Hiding from Stupid People
Hugo Chavez to Obama: Let's Endorse Each Other
"I hope this doesn't harm Obama, but if I was from the United States, I'd vote for Obama," the socialist Chavez said of a man he first reached out to in 2009 but to whom he has since generally been insulting.
Chavez is running for a new six-year term against opposition challenger Henrique Capriles, while Obama seeks re-election in November against Republican candidate Mitt Romney. Venezuela's election is next weekend.
"Obama is a good guy ... I think that if Obama was from Barlovento or some Caracas neighbourhood, he'd vote for Chavez," the president told state TV, referring to a poor coastal town known for the African roots of its population.
Chavez is one of the world's most strident critics of Washington and his 14 years in office have been characterized by diplomatic spats and insults at the White House.
He called former U.S. President George W. Bush a "drunk" and the "devil." After an initial overture to Obama came to nothing, he said the new president had disappointed progressives the world over and was the "shame" of Africans.
CHAVEZ: "I WOULD VOTE FOR OBAMA"
With both presidents facing tight re-election fights, Venezuela's Hugo Chavez gave a surprise endorsement to Barack Obama on Sunday - and said the U.S. leader no doubt felt the same.
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But Chavez was back in a conciliatory mood in a TV interview with friend and former vice president Jose Vicente Rangel.
"After our triumph and the supposed, probable triumph of President Obama, with the extreme right defeated here and there, I hope we could start a new period of normal relations with the United States," he said.
Via: Reuters
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The Affects of Spiders on Drugs
In 1948, German pharmocologist P. N. Witt started his research on the effect of drugs on spiders.
Witt tested spiders with a range of psychoactive drugs, including amphetamine, mescaline, strychnine, LSD and caffeine, and found that the drugs affect the size and shape of the web rather than the time when it is built. At small doses of caffeine (10 µg/spider), the webs were smaller; the radii were uneven, but the regularity of the circles was unaffected. At higher doses (100 µg/spider), the shape changed more, and the web design became irregular.
All the drugs tested reduced web regularity except for small doses (0.1-0.3 µg) of LSD, which resulted in more ordered webs
Spiders on
DRUGS
My First Post
MY FIRST POST
Hey everyone, I'm Grace and i'll be starting a blog ABOUT ALL THINGS IM PASSIONATE ABOUT. This blog will inclued photography/videos, music, interviews, articals and much more! Enjoy!
Sex and Money
"The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less."
Brenda Behan
I wouldn't mind...
Something You Hated
Kiki Valdes - "The Sleeper"
I'm Cuban, I can't keep calm!
The Death of Nature?
NATURE'S DEATH?
The naturally evolved world - from genes, to species, ecosystems, to our one shared biosphere - is being liquidated for growth and is dying
via: ecointernet
Otto and The Electric Eel
In this modern adaptation of an Afro-Cuban Yoruba myth, Miami Bass legend Otto Von Schirach, playing the role of Chango the God of Thunder, battles to keep an inter-dimensional creature, the Serpent God Damballah, from ruining his dinner date.
OTTO AND THE
ELECTRIC EEL
| Director: Duncan Skiles & Andrew Zuchero United States, 2011, 5min Format: HDCam (screening) - DVCPro HD (shooting) Festival Year: 2012 Category: Short |
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Otto Von Schirach, Monica Lopez de Victoria |
| Crew: | Executive Producers: Lucas Leyva, Jonathan David - Producers: Andrew Hevia - Screenwriters: Duncan Skiles - Cinematographer: Antal Steinbach - Editor: Duncan Skiles - Still Photo: Antal Steinbach |
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Pantera Culo!
Jel Martinez: The Art of Removal
JEL MARTINEZ: BUFF MASTER
Jel Martinez's paintings are inspired by the methodology of vandalism removal. Martinez observes how metropolitan clean-up crews destroy one art form while creating another. The artist constructs his paintings by combining earlier influences with a figurative style of painting referred to as "buffs". "Buff" creates contemporary patterns that result in a post-modern aesthetic. Through his experience and study of modern day contemporary culture, he applies a new meaning of expressionism to his work. Martinez's paintings are a recreation of multilayered walls that are seen in urban landscape.
His painterly gestures incorporate concrete elements, acrylic, enamel, oil, compound and ink, creating overlapping styles of free-floating patches of color, otherwise known as buffs. He actualizes four stylistic forms of buffs in his paintings: symmetrical - which are recognizable geometric squares and rectangles, ghosting - in which the remover traces the lettering but the general form and shape is emphasized, radical - the remover uses neither geometric nor guide lines to remove the writing often referred to as an outside the lines removal, and blur - when the remover uses paint stripper and a cloth to wipe the writing but leaves a cloudy appearance on the wall. Through his elaborate process of building up and tearing down art, Martinez's paintings boldly invite the viewer to experience the daily conversations the urban environment carries on with its inhabitants.
