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via Daily Kos

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See more at Improv Everywhere…

And my rant on Flash Mobs (and why Improv Everywhere does it right because they’re not selling anything except fun)

For more visual fun, check out ‘Robot High School‘

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It begins “Whoever after due and proper warning shall be heard to utter the abominable word “Frisco,” which has no linguistic or other warrant, shall be deemed guilty of a High Misdemeanor, and shall pay into the Imperial Treasury as penalty the sum of twenty-five dollars. – Norton I, Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico, 1872″ …

READ ON. thanks

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It would appear that I’m always somewhere else, but I’m actually right here.
If I were to pick a favorite, it would be the bold one, though I’ve come to enjoy this one.

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via boston.com , “Autumn Scenes”

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“Bullets and Blogs: New Media and the Warfighter” (2.7mb PDF) is a very new agey text. The report emerged from the finding of a workshop tasked with the question: How must battlefield communication change to adapt to this twitterin’ bloggin media-rich battlespace? The report is fascinating, and focuses on the Iraq/Afghanistan-relevant idea that rapidly broadcasting a media-rich ‘version of the truth’ to enemies and allies alike must be synchronized with conventional military strategy. At its root however is the rapid production of history across all mediums, and faster than the enemy:

“This report is rich with soundbites and recommendations supported by examples, including operations where the insurgents were the first to write the first draft of history, the draft that usually sticks especially when a factual challenge is not made within days or weeks.” (via Mountainrunner)

A comment by Cliff W. Gilmore, a US public military affairs officer speaks to speed vs. timeliness:

…the need to push information out quickly (speed) is a primary learning point highlighted in Bullets & Blogs. This is a media-focused learning point that differs significantly from the concept of timeliness, which has to do with who needs what information when. It’s easy to get distracted by the “wiz-bang!” of the communication environment and forget that a message doesn’t have to get there FAST — it just needs to arrive on time.

This is not to suggest that speed is not a factor in the new battlespace, just that it should not be a primary focus. There are several things we should be better at than speed. Credibility, trust, accuracy, timeliness, unified voice, privacy, intentional communication, delegation, security — and balancing them against one another — come to mind.

Findings in the Executive Summary

In summary, to achieve strategic agility in the information age, DOD should consider the following priority issues:
• Recognize that the winning strategy is “information engagement,” not “information control;”
• Embrace new media as a significant enabler of “that element of combat power called information;”
• Prioritize research and development, and organizational change, to exploit new media as a warfighting capability;
• Educate digital immigrants to begin the process of cultural change;
• Exploit digital natives – encourage, educate, empower, and equip;
• Enhance DOD’s capacity for commanding the attention and trust of key audiences through improved capacities for appropriate messaging, achieving a distributed global presence on relevant media, and finding and leveraging suitable messengers (third- party validators);
• Prioritize agility in the information environment, by:

» Enhancing speed of communication through: proactive information engagement; more refined classification efforts; in-field declassification authorities and capabilities; and, the removal of barriers to inter-agency and inter-service declassification;
» Moving towards decentralized authority and decentralized execution by setting the information rules of engagement;
» Identifying and mitigating risk, through a more sophisticated risk assessment process; » Ensuring commanders have non-lethal options commensurate with traditional lethal
options;
» Requiring commanders to define the desired information endstate; » Exploiting new media for better measures of effectiveness; Streamline DOD policies and guidance; Synchronize, synchronize, synchronize — across all-of-government; Pursue a holistic approach; Engage the legal debate.

Now if only the DOD could control what information gets back to the US from Iraq…

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Germany’s Umweltbundesamt (UBA) [Federal Environmental Agency] will release a new study today advising consumers to avoid products using nanoparticles, as long as their effects on the environment and human health are largely unknown. The federal agency is also calling for regulations on labeling and reporting products containing nanomaterials. This would affect the more than 800 German companies that use the new technology in their products. (via Nanopublic)

This is huge, like if the FDA were to warn against the use of cellphones because it has “been linked with cancer.”

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images from “Recovery through Retrofit” pdf by the Department of Energy. Indicated fonts are Calibri and Cambria, the defaults set in Microsoft Word 2007.  Both supplants of the time-honored Times New Roman.

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10th Annual CLARION ALLEY BLOCK PARTY

Between 17th and 18th Streets;  Mission and Valencia
Celebrating Culture and Community Like Gentrification Never Happened!

