Blogs1 - 10 of 216 recent posts for tag:"modern culture"
06
Nov
2009
Gay Manimals

2 days ago by Beth

What do you think about teaching about sexuality, homo or hetero, in school? Here's one guy's opinion (Actually a fairly knowledgeable guy who has his own blog " Primate Diaries" on Science Blogs): By now everyone has heard of the high school English honors teacher, Dan DeLong, who was suspended for ...

Complex Interplay - complexinterplay.blogspot.com · Rank: 102,790 · 4 references

Addicted to cute?

2 days ago by Beth

American society definitely is, according to Vanity Fair: Cootchie-coo behavior used to be reserved for private moments in the home. But now, with the Internet’s help, people feel free to wallow in cuteness en masse, in the company of strangers. The serious political blog Daily Kos, for instance, is ...

Complex Interplay - complexinterplay.blogspot.com · Rank: 102,790 · 4 references

05
Nov
2009
Out on the tiles..

3 days ago by anna

I’m not a fan of folk music; tin whistles and tapestry waistcoats leave me cold but I do like a berber with a bongo so I was very happy to go and see Tiramisu or whatever they were called. They were a lively bunch of swarthy gentlemen dressed in robes and wrap-around bonnets and they [...]

WriteClub - write-club.net · 1 reference

04
Nov
2009
Claude Levi-Strauss dies at 100

4 days ago by Beth

I hope I live that long...no, really. AP Story By Angela Doland PARIS – Claude Levi-Strauss, widely considered the father of modern anthropology for work that included theories about commonalities between tribal and industrial societies, has died. He was 100. The French intellectual was regarded as ...

Complex Interplay - complexinterplay.blogspot.com · Rank: 102,790 · 4 references

03
Nov
2009
Back to the Tree

5 days ago by Mark

The doggie paddle was the first thing I learned how to do in Cook’s Pond, a muddy swim hole in my New Jersey hometown. I dearly wanted to swim with the big boys out to the raft. But keeping my head above water had to be my first priority. The raft would wait. The doggy paddle came before the kick bo ...

La Macchina Fotografica - marklindsayart.com/blog

02
Nov
2009
Art collectors buying locally

6 days ago by pcNielsen

From a recent Wall Street Journal article titled Local Artists Are on the Rise: From Bloomfield Hills, Mich., to Turin, Italy, contemporary-art collectors are passing on works by international art stars and skipping far-flung art fairs and auctions. This year, they’re buying local. In Detroit, major ...

The Aesthetic Elevator - theaestheticelevator.com · Rank: 49,997 · 24 references

01
Nov
2009
Michael Jackson Twitter Seance: Tweance With Kurt Cobain and River Phoenix

7 days ago by Shannon

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What do you get when you mix Twitter, a psychic, and a bunch of nincompoops who will believe just about anything? You get a tweance, or more specifically you get a Michael Jackson Twitter séance with Kurt Cobain and River Phoenix thrown in for good measure. Psychic Jayne Wallace performed what I sup ...

Blue Star Chronicles - military.rightpundits.com · Rank: 44,075 · 374 references

30
Oct
2009
Intercollegiate Review - Free Subscription!

8 days ago by Mark

I read every issue of the Intercollegiate Review from cover to cover - sign up here for a FREE subscription. Golden opportunity, please consider it. Can't go wrong with "free". read more

Every Good Path - ... - everygoodpath.net · 11 references

The Industrial Revolution

9 days ago by Jeanne Willette

The Industrial Revolution For the artist of the modern period, the most essential problem was how to depict the modern: as a new style, as new content, as a new attitude? Each generation would fine its own answer, only to have the next generation find this answer inadequate. In the process of attemp ...

Art History Unstuffed - arthistoryunstuffed.com

28
Oct
2009
What’s the Point?

10 days ago by Daryl

A lot of post-modern thought has gone into symbolic reality. Advances in technology has allowed us to do many things simply for the sake of doing it. Overcoming challenges has moved from being a necessity to a luxury. When you do something, what’s the point? I’ve been learning about a lot of physica ...

WhiteHatBlackBox.com - whitehatblackbox.com · Rank: 121,791 · 26 references

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