Photo Series of the Day: Since 1999, photographer Jeff Harris has been snapping one photo of himself each and every day.
However, unlike the standard self-portrait-a-day projects we’ve grown accustomed to seeing, Harris started his with the explicit intention of not doing another me-on-the-couch compilation, but rather making the most out of every photo.
“I didn’t want 365 images of me sitting on the couch each day,” he told Time magazine’s LightBox. “There could have been that tendency, especially during the cold dark winter months to stay inside all the time, but this project inspired me to get out there and seek out interesting things.”
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I know a lot of people who are half-Jewish and half-Christian. Every holiday season they face a horrible decision: which holiday do I celebrate? Should I honor Christ’s birth? The resourcefulness of the Maccabees? Christmas or Hanukkah? WHO AM I?!
Worry no more, child of God. The Menorah Tree Stand will solve all of your problems!
It’s a giant Menorah into which you place eight 3-foot tall Christmas trees and one 5-foot tall Christmas tree in the Shamash spot.* Then you deck each tree out in lights, ornaments and place presents underneath each. On each night of Hanukkah, you turn the lights on in the respective tree and open the presents underneath. On Christmas morning you open the presents underneath the Shamash tree, regardless of how the holidays line up.
*The Menorah Tree Stand could be scaled down to a more manageable size if you don’t have 12 feet of empty space in your home.
As always, art by Derek Winegar
I’m fairly certain this cartoon was drawn about my best friend. Oh, Lauren.
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i’ve had my shirt off at work recently and people are all like, “WHAT’S THAT THING ON YOUR BACK?”
i just tell them that it’s the major river systems of the United States— and they’re all like, “WELL THAT DOESN’T LOOK LIKE THE UNITED STATES…”
and i just smile. because that’s the point. i hardly ever tell people why i got the tattoo because they are turned off by my explanation.
but when i explain, i say: “it’s a critique of nationalism, of borders, of conceptions of space. it’s a promotion of fluidity in cultures and in the self.” i state that my tattoo is inspired by the writings of Gloria Anzaldua on border cultures and border peoples (both actually and conceptually), but most folks are unfortunately unfamiliar with her writing.
but there’s also my geographer side to it. i think it’s cool that John Wesley Powell once stated that the places we live would be better off demarcated by the watershed we live in (even though i dislike the concept of demarcation). few took his thoughts seriously on the matter, so now we have many national and state borders found in rivers (like the Rio Grande or the Ohio). this really doesn’t make sense because rivers are the centers of their watersheds and greater ecosystems, not the harsh edge. to have a river on the fringe in this way highlights the disregard humans have concerning viewing themselves as part of the environment in which they live and the disregard colonialism often has for the surroundings in which it usurps.I will forever reblog and drool all over this.
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