as a companion to my graffiti update last post, some REVERSE graffiti... this is where the artist cleans off grime, pollution or other scunge to create works of art.
this first one is from the originator of the style, "moose"... a beautiful mural in san fransisco...
this one is from alexandre orion in san paolo, brazil... video of this person getting caught in the act is here.
via environmental graffiti
a pretty way to say it...
click on this next one:
mixed messages:
first three from this collection... this next one from the always interesting wooster collective blog...
the socotra islands are off the coast of africa and are a part of yemen... anyway they have these awesome trees... supre weird. click on the link to see lots more. at least one of the species is part of the "dragon" family... how cool is that? via popurls
there's no question that "a people's history of the united states", and it's companion oral history history "voices", are two of the most important modern historical efforts. howard zinn is criticized by some for his obvious lefty leanings, but i saw howard zinn speak once, and he was an erudite and open-minded speaker, and despite being very charming, didn't at all come off as a blind partisan or foolish radical... he came off as someone who documented some very sad truths and took what delight he could in the struggle that he saw as necessary... long sentence, but the point is that book is now available in comic book form... here's a video preview, narrated by danish hunk, viggo mortensen:
i think the beautiful calligraphy created with light pictured above means "think".
the stunning work of julie briton.
you couldn't trust photos, and now you can't trust video... building on the amazing photo-stitching technology blaise aguera presented in the t.e.d. talk collection i posted here, this video shows how some similar technology is being applied to video.
Using Photographs to Enhance Videos of a Static Scene from pro on Vimeo.
it occurred to me almost instantly when obama came into focus for me in early 2008. what will happen if he's elected in this country with some population of violent bigots?
ignoring for a moment the dangers of a racist secret service, what about klan people claiming he'll be shot?
what about those who want barrack to win to push people to their "cause", or so he "fails" and provokes race war?
it's particularly disturbing to me considering how this country seems to ignore the (larger!) percentage of white terrorists in (lack-luster) search of the darker variety. in this story of bradley khale, the judge let him go after he said he wanted barrack obama dead, and that he planned to go to pittsburgh (my home city) and to et aon rooftops and shoot black people. the article asks,
"Would I be crazy to suspect that if he were a Muslim talking about shooting white people from a high rise and hoping John McCain would get killed, no judge on earth would let him go?"
no, you wouldn't.
the mccain campaign isn't going out of it's way to avoid making matters worse. a lot of the crazies involved in racist violence identify as christian, though any real christian would find them abhorent, and mccain's ads like "the one" have stoked the popular right-wing narrative that obama is somehow the anti-christ. some have drawn comparisons between the ad's portrayal of obama and the main character in the "left behind" novels, but even the creators of the christian fiction series say obama is clean. that doesn't stop the smear machine though, and the emotional decision making is a serious factor in american politics.
a breif addendum on the "law enforcement approach to terrorism" that i found while researching this story is here.
randy pausch got a bit famous there towards the end of his life, going on t.v., appearing before congress, etc...
he was a professor of mine at c.m.u. my family asked me if i knew the guy who died of cancer who was really famous, and i said i didn't, because i hadn't seen any of the coverage. finally the viral stuff came to my attention, and i noticed it was randy.
to be frank, i thought randy was a bit of a jerk. he was talented, no doubt, and a great motivator, but at the end of day, he seemed to care more about results than the people that brought them to him. it's a personal choice, for sure, but i feel the opposite (most of the time). the guy did get me my first high-paying job, and taught me a lot about team-building (and virtual reality), and overall provided a memorable learning experience, so i mean no disrespect, but it's funny how he became this celebrity.
anyway, here's his famous "last lecture" i didn't watch the whole thing, but there's some golden nuggets here.
and here's his site with more info...
a little of this, a little of that. some bad news, some good news... get some chairs for the old folks and let's ramble.
first some fun stuff... this was a funny and convincing video on how easy it was to get into a club by pretending to be a d.j... guess i should hold onto my record bag even though i don't use records so much anymore...
hit me later is a great service to forward your mail into the future when you are more likely to reply. i've wanted this feature, and it's free.
in the ongoing scandals of the bush administration, a little more meat on the evidence i spoke of last week provided in this interview on democracy now. if you were not convinced of crimes already, pelosi, this should help... also even fairly mainstream press isn't buying the pinning of the 2001 anthrax attacks to bruce ivins. lots of good video. more info.
this mother jones article describes how the u.s. military fancies itself the successor to history's great empires. to bone up on history, check out the excellent and innovative timelines on the website historycommons.org.
for the web to stay innovative and pump out great collective efforts like wikipedia and history commons (above) we should be careful to provide alternative sources of bandwith, especially considering the upcoming internet patriot act. (AARRGH!!!)
if you are in spain, maybe you could help this anarchist on hunger strike... i still owe you all a post on the anarchist perspective on the 2008 presidential race... some day before election day!
and some good news, it looks like there are a lot more gorillas alive than previously believed, and even the humpack whale is making a comeback.
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