September 28, 2009

Cecil Jones

9 years old.


Healthcare Reform

Merchandise (not mine) here.

Related only topically: Michael Moore on Twitter: “CBS has cancelled me on its Mon. morning show. After I criticized ABC/Disney on GMA, they didn’t want me to do same to CBS.”

Moore was on ABC’s Good Morning America last week and called out ABC’s practice of hiring “permalancers.” Here’s what Moore said, on the air:

“People backstage here — they don’t get to be real employees here [, so] they don’t get the benefits . . . I said ‘Guy, I was here two years ago, you were a freelancer, what are you doing here?’ — right backstage here at ABC — he said, ‘We call ourselves permalancers now.’ They don’t get to share in just the basic benefits that an employee used to have who worked here. . . .”

More here.

September 17, 2009

Kanyeliciou.us-ness

If you or a friend has a website, go here and paste the URL in.

"The Mountain"

by Jill Foley, at Conduit. For more visuals, go here.

I didn't necessarily expect to like this work but was quickly won over. Foley's put a lot into creating a cardboard cave that (1) serves as her workspace for the duration (her cardboard-encased computer's installed there, among other things, along with her work table and supplies), (2) showcases her other work, and (3) accommodates weekly happenings in which the public is invited to participate.* Think Pee Wee's Playhouse meets Lascaux, only cozier and more participatory {though Pee Wee's was relatively participatory, for tv: SCREAM REAL LOUD!!!}.

The pic at left shows the cave (through one of its several entrances) in preparation for Poetry Slam Night, at which Foley emcee'd while wearing the giant puppet/costume shown resting behind the speakers (click on the image for a larger version).

*The remaining happenings are:

Thursday, Sept. 24, 6:30-8:30, Yet to Be Named Night: Piñatas, games, craft table for participants, and performances by DJ Low Rez &
DJ Coogie

Thursday, Oct. 1, 6:30-8:30, Holiday Night: ALL holidays will be celebrated in one night.

The exhibition continues through Oct. 10.

More Fun

(Published in 2006.) Available at amazon together with "Dow, 30,000 by 2008", Why It's Different this Time for only $36.60.

Congress to End Poverty by Requiring All Americans to Become Wealthy or Face Fines

Hey, if it works for healthcare reform . . . . (re- Senator Baucus's "reform" bill; see Howard Dean's take here). (Thanks, "unblock"!)

Transitory Art in Seattle

In Seattle, a block of cool old buildings were slated for demolition in order to make room for a new light rail station, and the tenants had to be out six mos. before demolition began. Artists were invited to fill the storefronts during the interim, so the block wouldn't become a "dead zone."



More details at seattlepi (thanks, Dan!).

September 15, 2009

KittyWigs the Book

Finally, the serious portraiture cats so richly deserve.

Text by my friend Julie Jackson, creator of Subversive Cross Stitch and Kitty Wigs, with photos by Jill Johnson. Available at amazon; more info at kittywigs.com.

UPDATE: Glamourpuss has made Nylon, the cover of Publisher's Weekly, and The Dallas Observer's "Best of Dallas."