Tweet Flower’s bloomin’, mornin’ dew And the beauty seems to say It’s a pleasure when you treasure All that’s new and true and gay Easy livin’ and we’re givin’ What we know we’re dreamin’ of We are one havin’ fun Walkin’ in the glow of love Walking, ooh, whoa, ho…oh…whoa… Smilin’ faces, goin’ places It’s…
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Waste Land Documentary – Artist Vik Muniz talks Good Trash
TweetI saw Waste Land on Tuesday night at the Nuart and thought it was well done. This Lucy Walker directed documentary, follows New York based Brazilian artist, Vik Muniz to his birth country in his quest to create art out of waste. In the process, he connects with an unlikely crew of intriguing trash collectors…
Stand By Me | Playing For Change | Song Around the World
TweetNow, this is what I call global harmony! From the award-winning documentary, “Playing For Change: Peace Through Music”, comes the first of many “songs around the world” being released independently. Featured is a cover of the Ben E. King classic by musicians around the world adding their part to the song as it traveled the…
LAY DOWN YOUR ARMS
TweetPoem Without A Title by Charles Simic I say to the lead Why did you let yourself Be cast into a bullet? Have you forgotten the alchemists? Have you given up hope In turning into gold? Nobody answers. Lead. Bullet. With names Such as these The sleep is deep and long. In a recurring dream,…
DREAMS OF MY ANCESTORS
Tweet Everything that was not suffered to the end and finally concluded, recurred and the same sorrows were undergone. ~ Siddhartha by Herman Hesse. In recurring – often mystical – dreams, all my presumptions are encapsulated. What, after all, is more presumptuous than a dream? OMID – HOPE (PERSIAN) I sent my Soul through the…
HELL – An investigation of context.
TweetThe pump jack breathes life into the oil industry and powers the ambulance that rushes grandma to hospital while simultaneously sucking breath out of communities that supply oil. In what has been termed, “the resource curse,” the paradox of oil is that it fuels economies, wealth, exploitation, environmental degradation, poverty and conflict.
Witness – Taft, California Warning – Dec 30 2008
Tweet Fear is not the natural state of civilized people. – Aung San Suu Kyi
Planet in Peril – Niger Delta Oil
Tweet Planet in Peril 6:16 Lisa Ling travels to the Niger Delta, where the thirst for oil has created a deadly situation.