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Archive for January, 2007

Why Cyclists, Despite Spandex, Are Bad Ass.

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Jan/2007

Below, Tom Steels gets “checked” by Graeme Brown in a sprint going 60km/h.

Paris, 1906

30

Jan/2007

Recently, I was reading about the following: In 1906 Picasso painted a portrait of Gertrude Stein who was, at the time, a smart rich girl with a big personality, a taste for art and no job or direction. Picasso was penniless, represented by a middle-of-the-road gallery in paris, and showing virtuoso talent that was, as of then, unfocused and under-appreciated. But stein saw something in his work and in him and became his patron.

The portrait […]

Your Heart Was a Legend.

26

Jan/2007

…at four a.m., you can bring along a midget, a bear and four ladies, drag them to your room and no one cares about it at all.

-Leonard Cohen

Spent last week producing for some British friends at the Chelsea Hotel. And dear readers, you owe it to yourself to spend a night there.

Or at least pop your head in next time on 23rd street. Ride the elevator up, take the stairs down and see the art […]

that’s easy for you to say

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Jan/2007

“If I’m obsessed with anything, it’s the problem of failure. As human beings, working in medicine, you’re going to have to think about that as a surgeon. At a certain point along the way you’re going to hurt people, and trying to find that balance between harm and good is your constant struggle, and that’s the largest struggle of anyone who works in anything with moral dimensions.”

Dr. Atul Gawande - McCarthur Grant Fellow, on Charlie […]

dont copy the copy right

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Jan/2007

my current belief is that 90-96% of anything worth watching/forwarding on youtube contains copywritten material. as in, it contains something; a song, or a show that was created by someone talented, or a company with a budget to pay talented people, and then taken and repurposed by youtube users aka regular joes.

am i wrong?

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