please.
Louis CK is my favorite
tears of love
Takashi Murakami “Randoseru” 1991
“Randoseru Project comprises eight backpacks (Randoseru) that mimic the leather backpacks that many Japanese children wear, whose design is originally based on a military pack. Thus, in addition to evoking the omnipresent Prada bags that many Japanese consumers covet, these backpacks have a more bellicose connotation. Murakami exaggerated this quality by making the backpacks not a leather but a materials such a great blue shark, cobra, crocodile, two tyês of harpseal, hippopotamus, ostrich, and sei whale skins. He was of course aware that certain materials were controversial, if not illegal, for use in luxury goods. With “Randoseru Project”, Murakami intended to comment the exploitative use of endangered species to produce luxury goods, but not to do so cynically. He also exploring art’s status as a luxury good, an issue he would mine further in collaboration with Marc Jacobs for Louis Vuitton.”
There are now more Americans in jail than were in Stalin’s Gulag Archipelago
May 9, 2013There are now more Americans in jail — 6 million — than there were in Stalin’s Gulag, reports Fareed Zakaria, in a column called “Incarceration Nation.”
And it’s not just a relative population thing.
The U.S. has 760 prisoners per 100,000 citizens. How does that compare to other countries?
It’s 7-10X as high:
- Japan has 63 per 100,000,
- Germany has 90 per 100,000
- France has 96 per 100,000
- South Korea has 97 per 100,000
- Britain has 153 per 100,000
And it’s a rapidly exaggerating trend: In 1980, the U.S. only had 150 prisoners per 100,000 citizens. More than half of America’s 6 million prisoners are in jail for drug convictions, with 80% of those in jail for “possession.”
