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The Homicide Report

Jill Leovy of Los Angeles Times documents homicide in L.A. through her blog. The blog started out with 17 names and reached 845 within a year.

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Artbortion

Aliza Shvarts, a senior art major at Yale, wants to exhibit abortion as art:

Beginning next Tuesday, Shvarts will be displaying her senior art project, a documentation of a nine-month process during which she artificially inseminated herself “as often as possible” while periodically taking abortifacient drugs to induce miscarriages. Her exhibition will feature video recordings of these forced miscarriages as well as preserved collections of the blood from the process.

That is some fucked up shit.

Eatery

Rice Strike

With the rice price jacking up damn near double, we seek for a healthy alternative. Peep at what my lovely lady has packed for my lunch: Grilled chicken salad (assorted greens) with grapes, pineapple slices, strawberries and my favorite dressing raspberry walnut vinaigrette. She also threw in a yogurt, tangerine and banana for snacks. Damn, it’s only nine o’clock and I can’t wait for lunch already. Three more hours to go, but I might take an early lunch.

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Designing the News

DesigningTheNews.com “is a series of experiments which visually explore the news in various ways to encourage new ways of seeing a predominantly text based medium.” The site looks great too.

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Intricacy in a Lower Register

NPR profiles Gerry Mulligan:

Arguably the most influential baritone saxophonist in jazz, Gerry Mulligan was also a commanding composer, arranger and bandleader, and played a pivotal role in developing the “cool jazz” sound and the West Coast jazz community. Mulligan extended his unwieldy instrument’s vocabulary with his soft tone, rhythmic agility and harmonic brilliance, and established the “bari” sax as a solo instrument in small group settings

Check out the program here.