It’s kind of too crazy to be real. People on Long Island literally trampled a worker to death at a Wal-Mart and seriously injured and 8-months pregnant woman.
Monthly Archive for November, 2008
Here’s an image from an old post that wouldn’t show up until I moved it to flickr.
Does anyone know how to reliably import blogger hosted images to self-hosted wordpress sites? For the first two years of antleredlife, before I knew better, I was a .blogspot.com. I know! Awful. I hosted my images there too. WP has a rad importing tool built right in for your posts, but it will not suck out your blogger/google hosted images and google very strictly doesn’t allow hotlinking. Sometimes it seems to forget but that’s no safe bet. I found this BLOGGER IMAGE IMPORT TOOL but I don’t know if I should trust it. I’ve gotten burned by plugins that get all up into your database before with invasive spammy SEO imbeds and hacks and worry about trusting this. Any thoughts? My DREAM would be to find a tool to transfer my pics to flickr, but, i’d be just psyched to get the pics visible.
ha! i know the woodland theme is long since tired and hopefully i’ve weathered the storm, or continue to do so. i didn’t even wear antlers to bike kill this year! nonetheless, a social document using the antler metaphor is timeless if not overly confusing. i’m totally going to make a post about how “bobble-bee” girls are so five minutes ago. or how this post is so two years ago. he he.
Antlered Girls
For some reason antlers are a constant theme both in Fashion and Art/Design. Even a quite known girl in the New York social art world named her blog as The Secret Life of Antlered Girls.
Placing antlers in people gives the subject certain modernity that i didn’t understand why yet, although i am the first one to recognize such.
This year Banana Republic Christmas ad is a girl with, ehem, antlers. I’m sure when publicists were thinking about an idea for the new campaign they did about Santa’s reindeers but never before an antler tiara has meant “cool” as it does now; I can’t imagine a label as Banana Republic placing this accessory in a pretty girl for a Christmas ad before.
Even though this topic is already a little over it seems it’s still creating some attraction in people.
Viktor & Rolf RTW Fall/Winter 2004-05 collection.
Antler Chandelier by New York based designer Jason Miller
French artist Dorothee Sorbier drawing
Alexander McQueen Fall 2006
super secret special rad art salon dec. 6 shhhhh…..
saturday december 6, 2008 @ 8 p.m.
art / film / music / readings / installation
317 adelphi / brooklyn n.y.
This show is totally amazing! You’ve got to see it before it goes. Give yourself at least an hour to soak it all in.
From one of the curators, Josh MacPhee:
Hi All!!
I just wanted to let everyone know that the show Dara and I curated, Signs of Changes at Exit Art (http://www.exitart.org/site/pub/exhibition_programs/signs_of_change/index.html) is only up for a few more days!
The show is the culmination of years of research tracking down a 1000 posters, videos, photos, textiles, and other ephemera from social movements from around the world. This is the largest project we have ever done, and we would love it if you get a chance to see it before it comes down. Here are the dates and times it will be open:
Tuesday November 25, 10am-6pm
Wednesday November 26, 10am-6pm
Saturday November 29, noon-8pm
Tues. Dec 2-Fri. Dec 5th, 10am-6pm
FINAL DAY: Saturday Dec 6, noon-8pm
[redacted]
It will be travellling next to the Miller Gallery, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA (Jan. 23–March 8, 2009). If you know of any venues, anywhere in the world, that might be interested in the show, we would love for this collection to be seen before it returns to the drawers of archives and individual’s boxes. (We have items from over 80 lenders, with works from 50 countries.)
Thanks!
-Josh
Did you see this? Moveable Type is bailing out laid-off journalists and bloggers. It could be argued that Moveable Type ought to be free, like wordpress, drupal and a number of other open-source publishing platforms and that it’s lame that they’re proprietary. It could also be argued that the blogger bailout isn’t likely to be all that effective. The support package is undoubtedly pretty neat, however.
Gringolandia Closing Party
One final night in the silver saloon. With performances by Mickey Western, New Orleans brass sensation Why Are We Building Such a Big Ship, and Why Are We Building Such A Big Ship side project Hurray for the Riff Raff. Cheap tequila, hot cider, and beer bar. Â Silver ceremony at midnight.