Saturday, October 24th, 2009
noon to nine
FREE!

“…For the uninitiated, Clarion Alley meanders for one block from Mission Street to Valencia Street between 17th and 18th Streets. But it’s not your normal alley; it’s solid murals from start to finish, the large majority painted by a bevy of our best local artists. So once a year there’s this block party where everybody comes to see new murals, listen to live music, drink beer, honk weed, skateboard, congregate, loiter, convene, saunter, stroll, carouse, stare at everybody else…”

- artbusiness.com

bands, in order of appearance:

arthur manley
bodysuit
sweet bones
jeremy dalmas
ornithology
dirty marquee
the aimless never miss
erick and ivy
conspiracy of beards
onion flavored rings
the translators
kreamy lectric santa
mercury
trouble
fleabag
vomica
quite polite
grass widow

Images via (1) (2)

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I’m elsewhere:

http://thefatanimals.com

http://whatsonyourthing.com

http://twitter.com/danielmorgan

Neither is better than the other, though thefatanimals.com would hope you thought otherwise.

Recent image making:

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In order to pass its state budget, California’s government has had to agree to a deal that cuts billions of dollars from education and sacks 60,000 state employees. Some teachers have launched a hunger strike in protest. California’s education system has become so poor so quickly that it is now effectively failing its future workforce. The percentage of 19-year-olds at college in the state dropped from 43% to 30% between 1996 and 2004, one of the highest falls ever recorded for any developed world economy. California’s schools are ranked 47th out of 50 in the nation. Its government-issued bonds have been ranked just above “junk”.

via The Guardian

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If you’re lucky enough to 1) live on the west coast 2) own a pair of binoculars you’ll be able to see this lunar effacement as it happens. Four-thirty AM PST. Set your alarm! (viewing information here). Here’s how it will go down:

On final approach, the Shepherding Spacecraft and Centaur will separate and the Centaur upper stage will act as a heavy impactor to create a debris plume that will rise above the lunar surface. Following four minutes after impact of the Centaur upper stage, the Shepherding Spacecraft will fly through this debris plume, collecting and relaying data back to Earth before impacting the lunar surface and creating a second debris plume. NASA expects the impact velocity will be over 9,000 km/h (5,600 mph). [via Wikipedia]

image: Artist rendering of the LCROSS + Centaur. Click for larger.

The following video is a great into to the mission:

LCROSS Animation on KQED Public Media.

More imagery of the moonsplosion:

If you’d like more information, visit the NASA LCROSS site.

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It’s always there in my pocket, there’s no thrashing about, scrambling for the right color. One can set to work immediately, there’s this wonderful impromptu quality, this freshness, to the activity; and when it’s over, best of all, there’s no mess, no clean-up. You just turn off the machine. Or, even better, you hit Send, and your little cohort of friends around the world gets to experience a similar immediacy. There’s something, finally, very intimate about the whole process…

…After all, what clearer, more luminous light are we ever afforded? Especially here where the light comes rising over the sea, just the opposite of my old California haunts. But in the old days one never could, because, of course, ordinarily it would be too dark to see the paints; or else, if you turned on a light so as to be able to see them, you’d lose the subtle gathering tones of the coming sun. But with an iPhone, I don’t even have to get out of bed, I just reach for the device, turn it on, start mixing and matching the colors, laying in the evolving scene.

–David Hockney on the Iphone.

via nybooks

Brushesapp.com

Jorge Colombo, who also digs brushes

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The bigger picture here is about the legacy we want to leave to current and future generations of San Francisco youth and residents. We are a city proud of our leadership on environmental issues and our rich heritage of natural beauty in an urban setting. Do we really want to leave plastic and rubber tire-waste fields where once we found natural grass and urban ecosystems?
Long-time Western Addition community activist Arnold Townsend is opposed to astroturf. “When kids go to park they ought to get dirty. You don’t find bugs on astroturf. Kids don’t learn about ecosystems on astroturf. No matter how much ball you play on it, it’s an unnatural setting,” he said.

via Fog City Journal:

