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The Deepwater Horizon

July 12, 2010

by Austin Valley 08-25-2010 126 days after the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform exploded off the Gulf of Mexico, unleashing the worst environmental disaster in U.S. history, a drastically more dire and ominous reality has now been revealed. What officials initially believed to be a small leak of a 100,000 barrels of oil with estimated pressures [...]

Slow Revolutions: Part 1

June 25, 2010

by Katie Pritchard On the other side of the Divide in the open rangelands of Montana, my feet make one revolution after another, attached to pedals by my shoes which are attached to me. When I straddle the frame of my bike, click one foot in, push off and press the other one into place, [...]

The Voice of Your Generation

May 14, 2010

by Tully Thibeau Being the voice of my generation would be pretty cool, I always thought, until last night, that is, as I watched some seemingly well-intentioned film documentary of the life and time of Mr. Jack Kerouac upon his production of the piece he entitled Big Sur. Jesus, man, for me it turned becoming [...]

Sand in My Pants (The Man Who Knew): Part 2 of 2

May 4, 2010

by Terk Follos To read part one, click HERE The actuality of it all is that we are nowhere. We are in our brains. We are in our thoughts. We are in our universe within the universe that we think and know to be what is real. But the universe is also in us. We [...]

More Simple or More Complex?

May 1, 2010

by Caroline McCarty This is a response to S. Ray’s recent entry about Augmented Reality and the evolution of human consciousness. Many questions are posed- you are invited to respond to these questions, as public discussion is the festive and appropriate next step. Augmented Reality has allowed us to modify our individual perspectives of the [...]

Sand In My Pants: Part 1 of 2

April 24, 2010

by Terk Follos My first account here was from a time when I was lonely. My discoveries at the time had not yet meshed with the actuality of my environment and I, thus, had not embodied the essence of what I was thinking. It wasn’t until later that I realized it was the embodiment of [...]

Making Ugly Utilities Attractive

April 1, 2010

An interview with Christos Hamawi, a painter in the South End of Boston, about his recent community arts endeavor painting utility boxes around Boston for the Boston Art Commission’s “Paintbox” program. In the words of the Boston Art Commission: “The PaintBox program, organized by the Boston Art Commission, is geared towards the recognition and celebration of [...]