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MARCH 15: Illuminate Downtown Boise

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DIY or DIE

Christmas Tree Poster

via Super Punch

Hyde Park . . . London

Launched in June 2006, the 14.5m (48ft) Solarshuttle silently shuffles across the Serpentine at a stately 4mph, powered entirely by solar power. - from urban75.org

circutbending workshop

> More Information at www.bocon.org

-found on thch blog, " UFO Houses"

“Myoung Ho Lee, a young artist from South Korea, has produced an elaborate series of photographs that pose some unusual questions about representation, reality, art, environment and seeing. Simple in concept, complex in execution, he makes us look at a tree in its natural surroundings, but separates the tree artificially from nature by presenting it on an immense white ground, as one would see a painting or photograph on a billboard.” - from Daily Awesome

who you gonna call - the cia??

DCI Counterterrorist Center "Terrorist Buster" Logo - from Princess Sparkle Pony

FROM THE CIA WEBSITE:

Q: How do you define terrorism?

A: The Intelligence Community is guided by the definition of terrorism contained in Title 22 of the US Code, Section 2656f(d):

• The term “terrorism” means premeditated, politically motivated violence perpetrated against noncombatant targets by subnational groups or clandestine agents, usually intended to influence an audience.

• The term “international terrorism” means terrorism involving the territory or the citizens of more than one country.

• The term “terrorist group” means any group that practices, or has significant subgroups that practice, international terrorism.

From Today's Democracy Now

A group of Democratic and Republican members of Congress have personally apologized to Maher Arar. He is the Canadian citizen who was seized by U.S. officials in 2002 at JFK Airport in New York and secretly flown to Syria as part of the Bush administration’s extraordinary rendition program. In Syria, Arar was held for almost a year in a grave-like cell and repeatedly tortured. He was released without ever being charged with a crime.

"On October 8th at 3:00 in the morning, I was awakened and told that they had decided to remove me to Syria. By then, it was becoming more and more clear to me that I was being sent to Syria for the purpose of being tortured. There, I was put in a dark underground cell that was more like a grave. It was three feet wide, six feet deep and seven feet high. Life in that cell was hell. I spent ten months and ten days in that grave.

During the early days of my detention, I was interrogated and physically tortured. I was beaten with an electrical cable and threatened with a metal chair, the tire and electric shocks. I was forced to falsely confess that I had been to Afghanistan. When I was not being beaten, I was put in a waiting room so that I could hear the screams of other prisoners. The cries of the women still haunt me the most.

After 374 days of torture and wrongful detention, I was finally released to Canadian embassy officials on October 5, 2003."

>> WATCH HERE

the world outside the desert moat is teaming with art

> Art Torrents

THEIR INSPIRATION:  The torrent’s i refer to on this site, along with the blog’s/site’s listed below, is a picture of what art torrents find inspiring. Some of the torrent’s featured here are copied directly from the bit torrent tracker karagarga and some, mostly the scanned work, is my own contribution.

I have absolutely no interest in writing about my opinion. The role of this site is to make otherwise hidden information visible to a different audience.

or an audience that lives in the middle of nowhere . . .

 

> aaaarg.org

AAAARG is a conversation platform - at different times it performs as a school, or a reading group, or a journal. 

AAAARG was created with the intention of developing critical discourse outside of an institutional framework. But rather than thinking of it like a new building, imagine scaffolding that attaches onto existing buildings and creates new architectures between them.

justseeds.org

Justseeds/Visual Resistance Artists' Cooperative is a decentralized community of artists who have banded together to both sell their work online in a central location and to collaborate with and support each other and social movements. Our website is not just a place to shop, but also a destination to find out about current events in radical art and culture. Our blog covers political printmaking, socially engaged street art, and culture related to social movements. We believe in the power of personal expression in concert with collective action to transform society.

> Featuring Cut & Paint, an online resource for printable stencils for beautification of your city.

plasm

PLAZM, the Northwest’s premier magazine of art, design, and culture, is putting out its largest issue ever.

> see a video of every page of plasm mag

> read their interview with emigre

> listen to "make the logo bigger" (mp3 from under consideration)