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Southeastern Australian soil is composed of weathered ferric rocks. The iron makes the resulting clay minerals—like nontronite, saponite, and volkonsokite—orange-ish. This process is certainly not unique to the land Down Under. Many regions started out orange but eventually transitioned to brown or black as vegetation sprang up in the fertile clay and composted into dark organic matter. The climate around Sydney is too arid for trees and shrubs to proliferate, so the area retains its original hue. (via slate )

Below are some true colors I enjoyed from Flickr, and also check out photos by Reuters Click for the flickr page…

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Bookish, in the Adobe Books Backroom Gallery

22 September – October 25, 2009
Where: Adobe Books Back gallery

3166 16th Street, SF, CA [Facebook event]

Curated by Devon Bella

Adobe Books Backroom Gallery presents Bookish, the inaugural exhibition celebrating the Backroom Gallery’s recent renovation and exciting transformation. To mark this special occasion, and to call attention to the position of the gallery within the context of the famed Adobe Bookshop, the exhibition will feature a range of artistic practices that share the book as an object of inquiry. Through various media including sculpture, painting, photography and social practice, each artist will animate varying questions based on our relationships to books.

Patricia Augsburger
Jennifer Brandon
Sonya Derman
Harrell Fletcher
Katie Herzog
Arthur Huang
Jennie Ottinger
Nat Russell
Orion Shepherd
Sonny Smith
Michael Swaine
Nicolas Torres
Jina Valentine
Scot Velardo

Photo via Adobe books backroom  blog

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Sold on Ebay in the Depression era glassware category, Conrad Bakker’s recent paintings will support the hungry in E. Illinois. With already a few bids and a shout out from SFMOMA his work will help a lot of people. (info here)

Beginning Friday, September 18, 2009, each of these paintings will be auctioned on eBay in the [Pottery & Glass > Glass > Glassware > Depression] category and the profits will be donated to the Eastern Illinois Foodbank, a local charitable organization whose goal is to alleviate hunger in eastern Illinois by providing a reliable source of food for the hungry through cooperation with a network of food pantries and agencies.

Get thee to the Ebay!

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70 years from the moment Jackson died, the (virtual) billboard can freely blast his songs… (via)

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I’m really happy about how these came out. These I selected from about 200 that day. Many of the landscapes were taken here. To see these photos a tad larger, see them on flickr. I also made a wee panorama in Zoomify here. Or to see day 1, mash here.

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Paul Morgan (dad) & Monnie Walter (the daughter-in-law of my Dad’s mother’s cousin). Her husband’s mom was one of two daughters whose cabin my father chilled in as a 10 year old.  Behind them is Grand Lake, and Mt. Craig. (map).

A commemorative hatchet from Washington’s Inauguration in 1789 presented by Monnie Walters

(detail of the Washington Inaugural Hatchet)

some awesome siding textures

clouds and mountains

baby cabins

…and old dogs named Max.

PART 2

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A door handle detail in Gottfried Böhm’s Maria in den Trümmern  (Chapel of Madonna in the Ruins) in Cologne, Germany, 1950.

via Archidose

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Friday, September 4th @ 111 Minna Gallery
Book Arts & Zines Exhibition
DJ Sets by Vin Sol, Honey Soundsystem DJ’s, and Pickpockit (Donuts)

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The man who can embrace the moment in such a royally public way truly deserves to be called a Moneydick.

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The sun, sounds of soccer games, and getting shit done volume has increased 30% in my new apt. Thanks San Francisco… you’re rockin.

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Have you taken permaculture seriously today?

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Awesome example of the Creative Commons in action over at the dotmatrix project. It’s a group of photographers, bands, videographers in Greensboro, NC who do ‘real Hollywood’ without all the baggage. From their ‘about’ page:

We’re a collective of musicians, photographers, videographers & sound engineers who put on and document live shows to expose our talents to an audience beyond the confines of a small venue within a small town.

…

Filmmakers have an opportunity to direct the music videos for a show, collaborate with shooters of their choice and actual musicians and walk away with a killer portfolio piece. Our photographers range from pros to amateurs, but they’re all looking to improve shooting live music and, again, build up their portfolio.

All DMP media is licensed with a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike license. What that means is that as long as people provide attribution and link back to the original creators of the media, they can use it however they see fit as long as they don’t make money off it.

