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Wednesday, April 21, 2010

A Wise Investment, VT's Community Justice Program

The Community Justice Project in Lamoille County Vermont is a program that integrates at-risk youth, specifically kids who "have a parent who is, or has been, incarcerated" into their communities through individual mentorship, classes in healthy living, and outdoor activities.
A year-long study by UVM's Vermont Research Partnership has shown the program to be successful, not only in keeping kids out of the criminal justice system, but also in saving the state money.
"According to Dr. Bud Meyers, Director of UVM's Jefford's Center, of 147 children who have participated in the Community Justice Project (CJP) over the past five years, less than half a percent ended up in the criminal justice system. On a state level, more than 2.3% of youth from a similar population are charged with crimes...Meyers states that by keeping these 147 youth out of prison, the state may avoid $442,000 in correctional costs."
Watch the story here.

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Tuesday, April 20, 2010

The 15 Strangest Buildings of the World via Ben Giordano

If you haven't seen The UFO House in Sanjhih Taiwan (pictured below) check out Opinion Road for The 15 Strangest Buildings of the World.

Image by David Hsu

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Monday, April 19, 2010

Plain China: Best Undergrad Writing 2009

Bennington College Launches First-of-Its-Kind Online Anthology

BENNINGTON, VT - Bennington College has launched an anthology of premier poetry, fiction, and nonfiction selected from more than 40 American undergraduate literary journals, among them publications from Boston College, Brown, UCLA, the University of Chicago, Harvard, Princeton, Oberlin, Rice, Stanford, and Tulane. It is the first online compilation of undergraduate work at such a scale and on a national level.

The anthology, called plain china: Best Undergraduate Writing 2009, has been compiled by student editors at Bennington College and judged by prominent writers and editors. C. Michael Curtis, fiction editor of The Atlantic, said of the Bennington Fiction Prize-winning story: "The writing is spare, direct, and economical...a gem." Award-winning poet April Bernard called the competition "by far the most difficult--and most inspiring--contest I have ever judged, simply because the quality of the work was so high and so various." And renowned memoirist Susan Cheever, judging for nonfiction, commented, "I was thrilled by the writersâ?(TM) use of experimental forms, their command of the language and the vivid way in which they told their stories."

Bennington student editors selected 79 pieces of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction from 56 undergraduate literary publications. Students also chose artwork from journals to accompany each literary piece. The anthology will launch online in three installments, the first on March 29, 2010, the second on April 26, and the third on May 24. One aim of plain china is to create a much needed public forum for the often overlooked voices of undergraduate writers. "Collectively, these pieces showcase the creative writing talent and potential that exists in colleges throughout the country," said Rebecca Godwin, plain china's faculty editor. "We're thrilled to make their work available to a wider academic and public audience. And with its rich literary tradition, Bennington seems a natural place for such an idea to come together."

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Ad of the Week: World Cup, the New South Africa

"The same men who would go on to govern the new South Africa..."

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Saturday, April 17, 2010

Richard Nash: Paradigm Shift, Books as Mindshare

Richard Nash discusses his radical thinking on books and publishing in the 21st century -- or Publishing 3.0 -- reframing our understanding of the relationship between writer and reader in his presentation at the BNC Technology Forum on March 25, 2010 Calculated Risk: Adventures in Book Publishing, in which he riffs on controlling demand vs. supply, the genius of Oprah and the value of "mindshare."

Nash: Books are cultural objects that take fifteen hours to read. Fifteen hours of another person's voice inside your head, so that the commonality between people who have read the same book is a profound and deep intervention.

Nash's most recent project (as yet unveiled) is Cursor, "a social approach to publishing that focuses on the establishment of powerful, self-reinforcing online membership communities made up of professional authors, reader members, and emerging writers."

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Thursday, April 15, 2010

Photoshop's New Vanishing Act: "Content-Aware Fill"

This new feature for Adobe Photoshop not only helps you clean up your photos, but has reached a new level of intelligence with its "content-aware fill." Check out this cool demo.

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Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Ad of the Week: Puma Goes Post-Carbon via Angus Media

Puma is saving 8500 tons of paper 1 million liters of water and more...

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Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Dean Potter's Gargantuan... via Jamie Attwood

This is Dean Potter. I believe Rimmer7 put its best with his comment "Even if he fell his landing would be cushioned by his gigantic testicles.

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Monday, April 12, 2010

Why Translation Matters via Niloufar Talebi

Yesterday, while driving home from an amazing training at Double Edge Theatre, I saw what I thought to be a very old book in the middle of the road, its pages fluttering in the wind. Then I thought: No, it has to be a bird, already dead or still dying. The pages weren't pages, but feathers. Suddenly the image took on a whole new meaning. After the training, I recalled the vivid murals lead actor Matthew Glassman showed the group on a tour of the Farm as he gave a brief overview of their performance of Quixote.

I couldn't stop thinking about it until today, when I came across (via translator and poet Niloufar Talebi) a recent article by the poet Richard Howard (who can forget the image of his lilac buds like bullets) on Edith Grossman's new book Why Translation Matters. Though I haven't read her translation of Quixote and have Llosa's The Bad Girl on deck for my "to read" list, her argument, as put forth by Howard, is important. As is the art of translation and its influence on the world of literature.

Image by Dendroica cerulea

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Saturday, April 10, 2010

What's wrong with this picture? via Ron Tite

Chris Barton makes a good case against cheap stock images in a recent post on his blog Fair Trade Photographer "Why would a reputable company do this to themselves?"

These are hilarious examples of branding-gone-wrong by companies trying to save a buck on their corporate image. It's not just a matter of "losing face" but business as well.

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