briefly touched down in california (where this lovely separatist flag comes from...) on our way back from stunning oregon... where fig, apple, plum, cherry and pomegranates grow on public sidewalks... nom nom nom.
blogging to resume (and look out soon for the 200th post!)
the flood of new green tech never ends, so there are sure to be more followups... here's the original "giant eco post" ...
1. some more great news from daily kos user asinus asinum.
2. m.i.t. students create solar dish that can melt steel (pictured above).
3. tesla motors plans all electric car less than a third expensive.
4. new milk jug harbinger of total infrastructure overhaul.
5. the seven eco wonders of the world (including "lilypad" below)
the official site. the wiki. amazing time. highly reccomended. eco tech, art, music, magic, naked hippies, all ages, great food, local tradition... everything except bumpin beats (and that probably goes down in the late night participants only part...) the local weekly was all glowing about how the fair was founded in deep counter-culture, anarchy, love and psychedelica... and how that's all so relevant, now. this is the newspaper's opinion, remember. the people there seemed even more geeked... witness:
the best hat at the fair...
a large wooden dragon structure (falcor?)...
huge drum structure... sounded great...
the entrance (read the sign!)...
the general sentiment...
it was largely in shade trees packed tight...
great "permanent" structures...
overall alfons mucha-inspired graphic design...
witness some more photos (NSFW!) that give a fuller and even better idea here...
everyone knows fox news isn't... but these stories really amazed me. the first involves the blatant photoshopping of portraits of new york times employees. via a media matters story. more photos in that link...
the other is a little subliminal video action... not as shocking, but a good reminder of what brands they push. via haha.nu.
also today i was flipping through an old copy of project censored (in the house we are renting in beautiful hood river, oregon...) and came upon this story, "the media can legally lie" about a very curious case in which fox news tried to force reporters to broadcast lies by monsanto officials in a story on bovine growth hormone.
from the article, "Akre and Wilson sued the Fox station and on August 18, 2000, a Florida jury unanimously decided that Akre was wrongfully fired by Fox Television when she refused to broadcast (in the jury’s words) “a false, distorted or slanted story” about the widespread use of BGH in dairy cows. They further maintained that she deserved protection under Florida’s whistle blower law. Akre was awarded a $425,000 settlement. Inexplicably, however, the court decided that Steve Wilson, her partner in the case, was ruled not wronged by the same actions taken by FOX. FOX appealed the case, and on February 14, 2003 the Florida Second District Court of Appeals unanimously overturned the settlement awarded to Akre. The Court held that Akre’s threat to report the station’s actions to the FCC did not deserve protection under Florida’s whistle blower statute, because..." the rest...
so i had this intuition of creating an image of a peacock on our building (no promises...), and i learned some things... first off, the peacock has two species in four varieties, the green being more intense looking in my opinion. i remembered that peacocks have symbolism within sufism. i already cannot remember the thread, but it led me to this kind looking fellow bellow, Sultan-al Awliya Shaykh Mawlana as-Sayyid Khwaja Muhammad Nazim Adil al-Haqqani al-Rabbani al-Qubrusi al-Firdausi an-Naqshbandi. he's quite old, but i had a feeling it would be good to go see him in cyprus (no promises...) all the green in this story is funny to me, because today my friend the yinsurgent's belief of having met khidr as a african muslim spouting p-funk lyrics and arabic blessings...
above is the stunning crater lake national park. the blue is even deeper in person. below is my sister in front of a 16 foot diameter redwood at jedediah smith redwoods state park. her hair is even bluer in person.
we've been to merlin, gold beach and various parks in southern oregon. we're now checking out eugene. i have my first decent internet access right now and tommorow, so i will try to post a few times. looks like others in the blogosphere have been pretty busy too, so i don't feel too bad.
and boingboing...
this song literally gave me goosebumps... as much for the beautiful dark production as the short but on-point krs-one vocal. (producers noisia also make slammin' electro.) buyable.
(mp3)noisia/mayhem feat. krs-one - "exodus"
pictured here is darcy burner. her shirt is xml for "end war". if anyone can find a link to where one could buy the shirt, i'll post it... (UPDATE: here it is, thanks tait!) a brief survey of her positions makes her seem like a really cool lady. anyway, she is standing in front of her smoldering house. her five year old saved the family.
she is running a close campaign against the incumbent republican congressman in her washington district. she needs time to recuperate with her family, but that will hurt her fund-raising. so if people have a little dough to pitch in, she can take some days off. if you have the dough (i don't right now), consider donating here (or here).
UPDATE: here's video...
reader carlos posted the map above his blog. it details an early plan of a "new world order". you can click on the image above for a full resolution image. the map comes from the great site strangemaps.wordpress.com. i really enjoyed reading the site. very detailed and full of interesting analysis. and weird, weird, maps.
the map above shows the federally owned lands state by state in america, with red representing government held lands. notice how the west is largely "public" land.
i also found the article from which the map above comes from to be fascinating... an old plan to dam the mediterranean and flood the sahara... silly but, a great article.
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