With Barack Obama’s nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to the supreme court there is going to be a lot of focus on the case of Ricci, et al. v. DeStefano. This is not only because the Ricci case is particularly controversial (even though it is) but because the Ricci case parallels the case against Sotomayor herself.
The Ricci case in [...]
Entries from May 2009
Sotomayor & the Ricci Case
May 27th, 2009 · No Comments
Tags: philosophy · polititcs
The Rope Ladder
May 25th, 2009 · No Comments
The carnival had a rope ladder, you would pay money and then try and climb this swivelly ladder and if you got to the bell you would win a big chintzy stuffed animal. I think it was a bear dressed like a pirate. I don’t really remember, I don’t trust myself with this detail.
I did [...]
Tags: Uncategorized
A Very Short Animation
May 25th, 2009 · No Comments
This is something that I’m working on. As you can see I’m not very far into it at all since I’m using a seriously labor intensive animation process. Who knows whether I’ll stay interested long enough to get anywhere with this.
Tags: art
Why I Like Twitter
May 25th, 2009 · 5 Comments
Twitter is sort of stupid. The character limit is really restrictive and bars all but the most banal information from being disseminated. The community is has an off-putting self-promotional streak where there’s this implied quid pro quo of follow me and I’ll follow you tit for tat. The trending topics are almost always stupid and [...]