know, I frequently listen to the Neal Boortz radio show as a way to monitor what those on the Right are saying. Boortz often rants about public schools, which he always refers to as "governmen...

Read and post comments | Send to a friend

Culture QotW: Can't Wait to Read...

2008-07-16T15:16:22Z

What soon-to-be-published book are you excited to read? This is the new book coming out from one of my favorite Voxers, R.G. Ryan. The book is due to be published in September, and contains many of the best of R.G.'s observations from a seat...

Read and post comments | Send to a friend

Procreation Nation

2008-07-16T04:27:44Z

Is it just me, or has America gone baby-bonkers? I can't read celebrity gossip anymore without knowing who might be knocked up, who is knocked up, when they're due, if they may or may not be in the hospital, if it's twins, if it's a boy or a girl...

Read and post comments | Send to a friend