It’s great to see MacArthur Foundation, Open Badges, Cathy Davidson, and DML featured on The Chronicle’s map of the MOOC ecosystem this week. Open Badges don’t aim to disrupt traditional college credit necessarily, but they are an interoperable method to demonstrate skills and interests in powerful visual ways.
The history of typography, in a stop-motion animation made of 291 cut-paper letters and 2,454 photographs. Pair with a peek inside the sketchbooks of the world’s best type designers and 10 essential books on typography.
Today, there are 7 billion people on the planet. But what if the world were 100 people? How would they be distributed according to gender, age, geography or religion? How many do you think would be literate? If you guessed 83 out of 100 people, you would be right.
Check out this infographic by Knowledge Visualization System to learn more.
Are you surprised by any of the stats? Tell us in the comments.
I sort of want to write a dissertation chapter around this song.
Prodigy - Wind It Up (by peteomighty)
Joséphine Baker: The 1st Black Superstar (by JosephineBakerTube)
Adding this to my need to watch list.
All women are beautiful. The world does not always let you know this though. I love sharing old pictures of black women in new places and new ways so we can see that black women have always been beautiful just like all women are. It is even more important too see that black women were always beautiful because when we see pictures of how things used to be, they are usually called “bad” or “not good”. No person or time was ever only bad or good. Things and people and life have always been more than how we imagine them or what we learn in school. Because we can see pictures now that we could not see in the past, and because we see, and take, and, make, and share more pictures now than ever before, we can see old pictures in new ways because the way we play with pictures has changed.
Photograph of Zora Neale Hurston (center) and friends, taken outside her home in Fort Pierce, FL ca 1959
Happy Zora Day!
We should all accept that this is the result of a search that went terribly wrong… and as a result I felt a need to share it because it cannot be unfound.
SAOSIN - Show Me Yo Booty Hole Lyrics (by lexislulu)
!!!!!! I know one of the boys :D
SUBWAY DOUCHERY : Stay Fierce, My Friends
You sick of getting bullied at your school? Sick of feeling different for the music, movies, and clothes you like? Sick of feeling alone in a crowd because you think there’s something wrong with you? Well, young person, time to leave whatever shitball town you live in and move to…. NEW YORK CITY! This is a picture from one of our subways. And although it’s super festive and fun, at any point after sundown, no one would really be all that surprised to walk onto a train and see this.
Look what we got! Sexy black girl who’s as fierce and flexible as Beyonce during a blizzard? YURRP! Two phenomenally fashionable guys kissing, one of which is as fierce and flexible as Beyonce during a Nor’easter? MmmMhmmm! A dude in horn rimmed glasses and a group of other people as fierce and flexible as Beyonce in… wait, is this simile even making sense? WHO CARES! Move to the big city, stay away from drugs (trust me!), and become whatever it is you wanna become. And after a couple of months, your ass is gonna look great in jeans because you walk a lot.
*** Picture straight up lifted from Subway Douchery’s personal dashboard from MaybeHorrorShow.tumblr.com and the picture originated from Qpoc.tumblr.com! Enjoy & Keep on Douchin’ ***
**** Follow the guy that does this because he loves you @TheTomSibley and watch Domestic Partners ****
I’ve been in a so/so space mentally due to 1 big thing and a series of smaller annoyances, mishaps, and ?failures?. It is taking a toll on my body, so this weekend, I am writing it out so I am attempting to stay accountable, I am giving my digestive track a rest. I’ll be almost detoxing. I’ll tuck into an all natural protein shake or two or maybe a yogurt, but otherwise, I’m juicing & teaing & tisaning it up.
