Kelsey Wynns had a simple but brilliant idea: attach a small, wide-angle HD GoPro camera to his dog at the dog park for a uniquely frisky perspective.
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Kelsey Wynns had a simple but brilliant idea: attach a small, wide-angle HD GoPro camera to his dog at the dog park for a uniquely frisky perspective.
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The Caging of America; Why do we lock up so many people?
The scale and the brutality of our prisons are the moral scandal of American life. Every day, at least fifty thousand men—a full house at Yankee Stadium—wake in solitary confinement, often in “supermax” prisons or prison wings, in which men are locked in small cells, where they see no one, cannot freely read and write, and are allowed out just once a day for an hour’s solo “exercise.” (Lock yourself in your bathroom and then imagine you have to stay there for the next ten years, and you will have some sense of the experience.) Prison rape is so endemic—more than seventy thousand prisoners are raped each year—that it is routinely held out as a threat, part of the punishment to be expected. The subject is standard fodder for comedy, and an uncoöperative suspect being threatened with rape in prison is now represented, every night on television, as an ordinary and rather lovable bit of policing. The normalization of prison rape—like eighteenth-century japery about watching men struggle as they die on the gallows—will surely strike our descendants as chillingly sadistic, incomprehensible on the part of people who thought themselves civilized. Though we avoid looking directly at prisons, they seep obliquely into our fashions and manners. Wealthy white teen-agers in baggy jeans and laceless shoes and multiple tattoos show, unconsciously, the reality of incarceration that acts as a hidden foundation for the country.
- In this week’s issue, Adam Gopnik writes about mass incarceration and criminal justice in America: http://nyr.kr/A75iOm
Photograph by Steve Liss.
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From the LRB:
A consequence of the rise in productivity brought about by the exponentially growing impact of collective knowledge is a change in the role of unemployment. It is the very success of capitalism (greater efficiencies, raised productivity etc) which produces unemployment, rendering more and more workers useless: what should be a blessing – less hard labour needed – becomes a curse. Or, to put it differently, the chance of being exploited in a long-term job is now experienced as a privilege.
The best part about the kim jong-il funeral is how stunningly antiquated it looks. here is a scene out of our parents’ seventies coming true in 2012. The gray snow and low sky. What a perfect setting for all that dully incredible pageantry, a nation that takes detail so seriously, flowery and bureaucratic even in death After this, what’s the last cold war remnant dictatorship? Belarus? What happened to all these hard facts, these keystones of little league in 1989? Strange what happens to the past.
so I just cracked the plastic on the 2011 wall calendar my Mom got me last Christmas that’s been sitting in my office for a year to find out what the week looked like.
Been working on Botanica about two and a half years now. We open in New York this Feb at 3LD. I hope all of you Ryanbrowns, and Creepers and YoungManhattanites can make it out. CatRock will definitely be there. Its going to be a complete balls to the walls mental fuck fest. Here’s some behind the scenes that I shot. Enjoy it.
According to the current last post of Je Blogue, marriage = the end. (That’s according to my 10th graders, too, who made me a card on which I was...
My employer on the perils of helicopter travel.
I don’t know that I’d call this “#firstworldproblems” so much as “1% too fucking...
Just saw this blimp in my barrio and for 4 seconds I was convinced first contact had been made.
Do the right thing.
Shelves = hung. Whatsup 2012 projects? (Taken with instagram)