Thursday - December 06, 2007
Prince Caspian
Our family has read through the C.S. Lewis series: The Chronicles of Narnia and absolutely love the first picture. It looks like number two will be even better.
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Permalink • Tuesday - October 02, 2007
Hippies on Parade
I’ve gotten on a mailing list for a group called “Chalk 4 Peace”. I normally just delete them, but I was bored and decided to read it through. Mind you, I’m not a world-class writer, but I can turn a phrase, compose a fairly well-written letter and communicate fairly effectively with the written word.
This is a different story. What I find here is a cliche-laced screed that really doesn’t say anything meaningful. I suppose that passes for communcation these days, but if I was an actual subscriber to their “news”, I would have a hard time deciphering what we were about. Here’s the email, see what you think. (emphasis mine. Also, no editing, correction or formatting on my part. This is just like it came in)
From: A Single Blade Of Grass [mailto:a_single_blade_of_grass@infinitepssibilty.org]
Sent: Saturday, September 08, 2007 10:49 AM
To: xxx@xxx.xxx
Subject: Chalk4Peace2007 SEPT 15 -23 - The Global Street Art Event
Importance: High(Mailing List Information, including unsubscription instructions, is located at the end of this message.)
For Your Local Organiser - LOOK In The MirrorChalk4Peace2007 SEPT 15 -23 - The Global Street Art Event
“OUR STREETS ‘R OUR MEDIA -WE have TOTAL access”Wherever You Go Always Carry Chalk In Your Pocket
The pavements are an untapped media resource through which we ordinary peace loving folk can share our messages, hopes, dreams, ideas and create a new momentum towards peace - at a certain point there is critical mass in the cultural conversation which transforms into ACTION~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Please copy this & forward this to your contacts
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United Kingdom.. United States.. Egypt.. Austria.. Germany.. Canada.. Ecuador.. Puerto Rico.. France.. Chile.. Iran.. Iraq.. Mexico.. Spain.. Italy.. Cypress.. Israel.. Your Town.. -EVERYWHERE!
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http://www.infinitepossibility.org
http://www.myspace.com/chalk4peace
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Mission Possible - “Our World Working For ALL of Us”
We CAN Make THE Difference!
THE WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 15th to 23rd Chalk4Peace!
You are invited to Take Action! - ("Scroll down for WHAT CAN YOU DO?")
To Participate in this GLOBAL outpouring of public art. Where we makeour personal statements for peace on the pavements and sidewalks of our cities all over our world.
Chalk4Peace IS HAPPENING! [Not sure what is happening, but something! -Mr. C.]
All around the globe, together we are decorating, dedicating and
declaring, in deep sincerity our collective call for peace.
Chalk4Peace is about our empowerment. We The People, our global culture, all people everywhere and our common desire to live in peace.
The Chalk4Peace project has already transformed the experience of thousands of people attending dem onstrations for peace all over the world during the past 4 years. Chalk4Peace is both a tool and a conduit for non violent public self expression,
and participation in the growing global movement for peace.
Chalk4Peace is an opportunity for all of us of all ages to make our feelings known, especially the young, whose future is in dire jeopardy as our global village falls faster and faster into the fear breeding fear breeding fear spiral. [Lots of inter-breeding in this group! -Mr. C.]
Our global culture is teetering on the edge of extinction.
No 1 person alone can turn this around, but together WE CAN! [By DRAWING on PUBLIC SIDEWALKS!!!! -Mr. C.]
“The Structure of world peace cannot be the work of one man, one party,or one nation. It must be a peace which rests on the cooperative effort of the whole world”
... Eleanor Roosevelt
Our basic human instincts drive us to seek safety. This is what this chaos is all about.Our essential human survival instincts are acting out of context with the wider global cultural need resulting in mistrust, fear and conflict.
Everywhere the media bombards us with WAR TALK, distractions and negative belief patterns that encourage us to believe that the future of our world is out of our hands entirely.
One place we still have communal access to, is OUR STREETS.
