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SEEN: "riot not diet" stencil, linen district, downtown boise

SEEN: "riot not diet" stencil, linen district, downtown boise

nollifur : the halloween show october 30 & 31

nollifur : the halloween show october 30 & 31, originally uploaded by arecity.

this halloween - this is what's to do.

and not just because i'm participating - but because it's going to be unlike anything you've seen in a long long time.

come.

arecity throws a costume party

at Modern Art 2009, at The Modern Hotel in Downtown Boise, arecity transformed Room 222 into a Participatory Costume Photo Shoot between 5:00 and 9:30pm on May 7th.

 

The Modern Hotel Blog has a post about the project as well.  

More Photos of the entire Modern Art Event are Here
(please forgive the link to F15 - i generally dislike their style/methods - but they have the most comprehensive photoset)

TODAY'S VISUALIZATION

Enormous Undulating

brought to you by Jim Risch, US Senator from Idaho

Sen Risch hopes by Thanksgiving, we'll be able to identify improvement with either the "enormous" spending package or the vagaries of an "undulating" world economy, or some other way - like with better policy - he said today in his first speech in the Senate, where they were debating the Stimulus Package.  It passed, 61-36.

Afterward, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell gives him some love, as does Sen. Max Baucus - Democratic Senator from Montana.  Baucus explains that although he strongly disagrees with Risch, he hopes to work together in the future on Western Issues.

< listen here >   < House vs Senate #s >   < AP overview  another AP view >

 

ABOUT THE IMAGE:  One of Santiago Calatrava's finest works is the Bodegas Ysios in Laguardia, Alva, Spain. Its undulating roof and silvery edges are equisitely articulated.
from the Metropolitan Museum of Art

obama campaign secret: blue state digital

Curious how the inter-connectivity of the Obama campaign comes together? 
Blue State Digital has answers.

election 2008 map-o-gasm

maps of election party voting trends by Mark Newman, Department of Physics and Center for the Study of Complex Systems, University of Michigan for data nerds everywhere.

Surviving Internet Fame

dancing matt & tron guy talk about their meme experience

via ROLFcon Respectably French

featuring LOL Cats, I Can Has Case Study
and Making It Big (Homestar Runner, Red vs Blue, Superdelux, Cyanide & Happiness)

more nutritional plastic: usb flavor

via Tokyo Mango

republican party floating skuttle about set being "over the top"

apparently, the republican party has completely missed the fact that unlit, the obama stage looks eerily like George Bush's stage - only wider.  see images below.

one tidbit: for all those who believe the "polls" that say they're neck in neck . . . obama brings in 75,000+ and mccain is having difficulty gathering 10K at his running mate announcement speech tomorrow @ 11am EST.

STAGE DESIGN: bush 04 & obama 08

BUSH 2004

OBAMA 2008

i hate the circle with the stairs surrounding.

to listen to alex jones try and drown out the live feed on MSNBC with a cry of "9-11 Was An Inside Job" watch/listen online

a diagram: swiftboating obama

(click graphic for larger image)

As has been extensively documented, many of the criticisms Obama has faced are based on outright falsehoods. The truth is that he is a Christian, not a Muslim; he was born in the United States; he doesn't refuse to recite the Pledge of Allegiance; he wasn't endorsed by Fidel Castro; and so on. Other attacks are outrageous distortions with a kernel of truth at their core.

The diagram below shows how the seemingly disconnected attacks on Obama all drive in a similar direction. Each begins with some aspect of Obama's history, family, personal characteristics, or beliefs. The attack then moves to one of three broad themes: that Obama is a Muslim or somehow foreign; that he represents a black radicalism more at home in the 1960s than today; or that he is a liberal elitist with a radical, even socialist agenda.

Some of the attacks touch on two or even all three of these themes, which is why they are represented in a Venn diagram. But all the attacks ultimately point to the conclusion that Obama is "not one of us," as the expression goes -- not Christian, not white, not mainstream, not even American.

Just as the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth unleashed on the public a dossier of lies about John Kerry in 2004, this new campaign is on a mission to spread misinformation about a presidential candidate. We call it "Swiftboating 2.0" not only because it is the latest model of a political smear campaign, but also because it shares features of "Web 2.0" sites like Facebook and MySpace: significant portions of the content are generated by ordinary people and are spread from peer to peer. Swiftboating 2.0 combines these new information pathways with traditional media -- books from conservative publishers, right-wing radio, and conservative pundits and strategists on television -- to spread the smears as widely as possible and force them into the mainstream media.