And more comforting words (for the fate of The Creative Person amongst the Web) From a recent post “Thinking about CCommunity“:

By licensing all of our work under a Creative Commons (CC) license — one that allows non-commercial share-alike reuse and remixing with attribution — DMP participants are continuously contributing creative material, with structured data of attribution, location and subject matter, to the commons; material that is optimized for discovery (check out the results for a “greensboro music” search on flickr), to then be enjoyed and potentially shared and/or re-purposed out of a person’s connection with both the media and its subject matter.

rad, but the monetization looks possible only for selling live recordings… It’s more of an unpaid internship (which can be fun fun fun) for everyone else.

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From the man who delivered the Pentagon papers in 1971:

“We have long needed and lacked the equivalent of the Pentagon Papers on the subject of nuclear policies and preparations, nuclear threats and decision-making: above all in the United States and Russia but also in the other nuclear-weapons states. I deeply regret that I did not make known to Congress, the American public and the world the extensive documentation of persistent and still-unknown nuclear dangers that was available to me 40 to 50 years ago as a consultant to and official in the executive branch working on nuclear war plans, command and control and nuclear crises. Those in nuclear-weapons states who are in a position now to do more than I did then to alert their countries and the world to fatally reckless secret policies should take warning from the earlier inaction of myself and others: and do better.”

Unlike nearly everyone else outside the Manhattan Project, my first awareness of the challenges of the nuclear era had occurred—and my attitudes toward the advent of nuclear weaponry had formed—some nine months earlier than those headlines, and in a crucially different context.
It was in a ninth-grade social studies class in the fall of 1944. I was 13, a boarding student on full scholarship at Cranbrook, a private school in Bloomfield Hills, Mich. Our teacher, Bradley Patterson, was discussing a concept that was familiar then in sociology, William F. Ogburn’s notion of “cultural lag.” …

…The idea was that the development of technology regularly moved much further and faster in human social-historical evolution than other aspects of culture: our institutions of government, our values, habits, our understanding of society and ourselves. Indeed, the very notion of “progress” referred mainly to technology. What “lagged” behind, what developed more slowly or not at all in social adaptation to new technology was everything that bore on our ability to control and direct technology and the use of technology to dominate other humans….

read more at wikileaks… my favorite source for world news!

…Recently I spoke with a friend of my father’s who had interviewed nuclear scientists in the 90s at the Alamo research labs. At one point he spoke with a well respected nuclear physicist who explained his raison d’être. The scientist had grown up alongside the grad students at Princeton eager to construct bombs, and decided then and there to learn bomb-making just so he could disassemble them down the road. Fifty years later, he is one of the few living nuclear physicists capable of disassembling nuclear bombs, and is frantically disassembling / building disassembly schematics for the aging thousands upon thousands of bombas–all with aging trigger systems–around the world. Sadly, he (whose name I forget) is now in Russia where his skills are golden mana from heaven.

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Swiss Alphorn Contest in Nendaz. Check it…

Being a huge fan of the Swissland, I wept with tumultuous joy when I saw these grassy tootin’ happy peoples… Below are some of my personal photos from Switzerland during a trip there in 06…

More from Switzerland

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MP3

Track listing

1. janis joplin – oh lord won’t you buy me….
2. the doobie bros – jesus is just alright with me
3. max romeo – i chase the devil
4. marvin gaye – god is love
5. stevie wonder – have a talk with god
6. aphrodites child – the four horsemen
7. the hold steady – crucifixion cruise
9. the skids – the saints are coming
10. gravediggaz – god vs the devil
11. david axelrod – holy thursday
12 – sixto rodriguez – gommorah
13 – nazareth – hair of the dog
14 – sean price – da god
15 – electric prunes – general confessional
16 – gus gus – is jesus your pal
17 – woodie brothers – chased old satan
18 – donovan – wear your love like heaven
19 – sufjan stevens – abraham
20 – eagles of death metal – speaking in tongues
21- violent femmes – jesus walking on the water
22- louis prima – shadrack
23 – george harrison – my sweet lord
24 – woody guthrie – jesus christ

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It’s magical to me that people would want to re-associate themselves with the worst presidency ever.

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Jim Giles in New Scientist writes:

“Occasional” editors, those who make just a single edit a month, have 25 per cent of their changes erased, or reverted, by other editors, a proportion that in 2003 was 10 per cent. The revert rate for editors who make between two and nine changes a month grew from 5 to 15 per cent over the same period.”This is evidence of growing resistance from the Wikipedia community to new content,” say the Palo Alto team. Chi told New Scientist that the changes could harm Wikipedia in the longer term by deterring new editors from taking part and so reducing the number of people available to spot and correct the vandalism that constantly threatens the encyclopaedia. “Over time the quality may degrade,” he warns.

