Archive for October 26, 2012

| October 26, 2012

The Trading Tortoise


Part of the whole Common Folk Collective theme of things is appreciating art that is functional and finding ways to live life in creative ways, appreciating the difference between simply creating art and being a true artist. I’m really salty I missed The Trading Tortoise traveling art project when it came through Milwaukee.

Basically Souther Salazar and Monica Choy wanted to take a road trip across the states but also wanted to interact with the communities they drove through and give something back as they went along. Being the creatives they are, it was only logical (in their upside down, wacky, creative universe) that their trip turn into a traveling art project/trading post. They built a Trading Tortoise.

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| October 26, 2012

Economics vs. Economics

A Yale University economist constructed an election model that forecasts the presidential winner by plugging in inflation and gross domestic numbers. The hypothesis is that a large percentage of voters (either consciously or subconsciously) use their account balance as a voter guide. Right now the crisis in Europe is a drag on the U.S. economy. Wouldn’t it be ironic if the economic crisis in “socialist” Europe helped Romney, killing “socialist, European” health policy in the U.S? (H/T: WSJ)

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Category: politics |
| October 26, 2012

The Onion

Again, The Onion exposes the temerity of serious journalism to examine what’s at the end of everybody’s nose:

Mitt Romney is a member of a religion that we apparently all have to pretend is just a religion like any other. Gov. Romeny’s religion, which we all have to say is no more odd than any other major religion, even though we know for fact that that it is, because — holy shit, just look at it — is expected to play a minor role in this year’s election. Which is crazy because it really should be the very first thing anyone talks about when Mitt Romney’s name is brought up seeing as it deeply informs virtually every aspect of his personal and professional life.

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Category: Uncategorized |
| October 25, 2012

Roger Ebert

Ebert quits narrative in his review of the Wachowski’s three hour experiment:

I was never, ever bored by “Cloud Atlas.” On my second viewing, I gave up any attempt to work out the logical connections between the segments, stories and characters. What was important was that I set my mind free to play.

There’s lots of reasons to love Ebert. Prime is that he’s never forgotten his core curiosity in the medium he covers. Cynical critics are sometimes more entertaining, but in the end, considering the crap he’s been forced to watch, his writing is simply wonderful — literally “full of wonder.”

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Category: Movies |
| October 25, 2012

Turn Off the Radio

I used to religiously listen to the wonderful East Village Radio weekly Fat Beats podcast but a few years ago it stopped working as a podcast and fell off my radar and apparently has fallen off of EVR as well. Yesterday I discovered that the always amazing Rhymesayers Entertainment has a podcast and if you aren’t into the whole iTunes vibe you can stream it from their radio link

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Category: DCDan, Hip Hop, music | Tags: ,
| October 24, 2012

The Art of the Horrible Toast

Justin Timberlake’s best buddy took to the genre of “bad video wedding toast” by making an eight minute film, which punk’d the homeless and mentally ill of downtown Los Angeles. The video was shown to all the guests at Timberlake’s recent nuptial to Jessica Biel. Gawker has a clip.

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Category: bad at life |
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