We can balance our GLOBAL CONVERSATION with collective self-expression using OUR STREETS AS OUR MEDIA! [It’s all about ME, ME, ME!!!! -Mr. C.]
Chalk4Peace is one step, a catalyst that can transform our global
conversation as “we the people”, en masse make our statement that is our common aspiration for PEACE.
START NOW! Just DO IT!
Carry some chalk with you, invite a friend with you, to chalk
inspirations on the pavement whenever and wherever you fancy.
Chalk is harmless, cheap and washes away within a few days.
Especially PARTICIPATE in the Sept 15th to 23rd
GLOBAL Chalk4Peace ACTION!
Make it happen in your Community!
(Scroll down for “WHAT CAN YOU DO?")
Lets us turn our grey streets into a living river of colour and
possibility - With poetry, hearts, peace symbols, empowering statements, also expressions of our frustrations and despair.
All will be seen for several days by thousands of people, then as they are washed away by the elements WE CAN CONTINUE to find fresh places to Chalk4Peace.
We don’t need to be an artist to Chalk4Peace. Every statement, however small or large becomes part of the amazing tapestry that is our global future.
This unique event conceivably, could be the largest of its kind in
modern history. It is a global effort that is happening.
We The People are spreading the word and making the effort to be a part of this huge creative endeavour to bring Peace back into the equation.
It is our goal for at least one million or more of us to participate
with this sidewalk/pavement chalk extravaganza, at thousands of locations, in as many countries, cities and towns around the world as is possible.
So WHAT CAN YOU DO to help make this happen?
1. NETWORK/POST this email to your friends, contacts and where ever else seems appropriate
2. JOIN the Yahoo group
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Chalk4Peace
or send a blank email to:
Chalk4Peace-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
To network with others around the world who will be Chalking4Peace.
3. EMAIL:
viziondanz@infinitepossibility.org
to let us know what you are doing in your community, and please send us pictures. Or to find out how you can participate in the project.
4. ARRANGE with you local businesses, libraries, churches, mosques, synagogues, restaurants, supermarkets etc to chalk on the pavement outside their premises on the 15th - 23rd of September and whenever else.
IDENTIFY public squares such as Trafalgar Square in London and invite all your friends and your friends’ friends to show up with a few boxes of chalk, or even get some from your local quarry.
TAKE extra chalk with you to hand out to passers-by.
5. USE this Email as a press release for you local TV, Radio and
Newspapers. Let them know that Chalk4Peace is happening ASAP to get the momentum going.
6. DOCUMENT YOUR Chalk4peace actions with photos and video. Send them to your local media - copies for our website will be greatly appreciated - send to:
viziondanz@infinitepossibility.org
7. ENGAGE co-creatively in local communal efforts, strengthen
working relationships and find what it takes to stand for peace and freedom.
8. Have lots of FUN and keep on Chalking4Peace after the September event.
“FUN The Final Frontier”
How did Chalk4Peace begin?
“Message in a bottle”
http://www.infinitepossibility.org/chalk/message/
http://www.infinitepossibility.org/chalk
http://www.myspace.com/chalk4peace
for Chalk4Peace locations in America
http://www.chalk4peace.org
Its time for us to move beyond the “No to War” position and come together
“Saying Yes2Peace”
“If we don’t create our future, our past will create it for us”
http://www.infinitepossibility.org/yes1
Lets skip the war bit and just get to the peace
Greet someone new today,
look into their eyes, smile, say hello,
shake their hand ...
LET THE PEACE BEGIN!
Brian
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http://www.myspace.com/viziondanz
http://www.myspace.com/chalk4peace
http://www.infinitepossibility.org
“There is nothing wrong with our world,
we are just having a weird conversation”.
“Reclaim the conversation”
“Our New World Order IS Love!”
Dedicated to the child inside each one of us,
All the children and
All the children to come.
Just point at the hippies and laugh. They’re sweet in a sad sort of way. Wishing for what cannot come and hoping in the dust of dreams.......
