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A SYRIAN GOLD AND BANDED AGATE PENDANT CIRCA 1700 B.C. The oval agate bead with a pointed tip; threaded by a plain gold wire loop to a hemispherical cap of thin sheet gold embellished with three bands of double rows of granulation flanking a plain wire, looped to a ring of plain wire, its tapering ends overlapping and wrapped spirally around itself; joined to an ancient-style gold loop-in-loop chain 1 5/8 in. (4.1 cm.) long
The Mysterious Penitentes
First described by Charles Darwin in literature in 1839, penitentes are rare, unique snow formations found at high altitudes above 4,000 meters on the Andes mountains. They are called “penitentes” because the white spikes resemble processions of white-hooded monks. They take the form of tall thin blades of hardened snow, or ice, with the blades pointing towards the general direction of the sun. Penitentes range in size from several centimeters to over 5 meters tall.
They are rare because they only appear in the dry Andes Mountain region on the border of Argentina and Chile. It is believed their formation is due to strong winds. This was Darwin’s explanation and no one has come up with a better one for their existence in over 170 years.
so what do you all think of the new CocoRosie album? I’m only just listening to track 2 - it sounds a lot…smoother to me than other things I’ve heard from them so far. It’s not bad but I don’t know exactly what to think of it yet.
A closer look at Richard Wagner’s manuscripts +
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I am rereading Rawls’ A Theory of Justice, which is always a pleasure. I suppose it was never released on Vulcan.
Alfred Kubin - Polar Bear. 1902
Ballerina, 2011
ph:Kevin Francis Gray
The Nestlé CEO suggests that water is not a human right and should be privatised.
I suggest he keeps his ideas to himself or gets the fuck off our planet.
“This is a company that actually goes into struggling rural areas and extracts the groundwater for their bottled water products, completely destroying the water supply of the area without any compensation. In fact, they actually make rural areas in the United States foot the bill.”
Ashamed to even be a member of the same species as this person. Presumably. Let’s not rush the Nestlé-CEO-is-human assumption.
Teens Are Trapped in Abusive, Cult-Like ‘Drug Rehab Centers’
If you like Army Wives, Preachers’ Daughters, Dance Moms, or any other TV show attempting to create a taxonomy of women based on the professions of their husbands, fathers, and children, then you may well have caught an episode of Teen Trouble. It’s a reality TV show on the Lifetime network where a guy named Josh Shipp sends “at-risk teens” to “alternative rehab centers,” where they’re forced to endure emotional and physical abuse before being allowed to rejoin society.
Shipp is your classic Jerry Springer brand of therapist—no real qualifications, a huge ego, and a penchant for money and entertaining TV over science and genuine psychology. “I’m a teen behavior specialist,” he says in the intro. “My approach is gritty, gutsy, and in your face.”
But the show is a lot grittier than you might expect from that typical teleprompter spiel. The unregulated “troubled teen” industry is able to persist despite numerous allegations of physical and sexual abuse,torture, and death at various institutions, and Shipp is exploiting that same system for monetary gain. Even when they aren’t abusive and/or deadly, the pseudoscientific practices used at “tough love boarding schools” have often proven to be ineffective and can lead to PTSD, anxiety, depression, and drug addiction. Maia Szalavitz, author of Help at Any Cost: How the Troubled-Teen Industry Cons Parents and Hurts Kids, told me about some of the horror stories her own research uncovered.
“The classic list is food deprivation, sleep deprivation, public humiliation, beatings, and denial of access to the bathroom to the point where you wet or soil yourself. But I’m also constantly hearing stories of people being forced to re-enact various traumas, like being raped,” she told me.
The rest of this is absolutely horrifying to read. “Aria told me her mother sent her there because she “disliked the friends she was making because they were ‘different’—black, gay, etc.” wtf. So glad not to be American.
Postcard from Henri Matisse to Michael Stein (Gertrude’s Brother).
From The Steins Collect at the MET.
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Kevin Francis Gray w: www.goffrosenthal.squarespace.com/artists/kevin-francis-gray/
Face-off (detail) 2007
Bronze, Automotive Paint, Wood Plinth
Boy:42 x 16 x 12 inches (106 x 40 x 30 cm)
Girl:41 x 16 x 12 inches (104 x 40 x 30 cm)
Plinths:36 x 12 x 12 inches (91 x 30 x 30 cm)
edition of four
