Channing Kennedy

shootemupride: soul train dance line to curtis mayfield’s get...

Tue, 21 May 2013 16:52:40 -0700

soul train dance line to curtis mayfield’s get down

not really a music video but a kind reminder that you can just sit back and watch soul train lines on youtube as much as you want

tusksfamily: “For centuries, artists had stored their paints in...

Sun, 19 May 2013 16:32:11 -0700

tusksfamily:

“For centuries, artists had stored their paints in pigs’ bladders. It was a painstaking process: they, or their apprentices, would carefully cut the thin skin into squares. Then they would spoon a nugget of wet paint onto each square, and tie up the little parcels at the top with string. When they wanted to paint, they would pierce the skin with a tack, squeeze the color onto their palette and then mend the puncture. It was messy, especially when the bladders burst, but it was also wasteful, as the paint would dry out quickly. Then in 1841 a fashionable American portrait painter called John Goffe Rand devised the first collapsible tube — which he made of tin and sealed with pliers. After he had improved it the following year and patented it, artists in both Europe and America really began to appreciate the wonder of the portable paintbox.”

from Color: A Natural History of the Palette by Victoria Finlay

Painting is
Claude Monet Painting by the Edge of a Wood
by John Singer Sargent
1885

all my ‘97 David Bowie tweets that i wrote last night on...

Sat, 18 May 2013 08:44:00 -0700

all my ‘97 David Bowie tweets that i wrote last night on my phone in bed immediately before falling asleep. man i dunno. shoutout/apologies to alittleheadache (click for context)

theawl: barthel: shitty: markrichardson: Sheila E doing...

Fri, 17 May 2013 22:31:47 -0700

theawl:

barthel:

shitty:

markrichardson:

Sheila E doing “Glamorous Life” at the American Music Awards in 1985. This performance is bonkers. For the first third she sings lead while standing and also playing the lead percussion part. Then she takes the mic and dances around. And then the lights on stage go dark and she solos on drums in the dark with glow-in-the-dark sticks.

Two things occur to me watching this, and recently revisiting Sheila E’s first two albums. One, Prince in the 1980s was the kind of pop genius that comes along every 20-30 years, maybe. The amount of brilliant, boundary-pushing, but still accessible music he was responsible for, as both a solo performer or, as with this song, as a writer/producer, is simply astonishing. It’s honestly like talking about Albert Einstein in 1905, that’s how in the zone he was. It was a decade of a true and lasting genius by an artist at the height of his powers who was given all kinds of resources. A rare thing.

The second thing is what a talent Sheila E was (and probably still is, though I haven’t heard anything she’s done in some time). She had a few big hits, two good records, and came from a remarkable family of musicians (she had several first-call percussionists of note in her family). In the late 1980s she was Prince’s live drummer and also was also the leader of his backing band (you can see her considerable skills behind a proper kit in the Sign O the Times film). Imagine what it takes to be Prince’s musical director in those years, for him to hand over the keys.

Put down whatever you are doing and make sure you watch this video.

Also before the drum solo somebody comes out and puts a white fur coat on her.

NOBODY DOES IT BETTER.

SPAM TWITTER ACCOUNTS ARE TELLING JOKES NOW! I’M SO HAPPY

Tue, 14 May 2013 19:59:34 -0700

SPAM TWITTER ACCOUNTS ARE TELLING JOKES NOW! I’M SO HAPPY

if you’re not watching this tapircam, what are you even...

Mon, 13 May 2013 17:20:12 -0700

if you’re not watching this tapircam, what are you even doing with your life

Hey, it’s my face real big on NPR’s...

Mon, 13 May 2013 13:39:46 -0700

Hey, it’s my face real big on NPR’s Tumblr!

npr:

Last week, we wrote about the way members of minority groups are frequently linked in the popular imagination with prominent fellow members of their group. We asked Channing Kennedy, frequent contributor to Colorlines.com, for a commentary on this phenomenon from the perspective of someone without any immediately obvious minority affiliations. Here’s what he told us: Can A White Guy Represent For His People? : Code Switch

Photo: Hatty Lee / Colorlines

Platypus

Wed, 08 May 2013 07:21:12 -0700

badkidsjokes:

what did the doctor say to the platypus?

sir you are in quite a pickle

beautiful

Julio’s gonna be on (at?) Oakland Nights Live this week!

