April 2011
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In NYC it takes cops about 30 mins to *silently shut down a party. I was looking forward to taking new photos this past Friday, but was unsuccessful. I was just about to get in when the party got shut down, literally the guy in the front of the line before the cops show up.
From what I gathered, they spent all that time trying to find out if the party was safe, from fires and shit like that. Took...
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15 Awful Mistakes Made by Designers in the Music &... →
Designers in the music and apparel industry are some of the most talented designers around. I’m willing to bet there isn’t a sector of graphic design that allows more creativity and more artistic freedom. Despite the amazing talent and style, the “scene” suffers from a few fatal flaws that need to be remedied. If you’re a designer and your client base consists mostly of bands and clothing...
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Music is magic. In the first couple seconds it hits you, you can understand why, but you seem to be into this. Sometimes it takes longer than others. I’d like to believe its like an “oh shit!” moment in the brain. You don’t care where its from, how it was made, but very lastly who made it. Unravel the magic, and the song is bland to you. Good songs keep the magic, so you...
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I can’t stand the sound of electric saws, there’s a terrible association I have with them. Also this might be the reason I don’t like driving; I know how this is going to sounds, but I prefer to be driven. I’ll tell you why. I can’t remember how old I was when this happened, but it started at a slaughter house. My father was a high rank air force officer, so he had a...
//Centers
Intellectual or thinking center. This center is the faculty which makes a being capable of logic and reasoning. This one is located in the head.
Moving or physical center. This brain is located in the spinal column. This brain makes beings capable of physical actions, and can be further divided into three distinct centers:
Motor: Controls motor functions. The acts of walking, the physical...
//Causality
Aristotle distinguished between four causes, or four explanations, that each answer the question “why?” in different ways. These various means of explanation can be divided into four general types as follows:
The material cause is the physical matter, the mass of “raw material” of which something is “made” (of which it consists).
The formal cause tells us...
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Think of existence as a whole, in which you have a small share; think of...
//Beauty
Beauty is a characteristic of a person, animal, place, object, or idea that provides a perceptual experience of pleasure, meaning, or satisfaction. Beauty is studied as part of aesthetics, sociology, social psychology, and culture. An “ideal beauty” is an entity which is admired, or possesses features widely attributed to beauty in a particular culture, for perfection. The experience...
//Truth
Truth has a variety of meanings, such as the state of being in accord with a particular fact or reality, or being in accord with the body of real things, real events or actualities. It can also mean having fidelity to an original or to a standard or ideal. In a common archaic usage it also meant constancy or sincerity in action or character. The direct opposite of truth is “falsehood”,...