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First post July 2011Taylor-Ruth makes comics about her life, the world, and the people around her. “I’ve always had a hard time with people, with school, feelings of rejection, loneliness, not fitting in… you know, the struggles all teenagers go through,” she explains. One day, she posted a comic from her personal diary, and the Tumblr community noticed. “I expected everyone to ignore the comic because it was about my life or whatever, but to my surprise it rapidly got notes. Posting the comics about my life was empowering,” she said. (Among other things, Taylor-Ruth loves thunderstorms, horror movies, spooky things, pizza, and hanging out at cemeteries.)
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Why Tuesday?
A nonprofit dedicated to increasing America’s horrible voter turnout by asking a simple question: Why do we vote on Tuesday? The answer: Absolutely no good reason whatsoever.At Home on The Range
A blog by McSweeney’s in celebration of Elizabeth Gilbert’s new-old cookbook, which benefits ScholarMatch. Submit your family recipes and help build an online folk recipe archive for the ages.Adam F
Los Angeles based artist Adam Ferriss presents a sundry of photographic phantasmagoria.
Whoa! ScholarMatch - which is my jam - was name-dropped on Tumblr Tuesday. I’m more excited about this than I was about our name-drop on Good Morning America.
A split look at Boulder beauty, via kjellellefson.
Years ago, I walked this to get to class.
First time in a loooong time I’ve felt any affinity for it.
(via thefrontrange)
Marketing by DC United. Interesting given the tagline that the biggest graphic is of a Red Bulls player…albeit Thierry Henry, who sells tickets.
Ballsy.
HAPPY OPENING DAY!!!!!!!!!!!
Go Cox!
Introducing The Best Made Company Colorado Outpost
In addition to our thriving Minnesota Outpost headed by Nick Zdon, today we’re thrilled to announce the long overdue founding of our first outpost in the rockies. Matt Beaudin has been an invaluable contributor to the Best Made world, and now as an official Best Made Outpost we can only expect more: more beautiful stories, more riveting images, and more thoughtful lessons and accounts of life in a truly wonderful part of the world.
Growing up in Steamboat Springs and Manitou Springs Matt was afforded all the luxuries a kid from there expects: camping for months on end with family, pulling over on the tops of dirt passes to take naps, floating the Grand, beers in the sun with friends at the Telluride Bluegrass Festival, movie premiers under the night sky at the film festival, trips to nearby Moab to scrub down with slickrock sandpaper, massive backcountry hiking tours and steaks at Telluride’s New Sheridan Chop House. (Look that one up, please).
Matt was the Telluride Daily Planet’s youngest editor at the age of 24, and stayed in that job for five years. He left the newspaper industry to evaluate his career and contemplate what he wanted to accomplish next. Since then he’s worked for an adaptive sports program where he’s had the good fortune to meet some wonderfully inspiring people.
One of Matt’s most satisfying projects was the renovation of the historic Telluride shed where he now lives. “Who knew 500 square feet needed a king’s infantry?” With the help of his lovely girlfriend and all four parents, the shed has become a home.
Coffee, books and his dog, Anabelle are all held in special reverence. And bikes (“any kind, all the time, riding anywhere wherever I can”) have become a substantial part of Matt’s life over the years.
Most recently Matt has accepted a job with Velo magazine and velonews.com where he’ll be writing about pro cycling and spending the month of July in France covering the beautiful race that is the Tour de France. He has lived in Telluride for nearly seven years, making his way through its peaks and slithering through its valleys.
“It’s been a wonderful ride for me. It’s become my home. But this… it’s a chance to get back to making something. To churning out copy and drinking too much coffee. Cycling, I think, is the world’s most beautiful sport and I’m looking forward to standing in the throbbing masses of spectators in the Alps, consumed with the madness. It’s a chance to be there. I hope you’ll follow along with my thoughts on this state I call home and my movement through it.”
You need this.
Blackhawks fan base surges: The Chicago Blackhawks’ fan base had the largest percentage growth among all teams in the four major sports leagues over the past five years, according to a recent report.
Credit: henryhill125 / Flickr
Do-do-do, do-do-do, do-do-do-de-do, do-do-do, do-do-do, do-de-do-de-do-do!
First look at our new book, which was just added to Amazon! (It’ll be out in September.)
When kickball just doesn’t have enough blood.
Fun Fact of the Day: In chess, the knight can visit each square exactly once.
Poetry.
(via ilovecharts)
Year 2 of Living Philanthropic comes to a close, thank you for all the support and generosity. We made another impact this year, our running reported total has hit a grand total of $54,314!! Amazing! Let’s keep it going for Year 3!
For Year 3, I am working on a few goals:
- Create the Living Philanthropic Foundation - with a mission to help raise awareness for non-profits through a series of programs
- A top secret project - more details soon
- Monthly Featured Charities - Moving projects to GiveBack so 100% of all funds raised go directly to the organizations. 100%!
- Pledge $1 a day to Charity. Will you join me?
April 2012 Living Philanthropic Featured Charity
826CHI is a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting students ages 6 to 18 with their creative and expository writing skills, and to helping teachers inspire their students to write. Their services are structured around the understanding that great leaps in learning can happen with one-on-one attention, and that strong writing skills are fundamental to future success.With this in mind, they provide drop-in tutoring, after-school workshops, field trips, in-school tutoring, help for English language learners, and assistance with student publications.All of their programs are challenging and enjoyable, and ultimately strengthen each student’s power to express ideas effectively, creatively, confidently, and in his or her individual voice. For more information, please visit: www.826chi.org
Take the Living Philanthropic Challenge Options:
Pledge $1 a day for the month of April ($30)
Give once. Give Everyday.
Make your contribution to the Team Page: https://www.giveback.org/pages/cause/cause.aspx?cid=30702
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Join the team and donate on this page & submit your blog post about why you made a contribution here: http://bit.ly/lp-blogger
Living Philanthropic was founded in April 2010 as one man’s mission to give to charity everyday for a year. This mission is built on a belief that you don’t have to be rich in dollars to make a difference; you only need to be rich in spirit. After completing his 365 day mission, the spirit of giving everyday carries on through his friends and in his mission to continue his micro-philanthropy for a third year.
Awesome person. Awesome work.
