Heiyang is a Beijing-based artist and good friend. His current series of oil paintings depict the inhabitants of a silent world of ‘bird-people’. Heiyangart.com.
Asides
The Fall frontman on everything from drugs to fatherhood. Mark E Smith’s Guide to life.
If you care about hunger, eat less meat. The Pleasures of the Flesh.
The government’s plans for clean coal are another great green scam. Burnt Out.
Mashing statistics and art is Seattle-based Chris Jordan, who has produced these amazing and profoundly depressing visualisations of the resources we use and the waste we produce. Running the Numbers: An American Self-Portrait.
The world is finite. We won’t change this with vegan shoes and hybrid cars, no matter how green. We need to make second-hand shoes and public transportation our fashion statement. Otherwise, we’re just Greening The Titanic.
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Free Will (Chuck Palahniuk, 'Lullaby')
2007-09-25
Experts in ancient Greek culture say that people back then didn’t see their thoughts as belonging to them. When ancient Greeks had a thought, it occurred to them as a god or goddess giving an order. Apollo was telling them to be brave. Athene was telling them to fall in love.
Now people hear a commercial for sour cream potato chips and rush out to buy, but now they call this free will.
At least the ancient Greeks were being honest.
[Chuck Palahniuk, ‘Lullaby’]