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theonion:

Joe Paterno Dies In Hospital; Doctors Promise To Tell Their Superiors First Thing Tomorrow

The Ice Cycle Shanty hosted MNKINO today. Here are some photos from out on the lake…

newshour:

Wikipedia, Craigslist and Google protest SOPA/PIPA.

(more about the debate here)

I have often wondered about this painting, and also wanted it in my living room.

southtwelfth:

“Perhaps it is a stretch to say Crossings is the city’s most beloved piece of art, but I can say this: I spend a lot of time talking about artwork, and I can honestly attest to the fact that there are very few pieces which inspire such a wide range of discussion and speculation as this one.”

Here’s a piece I wrote for mnartists.org about the backstory and legend of that orange, silver and black painting with the deers and the buildings at the 331. You know which one I mean. Everyone loves that painting. 

via Occupy Mainstream Media

“David Imus worked alone on his map seven days a week for two full years. Nearly 6,000 hours in total. It would be prohibitively expensive just to outsource that much work. But Imus—a 35-year veteran of cartography who’s designed every kind of map for every kind of client—did it all by himself. He used a computer (not a pencil and paper), but absolutely nothing was left to computer-assisted happenstance. Imus spent eons tweaking label positions. Slaving over font types, kerning, letter thicknesses. Scrutinizing levels of blackness. It’s the kind of personal cartographic touch you might only find these days on the hand-illustrated ski-trail maps available at posh mountain resorts.”

(via The best American wall map: David Imus’ “The Essential Geography of the United States of America” - Slate Magazine)