Mulholland Drive (2001)
Director - David Lynch, Cinematography - Peter Deming
“I’m scared like I can’t tell you. Of all people, you’re standing right over there… by that counter. You’re in both dreams and you’re scared too. I get even more frightened when I see how afraid you are and then I realize what it is. There’s a man… in back of this place. He’s the one who’s doing it. I can see him through the wall. I can see his face. I hope that I never see that face, ever, outside of a dream.“
With a New Fund, Evergreen Cooperatives Looks to Spread the ‘Cleveland Model’
Since their inception ten years ago, the Evergreen Cooperatives in Cleveland, Ohio have served as a promising model of economic development in a post-industrial city. The three worker cooperatives—an industrial laundry company, a green energy services contractor, and a hydroponic greenhouse (pictured above)—collectively employ over 200 individuals, many of whom have become worker-owners. In a city where median household income hovers around $18,500, these companies pay their workers a living wage and share with them the profits they produce.
Now, the Evergreen Cooperatives network is taking matters into its own hands with a new fund that will acquire existing companies from retiring business owners and sell them back to the employees. The Fund for Employee Ownership, as the Evergreen fund is called, is the latest and perhaps most potent initiative aimed at expanding employee ownership and the principles of democratic governance.
Colossi Of Memnon
Two giant statues of pharaoh Amenhotep III, built in the 14th century BC, at the Theban necropolis, Egypt, circa 1920.
Without beauty, love, or danger it would be almost easy to live.
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| — | Albert Camus, Selected Essays and Notebooks (via philosophybits) |
The Strange Creatures you can see in the Sky.
When the old Greeks looked at the Heavens, they imagined that the Stars traced the outlines of all sorts of curious figures. So they grouped the Stars into Constellations and named them after the animals and Gods they represented. Modern astronomers continue to use those names for Star groups. Here we see a portion of the Sky as it looks on a clear Winter’s night, with the outlines of the Constellations filled in. You must imagine you are facing south and looking directly up over your head.