Posted by Mr. Christian
on 10/02/2007 at 02:59 PM
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Permalink • Tuesday - August 07, 2007
Welcome to Cleveland
The story goes that one day in 1978, MarkGubin was having lunch on the roof of his building...in Milwaukee, with his assistant. They were commenting on the low-flying airplanes which were heading into the General Mitchell International Airport.
“Wouldn’t it be nice to have a sign welcoming everyone to Milwaukee?”, she asked.
“You know what would be even better?”, he replied.
That’s right, he got out his paint can and a roller and prceeded to write “Welcome to Cleveland” in 6-foot letters on the roof.
See it in Google Earth here.
Cleveland wanted to know if he was making fun of them, a favorite sport back then. The answer was, yes, a little.
Someone in Cleveland invited him to come there and paint a sign welcoming travelers to Milwaukee, but he was too busy making a living. He heard that someone else near Mitchell painted a roof sign saying “YOU ARE NOW LEAVING CLEVELAND,” but he doesn’t think that was true.
Here are two other things he’s been told over the years. Supposedly there was a regular Northwest Airlines flight from Denver to Cleveland that would announce to Milwaukee passengers just before landing here on a stopover that they had not missed their stop, despite what the sign says. And the security people who hover overhead when the president visits say they use his roof as a landmark because it doesn’t do much good to single out just any old roof or steeple.
That’s a good one.
Posted by Mr. Christian
on 08/07/2007 at 07:38 PM
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Permalink • Friday - June 29, 2007
Lost!
This is where I’ll be landing in late August. I just made my reservations for a conference in this fine city. Last time I was there, my hotel faced the water you see to the right and I could watch a number of aircraft flying about.
This particular airport handled about 17.4 million people in 2005 and over 152,000 tons of cargo.
Click Here for larger image
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Permalink • Street Art
After all of the political news of the past couple of days, I wanted to give you something a little lighter.
Stop-Action motion picture photography is a genre that fascinates me. The idea is to take many still photos and blend them together into what appears to be a movie. It is painstakingly tedious work with no shortcuts.
Apparently, the group Modest Mouse had a contest for folks to make a music video for them. These guys went overboard and did it with stop-action digital photos. 4,133 of them for a four minute video. They did a heck of a job in my opinion.
Enjoy.
“Myself and a couple have friends have entered the above into the Modest Mouse video competition. Using green screen footage provided by the band we cut a simple music video. We then degraded the images and printed out each frame sequentially. (all 4133 of them) We then nailed each “shot” of 50-100 posters to various structures and posts. Then using a digital SLR camera with a long exposure we frame by frame shot each poster. Oh, and theres a little video projection (again, frame by frame on the SLR) just to mix it up. There is no compositing, no shortcuts, just lots of blood, sweat and tears, and a huge Kinkos bill!”.... Max
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Permalink • Tuesday - May 29, 2007
Battleship Envy
I saw this little posting on Tam’s site this morning:
Obsession.
The capacity for the human mind to focus upon a goal and pursue it with single-minded determination is amazing. Given free reign, it is this tendency towards obsession that makes great things happen: Everest is climbed. The South Pole is reached. The Atlantic is flown solo. Diseases are conquered and devices are invented. And sometimes the same obsession goes a bit wonky and model battleships thirty feet long are built.
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Permalink • Friday - May 18, 2007
Body Art
I’m not much for tattoos. Some look OK, but most (IMHO) do not.
Here’s an example of the latter:
Good grief man, what were you thinking?
(Via Ride Fast and Shoot Straight)
Posted by Mr. Christian
on 05/18/2007 at 08:47 AM
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Permalink • Thursday - May 17, 2007
Through The Looking Glass
(BBC) - Thursday, 17 May 2007, 10:24 GMT 11:24 UK
A pair of passenger trains have crossed the heavily fortified border between North and South Korea for the first time in more than 50 years. The two trains - one travelling from the North and one from the South - each carried 150 invited passengers.
South Korea hailed it as a landmark in relations between the two countries. But Thursday’s crossing remains largely symbolic, the BBC’s Charles Scanlon says. North Korea has so far only agreed to a one-off test-run.
