Amazing Stop-Animation / Graffiti Art

MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.

Day in the Lyfe Graffiti Art Magazine

I found this magazine in a bookstore in Bloomington, IN. It quickly became one of my favorite magazines. With chock-loads of graffiti, traditional art, photography, articles and other crazy nonsense. It's a great visual change of pace from all those magazines that fill their pages with words. Support your local civil disobedience!

Obama rises from political obscurity to verge of history

"Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., a longtime friend and supporter, said "nothing was ever the same" after Obama's Boston speech.

Durbin recalls pulling Obama into a vacant meeting room in Chicago's Union League Club, where both had spoken on a Friday afternoon in November 2006. He felt it was time for his young colleague to decide whether to run for the White House.

"There are moments in life when you can pick the time," Durbin said he told Obama. "But when it comes to running for president, the time can pick you. You've been picked. This is your moment."

A short time later, Obama launched his candidacy."

Read Article: Obama rises from political obscurity to verge of history

Listen to Live Performances on KEXP

Listen to 7 My Morning Jacket songs performed for a concert recorded live on KEXP at Seattle's Moore Theatre. Full Performance (.wma)

- Also found MMJ photos from their performance at Clowes Memorial Hall in Indy on 11/25/2006..

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Listen to 4 Interpol songs performed at The Triple Door in downtown Seattle for KEXP members and staff.

Obama & Lincoln in words..

Read: Two Speeches on Race - from the New York Review of Books

Senator Barack Obama's speech at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia on March 18, 2008, and Abraham Lincoln's at the Cooper Union in New York on February 27, 1860.

"The most damaging charge against each was an alleged connection with unpatriotic and potentially violent radicals. [...] How to face such charges? Each decided to address them openly in a prominent national venue, well before their parties’ nominating conventions."

"Each looked for larger patterns under the surface bitternesses of their day. Each forged a moral position that rose above the occasions for their speaking."

Please Vote for Barack Obama..

This man is serious about positive change in the psyche of Americans here and abroad. And in doing so, helping to foster the types of real, positive, powerful changes that America wants to provide for the rest of the world. I believe in this person as a leader. I believe he personifies the title, President of the United States of America.

I mean, look.. he's giving you his ideas to download and review and discuss.. He's making it easy for us to be involved in what a democratic society truly is. For and of the people.

Hitchhiking across the universe..

So what does it all mean? It means nothing, it means we're drifting aimlessly through the vast nothing of space. Think about it, a huge globe of land, water, air and populations, just bobbing its way through the galaxy. Where is our particular galaxy drifting, and what is it drifting in? If the universe were a primordial ooze, we'd be slowly sludging our way through it, making a slushing sound, and causing an awful trail of ooze. But we're not, we're floating, or existing, or just hanging around in space like it's no big deal. There are bigger forces at play here my friends. We are kept in this orbit, cycling around our core sun, always spinning, always moving, always rotating on an axis. I'll be the first one to admit that I would have liked to be the Voyager 2 satellite thrust into the void and black of space.. forgoing any means of returning, and just going out in search of the unknown. The ultimate hitchhiker. Man made devices floating light years away. What a breakthrough.

The Big Picture

Follow the clouds in the sky, to the sun peeking out above. A warming trend caused by the god that we love. But do we love something that destroys what it creates? Or do we bottle up our feelings of violence and hate.. to explode when the load gets too heavy to debate?.... Whether it's good or bad, whether it's civil or not, the world's getting warmer.. blistering hot.

But if we do in fact, love this blind god who acts, like the puppeteer tangling the lines from our back... can we forgive it for taking away the fact, that we're all here for a few moments, no looking back? And then we question, vocalizing as we ask, does it really matter if we're white, brown or black? For it's the realization of circumstances that we lack... That we're all brothers, all sisters, from times that go way back. The beginning of man, the beginning of the world, is too large to consider when we're busy creating war.

So I ask you today, to place some trust in your heart, and listen to that voice that keeps you from falling apart. It's the god inside of us, whispering as we walk. Treat others with kindness, and be mindful when you talk.

And the sun above sets, and rises as it will. To once again greet the day, end the day, a legendary story it fulfills. Time, place, existence and race.. are all but quick dashes between the sentences that displace, the meanings and verbs we write down in words, to capture the moment of what we've seen and what we've heard. Til' the end of the world, and the miracle of each day, love your neighbor as yourself. That's all that I'll say..

