My smoothies are almost always green. Yes, GREEN. And today I made an especially tasty concoction that was delicious and creamy. For more information on why green smoothies are good for you and good to eat, check out this great entry and this landmark essay by Victoria Boutenko. All I know is [...]
Sculptures made from familiar objects, the work of Tara Donovan is painstakingly and carefully constructed:
Tara Donovan’s sculptures are born of everyday materials such as scotch tape, drinking straws, paper plates, and Styrofoam cups. Donovan takes these materials and “grows” them through accumulation. The results are large-scale abstract floor and wall works suggestive of landscapes, [...]
About 2,000 pounds of grain must be supplied to livestock in order to produce enough meat and other livestock products to support a person for a year, whereas 400 pounds of grain eaten directly will support a person for a year.
M.E. Ensminger, Ph.D. Internationally recognized animal agriculture specialist, former Department of Animal Science Chairman at [...]
Great piece:
Loving my Poet as I do, though, I try hard to understand what a poet is. The first clue lies in the fact that my Poet—every poet—is an insomniac. My own reads or wanders about our apartment for the best part of most nights. She told me she often feels she would give up [...]
My thesis proposal deals with issues of the new, participatory web and how it can be used to improve art gallery involvement with their audience. Honestly, I want all art to be free to circulate online. I know that many galleries have vaults full of fascinating artworks that are seldom shown in the [...]
These are the best ‘amateur’ animal videos I have seen on the web. They demonstrate some complexities in the animal kingdom that many people overlook - animals have bonds/relationships with each other, animals communicate, and animals have feelings. These may sound obvious, but I have encountered several people that perceive animals as being [...]
I have been enjoying Eatock’s Alarm Dance series quite a bit today. It is a set of films and a form of public art performance that makes me laugh out loud every time, in a good way. Car alarms are a sound we often hear on the city streets, contributing to the overall [...]
I am always looking for ways to improve my writing. Part of the problem is my tendency to underestimate my own abilities, second-guess myself, and generally over-analyze. In the process I make myself pretty spooked about writing major papers that have major consequences for my life. I have come to realize that fear which might [...]
Okay, so I admit to having an interest in home decor, design, and architecture. This leads to me to read a variety of design sites, and one in particular, Curbly, features all user contributed content on renovations, crafting tips, lifestyle improvement ideas, and more. While I find there are a lot of things [...]
Here is my Ontario Graduate Scholarship application in full. Not sure how happy I am with it, (just as any writer, nothing is every really perfect for me) but it’s meant to be a brief one page introduction to the area of study I’m interested in:
The virtual world of the Internet has been described by [...]
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