For that, our correspondent adds, Pyongyang has demanded a high price. South Korea has agreed to supply it with $80 million (£41m) worth of economic aid for the development of light industry.
Posted by The Skipper
on 05/17/2007 at 05:29 PM
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Permalink • Saturday - May 12, 2007
Photo Of The Week
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Permalink • Friday - April 27, 2007
Fantasy Island
TGIF! And none too soon! It’s Miller Time so shake loose from that job, slip into some comfortable clothes and go unwind, gang. I’ll leave you today with a picture of one of the dream factories out on the Left Coast. Have a good weekend! (and check back for fun stuff tomorrow)
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on 04/27/2007 at 05:26 PM
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Permalink • Friday - April 13, 2007
Trinity Site Visit
Macker went to the Trinity Site. Go see his photos of the tour.
Amazing stuff. I bet it was awe-inspiring.
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Permalink • Thursday - April 12, 2007
Through The Looking Glass
“Tralfamador”
The Tralfamadorians are real to Billy because without them he cannot live with himself. Billy believes that he was taken by a Tralfamdorian ship to be an exhibit of a human being in a Tralfamdorian Zoo. On Tralfamador, Billy is exposed to an entire new way of thinking which neutralizes the “Why me?” question. In the Tralfamdorian view of the Universe, guilt does not exist because in their view one is not responsible for one’s actions. Whatever will, or has happened will always happen and did always happen. There is no way to change the course of events. Everything is predetermined. Billy is told by the Tralfamadores (regarding Tralfamador) that:
“Today we do (have peace). On other days we have wars as horrible as any you’ve ever seen or read about. There isn’t anything we can do about them, so we simply don’t look at them. We ignore them. We spend eternity looking at pleasant moments.”
The Tralfamadorians even now question as to when and who will destroy the Universe, yet they make no attempt to stop it because in their eyes it cannot be stopped. Billy, by accepting the Tralfamadorian view, frees himself from the guilt which one feels when one is locked in time and responsible for one’s actions. Billy Pilgrim grasps the Tralfamadorian philosophy and insists the Tralfamadorian world exists because it eliminates the “Why me?” question. Guilt is a feeling of responsibility or remorse for some offense, crime wrong; a feeling of culpability.
For example if one steals a hundred dollars, one would feel remorse over that action and wish one had not done it. Under the Tralfamadorian outlook Billy Pilgrim does not have to feel remorse for being saved because that is how it was and always will happen. He does not have to feel guilt or remorse because there is no reason to. There is nothing that can be done about war and death, “they are as easy to stop as glaciers.” The death of all those innocent people could not be stopped, it was predetermined by some unknown force just as the destruction of the Universe, by a Tralfamadorian testing a new fuel, is also predetermined and unstoppable.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, “Slaughterhouse Five”
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Permalink • Friday - April 06, 2007
Through The Looking Glass
“The Other Iraq”
I came across this picture in the photo gallery of the Washington Post’s “Today In Photos” for April 6. I had to just sit and stare at it for several minutes. I couldn’t help but think what a contrast this idyllic setting with children playing and their parents resting in the sun in Baghdad’s al-Zawraa public park is with the normal images we get from the media in Iraq.
My first thought was “Hey! This can’t be Central Command propaganda as the anti-war activists would probably claim! This came from the Washington Post, of all places.” My second thought was “Why don’t we see more of these pictures?”
I’m sure the terrorists and murdering thugs who are killing people in Iraq ever day make moments like this few and far between but would it hurt to actually show pictures like this to (a) show Americans that life is starting to return to normal in Iraq and (b) show the terrorists they are losing the battle?
I know. Stupid question. The lamestream media will have none of it since the defeat of American troops, the failure of democracy in Iraq and subsequent humiliation of President Bush is more important to them.
I wish these people well. Enjoy the beautiful springtime weather while you can. It will get better if we stick to our goals. Peace be upon you all.
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Permalink • Thursday - April 05, 2007
Through The Looking Glass
-- Photo by Air Force Staff Sgt. Stacy L. Pearsall
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