December 2007
30 posts
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Salar de Uyuni & the Mines of Potosi.
very Excited to be Adventuring this weekend: from the salt desert to co-operative mines
November 2007
51 posts
Outsourcing Your Personal Life: Indian Call... →
Brain Box: How television broke the minds of... →
Surfer dude stuns physicists with theory of... →
el foro Humanista de Latinoamerico
a fantastic Trufi this morning (just the driver’s exeptionally clear spanish and myself) which combined with mutual curiosity led to real great conversation. extremely valuable as a lingual confidence as I geared up for a long day of discussion and debate.
as I geared up to discuss / debate peace, alt economics, humanismo and art’s role in it all (being on the populist arts panel)
ended with a much needed group meditation (exhausted) and a round of embrace/hug everyone else in the room, nothing better than peace&love.
now to further chill out with live bossa jazz.
meeting evo
Almost just shook hands with the Great Evo Morales. Instead I got to know the less friendly side of one of his body guards. talk about a Cult of Personality
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Top 60 Japanese buzzwords of 2007 →
Its easy to forget out incredible Japanese politics, and hence popular satire, is.
on Pink Tentacle
dawdlr →
the first dawdlr submissions are up! — via headlessness
“The ascendancy of chain store culture and global manufacturing has left people...”
– BuyHandmade.org
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of Montreal's Kevin Barnes on Selling Out →
Interesting essay by the oM man on selling out, its (im)possibility or necessity and how Johny Cash / the punk rock ‘manifesto’ set impossibly idyllic standards for commercial artists. on stereogum.
headed for COROICO.
think Caipirinhas, in a hammock, under the tropical sun.
( ¿well-deserved? let’s please not get into that )
Postmodern Tourism : An Interview with Pico Iyer →
Iyer is regarded as one of the most eloquent and incisive observers of the emerging global culture. His writing moves from travel reportage to social criticism to philosophical rumination, always with a keen eye for odd juxtapositions.
miercoles
Expecting La Paz to stall tomorrow because of the general strike for public transportation workers.
Hoping to get in on the protest action tomorrow without risking serious injury.
Wondering what impact the lack of taxis, trufis and the like tomorrow in La Paz will have upon emissions, smog and the night-time sky.
… as the entire city prepares to be forcibly shut down tomorrow.
copacabana
was playing with llamas and donkeys on isla del sol (“what a view …”) After the trucha, and the pleasant drive back to La Paz, now hard at work as a photog.
“I am impressed because they are so much more optimistic and idealistic than they...”
“a jolt of activism and outrage (it must be in there). That´s what...”
– from an opinion piece by Friedman in the New York Times
The User Generated Search for Great Coffee In... →
one status update expressing a want for great coffee in a strange city results in countless responses and snowballs into A Big Thing, not too mention, also, a great albeit brief listing of coffee places all over canada.
thoughts on social objects by gapingvoid →
interesting words on what makes an object social, I.e it’s not about the wine but rather the conversations that happen under its influence. Also on the nature of what is a geek
jeeves: getting ready for a Bolivian wedding
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visa status
so we’re probably not fleeing the country to peru as a refugees of mistaken visa status … bummerbilbol