To understand the attacks on Obama, one must acknowledge that they operate together, as one coherent, thematically unified campaign: Swiftboating 2.0.

via Mediamatters

possible designs for convention stages

 RNC
 

 DNC
 

 

 via Centrist Voice and Barack Obama's Flickr

La famille s'agrandit...

www.chezjacky.org

That Thing Which You Fight You Become

via southwark lido

Surely that thing which you fight you become. ...If I am angry and you meet me with anger what is the result? More anger. You have become that which I am. If I am evil and you fight me with evil means then you also become evil, however righteous you may feel. If I am brutal and you use brutal methods to overcome me, then you become brutal like me. And this we have done for thousands of years. Surely there is a different approach than to meet hate by hate? If I use violent methods to quell anger in myself then I am using wrong means for a right end, and thereby the right end ceases to be. In this there is no understanding; there is no transcending anger. Anger is to be studied tolerantly and understood; it is not to be overcome through violent means. Anger may be the result of many causes and without comprehending them there is no escape from anger.

We have created the enemy, the bandit, and becoming ourselves the enemy in no way brings about an end to enmity. We have to understand the cause of enmity and cease to feed it by our thought, feeling, and action. This is an arduous task demanding constant self-awareness and intelligent pliability, for what we are the society, the state is. The enemy and the friend are the outcome of our thought and action. We are responsible for creating enmity and so it is more important to be aware of our own thought and action than to be concerned with the foe and the friend, for right thinking puts an end to division. Love transcends the friend and the enemy.

The Book of Life - June 30
JKrishnamurti.org

shadow monsters

by phillip worther

two amazing new places in nampa

The Brass Razoo

Puffy Mondaes

a pixel couch

cartography of crops in the US

via ilovesubstance

kitsune loves chez jacky

Studio Chez Jacky

Billboard Liberation Front

PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

February 27, 2008
San Francisco, CA

The Billboard Liberation Front today announced a major new advertising improvement campaign executed on behalf of clients AT&T and the National Security Agency. Focusing on billboards in the San Francisco area, this improvement action is designed to promote and celebrate the innovative collaboration of these two global communications giants.

“This campaign is an extraordinary rendition of a public-private partnership,” observed BLF spokesperson Blank DeCoverly. “These two titans of telecom have a long and intimate relationship, dating back to the age of the telegraph. In these dark days of Terrorism, that should be a comfort to every law-abiding citizen with nothing to hide.”

AT&T initially downplayed its heroic efforts in the War on Terror, preferring to serve in silence behind the scenes. “But then we realized we had a PR win on our hands,” noted AT&T V.P. of Homeland Security James Croppy. “Not only were we helping NSA cut through the cumbersome red tape of the FISA system, we were also helping our customers by handing over their e-mails and phone records to the government. Modern life is so hectic – who has time to cc the feds on every message? It’s a great example of how we anticipate our customers’ needs and act on them. And, it should be pointed out, we offered this service free of charge.”

Commenting on the action, and responding to questions about pending privacy litigation and the stalled Congressional effort to shield the telecoms from these lawsuits, NSA spokesperson [REDACTED] remarked: “[REDACTED] we [REDACTED] condone [REDACTED] warrantless [REDACTED], [REDACTED] SIGINT intercepts, [REDACTED] torture [REDACTED] information retrieval by [REDACTED] means necessary.”

“It’s a win-win-win situation,” noted the BLF’s DeCoverly. “NSA gets the data it needs to keep America safe, telecom customers get free services, and AT&T makes a fortune. That kind of cooperation between the public and private sectors should serve as a model to all of us, and a harbinger of things to come.”

Come see the improvement at 14th St. and Valencia St. in San Francisco

The BLF (www.billboardliberation.com) has been improving outdoor advertising since 1977. Prior campaigns have included work for Exxon, R.J. Reynolds, and Apple Computers.

AT&T (www.att.com) is America’s favorite telecommunications trust. Based in San Antonio, Texas, it has over 300,000 employees and annual revenues of $117 Billion.

NSA (www.nsa.gov) is the largest intelligence organization in the world. Headquartered at Fort Meade, Maryland, its budget, personnel, products, and services are all classified.

Blank DeCoverly
BLF Minister of Propaganda