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Barnabe Peak summit (Taken with Instagram at Samuel P. Taylor State Park)
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"I think probably our universities and colleges have not been vigorous enough in producing the kind of people who go into industry and say, “How do we do things better?” Secondly, we have two economies, really: We have a resource-based economy, which is flourishing with commodity prices being where they are, but I don’t think we have been adding as much value as we should add with that wonderful resource base. We’ve been too content to hew the rock and draw the water and ship it out, with some exceptions, but not enough exceptions. On the other hand, we have a manufacturing-service economy with some 5/95 companies – 5 per cent of your business Canada, 95 per cent business with the rest of the world – and we need more of those, but it’s very competitive. What do we do about it? I think we simply have to be hungrier within the private sector, saying you constantly have to reinvent yourself."
Governor-General of Canada, David Johnston on innovation in Canada.
I have mixed feelings about him but this is spot-on.
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Watch Real Estate perform “Green Aisles” on some abandoned train tracks as part of La Blogothèque’s series of impromptu videos from this year’s Pitchfork Music Festival Paris.
(Source: pitchfork)
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In the face of the obscene, explicit malice of the jungle, which lacks only dinosaurs as punctuation, I feel like a half-finished, poorly expressed sentence in a cheap novel. While hauling away a mud-smeared, uncooperative steel cable, one of the Indians farted from the effort with such force and duration that it sounded amid the roaring vulgarity of nature like the first indication of a human will to impose order. In my imagination my wishes carry me away to a place where people fly over church towers, church towers over farmland, ships over mountains, and continents over oceans.
Indonesia has ordered the categorical clear-cutting of entire islands.
"Werner Herzon in Conquest of the Useless - Reflections from the making of Fitzcarraldo.
Just finished this. Hearing what was going through Herzog’s genius and borderline-insane mind during this absurd endeavor is something to behold. I haven’t laughed as hard or been as inspired reading a novel in a long time.
Theme: Linear by Peter Vidani
