Turnagain Arm

Lovely video essay by Mark Lester, A Spring Tide On Turnagain Arm. Music, "Almost Down," by Anchorage musician & composer, James Glaves.

Still Life

Artist and teacher Julie Green paints the Last Supper menus of death row inmates, originally as published in Oklahoma newspapers, a state where the per capita execution rate is higher than Texas. Via Open Culture.

To the left: Arkansas, 1990,  Barbecue chicken, rice & gravy, pinto bean, fresh early June peas, fresh squash, peaches, hot rolls, tea.

More here showing plates of many states.

"My long term hopes for the project," concludes the artist in the video short below,  "are that we'd stop having capital punishment .. and that I'd stop painting plates."  Amen.




The artist narrates a fuller Last Supper slide show below:

Merry Christmas

and Mele Kalikimaka with Bette Midler - enjoy!



via @therealroseanne

8 Days Of Hanukkah

(And hope you are having a happy one!)  Brought to you by Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings.

Vive La France

Je suis Paris.  Jean Julian here, the artist behind the Peace for Paris symbol.

Peace for Paris pic.twitter.com/ryf6XB2d80

— jean jullien (@jean_jullien) November 13, 2015

¡Viva Calaca!

Enjoy ¡Viva Calaca! - an animation project by the Spanish art director and designer Ritxi Ostáriz, and based on today's Mexican celebration, Dia de los Muertos (or Day of the Dead).  The soundtrack is from Day of the Dead by American singer and composer Voltaire.

off the grid

For $6,000, Segun Oyeyiola fully converts his VW Beetle to solar and wind.


*Photo credit: John Vibes, Nation of Change.