Now And Again (1989)
Friday November 21st 2008, 7:21 am
Archivado como: porpoisemusic


Pygmy Hippopotamus (choeropsis liberiensis)
Thursday November 20th 2008, 8:40 am
Archivado como: porpoisezoo

“Much smaller than the common hippopotamus, with proportionally longer legs, a smaller head, less prominent eyes and ears more towards the side of the head. The pygmy hippo’s nose and ears can be closed under water, an adaptation to aquatic life. The skin is hairless and sensitive to the sun, but is kept supple and moisturised by a fluid that oozes from glands all over the skin. This gives the Pygmy Hippo a glossy sheen all over. Adults stand about 0.75m high and weigh up to 275 kg. Most of the day is spent resting in ponds swamps and rivers, soaking in water in order to keep their skin healthy, but at night they emerge and wander along channels in swamps and into forests, feeding on lush waterside vegetation.” link@bristolzoo.org



Les Quatre Cents Coups (1959)
Wednesday November 19th 2008, 8:31 am
Archivado como: porpoisefilms


Radiohead Doing New Order
Tuesday November 18th 2008, 8:42 pm
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Powers Of Ten
Tuesday November 18th 2008, 8:28 am
Archivado como: porpoisescience


A Happy Pocket (1996)
Friday November 14th 2008, 7:35 am
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There it is, Mr. Bruno!
Thursday November 13th 2008, 8:57 pm
Archivado como: porpoisespace
Fomalhaut B


Hiroshima
Thursday November 13th 2008, 8:43 am
Archivado como: porpoisehistory

“One rainy night eight years ago, in Watertown, Massachusetts, a man was taking his dog for a walk. On the curb, in front of a neighbor’s house, he spotted a pile of trash: old mattresses, cardboard boxes, a few broken lamps. Amidst the garbage he caught sight of a battered suitcase. He bent down, turned the case on its side and popped the clasps. He was surprised to discover that the suitcase was full of black-and-white photographs. He was even more astonished by their subject matter: devastated buildings, twisted girders, broken bridges — snapshots from an annihilated city. He quickly closed the case and made his way back home. At the kitchen table, he looked through the photographs again and confirmed what he had suspected.” Link@designobserver.com



Adam Smith In Beijing
Wednesday November 12th 2008, 8:38 am
Archivado como: porpoisebooks

“In the late eighteenth century, the political economist Adam Smith predicted an eventual equalization of power between the conquering West and the conquered non-West. In this magisterial new work, Giovanni Arrighi shows how China’s extraordinary rise invites us to read The Wealth of Nations in a radically different way than is usually done. He examines how the recent US attempt to bring into existence the first truly global empire in world history was conceived in order to counter China’s spectacular economic success of the 1990s, and how the US’s disastrous failure in Iraq has made the People’s Republic of China the true winner of the US War on Terror. n the 21st century, China may well become again the kind of noncapitalist market economy that Smith described, under totally different domestic and world-historical conditions.” link@versobooks.com



Blanket Octopus (tremoctopus violaceus)
Tuesday November 11th 2008, 7:54 am
Archivado como: porpoisezoo