All Hail Queen B.
(Source: beyonce)
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I'D DO IT ALL AGAIN
Fold Me Up. Take Me Out. I'm Portable.
~ Tuesday, May 29 ~
~ Saturday, May 26 ~
North End dinner w @philliezwanted @dannysweatshorts Kat and Gabi! (Taken with Instagram at Lucia Ristorante)
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~ Thursday, March 29 ~
We just launched our Facebook timeline! We unlocked pivotal pieces from our archives to mark the milestones in our eighty-seven-year history. Take a look and tell us what we’ve missed, or what you’d like to see, and we may unlock your article, story, or poem and add it to our timeline.
FJP: And there goes any work I thought I might get done this afternoon. — Michael
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~ Wednesday, March 28 ~
Kollaboration Boston 2: HEARTBEAT (DJ Jessejess Remix)
Filmed, produced, and edited by Junhee Chung
Yo, this is sick! s/o to Junhee!
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Noted: Tracking Your Used Clothing | The Etsy Blog
An article in GOOD reports that only a shocking 15 to 20 percent of clothing donations are resold in U.S. thrift shops. The rest is either sold to become industrial wiping rags, recycled into insulation, or shipped to other countries. While the most desirable vintage items are sold to Japan, Africa receives the bulk of our secondhand clothing, making it one of the continent’s top imports. This exchange is documented in films like T-Shirt Travels, which shows how imported American used clothing is responsible for killing off the Zamibian clothing manufacturing industry.
Perhaps the most surprising statistic in the article is that Americans only keep 21 percent of the clothing we buy each year. The facts are astonishing: not only does America export the majority of its donated clothing, we simply can’t reabsorb the amount of clothing we give away. We have an overwhelming excess of garments. No longer a hand-me-down culture, cheap clothing prices have made it affordable to buy into new trends and toss out last season’s look.
I bolded the bit I personally found most surprising. I’ve read quite a bit about the ecosystem of donated goods, particularly apparel. But I can’t recall seeing a stat about how much or how little clothing we buy we actually hang onto. The number is so stark I’m not completely sure I accept it — do people really get rid of almost 80 percent of the apparel they buy every year?
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~ Tuesday, March 27 ~
Nelson Mandela Digital Archives Now Online
Via Memeburn:
Google and the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory (NMCM) have created a new Nelson Mandela Digital Archive on the web that is freely accessible to the world.
Google donated about US$1.25-million to the Johannesburg-based Centre in 2011 to help preserve and digitise thousands of archival documents, photographs and videos about Mandela.
Along with historians, educationalists, researchers and activists, users from around the world now have access to extensive information about the life and legacy of this extraordinary African statesman.
The new online multimedia archive includes Mandela’s correspondence with family, comrades and friends, diaries written during his 27 years of imprisonment, and notes he made while leading the negotiations that ended apartheid in South Africa.
The archive will also include the earliest-known photograph of Mandela, rare images of his cell on Robben Island in the 1970s, and never-seen drafts of Mandela’s manuscripts for the sequel to his autobiography “Long Walk to Freedom.”
Nelson Mandela Digital Archive.
Image: Warrants of Commital (document #1 front), 11/7/1962.
This item consists of 1 Warrant of Committal issued to Nelson Mandela by the Magistrate’s Court of South Africa. The warrant contains Nelson Mandela’s fingerprints. Via the Nelson Mandela Digital Archive.
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Peter Goodspeed: Dying as a political act: Centuries-old Buddhist tradition of self-immolation continues in China
“This was not the random act of a disturbed individual, but rather a single manifestation of a deeply rooted set of ideas and ideals in Chinese Buddhism that blossomed again and again in the history of pre-modern China.”
Photo: Tibetan exile Janphel Yeshi, 27, runs as he is engulfed in flames after he set himself on fire to protest an upcoming visit to India by Chinese President Hu Jintao, March 26, 2012, in New Delhi. Yeshi suffered life-threatening burns. (AFP/Getty Images)
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~ Monday, March 26 ~
Last week marked the first day of Spring, but it felt uncharacteristically like summer here in Boston — even with a couple of 80 degree days.
Life as a second semester senior is kind of surreal. Everything’s going well. I’ve become immersed in the job search hoping I’ll find the right fit soon and in the meantime, I’m trying not to stress too much or take the word student for granted. Beyond what I’m learning in my classes, just being alive and in this mode of life is something I’ll never have again. Meeting new people even with less than two months left (WHAT!) is such an enriching experience and I know the right thing to do is just soak it in.
So here it is: my week in Instagrams.
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“When I say, “I love you,” it’s not because I want you or because I can’t have you. It has nothing to do with me. I love what you are, what you do, how you try. I’ve seen your kindness and your...”
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“For you, I was a chapter. For me, you were the book.”
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