the dusty windowsill

New Moon

Thu, 09 May 2013 23:16:42 -0400

With the new moon overhead, Angie and I make our final arrangements before our departure. We’ve trimmed all our gear and weighed things down to the ounce and we’ll each have around 30 pounds (food is still being negotiated at the moment) on our backs. Tomorrow we’ll head down to our contact through craigslist rideshare in Indiana and set out Saturday for Chicago, then Denver, on to Salt Lake City, Boise, and get dropped off in Seattle around the 17th. I imagine we might spend a few days there before heading down the coast on Route 101. We’ll stop in Coos Bay to see a friend there before continuing down to Northern California to find another friend in the woods and later stop in San Francisco and then Los Angeles. From there, we’ll assess things and determine a route back to Michigan. We’ll be safe as long we return by mid July for my cousin’s wedding. The best man can’t miss it.

We’ve packed two sets of clothes each in our 55 liter packs and then we each have a sleeping bag, klymit inertia x-lite sleeping pad, 3 liter water bladder and headlamp. I’ll carry the tent while Angie carries the poles. We each have a knife, compass, stove and one will have the dry sack/bear bag while the other has the titanium mess kit. Angie will have the Katadyn water filter and I’m making room for some paper, pencil, and gouache.

I’m pretty excited to finally see the western states.

trippylectures: A banned TED talk from Graham Hancock where he...

Tue, 07 May 2013 07:20:53 -0400

trippylectures:

A banned TED talk from Graham Hancock where he talks about ayahuasca and how we are being kept from evolving our consciousness by the powers that be and the collective dream-state they have instilled in the masses that manifests itself as the phobia of mind expansion. MUST WATCH

Self Portrait from a couple hours ago in front of another from a...

Sat, 04 May 2013 23:35:12 -0400

Self Portrait from a couple hours ago in front of another from a couple months ago

They played a real great set. I was stoked.

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 23:24:41 -0400

They played a real great set. I was stoked.

"But the 8-hour workday is too profitable for big business, not because of the amount of work people..."

Sun, 14 Apr 2013 00:26:43 -0400

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But the 8-hour workday is too profitable for big business, not because of the amount of work people get done in eight hours (the average office worker gets less than three hours of actual work done in 8 hours) but because it makes for such a purchase-happy public. Keeping free time scarce means people pay a lot more for convenience, gratification, and any other relief they can buy. It keeps them watching television, and its commercials. It keeps them unambitious outside of work.

We’ve been led into a culture that has been engineered to leave us tired, hungry for indulgence, willing to pay a lot for convenience and entertainment, and most importantly, vaguely dissatisfied with our lives so that we continue wanting things we don’t have. We buy so much because it always seems like something is still missing.

”

- Your Lifestyle Has Already Been Designed (via beccap)

I learned to crochet last week and made this dishcloth as an...

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 19:25:59 -0400

I learned to crochet last week and made this dishcloth as an official first project and made it entirely with my own homemade crochet hook of 16 gauge electric fence wire.

blackcoffee-whitepowder: my exact thoughts when i heard

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 10:38:17 -0400

blackcoffee-whitepowder:

my exact thoughts when i heard

The Walrus » Ayahuasca Vision » Plants with Soul » Anthropology

Mon, 08 Apr 2013 11:50:02 -0400

The Walrus » Ayahuasca Vision » Plants with Soul » Anthropology

oscomigosdemim: Suuns | Pie IX I randomly came across the...

Thu, 28 Mar 2013 23:48:24 -0400

oscomigosdemim:

Suuns | Pie IX

I randomly came across the suuns in early fabruary and there stuff is haunting and addictive. I am hoping to catch them in grand rapids near the end of April, if travel plans don’t interfere

"When it comes to genetically modified food, “Americans are still dining in the dark.” At least,..."

Thu, 28 Mar 2013 16:32:09 -0400

“When it comes to genetically modified food, “Americans are still dining in the dark.” At least, that’s according to Kathleen Furey of GMO Free New York, who gave a presentation of the dangers of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) at Christ Episcopal Church in Sag Harbor on Saturday.”

- The Truth About GMOs Explored at Fair Foods Forum

fuckyeahriccardotisci: Handwritten note left in each seat by...

Wed, 27 Mar 2013 11:40:09 -0400

fuckyeahriccardotisci:

Handwritten note left in each seat by Antony Hegarty at the Givenchy Fall Winter 2013 show

creestalbreeze: “A young woman was restrained, force-fed and...