Sun, 05 May 2013 18:52:53 -0700

Julio’s gonna be on (at?) Oakland Nights Live this week!

phillygrrl: “Kya kare kya na kare yeh kaise mushkil...

Sat, 04 May 2013 10:41:50 -0700

phillygrrl:

“Kya kare kya na kare yeh kaise mushkil hai?”

jesus christ these dance moves

tusksfamily: “It has been recorded by a reliable authority that...

Fri, 03 May 2013 11:44:26 -0700

tusksfamily:

“It has been recorded by a reliable authority that near the graves of Roger Williams, the founder of Rhode Island, and his wife, there stood a venerable apple tree which had sent two of its roots into the graves of Mr. and Mrs. Williams. The larger root had pushed its way through the earth till it reached the precise spot occupied by the skull of Roger Williams. There, making a turn, as if going round the skull, it followed the direction of the backbone to the hips. Here it divided into two branches, sending one of them along each leg to the heel, where both turned towards the toes. One of these roots formed a slight crook at the knee, which made the whole bear close resemblance to a human form. There were the graves emptied of every particle of human dust. Not a trace of anything was left. There stood the guilty apple tree… caught in the very act of robbing the grave. The fact proved conclusively that bones, even of human beings, are an excellent fertilizer for fruit trees; and the fact must be admitted that the organic matter of Roger Williams… had bloomed in the apple blossoms, and had become pleasant to the eye; and more, it had gone into the fruit from year to year, so that the question might be asked, Who ate Roger Williams?“

–Sereno Edwards Todd, The Apple Culturist (1871) via

Roger Williams Root photo via

shitroughdrafts: Nineteen Eighty-Four, by George Orwell. 1949.

Fri, 03 May 2013 11:42:59 -0700

shitroughdrafts:

Nineteen Eighty-Four, by George Orwell. 1949.

Mom and Baby Tapir Webcam

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 14:40:01 -0700

Mom and Baby Tapir Webcam:

tusksfamily:

They’re probably asleep now, but if you keep it open in a back tab and refresh every 5 minutes or so they’ll be in a cute new cuddling position. Or maybe you’ll get lucky and they’ll be awake! They’re in Austria, so their sleeping is at least partially due to a time difference, not just laziness.

the greatest

via thanks Emily

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 13:05:11 -0700

via

thanks Emily

oneterabyteofkilobyteage: original url...

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 02:48:41 -0700

oneterabyteofkilobyteage:

original url http://www.geocities.com/Paris/7172/

last modified 1997-08-11 18:13:58

animated version

cyberbeans: The CyberCurrency Showdown! Internet fact checkers...

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 19:52:09 -0700

cyberbeans:

The CyberCurrency Showdown!

Internet fact checkers put together this easy one-pager to inform investors considering to invest in e-currency.

It’s my intern Nia’s last full week! She got me the...

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 14:56:50 -0700

It’s my intern Nia’s last full week! She got me the world’s best mug as a reverse going-away present.

tusksfamily: Mr. Tusks made a self portrait today. Pretty good...

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 22:11:17 -0700

tusksfamily:

Mr. Tusks made a self portrait today. Pretty good for someone with no hands. I’m going to steal it and use it as an illustration for a zine I’m working on. He tried to make a portrait of Yonathan, but she is very hard to capture.

OH MY BABY

RIP Maria Tallchief. I embedded some videos at Colorlines....

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 12:11:00 -0700

RIP Maria Tallchief. I embedded some videos at Colorlines. Thanks to Emily for introducing me to her. Did you know she was one of five Native American prima ballerinas born in Oklahoma in the late ’20s? #suppressednarratives

Also I kinda love this:

porpentine: HIGH END CUSTOMIZABLE SAUNA EXPERIENCE im so...

Sat, 13 Apr 2013 11:46:40 -0700

porpentine:

HIGH END CUSTOMIZABLE SAUNA EXPERIENCE

im so sorry

And here’s Porpentine’s game that she made specifically for/about last night’s Oakland Nights… Live!, and made the audience play through with her. It was really really beautiful seeing 200 strangers yelling PLANT ARMOR! NO! CRYSTAL ARMOR! at the screen. I honestly almost teared up. And the applause when she talked at the end about wanting to destroy ‘Games’ with a capital G… it really felt like another world is possible, not to be too sappy about things. Definitely one of my absolute top ONL experiences, and I’m so proud to have been a part of it.