BEAT IT UP LIKE A DRUMMER

This is one of the coolest music videos I have seen in a very very long time. Who needs the laws of physics?

Kudos Keith.
Mims video by Keith Schofield

CARNEVALE

Carnevale-7489, originally uploaded by ebeastie.

This past weekend I went to the final day of Carnevale in Venezia and grabbed some photos. So much fun. All night parties, little kids running around (all dressed as Spiderman, which was strange), masks, legit spritz, traditional fritelle, it was good times.

Check em out.

THE REVOLUTION IS SAVED

Hugo Chavez won a victory today to lift presidential term limits originally standing at two six year terms. A similar referendum which failed in 2007 today was passed with a 54% victory. In the past ten years Chavez has not completed his grand plan of spreading his brand of government throughout Latin America and the next ten years look to be increasingly difficult. Venezuela has the highest inflation in Latin America, running at just under 30% a year and faces many social problems. We will see if his brand of democratic socialism will be able to withstand the global financial crisis and increasing modern glibalization.
bbc article

YOU AIN'T MY BITCH, NIGGA

Hilarious excerpts from Obama reading from Dreams From My Father where he quotes a high school friend of his who has quite a mouth. see original thread here

Scope a sample:






bitch please.

SHOPPING AND SUSTAINABILITY

Shortly after the end of the war, retailing analyst Victor Lebow expressed the solution: "Our enormously productive economy . . . demands that we make consumption our way of life, that we convert the buying and use of goods into rituals, that we seek our spiritual satisfaction, our ego satisfaction, in consumption . . . we need things consumed, burned up, replaced and discarded at an ever-accelerating rate."

President Eisenhower's Council of Economic Advisors Chairman stated: "The American economy's ultimate purpose is to produce more consumer goods." Not better health care, education, housing, transportation or recreation or less poverty and hunger, but providing more stuff to consumers. -The Green Pages

Around the same time the concept of Planned Obsolescence came into favor and has dominated modern capitalism ever since. See Vance Packard


"The goal is a delightfully diverse, safe, healthy, and just world, with clean air, water, soil and power - economically equitable, ecologically and elegantly enjoyed."
-William McDonough


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PRESENT TIME!

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HI-V

I heard you can get that from kissing...




Improv Everywhere is once again brightening the life New Yorkers. Rob gave out 2000 Hi Fives in 45 mins. I love the businessman around 1:30.


Stellar!