February 2012
4 posts
“Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the...”
– Schopenhauer (via commondense)
January 2012
2 posts
Slactivism & ACTA: This is how we will eventually...
The question below is currently on Reddits front page with one of the top comments as a reply. I felt it was important enough to re-post to my followers.
http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/oxgio/why_are_we_not_seeing_nearly_as_much_protest/
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Q: Why are we not seeing nearly as much protest against ACTA like we did with SOPA/PIPA? -Shedang
A: Don’t downvote this man,...
6 tags
Four Floors of Whores
Over the past three years that One Hundred Owls has been a means for expression, I’ve released three eps and worked with several projects and artists, none of which has been in the full-blown capacity that I desired at the time.
However now, settled back in Calgary, Ab and finally with a studio again, I can humour every aspect of this project that shows itself. More importantly are the...
December 2011
3 posts
“Sopa supporters in metaphorical nutshells: #sopa
“I’ve heard that...”
– SuperConductiveRabbi —via Le Reddit
SOPA hearing via Reddit (how it's done)
“The gentleman has not yet been recognized.”
“The gentlelady has been recognized.”
“Will the gentleman yield to the gentlelady.”
“Ummm”
“The gentlelady will yield to the yielding gentleman”
“The chair recognizes the gentleman from Colorado”
“Uhhh”
“I yield back the balance of my time”
...
“If ever there is tomorrow when we’re not together there is something you...”
– Christopher Robin
November 2011
3 posts
“Once in a while it really hits people that they don’t have to experience...”
– Alan Keightley
“Before I breathe the entirety of a misdirected prose, let me preface this...”
October 2011
3 posts
“There is something to be said for those who choose to be survivors of abuse and...”
– HappyNoodleGirl
“If you’re going to wear your convictions on your sleeve then I should hold...”
– ??
“And I am starting to see how as time gains momentum my choices will narrow and...”
– David Foster Wallace
September 2011
9 posts
“If the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to permit...”
– Frédéric Bastiat
“I am 33 years old, and it feel like much time has passed and is passing faster...”
– David Foster Wallace - a Supposedly fun thing I’ll Never Do Again
“There are things you do because they feel right and they may make no sense and...”
– Brian Andreas
“Does the moral character of an orgy change when the participants wear Nazi...”
– Entrance exam question to All Souls College, University of Oxford
“If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere.”
– - Frank A. Clark
jocundity
you once used merriment to describe yourself against the backdrop of a single day.
it was a good day.
leviathans walked by your side this day, confidence bestowed like holy water, ash & the cull of threads.
minutes flushed with obedience, eyes met with eyes met, confrontations did melt & thaw, turning instead to the advantage of the most silver of tongues.
you were fond of colours that...
August 2011
6 posts
“You can safely assume that you’ve created God in your own image when it...”
– Anne Lamott
“.. We got a call for a hanging yesterday, it wasn’t the actually hanging...”
– Paramedic I chatted with today
“English is the thug of languages; it is most often found standing over the...”
– Redditor - Law_Student
“Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he...”
– >Commissioner Pravin Lal, “U.N. Declaration of Rights”
July 2011
6 posts
“Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure...”
– —William Gibson
“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our...”
– Isaac Asimov
“Don’t ask yourself what the world needs, ask yourself what makes you come...”
– Howard Thurman
“In a closed society where everybody’s guilty, the only crime is getting...”
– Hunter S. Thompson
“Tomorrow we will show the world that Norway’s democracy grows stronger...”
– Norweigan PM Stoltenberg
“People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and...”
– James Baldwin
June 2011
4 posts
Watchdrawnblog:
Drunken Franz (timelapse, ipad, brushes app) (by Andre)
I didn’t know Brushes on the iPad did time lapse. Pretty great. It’s the work of Andre Stubbe.
“Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an...”
– John Steinbeck
“If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough”
– Einstein
“And that man is not impious who discards the gods believed in by the many, but...”
– Epicurus
May 2011
2 posts
“ax·i·om/ˈaksēəm/Noun
1. A statement or proposition that is regarded as being...”
The first truth is...
“The first truth is… a democracy is not safe if people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism - ownership of government by… any controlling private power.” - Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1938
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,759590-1,00.html
April 2011
2 posts
How To Steal Like An Artist (and 9 other things... →
“Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting...”
– Samuel Ullman
March 2011
2 posts
WatchSuch a pseudo-Canadian return to home. Is anything real now that we can mimic the senses of generations past?
“The first truth is that the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people...”
– FDR
February 2011
11 posts
“Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care...”
– Marcus Aurelius
it's calm under the wave
We move forward so quick. I’ve wanted to find myself next to tomorrow for so long that I may have neglected spending time with now.
Every once in awhile I catch myself and finally slow down, to a tilt, to a stocky tilt.
I forgo music, forgo poet and lose the skirmish against the shining lights of city stalks and barren tech. I’ll fight with ego, expectation and neglect the serenity...
“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
– Aldous Huxley
“Do not avoid suffering or close your eyes before suffering. Do not lose...”
– Thich Nhat Hanh