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One of the most interesting things to happen to punk is that it has mutated from a national scene of troubled and rebellious youth to a bunch of little niches that are particular to certain communities. So it is interesting to see what is perhaps inevitable in such a climate, [...]

Is it art, a public service announcement, or a publicity stunt? Hmmm… You be the judge.
Capla Kesting Fine Art:
“Campaign to Rescue Women of Youth” featuring “The Paris Hilton
Autopsy” offers a cadaveric nude Paris Hilton, laid out with twisted body
and opened abdominal cavity on a coroner’s table, while her cell phone
remains in her grip. The ‘unglamorous’ [...]

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A new video from Robert Greenwald (Out Foxed, Walmart: The High Cost of Low Price, and Iraq for Sale). Check out the project’s Web site here. He’s offering a competition to change the infamous “Mission Accomplished” banner that was erected behind Bush during is USS Lincoln speech. Some examples so far:
· You love me now, [...]

I used to love his rants in the New York Press before the paper was bought by a bunch of amateurs. Now that Matt Taibbi has found a home for his caustic voice in Rolling Stone, America is better for it. If there is anyone writing now that has the kind of pitch of Hunter [...]

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Sometimes all you need is some paint and cardboard to reach thousands.

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Elton Junk

One things I miss about the good ol’ days of modernity is the massive output of manifestos that artists and activists churned out to contest the prevailing ideas of their world. With names like Futurists, Surrealists, and Bauhaus, people seemed to care a lot about having clear and strong opinions. With the advent of the [...]

Finally some cogent thought on the truth of war: it’s weird. Face it, why do we do such idiotic, insane things such as conducting modern technological warfare? I’m not trying to be flip. If aliens were to observe modern humans, they’d wonder if we were in some strange kind of rat maze experiment run by [...]

One of my favorite American thinkers, Gore Vidal, has a theory. Bush is intentionally destroying America. In this zinger of an editorial he likens Bush to Romulus Augustulus, correlating the current reign of error with the ancient Roman emperor:
Truthdig - Reports - Hail and Farewell: the End of the American Empire:
W.’s love of torture and [...]

This is no joke. I saw this guy (Paul Stamets) give a talk and it blew my mind.
How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World | Ecological Design:
We grow saprophytic mushrooms. The mushroom root, otherwise known as mycelium, is extremely interesting to me. What we do at our business—and what happens in nature—is we add mycelium [...]

“Thanks for nothing - Buddha”
I saw this funny design at CafePress and wish I thought of it. Enjoy!

Street artists Shepard Fairey and WK Interact are mashing each other up in an international exhibition, THE EAST/WEST PROPAGANDA PROJECT: OBEY GIANT vs. WK INTERACT. While the “mash-up” aesthetic maybe a little cliche at this point, you’ve got love this collaboration which combines some of the best of street art. The show is touring so [...]

Among the many great ideas Kurt Vonnegut wrote about, one has remained with me since high school: Ice-Nine. From the Ice-Nine Wikipedia reference:
Ice-nine is a fictional material conceived by science fiction writer Kurt Vonnegut in his novel Cat’s Cradle. It is supposed to be a special allotrope of ice that, when it comes into [...]

Google and the US Holocaust Museum have joined forces to present satellite photos through Google Earth of the full devastation being wrought by the government of Omar Al-Bashir on the Darfur region of Sudan. See this article in PC World for more details.

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YELLOW ARROW :: CAPITOL OF PUNK:
Washington D.C. is known worldwide as the home of the beloved US President, miles of national monuments, and throngs of politicians. But perhaps lesser known is D.C.’s status as an epicenter of essential American musical movements, including the harDCore scene that emerged in the late 70s.
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Zoom detail of an images representing 60,000 plastic bags, the number used in the US every five seconds.
Chris Jordan is an artist with a keen eye for capturing the human impact on the environment. His latest series of information graphics, “Running the Numbers,” is simply mind boggling.

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The American Friends Service Committee has started a great program, the April 4 Project, to promote the ideas outlined in a very important speech made by Martin Luther King Jr. at Riverside Church in 1967. I have found this to be one of the most important and most influential speeches in my life. You can [...]

From the stupid to the sublime, pranks are as old as human civilization and are here to stay. For those of you like me who can never get enough of them, there is a new site devoted exclusively to them in all their forms, from whoopie cushions to reality hacking. Check out [...]