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 strength. I’ve seen the best and the worst of you. And I understand with perfect clarity exactly what you are. You’re a hell of a woman.
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Everyone wants stuff. We wake up everyday with a list of wishes a mile long and maybe we spend our lives trying to make those wishes come true, but just because we want them doesn’t mean we need them to be happy.
Ned (Pushing Daisies, Bitches) (via pointsofellipsis) (via gilstoker)
True Words
http://kharmanyc.com/index.php/pages/our-story
We do good.
We don’t put peace signs on everything we sell.We’re designers, bloggers, creators, foodies, shitty skaters, urbanites, and maybe above all, consumers. We love uniqueness. We buy beautiful things.
Expensive things. Things that we sometimes probably shouldn’t. But My God, there is just so much beautiful shit out there.And we don’t think there’s a damn thing wrong with that. But we thought, maybe beautiful things should do good things too.
So we sought to make consumption beautiful. With each product we make, and each piece of ours that’s purchased,
you are benefiting a cause that’s real and human. It’s as simple as that.We work with organizations that inspire us. And in the same way that we love uniqueness, we love people who are changing the world
in a unique way. So we make pieces that will support them and help spread their message.Kharma is our method of creating beautiful products that have a tangible effect on the world around us.
If you believe in what we do, follow us, friends us, #fb post about us, tweet about us, tell your friends know about us.
Scream it from the top of your digital lungs. We’ll be unconditionally grateful.Kharma thanks you.
Kele Dobrinski
creative director // founder
————————Awesome Awesome Awesomeness. Kele Dobrinski has started a clothing brand aimed at “colliding the worlds of consumption and good deeds.” They choose designers to specifically create a t-shirt design, pair it with a worthy cause, and boom = artwork for change. Artwork for awareness. Whether it’s to bring awareness to environmental issues or rare unknown medical disorders, these t-shirts are created for a cause, and most of the proceeds go towards their respective organizations to help support them. These artists have created these designs because in some way a cause has impacted their life and moved them to take action. This is inspiring. Art works to move you.
Here is a quote from Kharma discussing their new project:
“We are uncontrollably excited to be launching our first project, aimed to bring attention to a amazing lesser known causes/organizations. Coined “This is What Matters to Me”, we asked 9 internationally recognized designers to take a step back from their commercially focused work and create a piece of artwork for an organization and cause that has had an impact on their lives.”
Art is a reflection of human nature, he said. It is beautiful, and awful. It is simple, and it is incomprehensible. Art is the process of taking things apart to see how they work, and it is the process of breaking things to remind us how fragile they are. He sat on the edge of my couch, drinking a glass of water, and he said that we were creating an atmosphere that would retain the radiation reflecting off the surface of the earth. We were melting the edges of the ice caps, cooling down the northern seas. We were slowing the Gulf Stream, dramatically changing the way the environment behaved. He grabbed my shoulder and said, Isn’t art supposed to move you? Isn’t it supposed to shake you by the hair and say “Aren’t you afraid?”
He said art isn’t just for your benefit, or mine. Art can be a lesson that we leave behind, a horrible warning instead of a shining example. Art, he said, isn’t your little paintings and comic books. Art is the meteor that wiped out the dinosaurs.
Joey Comeau
Fundraising
Asking people for money is never a particularly pleasant task. This week I’ve been fundaising for Relay for Life, and have felt the pressure of being asked to raise at least 100 dollars. In lots of ways goals are good, but I think this ‘required goal’ so to speak must deter some people from signing up. I’m up to $89, but the first $69 were raised in about 15 minutes from just asking people I ran into in my home town (none of them, of course, had been asked to donate to relay for life, since the event isn’at actually held there). Back to the ‘big city’ things are tougher. I know very few adults here, so I’ve mostly been asking teachers, but a lot of them have already donated a lot. I dislike how uncomfortable the whole process makes people, especially when they’ve already donated. I think it’s a tricky situation for people to be put in, because, well, they feel like they’ve done enough, or donated enough, or that they shouldn’t have to donate their hard earned cash, but most people have trouble saying no to a good cause on some level or another, and there’s social pressure to contribute. So it brings up unpleasant feelings of self-worth, and issues about what exactly ‘being good’ and ‘doing your part’ mean. And maybe, a little bit of that frustration comes back at the person asking. However, I’m incredibly greatful to everyone who has donated, or who has even cheerfully declined. I really try not to ask too much of my friends, family and neighbours, and I think it’s really okay to say no. It’s just so much nicer when that ‘no’ doesn’t seem to hold any kind of resentment, because really we’re only trying to do good. Then again, maybe I’m a little over sensitive, plus I haven’t eaten lunch yet.
Sock Dreams
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Writers tend to work early in the morning, or late at night, when brains are naturally able to focus deeply on one thought. In the middle of the day, distractions are unavoidable. I wonder if anything worthwhile has ever been written in the afternoon.
Top Ten Psychology Studies of 2009
There was a plan-of-attack on the usefulness of video games today in philosophy. This would have made a lovely example:
4. Playing video games could be an unlikely cure for psychological trauma. Researchers at Oxford University hypothesized that playing Tetris after witnessing violence would sap some of the cognitive resources the brain would normally rely on to form memories. Memory research suggests that there’s about a 6-hour window immediately after witnessing trauma during which memory formation can be disrupted.
Some of these other studies have some ideas I’m already familiar with and seem like common sense, but it’s still a nice selection of psychological studies. Quite interesting.
this is pretty awesome…
here’s an example…
I have fallen head-over-heels in love with Mandy the market-trader from Milton Keynes. She smells of hot dogs and counterfeit perfume.
On our first date, I decided to woo Mandy with some Greek mythology I’d recently read: ‘In the beginning,’ I explained, ‘all human beings were hermaphrodites with four hands and four legs and two faces turned in opposite directions on the same head. These hermaphrodites were so powerful and their pride so self-absorbed that Zeus [the supreme god] was forced to cut them in two – into a male and female half. And from that day, each man and each woman has yearned to rejoin the half from which he or she has been severed’.
Mandy told me to stop being drippy.
‘But I think you’re my severed half,’ I cried.
Mandy did not reply. And we spent the rest of the evening in a disastrous silence.
and another example…
and one more…
(there are so many more good ones, but go look for yourselves…)
