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humansofnewyork: My name is Brandon Stanton and I’m a...

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 21:42:01 -0400

My name is Brandon Stanton and I’m a photographer in New York City. As many of you already know, several months ago I was approached by the fashion label DKNY, who offered me $15,000 to purchase 300 of my photographs. I politely refused the offer. But earlier this week, one of my fans discovered that DKNY was using my photographs anyway— in Asia. (Full Story:http://thebea.st/13ijYt6)

As atonement for this infringement, I publicly requested that DKNY donate $100,000 in my name to the YMCA in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, so that underprivileged children could attend summer camp. DKNY responded on Monday with a $25,000 donation.

Over the next three days, my audience stepped in and raised the full $100,000 themselves. Over 3,000 people chipped in, and raised an astonishing $103,710 in 72 hours. (http://bit.ly/YTy4h3)

I have no interest in vilifying DKNY. It is a company composed of thousands of good people. The founder, Donna Karan, is highly respected around the world for both her creativity and philanthropy.

But I would appreciate if you would REBLOG this post, and lend your voice to my request that DKNY raise their donation to match the $103,710 that we raised.

Together, we could create a $208,000 investment in the lives of children in one of New York’s most vital and diverse neighborhoods. Thank you so much.

explore-blog: What your email sign-off says about your...

Sat, 22 Dec 2012 14:20:06 -0500

explore-blog:

What your email sign-off says about your relationship with the recipient.

little escapologist: For my fellow writers:

Fri, 21 Dec 2012 21:29:59 -0500

little escapologist: For my fellow writers: :

sheg0:

yeahwriters - lots of prompts, images, quotes and motivation

writeworld - prompts, quotes, references, tips

fuckyeahcharacterdevelopment - character, plot development and vocabulary tips

writingprompts - amazing and original picture prompts

dictionaryofobscuresorrows - words you…

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Fri, 21 Dec 2012 21:24:58 -0500

"Always, always you recede through the evenings towards where the twilight goes erasing statues."

Mon, 10 Sep 2012 20:39:10 -0400

“Always, always you recede through the evenings
towards where the twilight goes erasing statues.”

- Pablo Neruda, from “We Have Lost Even”, trans. W. S. Merwin (via mitochondria)

And another person I can’t wait to see in October. It is...

Mon, 10 Sep 2012 20:32:44 -0400

And another person I can’t wait to see in October. It is going to be freaking amazing.

Can’t wait to see them in October!

Mon, 10 Sep 2012 20:29:55 -0400

Can’t wait to see them in October!

This song was one of my favorites at the March concert at the...

Mon, 10 Sep 2012 20:27:00 -0400

This song was one of my favorites at the March concert at the 9:30 club. He had the men and women of the audience (and the children among us) sing the intro part— it was fab. But then the D.C. crowd was way too chatty for him.

Letters of Note: Part of this world, part of another

Mon, 10 Sep 2012 20:24:50 -0400

Letters of Note: Part of this world, part of another:

I know I’m blasting all of these Letters of Note out in an obnoxious manner. Taking a breather from grading and such to peruse my back catalog of things in my reader.

How well-written Gene Wilder was!

Letters of Note: IN EVENT OF MOON DISASTER

Mon, 10 Sep 2012 20:21:16 -0400

Letters of Note: IN EVENT OF MOON DISASTER:

Interesting paraphernalia in the wake of Armstrong’s death.

I shall always be with you. Milada Horáková

Mon, 10 Sep 2012 20:19:16 -0400

I shall always be with you. Milada Horáková:

How can you read this letter and not want to weep?

Letters of Note: Sympathy begins at home

Mon, 10 Sep 2012 20:17:23 -0400

Letters of Note: Sympathy begins at home:

The first few paragraphs of the letter come close to (exactly) how I feel when I’m grading papers. Sadly, the papers belong to people (students) who aren’t strangers…

Numabookface by NAM. A mobile installation at the Ikejiri...

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 22:34:52 -0400

Numabookface by NAM. A mobile installation at the Ikejiri Institute of Design in Tokyo, Japan.

Squirrel tackling a donut.

Sun, 01 Apr 2012 21:37:03 -0400

Squirrel tackling a donut.

zgenderfreshandsay: St. Vincent with Andrew Bird - Black...

Thu, 15 Mar 2012 21:21:33 -0400

zgenderfreshandsay:

St. Vincent with Andrew Bird - Black Rainbow, Une Soire de Poche #9

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Thu, 15 Mar 2012 20:47:25 -0400

Love Games

Thu, 15 Mar 2012 20:34:52 -0400

Love Games:

17th century engravings from a book of love emblems with Latin and German mottoes and French epigrams. Can you figure out the erotic meanings behind the illustrations? You’d better brush up on your German and Latin, because the French epigrams are missing from BibliOdyssey’s post.

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Sun, 11 Mar 2012 12:22:50 -0400

From Italo Calvino’s If on a Winter’s Night a...

Fri, 09 Mar 2012 18:29:00 -0500

From Italo Calvino’s If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler. The books you, as the reader sift through in order to find his.

Books You Haven’t Read;

Books You Needn’t Read;

Books Made For Purposes Other Than Reading;

Books Read Even Before You Open Them Since They Belong To The Category Of Books Read Before Being Written;

Books That If You Had More Than One Life You Would Certainly Also Read But Unfortunately Your Days Are Numbered;

Books You Mean to Read But There Are Others You Must Read First;

Books Too Expensive Now And You’ll Wait Till They’re Remaindered;

Books ditto When They Come Out In Paperback;

Books You Can Borrow From Somebody;

Books That Everybody’s Read So It’s As If You Had Read Them, Too;

Books You’ve Been Planning to Read for Ages;

Books You’ve Been Hunting for Years Without Success;

Books Dealing With Something You’re Working on at the Moment;

Books You Want to Own So They’ll Be Handy Just in Case;

Books You Could Put Aside Maybe To Read This Summer;

Books You Need To Go With Other Books On Your Shelves;

Books That Fill You With Sudden, Inexplicable Curiosity, Not Easily Justified;

Books Read Long Ago Which It’s Now Time To Re-read;

Books You’ve Always Pretended To Have Read And Now It’s Time To Sit Down And Really Read Them;

New Books Whose Author Or Subject Appeals To You;

New Books By Authors Or On Subjects Not New (for you or in general);

New Books By Authors Or On Subjects Completely Unknown (at least to you)

Source: Lists of Note

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Tue, 06 Mar 2012 19:46:06 -0500