In the quick of it all

I forgot my wallet.. not only did I lose my card, but I forgot my passport. Not only that but it never occurred to me that nothing ever makes sense anymore.. nothing. Not at all.

Isn't that what's it's all about? Shake your leg and wiggle all about? You do the hokie pokie and you turn your self around? Isn't that what's it's all about?

If it never all started, then we wouldn't be where we are right now. Your global warming, your wars, your race fights, your ethnic struggles, your economical see saws, your gender debates.. all for the birds. Every last bit.

Somewhere along the line, life was created. That starting point that was as neutral as the name that wasn't assigned to it. The beginning of creation. Theee start of it all.

When it didn't matter who the hell you were, what the hell you are, when you think you exist, or if you believe you exist at all.. It was just staring into the emptiness of earth and breathing it's air alone. What is it, exactly? I don't know. In fact, I have no clue what I'm really talking about. Do you?

Busy Crosswalks

And freeways with no lights. Cars in the dust while the traffic still fights. And the day turns to done, when the people go home, they'll go this way and that, but always alone. The radio it hums, the A.M. station is all talk, another traffic jam ahead, I might as well walk.

KMF

Pants on Fire....

Martin Luther King Jr. Day

Celebrate your thirst for knowledge, celebrate your continuing tolerance for your fellow human neighbors, celebrate the love that exists in peace. Celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. for being a brave soul when he could have backed down. Celebrate his life, his death, and his legacy that inspires freedom for all mankind.

» Wiki: MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.

Ping Pong, kinda, sorta...

Casually Making it Up

Spin-Cycle Downwards I Play in the Sprinkler
Casually drifting between my two speakers
The water it tickles alone by my ankles

The sun and it's wind both changing direction
The Leaves slightly bothering their neighbors complexion
And taking up room where there were conversations

Dry-Cycle Upwards I Fall out of the Sprinkler
Cautiously Awaken the child inside her
And beg him to play... one more time...

- KMF 1.18.07

A first! Snow falls in Baghdad

(Perhaps some evidence of the magic of snow)..

"I rushed quickly to the balcony to see a very beautiful scene," he said. "I tried to film it with my cell phone camera. This scene has really brought me joy. I called my other friends and the morning turned to be a very happy one in my life."

For a couple of hours anyway, a city where mortar shells routinely zoom across to the Green Zone became united as one big White Zone. As of late afternoon, there were no reports of violence. The snow showed no favoritism as it fell faintly on neighborhoods Shiite and Sunni alike, and upon all the living and the dead.

Source: Iraq first snow in memory

Happy Birthday to me!

Woke up today one year older, 27 big ones and counting.. with quite the awesome birthday surprise in the news: What America saw this morning: Hope

Also, the company I work for (Empire Labs) was featured in today's Portland Tribune: Portland company finds a racy niche for lifelike resin

Happy Birthday indeed. January 4th!!! WOOT WOOT!!!

Remembering the One and Only Evan Farrell

Evan... I didn't even know you for that long, but you left an impression on my soul that was quite eccentric and memorable. I don't know why you're time was chosen to be up, but you will be remembered throughout all eternity. I'm glad I was able to witness you rebuilding a house on W.13th St. throughout the entire year I lived there. I'm glad I was able to know just a glimpse of who you were. Instantly warming and forever smiling. Your soul will live on, brother. Rest in peace.

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Evan leaves behind a wife and two young sons. A memorial fund has been set up via PayPal and can be accessed by clicking here. Farewell, my friend. Your zest for life will be sorely missed. -- Jonathan Cohen

The United States Constitution

"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."

» Wiki: The U.S. Constitution

Indians.. native to America

European colonization of the Americas nearly obliterated the populations and cultures of the Native Americans. During the 16th through 19th centuries, their populations were ravaged by conflicts with European explorers and colonists, disease, displacement, enslavement, internal warfare as well as high rate of intermarriage. Scholars now believe that, among the various contributing factors, epidemic disease was the overwhelming cause of the population decline of the American natives.

» Wiki: Native Americans in the United States

Jesus Christ was an only child..

Zeitgeist: (noun) the spirit of the time; the spirit characteristic of an age or generation..




"An organism at war with itself is doomed."
Source: Zeitgeist Movie