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Octavio Paz, from ‘Between what I see and what I say…’, A Tree Within (trans. Eliot Weinberger)
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Jane Whiting Chrzanoska __ Solitaire
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Population Mountains by Matt Daniels
How to perceive the population of cities.
Here is New York City, a region of 18 million people. Each dot represents 1,000,000 square meters. Deeper shades of red represent more people. But there’s another way to look at NYC’s population. Let’s grow each dot into a 3D block. The taller the block, the more people. NYC’s population now resembles a mountainous terrain.
If we zoom out to view the entire world, it looks different than you might expect.
From my perspective (albeit a US-centric one), it was eye-opening to see how the world’s population is so unevenly distributed.
What stands out is each city’s form, a unique mountain that might be like the steep peaks of lower Manhattan or the sprawling hills of suburban Atlanta. When I first saw a city in 3D, I had a feel for its population size that I had never experienced before.
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Rima Dadenji, beautiful Diaba (representing Senegalese elegance!), Fes el-Bali, Morocco, 2017
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Felix Vallotton, Clair de Lune, 1895
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Krishna Consorting Radha in a Guise of a Gopi by Sunayani Devi, Bengal
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Candi Sukuh Temple, Java,Forge scene with Ganesha
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EVERYONE 👏🏾 DESERVES 👏🏾 A 👏🏾 GOOD 👏🏾 EDUCATION 👏🏾 THAT’S 👏🏾 AFFORDABLE
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Pahari women activists discuss deforestation, gherao district government officials, and demand “food not liquor” in Junagadh, Himachal Pradesh.
“This forest is our mother’s home
We will protect it with all our might!”Photos from the Chipko movement which was started and led by Garhwali women in Uttarakhand against deforestation and the usurping of land in their villages by the government and corporations. An extremely important event for discussing ecofeminism in India, the Chipko movement resulted in demonstrations where village women would protest by clinging (hence, chipko) onto trees that were about to be razed to the ground. Traditionally, the forest is integral for the livelihood of poor, rural pahari women who collect “food, fodder, and water” there while doing back-breaking labor. Losing their rights to the forest or the jungle would have devastating effects on their lives. Scanned from The History of Doing by Radha Kumar.
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Indigenous poets read urgent climate message on a melting glacier
The story from this Grist, including a Vimeo video of the two poets reciting their poem, “Rise.”
As Greenland’s glaciers melt and flow into the sea, Pacific island nations are on the receiving end of some of that water. It’s a familiar story about climate change: One nation crumbles into the ocean; others risk drowning under rising sea levels.
It’s also the backdrop for a unique artistic collaboration between two indigenous poets from opposite ends of the earth. Last summer, these women — who had met for the first time days earlier — stood side by side, one dressed in black, the other in white, reciting a poem they’d written together.
Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner traveled from the Marshall Islands in Micronesia to Greenland’s capital city Nuuk where she met Inuk poet Aka Niviâna. Together, they embarked with a small film crew to a remote spot on southern Greenland’s ice sheet where they recited their poem “Rise” on top of a crevasse-scarred melting glacier.
With dramatic orchestration and mournful cries sounding urgently in the film’s background, the poets tell of the lands of their respective ancestors, the sunken volcanoes and hidden icebergs. They speak of angry seas, evoking the legends of sisters turned to stone, and Sassuma Arnaa, Mother of the Sea.
Addressing one another as “sister of ice and snow” and “sister of ocean and sand,” Niviâna and Jetnil-Kijiner ceremoniously exchange gifts of shells and stones in a story that is cinematically beautiful, but whose message is stark.
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Some wholesome Bob to get through school
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Samin Nosrat has become known as the chef who taught Michael Pollan to cook, after the famed food writer featured her in his book Cooked and his Netflix show of the same name.
Now, she’s sharing her wisdom with the masses in her new, illustrated cookbook called Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking. The key to good cooking, she says, is learning to balance those elements and trust your instincts, rather than just follow recipes.
An Illustrated Guide To Master The Elements Of Cooking — Without Recipes
Images courtesy of Wendy MacNaughton
We’re recording an interview with Samin Nosrat today. Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat is now a Netflix series.
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(Source: soul-vintage)