Chi thinks that Wikipedia now includes so much information that some editors have turned from creating new articles to improving existing ones, resulting in more disputes about edits. Such disputes are not a level playing field because established editors sometimes draw on extensive knowledge of Wikipedia’s guidelines to overwhelm opposition in a practice dubbed “wikilawyering”.

via: New Scientist

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Pictured above: Oprah, and Henry Louis Gates. Guess which one was arrested after trying to enter his own house?

Episode 4: “Who left the Irony on?” starts like this:

BOSTON – Police responding to a call about “two black males” breaking into a home near Harvard University ended up arresting the man who lives there — Henry Louis Gates Jr., the nation’s pre-eminent black scholar

…

Ogletree [Gates' lawyer] said Gates gave the officer his driver’s license and Harvard identification after being asked to prove he was a Harvard professor and lived at the home, but became upset when the officer continued to question him.

“He was shocked to find himself being questioned and shocked that the conversation continued after he showed his identification,” Ogletree said. via

Now may be a great time to quote from the Awards section of Henry Louis Gates’ Wikipedia article:

Gates has been the recipient of nearly 50 honorary degrees and numerous academic and social action awards. He was named a MacArthur Fellow in 1981 and was listed in Time among its “25 Most Influential Americans” in 1997. On October 23, 2006, Gates was appointed the Alphonse Fletcher Jr. University Professor at Harvard University. In January 2008, he co-founded The Root, a website dedicated to African-American perspectives published by The Washington Post Company. Gates currently chairs the Fletcher Foundation, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He is on the boards of many notable institutions including the New York Public Library, Jazz at Lincoln Center, the Aspen Institute, the Brookings Institution, the Studio Museum of Harlem, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, HEAF (the Harlem Educational Activities Fund), and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, located in Stanford, California.[2]

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On one side, is an all-male cabal of gun-totting, club-wielding men — the Army, the Revolutionary Guard and the volunteer militia — supported by the pantheon of the highest government offices in the land — the Supreme Leadership, the Presidency, and membership in the Guardian Council — all monopolized by men.

…On the other side, is a sea of lawfully demonstrating men and women marching side by side and shoulder to shoulder. Holding hands, green in color, hopeful in outlook, vibrant and non-violent, they fight bullets and batons with open hands and support Mir Hossein Moussavi, who is often accompanied by his wife, Zahra Rahnavard.

…

A synonym for the word “woman” in the Persian language is Pardeh Neshin: “She who sits behind the curtain / the veil / the screen.” The expression perpetuates, even linguistically, the cultural ideal of woman’s absence in public. Pardeh Neshin implies enclosure, invisibility, and controlled mobility, all associations that are inseparable from conventional definitions of femininity in Iran.

via Tehran Bureau

The regime’s failure to allow women into public life has made transexuality in Iran a unique window through which one can observe the hypocrisy of gender. In the documentary film Be Like Others by Tanaz Eshaghian, we learn the surprising social politics of transexuality in Iran in this interview:

What do you remember from the preliminary phone conversations with these people before you went to Iran?
Cleric Kariminiya, who had written his “PhD”—the Islamic version of a PhD that a cleric gets—on applying Islamic law and thinking to transsexual identity, really gave me a sense of another world. He was fantastic. He had also explored such topics as what happens to the inheritance of a male that becomes a female (Under Islam a woman gets half of what a man gets for inheritance). He let me know that because of a sex change, the person is now female—and gets half!

Trailer below:

Also see:

“Sex in Iran” – Playboy and “Stolen Kisses: Iran’s Sexual Revolutions” at the Nation.

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I’ve moved to San Francisco, which is a quick boat ride from Brooklyn, NY. Hello yall!

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My good old friend Robinson is one of those guys who can put pen to paper in an afternoon and make something like what you see here. Imagine having this on a shirt for 10 bucks…. You really can’t beat that.

He just started an etsy shop @ mrescobarshirts.etsy.com where you can grab one of these for your bod. Take a gander. I got this one:

He’s also a contributor at ‘The New Orders‘

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