Image: Intruder
Source: Intruder and Center on Contemporary Arts
The official release of Seattle’s newest underground comic newspaper INTRUDER is happening March 29th 6-9pm.
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the great carbon bubble: why the fossil fuel industry fights so hard
“The U.S. and Canada are virtually snow-free and cloud-free, which is extremely rare for a January day. The lack of snow in the mountains of the Western U.S. is particularly unusual. I doubt one could find a January day this cloud-free with so little snow on the ground throughout the entire satellite record, going back to the early 1960s.”
Image: Creative Commons / NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Source: Bill McKibbin for Common Dreams
Contributed by: Jen’z Ink
If we could see the world with a particularly illuminating set of spectacles, one of its most prominent features at the moment would be a giant carbon bubble, whose bursting someday will make the housing bubble of 2007 look like a lark. As yet — as we shall see — it’s unfortunately largely invisible to us.
bavarder: with jen’z ink
Image: Jen’z Ink
I was chatting with an old college friend and wanted to pick her brain for a bit. Jen has always had a uniquely honest perspective on reality and issues affecting the world, so when she told me that she has an entire folder on her computer named “this scares me,” I knew she’d come through for the first bavarder piece.
franklin by vidal
Image: Mikeal Béland
Source: Democracy Now and Gore Vidal
An excerpt from XXI
A Transcript with Gore Vidal (2003) for Democracy Now
There’s a quotation from Benjamin Franklin and you cannot find it in any of the high school history books, and not even in the proper history books (except rarely) . . . and it occurred. Franklin has always been depicted as one of the great ‘bores’ of the Founding Fathers, and he was of course one of the most interesting.
stuck in the middle
Source: Cody Standish
Just in time for Spring—a selection from Critics & Rainstorms by Montana poet Cody Standish.
the power of positive thinking
Rick Hoffman with Sheikh Hamdan of UAE
Photos & Article: Rick Hoffman
You too can meet Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum . . .
marissa mulder at the metropolitan room
Photo: Mikeal Béland
Source: www.marissamulder.com
Marissa Mulder sings “Look to Your Heart” the songs of Jimmy Van Heusen on November 16th and December 14th at the Metropolitan Room.
yes virginia, there is class warfare
Image: www.planetpov.com
Source: www.planetpov.com
There’s an old saying, “If you don’t know you’re in a war, you’ve already lost.”
Americans seem to know that corporations and the wealthy are accumulating the power and wealth of this nation for themselves . . . and yet, this awareness seems totally disconnected for many Americans from the concept of class warfare.
short run
Images: Billis Helg
Source: www.shortrun.org
Saturday, November 12, 2011
6:00 – 9:00 PM
Continues through December 7, 2011
Featuring Artwork from
Max Clotfelter, Patrick Keck, Martine Workman, Elaine Lin, Jaston T. Miles, Chris Cilla, Andrice Arp, Tim Root, Billis Helg, Marc Palm, Eroyn Franklin, Tom Van, Deusen, Tim Miller, Tory Franklin, Jesse Reklaw, Sean Christensen, and Erin Tanner; Curated by Kelly Froch
Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery
bren sullivan
Photos: Mikeal Béland
Source: www.brensullivan.com
Bren’s imperfect doll-like figurative work represents a sense of re-birth and ascension to a spiritual place free from the imposed bonds of vanity and perfection, religious dogma, and attitudes of intolerance.
unspeakable: disability history, identity, and rights
Photo: Mikeal Béland
Source: uwdisability.wordpress.com
“Unspeakable” features lectures by invited scholarly experts who work on topics in disability studies that complement the subject matter of the Willard Suitcases Exhibit. Each presentation will be followed by ample time for audience discussion. Geoffrey Reaume of York University will talk about his research and activism around the history of mental institutions and patient labor in Canada. Philip Ferguson of the School of Educational Studies at Chapman University will discuss his research on historical examples of family-professional interactions in institutions for people with intellectual disabilities. Jeffrey Brune, a UW History graduate who now teaches at Gallaudet University, will speak about the significance of John Howard Griffin’s intersecting racial, sexual and disability identities in his book Black Like Me. Licia Carlson will speak about work she has done on philosophy, gender, and intellectual disability. Several of these scholars will also lead discussions after the Tuesday night film screenings.
winter solstice lunar eclipse
Photo: Mikeal Béland
Captured in the crisp early morning at 1:17 AM (MST) in freezing temperatures, the once in a lifetime lunar eclipse—last observed on the Winter Solstice in 1638—was well worth the numb toes.
Read more at National Geographic
an environmental disaster unfolds
Photo: Gerald Herbert/Associated Press
Source: www.nytimes.com
An explosion on April 20 destroyed the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gul of Mexico and caused a massive leak that, by one estimate, may be gushing more than 1 million gallons of oil a day into the waters.The spill has disrupted much of the Gulf region’s economy and has stirred criticism of the Obama administration’s response to what appears to be the worst oil disaster in American history.
See the full story from the NY Times
