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the sun in the sky above sian ka’an bioreserve mexico at around 1pm. (Taken with instagram)
communicator ~ connector ~ collaborator
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fixed wheel im tulum, the yucatan, mexico. #bikes #bicycle #fixie (Taken with instagram)
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Bad news is sensational. It’s the stuff of prime time exposés and gotcha news hours. People are attracted to bad news for the same reason they slow down past car accidents and watch horror movies: It’s impossible to turn away.
Thankfully, the same can be said for good news. Instead of sensationalizing blight, one new film will sensationalize hope. “Lemonade: Detroit” is about the disarming resilience of a city that is searching for an identity beyond a single industry, as told through the intensely personal stories of people who are actively reinventing the Motor City.
There have been far too many films about what’s wrong in Detroit. Far too many journalistic opinions claiming to offer hope that in reality glorify ruin. “Lemonade: Detroit” will make hope, optimism, and positivity as intriguing to watch as a train wreck.
Every character in “Lemonade: Detroit” is beating heavy odds placed on them by a world that expects failure. Documenting the struggle isn’t the point. Overcoming it is. These are the stories that must be told.
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Give Me Something To Read’s 2011 Highlights
Here are Give Me Something To Read’s highlights of the year. This list is comprised of my favourites and reader favourites, selected from articles posted here in 2011 (limited to those originally published in 2011). Open this post in your browser to make use of the Read Later button accompanying each link.
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“You don’t see the Milky Way down in the cities anymore, it’s gone.” The First 70 – wonderful film about people banding together to prevent the closing of 70 California state parks
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When we made a date for a meal over the phone, he’d say, “It will be a feast of reason and a flow of soul.” I never doubted that this rococo phraseology was an original coinage, until I chanced on it, one day, in the pages of P. G. Wodehouse, the writer Christopher perhaps esteemed above all others. Wodehouse was the Master. When we met for another lunch, one that lasted only five hours, he was all a-grin with pride as he handed me a newly minted paperback reissue of Wodehouse with “Introduction by Christopher Hitchens.” “Doesn’t get much better than that,” he said, and who could not agree?
“Postscript: Christopher Hitchens, 1949-2011.” — Christopher Buckley, The New Yorker
See also: “Trial of the Will.” Christopher Hitchens, Vanity Fair
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Revolution Revived: Egyptian Diary, Part One →
What follows are some of the best longreads I’ve read this year online this. First up: ‘Revolution Revivde: Egyptian Diary, Part One’ courtesy of the fantastic Granta magazine. This is a brilliantly observed piece on the continued revolution in Egypt leading up to the first round of elections earlier this month. Read Part Two also!
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