December 2010
27 posts
Context, or, how do you play football?
Jay Livingston posted the wickedly creative football play embedded below. The play, pulled off by Driscoll Middle School’s football team (Corpus Christi, TX), is a wonderful example of the importance of a shared understanding of context. Watch the clip:
Understanding the context of interaction heavily influences what you say and do and how you interpret others’ speech and actions. The behavior...
Captain Beefheart's 10 Commandments of Guitar...
1. Listen to the birds.
That’s where all the music comes from. Birds know everything about how it should sound and where that sound should come from. And watch hummingbirds. They fly really fast, but a lot of times they aren’t going anywhere.
2. Your guitar is not really a guitar Your guitar is a divining rod. Use it to find spirits in the other world and bring them over. A...
hipstertracks:
Vampire Weekend - Fight For This...
sarahkatherinedavis:
dark dark dark - christmas...
“I was leaving the South
To fling myself into the unknown.
I was taking a part...”
– Epigraph from The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson (via epigraphic)
whiskeyandgoatsmilk:
Mumford and Sons- After The...
The Death of Neoconservatism: Six Questions for C.... →
C. Bradley Thompson, a political science professor at Clemson University, has recently teamed up with Yaron Brook to write Neoconservatism: An Obiturary for an Idea, a classical-liberal critique of the neoconservative movement. The book systematically examines the economic, political, and cultural underpinnings of neoconservatism, exploring its relationship to the philosophy of Leo Strauss and its...
WatchMaya posted at Feministing about an anti-domestic violence PSA from South Africa. The group that created the ad, People Opposing Women Abuse, set up an experiment of sorts. A man first played drums loudly in his townhouse, quickly leading to multiple complaints by neighbors about the noise and a written warning. On a different night, the group loudly played a tape of what sounded like a violent...