Gringolandia at Honey Space
148 11th Avenue between 21st and 22nd streets, Manhattan
8p-late, performances start at 9p; $free
honey-space.com
Also it’s Callie’s going away, almost birthday booty-shake-off. So come wish her well.
Listen. Haiti REALLY needs our help. Really. The poverty there is unthinkable–people eating dirt cakes to get nutrition out of them–people working in the sugar cane fields but not being paid enough to get enough food to survive. Plus living in a warzone and getting hit with a hurricane. Can you imagine? This year we were pretty close to the Haitian crisis when we were robbed in the dominican republic.
says James Stache:
My friend Colin and his girlfriend Dina are hosting an event this Saturday to benefit hurricane disaster relief efforts in Haiti. Come get loaded, blow all of your Friday pay and feel good about it. I am djing the afterparty alongside DJ K-tel (Hangar 18, official TuntableLab clothing model, Brooklyn/IN) & DJ Curly (Workshop Sounds Ent., Philly). NOTHING beats a loft party with good djs. Of course, I’m bringing the lights and air horn.
In addition to Haitian-themed cocktails to drink and baked goods to eat, there will be a raffle for prizes and gift certificates from Outlier Performance Clothing, Affinity Cycles, Urban Rustic, M Shanghai Bistro, Mishka, King Kog, Laek House, Continuum Cycles, Trackstar, Supermighty, Cyclehawk, Freight Baggage, Wheelove, & Snap Delivery.
ALL proceeds will be sent to Partners In Health (http://pih.org/home.html) to support their Hurricane Ike and Gustav relief efforts, as well their programs that ensure access to quality healthcare.
The whole event takes place after a bike race - but you are more than welcome to join us just for the party.
9pm till the money’s gone
470 Flushing Avenue
between Spencer and Walworth, South-South Williamsburg
G train to Flushing, walk three blocks west on flushing/ B61 Bus
This is awesome, Porter’s story Outside Elko is “story of the week’ in Narrative Magazine! Take a look.
KEITH HARING NOVEMBER 8 - DECEMBER 21, 2008 DIRECTIONS: DEITCH STUDIOS |
A brilliant campaign bolstered by the grassroots won!
When I was in Ohio with Downtown for Democracy in 2004 with a group called VoteMob (for voter mobilization). The group used new tactics that focused on mobilizing young voters who would not be reached by traditional voter outreach which heretofore reached only settled middle-aged or elderly folks living in the same house for over four years. Evan Hutchinson wrote a recap of the strategy and experience here.
To my surprise, when I was leading trainings for an Obama phonebank in Brooklyn, I learned that the lists we were working with were up-to-date because the campaign had invested heavily in canvassing. I only wish we could have had people bring their laptops to the phonebank to enter the data they were collecting real time and not rely on people to do data entry.
A lot of the lessons we learned from our Ohio strategy had been addressed in this campaign, coupled with the myriad brilliant online organizing and fundraising strategies that enabled peer-to-peer contact. I only wish I had been on the ground much sooner. For now I will know that Obama will not get me health insurance but that it may not be as long until I can afford it. I’m hopeful nonetheless, and here’s something from change.gov “Barack Obama and Joe Biden are committed to ensuring that all Americans have health care coverage by the end of their first term in office.”
I gather that he will be interested in what the online nation has to say. Check out CHANGE.GOV which has been set up for the transition.
Here’s a flickr set from Obama’s personal photog (Thanks to Gideon Yago for the tip)
Here’s a funny Onion article (thanks to Nick Pappas for the tip)
i’ve spent the last few days volunteering at the brooklyn masonic temple making calls for obama. it’s really rewarding and badly needed work. after seeing the election crumble in ohio four years ago it’s the ;east we can do. get out and vote for obama tomorrow and then get on the phones!
if you’re in brooklyn we’re making calls at the brooklyn masonic temple from 9am-9pm. come on down. bring your cell phone and charger.
you can rsvp here to join me, or find a phonebank closer to you
what they say