There is no word yet on how the United Nations will handle the next milestone, when the globe’s population hits 8 billion — about 14 years from now.
World population hits 7 billion on Oct. 31, or thereabouts – latimes.com.
Month: October 2011
Pencil on paper by Phong Bui
“We are watching the beginnings of the defiant self-assertion of a new generation of Americans, a generation who are looking forward to finishing their education with no jobs, no future, but still saddled with enormous and unforgivable debt,” Graeber wrote in a Sept. 25 editorial published online by the Guardian. “Is it really surprising they would like to have a word with the financial magnates who stole their future?”
David Graeber, the Anti-Leader of Occupy Wall Street – Take It Personally
Pencil on paper by Phong Bui – Brooklyn Rail
As an antidote to negative messaging, Scott Buschkuhl of the New York design studio, Hinterland, created this self-promotional poster. Printed on translucent paper, the Charles Dickens quote on one side is offset by a carefully registered pattern on the reverse. When held up to light, the pattern shines through, obscuring the negative phrases and preserving just the uplifting ones.
“Composite of two images taken at the same location and within three minutes of each other… Ya, it is sort of “fake” looking – but I hate to throw anything away.”
“My first major project was a documentation of 19th Century New York State Insane Asylums. The exhibit “Silent Voices” travelled for several years. The project was funded by The New York State Council on the Arts.”- Jon Crispin Asylums.
Jon Crispin also has a new Kickstarter-funded project photographing the abandoned suitcases of the patients who lived here. Learn more here:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/265363123/willard-asylum-suitcase-documentation
A black coffee taken to one of the three chairs at Tim Wendelboe, a coffee shop and small-batch roaster in Oslo. - Oliver Strand
The fact is, you don’t need to try that hard to get a good coffee in Oslo. You could go to any of the more than 20 locations of Kaffebrenneriet and get a drink made with more skill and better ingredients than almost anything you’ll find in Paris, or Rome, or a number of places you think of as having a vibrant coffee culture. While many cities are resting on their creaking reputations, Oslo is forging a new standard.
