February 2011
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Woman Of Steele's Oscar Picks!
If I could pick with my heart, Winter’s Bone would win awards it’s not even nominated for, but I have money riding on this, so I tried to think like the Academy. Which led to a lot of over-thinking, which lead to me to picking The Social Network for Best Feature, even though The King’s Speech is favored (And I liked both films, don’t get me wrong).
Exit Through The...
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Why You Must Stand With Planned Parenthood and...
-1 in 5 Women use Planned Parenthood
-It is estimated that if funding to Planned Parenthood is cut, it will lead to 400,000 More Abortions each year because women will lose access to affordable contraception.
-Planned Parenthood saves lives by providing low cost breast exams and cervical exams. WOMEN WILL DIE IF FUNDING IS CUT.
-Title X also seeks to cut funding for Women Infant Children (WIC)...
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WatchA music video for Nat’s Song sung by the lovely and talented Rashida Jones, from the film Monogamy, set to open in select theaters March 11th. In the interest of full disclosure, I worked as a Set PA on this film (it’s the reason I moved to New York), and you can spot me in one of the scenes (hint: yellow glasses).
But because I worked on it, I can also tell you that we had a very...
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Obama seeks consensus on Libya violence →
I’m glad to see the international community addressing the violence in Libya.
Overheard in Brooklyn Late One Evening
Lauren: What are you eating? Me: (muffled) Lauren: What is that? Me: Watermelon? Lauren: Oh. Me. Do you want some? Lauren: No. Me: What did you think I was eating? Lauren: Some sort of special cheese, and I was jealous.
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Laurel Nakadate on 365 Days: A Catalogue of Tears
Mirlesse: How do you feel about crying now? Have you cried since? Is it a total catharsis that you can call on? Nakadate: Oh my god, totally, I’ve cried all the time! It’s interesting though because now I think of crying in a different way—I used to think of crying as this… massive event. Since I’ve completed the performance of crying every day of the year 2010 it is less of a massive event and...
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Q+A: Iain Baxter&, Impossibly Canadian
“Forty-two years ago in Art in America, critics Thomas M. Messer and David L. Shirey struggled to define an artistic phenomenon marked by characteristics resistant to categorization: aesthetic inconsistency, indiscriminate choice of subject matter, a disdain for typical structures of commerce and publicity. Messer and Shirey titled their article, and the movement now known as...
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WatchCindy Gallop introduces her new website Make Love Not Porn at Ted2009. One of the best, funniest, and spot on videos I’ve seen in a while. This woman’s got some ovaries of steel, I tell you.
My thanks for being introduced to this video.
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WatchA promo video for Sepalcure’s new EP, Fleur, which recently came out on Itunes. Sepalcure is a collaboration between Brooklyn based DJ’s Praveen Sharma, from Percussion Lab, and Travis Stewart (Machinedrum). They initially nicknamed their music lovestep. It is emotional, layered, and complex, but will still get your feet moving. You could call it minimal dubstep or post-dubstep, or...
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Planned Parenthood PREVENTS more abortions than...
SHOW CONGRESS YOU SUPPORT PLANNED PARENTHOOD AND SIGN AN OPEN LETTER TO CONGRESS.
THE WAR ON WOMEN’S REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS MUST BE STOPPED!
Abortions make up 3% of the services provided during a year at Planned Parenthood. AND FEDERAL MONEY IS NOT USED TO FUND ABORTION PROCEDURES.
Planned Parenthood provides affordable pelvic and breast exams, preventive procedures which can save lives and...
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3-D ‘Great Gatsby’ to Film in Australia →
Oh no. No. No. No. Please, no? Filming in Australia?
Also, If they take the “single green light, minute and faraway, that might have been the end of a dock,” and make it some horrible, 3-D, CGI abomination, and screw-up an amazing opportunity to use excellent camera work and cinematography to illustrate Fitzgerald’s description of everything that is beautiful and unattainable,...
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“Like countless women around the world, Lara Logan was attacked in the line of...”
– Mary Elizabeth Williams in Salon about the media coverage of Lara Logan’s attack in Cairo. LA Weekly felt the need to talk about her rumored past boyfriends and repeatedly call her a Warzone “It Girl” when covering the story. Even their apology managed to still be offensive.
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Valentine's Day, PS 1, and Friends, Oh My!
Yesterday I went to PS 1 with one of my favorite people. We focused on “The Talent Show,” a look at modern art, participation, and voyeurism and the Laurel Nakadate exhibit, a groundbreaking work. The artist is brilliant, but she is difficult and complex. I struggle to write about her. I admire her, and at times feel she’s being manipulative. But I think she is a genius.
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An Interactive Map of Tahrir Square. Check out... →
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“The movies still exploit female bodies, though today American actresses working...”
– Manohla Dargis writes about sex and nudity in American Cinema in “The Closing of The American Erotic,” for The New York Times. And, yes, I am quoting her again, a mere 10 minutes (maybe less) after I just quoted her, but she’s soooo smart. And I want to have coffee with her, but...
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“Are the coming Oscars an anomaly, or an unsettling sign of the times? The...”
– Manohla Dargis and A. O. Scott collaborate to write the article “Hollywood’s Whiteout” in the The New York Times. Highly recommend a full-read of this well-thought out article.
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“There is a fine line between realism and cynicism, and Egypt’s would-be...”
– The BBC provides an excellent analysis (also, the sky is blue) on what the future may hold for Egypt in the Op-Ed “Too Early to Celebrate in Egypt?” by Shashank Joshi.
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Vote for CW!!!!
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CAMPERS!!!! Our amazing run at La Mama E.T.C. has concluded but there is so much you can do to help us push CAMP WANATACHI all the way to the top!!! CAMP WANATACHI is eligible to win a *New York Innovative Theatre Award* this year! Just click HERE. You’ll need to register, but it’s free and quick. Let your friends know too! Let’s see CAMP WANATACHI go all the way to...
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“Since her death in 1979, the woman who discovered what the universe is made of...”
– Jeremy Knowles, discussing the complete lack of recognition Cecilia Payne gets, even today, for her revolutionary discovery. (via alliterate)
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On Feminism, Activism, and Yoga
Part of being an activist is confronting people who don’t believe what you believe, and you hope that you might change their mind. It’s probably the most difficult part, because preaching to the choir sure is easy. I always say that feminism is very innate to me, and it is, and as a brilliant friend (a straight male) once said to me, “I think feminism is not so much a...
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“I know older men in comedy who can barely feed and clean themselves, and they...”
– Tina Fey (via hardlyart)
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Someone once told me that it always gets better. He said you couldn’t pick when it would get better, but he said that it would. He was right. And after speaking to someone today, I wanted to add my voice to the fray.
Hope if you need it, this makes it to you.
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WatchI saw Chromeo at Terminal 5 last night. So much fun despite the coat check room no longer accepting coats by the time we got there (No, I did not know that could happen and no, I don’t know why Terminal 5 is on a mission to make me hate them more than I already do, as I did not think that was possible)!
This video, shot in Greenpoint and from the creative minds at Surface to Air (swoon),...
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Fleet Foxes- “Helplessness Blues.”
If...
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Woman of Steele Wear Daily: Chilly Day in...
It was a chilly day in Charleston, folks! Actually, it warmed up a little after noon. But it was pretty chilly this morning. What’s that, everyone in New York isn’t watching the excellent Ang Lee film, The Ice Storm, but there’s a really awful Ice Storm pummeling most of the country? Huh, My apologies, it was lovely day in Charleston, SC! No, I’m not wintering in...
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