waa…just give me the @#*&@ ice cream!

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…lonely is a freedom that breathes easy and weightless and lonely is healing if you make it. you can stand swathed by groups and mobs or hold hands with your partner, look both further and further in the endless quest for company but no one’s in your head, and by the time you translate your thoughts some essence of them may be lost or perhaps it is just kept. perhaps in the interest of loving oneself. perhaps all those sappy slogans from preschool over to high school’s groaning were tokens for holding the lonely at bay. ’cause if you’re happy in your head then solitude is blessed and alone is ok…

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From the Voice Project, a wonderful project trying to support the peace movement in Uganda. Artists spread the word by covering music by another artist. There’re some fantastic videos on their web site. Here’s another great cover by Priscilla Ahn.

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It’s like one of those car accidents you can’t pull your eyes from, and then at 2:18, everything changes…

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my new favorite blog

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It’s almost hypnotic, especially at the beginning.

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As part of a winter celebration in Sydney, Australia, husband and wife musicians Laurie Anderson and Lou Reed have lit up the Sydney Opera House with a montage of artwork and images. Gorgeous stuff.

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This makes the special effects from the Matrix look like they were done 10 years ago. Oh, wait…

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I’m speechless…you must watch this in fullscreen.
Timescapes Timelapse: Learning to Fly from Timescapes

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thru-you.com has the rest of the mash-ups. I also especially liked #3 I’m New

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i think i shared a “view from the revolving sushi conveyor” video before, but this has the added bonus of having a shrift soundtrack. god i miss japan!

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Anyone who’s spent any time in Shibuya, Japan, will instant recognize one of the busiest intersections in the world…but with…grass??? The Green Island project, in a series of faux photographs that replace Tokyo asphalt with something a bit…greener, aims to remind us that we do not live apart from nature, even in a dense city like Tokyo.

via trends in japan

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