now

I was working hard to get together all this stuff. was going to apply to graduate school for next fall. and then one conversation reminded me why i was going to wait.
so i will not apply, although, i have all this stuff ready to publish, so i'll be putting together a new website soon. \
what else.
oh yes. nothing.

on wooster

saw this on woostercollective.com and liked it....

heatherwick's bridge

JK Keller, Dirty Mousepads

"By switching a typical mousepad with a sheet of paper, I am able to collect an echo of my computer use over the course of a few months. The resulting drawing embodies both a warm earthy tone while also being indicative of the filth one accumulates through prolonged use of technology."

from the web site of JK keller, more of his projects are here

Sam Bassett, Lawrence Laducer

I stumbled upon this short film.

Discrete

mindlessly exhaling breathless constraints.
Attempting to fix patterns in a standard form.
Be very careful now.
and also, do everything.

reality plantin'

If Macedonia, a country of two million people, can plant six million trees, we can only imagine how many trees can be planted in other, bigger countries.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/CAS946961.htm

JOIN THE VIRTUAL SIT-IN FOR LOVE! JOIN OUR LOVE-IN!!

Electronic Civil Disobedience... join this Virtual Sit-in and help to crash websites of shitty organizations. FROM TODAY NOV 20 TO THE 23rd, PARTICIPATE...

"This call for a virtual sit-in represents a two-pronged attempt to gerrymander solidarity against the actions of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), an agency of the Department of Homeland Security established to allegedly guard national security by targeting "criminals" and "terrorists," and the actions of right-wing organizations which devalue and terrorize families in their attempts to define the category of Family in the narrowest terms imaginable. Constructions of immigrant and queer families as violable are rooted in long histories of aggression against humanity; which have and continue to establish hierarchies of personhood."

Community Living Room project

Parlor Park, Los Angeles

"Rather than fence off the trash-strewn lot beside its building—a stomping ground for drug-users and prostitutes—one downtown Los Angeles community center added, instead, a few benches and flowers. Soon, neighbors began to hang out there, and the less desirable denizens vanished.

By beautifying the lot, the center transformed its use, and herein lies the vision of the Community Living Room project, run by the Los Angeles-based nonprofit group Verde Coalition: turn grim scraps of public land—like bus stops, traffic medians, or dangerous street corners—into welcoming public spaces. In Los Angeles, where many low-income communities enjoy almost no park space, a new “living room” cheaply and quickly creates a mini-sanctuary from the fast-paced and sometimes ugly reality of the city. Twelve community “living rooms” have been constructed so far, and the mayor’s office may soon help fund 1,000 more across the city, makhttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifing Los Angeles more habitable—two benches at a time."

Words By Jenny Price in Good Magazine from here

More on this here
and here
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LA River Tours with FOLAR

FOLAR (Friends of the LA river) gives tours of the river. Good activity... supposedly lead by jenny price(see blog post below).

Jenny Price Article: Against Philanthropy (from good magazine)

Looking through a past issue of Good Magazine, I re-read this concise article. It challenges the philanthropic endeavors of corporations, and suggests a better ways to "help". Read this:
Against Philanthropy

"most philanthropic foundations are endowed by and invest their assets in these same companies, which create the very problems the foundations address."

"We can all be good citizens much, much more effectively in the course of making money than in the course of giving money away."

"In the Niger Delta, a $218 million Gates Foundation program provides polio and measles vaccinations. Yet the foundation invests $423 million in five major oil companies whose oil-plant emissions have created a regional epidemics of respiratory illnesses. These emissions have also been linked to immune deficiencies that make children more vulnerable to polio and measles."


"But what if Gates and Buffett simply applied their sentiments as philanthropists to their work as CEOs in the first place? What if they seriously prioritized employee salaries, benefits, and job security—from Seattle to China? And if they emphasized sound environmental practices, which reap long-term collective benefits at the expense of outsize profits and outrageous executive salaries? They might not have $30 billion to give away, but giving away that much might not be as necessary."

"The assets of the Gates Foundation now dwarf the World Health Organization budget. Does anyone really want any single private interest to exercise such extraordinary influence on international health policy?"

power

you get up there in front of that crowd, and you take aim. you try to give them an even toned look of intelligence and depth. You try most hardest to maintain. To keep that steady composure, that gravity. Because if you could only just maintain, everything spewing from you would hit, and that crowd would know, and understand.

interest areas (partial list)

loopy side notes

I wonder why women shave their legs
and why the monks must shave their heads.
It makes me feel I've got some trimming to do
but in the end i don't want to be you.
It makes me sad how much some care
for everything that's not really there.
And the things that are that none can see
like god and night and the air you breathe,
we fill them with polluted bread
you constantly bake in your polluted head.
When a man says kill, and we say you must
it's not a punishment, it's what we lust.
When the stars shine bright and we fade them away
you forget there's no difference between night and day.

(If there were dreams we could share
I'd invite you to play ball with the tots who run the world.
Powell's got the catch and he's doing a victory dance across the endzone.)

to be human

Is to be cliche. (It seems)
if your actions have purpose,
the purpose is perpetrated by the look on your face
or the feeling from your open eyes.
Disconnect to leave
these humanly ambitions to the human...
but this is not original.
It was done by Warhol who was
only the first bastard of his kind to be famous.
I am young still, i think
i know it all because i can feel.
Today i turn 8,000 days into a mass of flesh and bone
quivering in loneliness and laughter.

There's a good habit in quitting old habits,
but beauty is hard to substitute.
Go ask Edie S.
She can tell you what to like the best.
And in the reign of anarchy
you won't find more than one, two or three
who can still hold their heads above the water
and still breathe well while the weaker are slaughtered.

(Do you believe it when you hear
'I know it's not perfect, but it's all we've got'?)
No matter what we do
you have only your idea of how it will turn out.
For the love of god
be brave you human,
or enjoy your vacations and get back to work.

                                          i'm an asshole

post halloween (compost)