LONG LOST LIME

ITS THE RIGHT MOVE AND LONG OVERDUE.  LIMITED EDITION WILL SOON BE STANDARD. 

PRAISE BE. 

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The Well Tempered City - Jonathan F.P. Rose

Well tempered communities must include the three basic tenants essential for the development of healthy cities: 

1. Protect their citizens

2. Balance humans and nature

3. Create a landscape of opportunity that is equal for all that live there. 

-Jonathan Rose  

The Founder, 2016

This movie blew my mind. It captures the transition from the utopian ideals of 20th century American Capitalism to the inevitable extreme of the ideology. The McDonald's brothers represent the entrepreneurial spirit to compete by applying genius to create a better product and experience for their customers. Ray Kroc represents the unquenchable thirst to maximize every aspect of an idea and push the profit motive to the absolute limit. The pure idea wasn't his. 

more.

the drive for more has consequences that cannot be reversed. 

When you want it ALL, you TAKE. You leave a wake of destruction. Something is lost. I think the ideology itself is a casualty. The spirit of capitalism dies. It is cannibalized by itself leaving a new monster behind that humanity thinks it recognizes but it doesn't. Madeline Albright has said recently, "If you pluck a chicken one feather at a time, it doesn't know its bare." that seems apt here. 

Gina Haspel

THIS ONE IS A TRIP. 

i can't think of a recent director with more blacked out lines on a resume.

ONE HAND: A VET OF THE AGENCY THAT WOULD BECOME THE FIRST FEMALE DIRECTOR OF CIA. 

OTHER HAND: DECLASSIFIED INFORMATION ABOUT HER IN A BLACK SITE IN THAILAND RIGHT AFTER 9/11 CARRYING OUT EXTRAORDINARY RENDITION AND THEN BURNING THE TAPES. 

BOTTOMLINE NO ONE WHO HAS BEEN AT CIA FOR 30 YEARS HASN'T SHOVELED THEIR SHARE OF SHIT ON MULTIPLE CONTINENTS IN THE CLANDESTINE SERVICE. 

AGENCY GAL THROUGH AND THROUGH AS DISPLAYED HERE WITH HER EXCHANGE WITH SENATOR HARRIS

This is America - Childish Gambino, 2018

THIS SHIT IS MONUMENTAL.

Leigh and I spent the first couple times, each, not being able to take our eyes off of him. 

Then we just watched what was happening behind him. 

He is in full flow through all his crafts in this one. 

Musically, the two tracks interweave between positive/negative dichotomy. Total Monsters.

Light and Dark. Good and Evil. Yin and Yang. Flow Personified. 

Lyrically it is sparce and beautiful. 

This is a masterpiece.  

Thank you. 

Thank you.

Thank you. 

Tony Spackman's Instagram

Learned about this from one of Kanye's dust ups. The one about a new hire on his apparel design team who presented the base layer concept as his/her own. 

Anyway, the creator of the image is on Givenchy's team and this dude is on some shit that wouldn't find its way to my mood board which is why I find it so compelling. 

Check this mechanized horror punk rock vibe

Earth, Earth's Moon, Venus and Jupiter aligned - 2015

Scott Kelly took this aboard the International Space Station in August, 2015. 

From I.S.S. Bottom to Top: Earth's Moon, Venus, Jupiter and the crescent of the Earth. 

Staring at this image for 30 seconds give so much perspective on your life. 

Scott Kelly, NASA. 

Scott Kelly, NASA. 

JANELLE MONAE - DIRTY COMPUTER, 2018

I WENT THROUGH THIS ALBUM TWICE LAST NIGHT.

IT IS ENLIGHTENED, DIVERSE, FUN, ANGRY, POLITICAL, FEMINIST, SAVAGE, BEAUTIFUL, SEXY AND FREE. 

ESPECIALLY REFRESHING AFTER WATCHING EVERYTHING KANYE IS GOING THROUGH TOWARD THE RELEASE OF NEW WORK. I'D LIKE TO WRITE ABOUT THAT TOO. 

GIRLS UP : UNITING GIRLS TO CHANGE THE WORLD : UN FOUNDATION

I JUST HEARD 'WHAT TEENS NEED FROM ADULTS TO CHANGE THE WORLD'  BY TO THE BEST OF OUR KNOWLEDGE AND WAS FLOORED WITH INSPIRATION. 

THE FUTURE IS SO BRIGHT FOR GEN Z. ESPECIALLY WITH ORGANIZATIONS LIKE GIRLS UP.

THEY DON'T SEEM BLOATED BY TECHNOLOGY LIKE THE PREVIOUS TWO INTERNET GENERATIONS ARE. (MINE INCLUDED) WHERE WE SEEM TO FEAST ON THE GLUT OF CONNECTIVITY, THEY SEEM TO ACCEPT ITS OMNIPRESENCE, HANDLE IT AND CHANGE WITH IT. THEY ARE NOT AFRAID OF CHANGE. I HOPE THEY ARE ALL AS PROGRESSIVE AND ACTIVIST MINDED AS ANGIE JIANG AND HER FRIENDS. 

Mark Riechers (TTBOOK)

Mark Riechers (TTBOOK)