Swiss Watching: Inside the Land of Milk and Money
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A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR One country, four languages, 26 cantons, and 7.5 million people...
Oaxaca Stories in Cloth: A Book About People, Belonging, Identity and Adornment
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Eric Mindling has been travelling the back roads of Oaxaca, Mexico, for over two decades. Oaxaca...
Flying Lotus recommended Tetsuo: The Ironman (1989) in Movies (curated)
Motivational Interviewing: A Workbook for Social Workers
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Motivational interviewing is a person-centered, collaborative method for exploring ambivalence and...
Trillion Dollar Coach: The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley's Bill Campbell
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Bill Campbell played an instrumental role in the growth of several prominent companies, such as...
Ordinary People
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'Diana Evans is a lyrical and glorious writer; a precise poet of the human heart' Naomi Alderman ...
Contemporary Fiction Fiction London
The App itself can be quite hit and miss - updates seem to be rolled out before they're properly ready, so you have issues where timelines don't update, comments don't load, etc. Whenever there's an update, while it may resolve one problem, it typically brings a whole host of others.
There are also the problems with Facebook itself, not least the prevalence of cyber-bullying that goes unchecked, the fact that Facebook seems to apply its rules in an incredibly haphazard way - allowing violent images to remain while removing those which, while perhaps "provocative" in the sense of being thought-provoking, are not indecent, obscene, violent or really in any way outrageous, and the rather concerning issues around the security/privacy of user data and increasing number of adverts on the site/app.
While not having yet run its course, Facebook is going to have to come up with newer and newer ideas to remain relevant, and have to improve its security and "policing" structures to keep users happy.
Gareth von Kallenbach (977 KP) rated ParaNorman (2012) in Movies
Aug 7, 2019
Despite the unusual gift that Norman possesses, he still tries to live a life as a normal kid, or so he thinks.
Even though, he tries to live a normal life, his schoolmates don’t think it’s normal for people to see dead people. Norman always get picked on by the school bully, Alvin (voice by Christopher Mintz-Plasse), who tries to give Norman a hard time as much as possible.
Fate soon steps in and requires Norman to use his gift to stop a curse but the pesky Alvin tends to ruin his plans. In time, Norman, Alvin and locals Neil, Courtney and Mitch, must stop the curse and find out why strange things keep happening to their little town.
While I was not sold on the 3D aspects of the film, one thing for sure is the beauty and the creativity in this movie. The graphics, the special effects, the voices of each character complimented the story well. It would have been easy to get caught up in the stop motion magic, but Norman has a story to tell as well. The team that created the sparkling “Coraline” has really taken the game to the next level.
While the movie is PG rated, it is an ideal family film for those with teens and tweens.
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race
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"I couldn't have a conversation with white folks about the details of a problem if they didn't want...
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Paige (428 KP) rated The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain in Books
Jul 28, 2017
If you cling to it afterwards, it will stunt you, though. It doesn't teach much in the way of perspective, color, composition, art historical precedents, or mastery of techniques and materials (but really, there are whole books and disagreeing theory families on each of those topics...)
To start drawing, I have yet to find something better. Just give it to someone else when you are done.