Wed, 27 Mar 2013 11:31:55 -0400

creestalbreeze:

“A young woman was restrained, force-fed and injected with cosmetics in a high street shop window as part of a hard-hitting protest against animal testing.

Jacqueline Traide was tortured in front of hundreds of horrified shoppers in a bid to raise awareness and end the practise.

The 24-year-old endured 10 hours of experiments, which included having her hair shaved and irritants squirted in her eyes, as part of a worldwide campaign by Lush Cosmetics and The Humane Society.

The disturbing stunt took place in Lush’s Regent Street store, one of the UK’s busiest shopping streets.

Jacqueline appeared genuinely terrified as she was pinned down on a bench and had her mouth stretched open with two metal hooks while a man in a white coat force-fed her until she choked and gagged.

The artist was also injected with numerous needles, had her skin braised and lotions and creams smeared across her face.

Passers-by were gobsmacked to see Jacqueline, a social sculpture student at Oxford Brookes University, forced to have a section of her head shaved.

The gruesome spectacle aimed to highlight the cruelty inflicted on animals during cosmetic laboratory tests and raise awareness that animal testing is still a common practise.

The Humane Society International and Lush Cosmetics have joined forces to launch the largest-ever global campaign to end animal testing for cosmetics.

The campaign, launched to coincide with World Week for Animals in Laboratories, is being rolled out simultaneously in over 700 Lush Ltd shops across forty-seven countries including the United States, Canada, India, Australia, New Zealand, South Korea and Russia.

Lush campaign manager Tamsin Omond said: “The ironic thing is that if it was a beagle in the window and we were doing all these things to it, we’d have the police and RSPCA here in minutes.

“But somewhere in the world, this kind of thing is happening to an animal every few seconds on average.

“The difference is, it’s normally hidden. We need to remind people it is still going on.”

For more information about the campaign, visit www.fightinganimaltesting.com”

I HOPE EVERYONE READS THIS AND REBLOGS IT

abjectsublime: Here I am thinking that my hometown is a little...

Wed, 27 Mar 2013 11:22:39 -0400

abjectsublime:

Here I am thinking that my hometown is a little nowheresville, and then the college pops up on my dashboard.

What a nice minimalist poster!

tentaclesandteacups:

Wed, 20 Mar 2013 14:01:04 -0400

tentaclesandteacups:

So there is a slight difference in how close the camera was to...

Wed, 20 Mar 2013 11:35:10 -0400

So there is a slight difference in how close the camera was to the subject.

It was only after I shaved the whole thing off that I remembered seeing the photos of faces shaved symmetrically with feminine makeup on the clean shaven side. Next year!

laughingsquid: Unplug

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 21:09:56 -0400

laughingsquid:

Unplug

93029590292305915101: Rupert Sheldrake gives an excellent short...

Tue, 12 Mar 2013 20:51:58 -0400

93029590292305915101:

Rupert Sheldrake gives an excellent short free presentation on the science delusion. Highly recommended out-of-the-box thinking…

assemblepapers: Putting a spin on the traditional family RV,...

Thu, 07 Mar 2013 10:47:21 -0500

assemblepapers:

Putting a spin on the traditional family RV, Brooklyn based designer/artist Kevin Cyr designed and made this one man Camper Bike, exploring themes of shelter and mobility in a contemporary urban environment. The stand alone piece fed into a larger solo project, Home in the Weeds, exploring ideas for shelter in different scenarios. All images sourced from Kevin Cyr’s website.

iamkiam: Nikki S. Lee (born Lee Seung-Hee, 1970, Korea) in her...

Thu, 07 Mar 2013 09:15:43 -0500

iamkiam:

Nikki S. Lee

(born Lee Seung-Hee, 1970, Korea) in her Projects, in which she spent several weeks assimilating into a cultural group and has someone take her photo within the group. Her identities in these projects traverses age, race, and social classes.

pictured here: The Ohio Project, The Stripper Project, The Lesbian Project, The Tourist Project, The Hispanic Project, The Hip Hop Project.

Not Cindy Sherman, but cool in a somewhat similar way. She’d spend months preparing for each role (above) and then take about a month of “posing” where’d she’d be with the subcultural group and ask to have her picture taken with them.

DIY Paper Geo

Wed, 06 Mar 2013 18:56:48 -0500

cmunroshea: