Four Hundred Kisses Not Enough

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In the late ’90s, serious graffiti writers noticed the influx of higher-quality paints made by European companies. “Honestly, if you win the graffiti prize and you get to take home a palette of different colors of either American or European spray paint,” Neelon said, “you’re taking the European.” The European paints now come in colors with names like quince and Mad C Psycho Pink and attributes like weather resistance and UV-protection.


Companies like Montana, based in Spain; Molotow, based in Germany; and Ironlak, based in Australia, were pleased to associate with street artists. They offered professional-grade enhancements too, like different kinds of valves that emit different types of mists. (Some artists now complain that American alternatives are like buying a tube of paint with only one brush.) “The control you can get with the can, from the pressure, is phenomenal,” Gastman said.

 “The Origin of Spray Paint,” Hilary Greenbaum and Dana Rubinstein

(Source: The New York Times)

“ Reaction videos are designed to capture, above all, surprise — that moment when the world breaks, when it violates or exceeds its basic duties and forces someone to undergo some kind of dramatic shift. This is another source of the genre’s appeal: in a culture defined by knowingness and ironic distance, genuine surprise is increasingly rare — a spiritual luxury that brings us close to something ancient. Watching a reaction video is a way of vicariously recapturing primary experience.

“Watching People Watching People Watching,” Sam Anderson


(Source: The New York Times)

give us your fruit. & your face.

Fruit flies are like miniature zombies. I swear to God.

“ Across the country, the approach ranges from abstinence until marriage is the only acceptable choice, contraceptives don’t work and premarital sex is physically and emotionally harmful, to abstinence is usually best, but if you must have sex, here are some ways to protect yourself from pregnancy and disease. The latter has been called “disaster prevention” education by sex educators who wish they could teach more; a dramatic example of the former comes in a video called “No Second Chances,” which has been used in abstinence-only courses. In it, a student asks a school nurse, “What if I want to have sex before I get married?” To which the nurse replies, “Well, I guess you’ll just have to be prepared to die. “Teaching Good Sex,” Laurie Abraham

(Source: The New York Times)

“ When it comes to love, writes Ollivier, the French woman thinks in bewitching tones of gray. For example, when American girls pick the petals of flowers, they say “he loves me, he loves me not”. French girls say “he loves me a little, a lot, passionately, madly, not at all”. American women want to know “where they stand”; the French woman is comfortable with ambiguity. Part of the mystery of French women comes from their “enormous sense of personal boundaries”—a French woman won’t tell you about her life or her husband, or even where she bought her skirt on sale. That’s why many foreigners find French women cold or hard to figure out. “They favor the implicit over the explicit; the subtext over the context; discretion over indiscretion; and the hidden is often much more enticing than the obvious. In other words,” Ollivier sums it up, “they’re exactly the opposite of Americans. Cherchez la Femme, by Harriet Welty Rochefort

(Source: francetoday.com)
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npr: A group of babushkas, or elderly women, who live in Buranovo, Russia, have become a musical sensation. They sing Beatles tunes and songs by iconic Russian rocker Viktor Tsoi. They fly around the country for concerts. And it all started because they turned to music during tough times. Russian Women Prove It’s Hip To Be A Babushka : NPR

npr:

A group of babushkas, or elderly women, who live in Buranovo, Russia, have become a musical sensation. They sing Beatles tunes and songs by iconic Russian rocker Viktor Tsoi. They fly around the country for concerts. And it all started because they turned to music during tough times.

Russian Women Prove It’s Hip To Be A Babushka : NPR


“ If the ratio held, it would mean that nearly 6 million people in the US are face blind (…) [T]he Transportation Safety Administration should administer tests to make sure all airport passenger screeners can match faces with IDs. And the reliability of eyewitness identification should be reconsidered in the courtroom. “You’d want to know if the witness was drunk, right?” Duchaine says. “Well, we should also know if they’re face blind. Joshua Davis, ”Face Blind”

(Source: Wired)

“ Haven’t you worked it out yet? This is Iran. Everyone here is acting in a film. Everything is changing, particularly for women who are no longer fitting their traditional roles but society hasn’t caught up (…) There are seventy million people in this country, and they are all giving Oscar winning performances. Kamin Mohammadi, “Lust, Devotion, & the Binary Code”

(Source: vqronline.org)
“ Touch is the slowest of the senses, since the signal has to travel up the spinal cord from as far away as the big toe. That could mean that the over-all delay is a function of body size: elephants may live a little farther in the past than hummingbirds, with humans somewhere in between. The smaller you are, the more you live in the moment. (…) “I once mentioned this in an NPR interview and I got flooded by e-mails from short people,” Eagleman said. “They were so pleased. For about a day, I was the hero of the short people. Burkhard Bilger, “The Possibilian” 

(Source: newyorker.com)