Common Folk Collective » recycled http://commonfolkcollective.com/blog Common Folk Doing Uncommon Things Tue, 15 Mar 2016 17:08:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9 Paleo, Old Street View and Eurotrash http://commonfolkcollective.com/blog/2013/04/paleo-old-street-view-and-eurotrash/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=paleo-old-street-view-and-eurotrash http://commonfolkcollective.com/blog/2013/04/paleo-old-street-view-and-eurotrash/#comments Tue, 30 Apr 2013 19:24:22 +0000 http://commonfolkcollective.com/blog/?p=3675 The most important part of every fad diet is posting about it constantly to Facebook.

Streets have history naturally San Francisco has an online version.

More Eurotrash is better for the environment?

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Pedro Reyes is an ingenious artist, the kind we love here at the CFC. Building off his project from 2008, Palas por Pistolas (1527 guns and weapons were melted down and fashioned into shovels that were then used to plant 1527 trees), he hits us with Imagine. Apparently the Mexican government caught wind of his projects and offered him all the metal from a public destruction of weapons they were having in Juarez. He took them up on their offer and this time took to turning instruments of death and violence into instruments of…musical.

“It’s important to consider that many lives were taken with these weapons; as if a sort of exorcism was taking place the music expelled the demons they held, as well as being a requiem for lives lost.”

Video, photos, quotes…

 

“There is a disparity between visible and invisible violence. The nearly 80,000 deaths by gun-shot that have occurred in Mexico in the last 6 years, or the school shootings in the US are the visible side of violence. The invisible side is that one of gun trade-shows, neglecting assault rifle bans, and shareholder profit from public companies. This is a large industry of death and suffering for which no cultural rejection is expressed.Guns continue to be depicted as something sexy both in Hollywood and in videogames”

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]]> http://commonfolkcollective.com/blog/2012/11/pedro-reyes-imagine/feed/ 0 Weapon of Mass Instruction Art Car http://commonfolkcollective.com/blog/2012/04/weapon-of-mass-instruction-art-car/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=weapon-of-mass-instruction-art-car http://commonfolkcollective.com/blog/2012/04/weapon-of-mass-instruction-art-car/#comments Wed, 18 Apr 2012 05:01:20 +0000 https://commonfolkcollective.com/blog/?p=221 Sometimes people have crazy ideas. Sometimes people have lots of drive. Rarely someone has both. When I come across things like this I actually start to believe we can, as individuals or as a group, really change lives and make living livable. Awesome.

From MakeZine.com-

“Raul Lemesoff, an Argentine art-car artist, has taken a 1979 Ford Falcon that used to belong to the Argentine armed forces and turned into a ‘Weapon of Mass Instruction.’ Armed with 900 or so books Lemesoff travels the streets of Buenos Aires and beyond offering free books to all. He sees his ‘Weapon of Mass Instruction’ as a “contribution to peace through literature.”

 

Argentina - Raul Lemesoff(From Raul Lemesoff Flickr)

(From LaughingSquid.com)

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