itsthemusicpeople:

As Brooklyn changes more and more, WC contributor Caroline Bach, took some time out to chat with 5 Pointz founder, Jonathan Cohen, more commonly known by his tag, Meres One, about the news that the graffiti mecca at Jackson and Crane in Long Island City, is being transformed into a luxury living/shopping megaplex, inevitably sending smaller mom and pops shops into early retirement, all while pricing out any remaining artists that helped make the community desirable to live in, in the first place.
Is this the New York of 2012?
Click here to read the story.

As Brooklyn changes more and more, WC contributor Caroline Bach, took some time out to chat with 5 Pointz founder, Jonathan Cohen, more commonly known by his tag, Meres One, about the news that the graffiti mecca at Jackson and Crane in Long Island City, is being transformed into a luxury living/shopping megaplex, inevitably sending smaller mom and pops shops into early retirement, all while pricing out any remaining artists that helped make the community desirable to live in, in the first place.

Is this the New York of 2012?

Click here to read the story.

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laughingsquid:

Cool Wedding on Portlandia

Seriously, I love Portlandia

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Study Finds Long-term Benefit in Illegal "Magic" Mushroom Use

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In 2002, at a Johns Hopkins University laboratory, a business consultant named Dede Osborn took a psychedelic drug as part of a research project. She felt like she was taking off. She saw colors. Then it felt like her heart was ripping open. But she called the experience joyful as well as painful, and says that it has helped her to this day. “I feel more centered in who I am and what I’m doing,” said Osborn, now 66, of Providence, R.I. “I don’t seem to have those self-doubts like I used to have. I feel much more grounded (and feel that) we are all connected.”

Scientists reported Tuesday that when they surveyed volunteers 14 months after they took the drug, most said they were still feeling and behaving better because of the experience. Two-thirds of them also said the drug had produced one of the five most spiritually significant experiences they’d ever had. The drug, psilocybin, is found in so-called “magic mushrooms.” It’s illegal, but it has been used in religious ceremonies for centuries. The study involved 36 men and women during an eight-hour lab visit. It’s one of the few such studies of a hallucinogen in the past 40 years, since research was largely shut down after widespread recreational abuse of such drugs in the 1960s.

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With further research, psilocybin (pronounced SILL-oh-SY-bin) may prove useful in helping to treat alcoholism and drug dependence, and in aiding seriously ill patients as they deal with psychological distress, said study lead author Roland Griffiths of Johns Hopkins. Griffiths also said that despite the spiritual characteristics reported for the drug experiences, the study says nothing about whether God exists. “Is this God in a pill? Absolutely not,” he said. The experiment was funded in part by the National Institute on Drug Abuse. The results were published online Tuesday by the Journal of Psychopharmacology.

People always ask me what I get out of doing “real” drugs, and I always say something like this. The experiences that I’ve had were spiritual and mind-opening and I truly believe they’ve centered me more as a person and help me figure out myself.

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enochliew:

Home of Hinnerk Ehlers and Katja Winterhalder by Drewes+Strenge Arkitekten

Renovation of an unattractive and badly planned house, where the original house was painted black and the existing extension was cladded with timber.

I’m trying to redesign the exterior of my childhood home for my parents and it’s not really working… ugh

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BUT WHAT ABOUT THE PEOPLE WHO LIKE EVERYTHING?

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fattiesinlove:

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nicholasalexanderpaige:

bindingmyheart:

I could watch this forever.

WOW. God is so good. He is so beautiful, His love is eternal, His face is all i long to see…and in His tranquility He shines face down towards me….i would die if i saw His real face so He reflects it in the streams, and the way the wind tumbles through the pines. The swaying of the lumber, the blades of grace….the earth is a real place. We dwell in and throughout it. =D A life abundant, never a life mundane =)

God created Skyrim.

Aaaaaand Amen.

This is Skyrim? Cuz that is GREAT.

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paigifer:

downeying:

Nicolas Cage Covers LMFAO’s ‘Sexy And I Know It

the sad part is that this is real

the *best part is that this is real

Why do things like this happen.

hhahahhhaahhahhahahhahahahaahahaa

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