Jel Martinez
b. 1976, Miami, Florida
Lives and works in Miami, Florida
Meteorite Stack 2012 - Acylic, enamel, oil, ink and plaster on wood.
A While Running 2010 - Plaster, latex, ink, oil and spray enamel on canvas
Urban Conservancy 2012 - Acrlyic, enamel, oil, ink, latex and plaster on Archival paper
Good Luck Charm
That's what friends are for.
Couch Hot Potato
The best type of couch potato
Don't you think?
Girl with the Photoshop Tattoo
Megan Orsi, now known across the web as “the girl with the Photoshop tattoo,” is a Sr. Lead Web Designer from Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. Megan discovered her passion for arts as a sixth grader, attended the Pittsburg High School for the Creative and Performing Arts, and later graduated from college with a degree in Specialized Technology. She’s also a wife and mother to an 18-month-old son.
Chick with the crazy
PHOTOSHOP
TATTOO
WHY DID SHE GET THE TATTOO?
?Honestly? I’ve always loved tattoos. I read an article a while ago about biggest regrets in life. The #1 regret was “Not having the courage to live they life THEY wanted to live – not the one someone else wanted them to live”. I started thinking about all the things I had really wanted to do and said, “WHY NOT?!” I’ve always felt like my creative person on the inside, didn’t match my outside and if I wanted something, why not do it! I have one other tattoo and I’m pretty adamant about my tattoos meaning something to me."
Via: Adobe
Breanna Murphey
Breanna Murphey
Photos by Humberto Vidal
All the key pieces are made from blown glass. The designer Chelsea Rousso, hand made each piece and the glass she uses is all recycled material. The collection includes couture corsets, bikini tops, and bustiers. Each piece was beautifullly put together and in my opinion is wearable art.
White House: We Demand Military Prisons on US Soil
On Wednesday, September 12, US District Court Judge Katherine Forrest made permanent a temporary injunction she issued in May that bars the federal government from abiding by the indefinite detention provision in the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012, or NDAA. Judge Forrest ruled that a clause that gives the government the power to arrest US citizens suspected of maintaining alliances with terrorists and hold them without due process violated the Constitution and that the White House would be stripped of that ability immediately.
Only hours after Judge Forrest issued last week’s ruling, the Obama administration threatened to appeal the decision, and on Monday morning they followed through.
At around 9 a.m. Monday, September 17, the White House filed an emergency stay in federal appeals court in an effort to have the Second Circuit strip away Judge Forrest’s ruling from the week earlier.
“Almost immediately after Judge Forrest ruled, the Obama administration challenged the decision,” writes Chris Hedges, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist that is listed as the lead plaintiff in the case. According to Hedges, the government called Judge Forrest’s most recent ruling an “extraordinary injunction of worldwide scope,” and Executive Branch attorneys worked into the weekend to find a way to file their stay.
“The Justice Department sent a letter to Forrest and the Second Circuit late Friday night informing them that at 9 a.m. Monday the Obama administration would ask the Second Circuit for an emergency stay that would lift Forrest’s injunction,” Hedges writes. “This would allow Obama to continue to operate with indefinite detention authority until a formal appeal was heard. The government’s decision has triggered a constitutional showdown between the president and the judiciary.”
Attorney Carl Mayer, a counsel for Hedges and his co-plaintiffs, confirmed to RT early Monday that the stay was in fact filed with the Second Circuit.
The White House has asked the US Second Circuit Court of Appeals to place an emergency stay on a ruling made last week by a federal judge so that the president’s power to indefinitely detain Americans without charge is reaffirmed immediately.
WHITE HOUSE DEMANDS: MILITARY PRISONS FOR AMERICANS.
Via: RT.com
Rashid Johnson- message to our Folks at the Miami Art Museum
“Rashid Johnson: Message to our Folks,” the first major solo exhibition for Johnson, is a collage of materials, metaphors and metaphysics. In works spanning more than a decade Johnson explores the idea of creation, identity, self and art through the lens of African-American culture.
Born in Chicago in 1977 Rashid Johnson now lives and works in New York. His conceptual work, albeit heavily influenced by his own experiences growing up as an African-American in the late 70s and 80s, leaves room for interpretation. Contrary to any intentional fallacy the viewer can simply explore the works and start an individual and unique dialogue.
“Rashid Johnson’s unusual vocabulary of materials and innovative mixing of diverse forms and cultural references makes him one of the most vital and interesting artists working today,” says MAM chief curator and deputy director Tobias Ostrander.
Johnson’s oeuvre is a diverse collection of works including painting, photography, film, wood burn, mixed media installation and sculpture. He references icons from African-American culture like W.E.B. Du Bois, Miles Davis, Malcolm X and Public Enemy by incorporating books and records in his assemblages, installations and photography. Other references are made via music such as the soundtrack of Melvin Van Peebles’ indie film “Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song” from 1971 into his video installation “Sweet Sweet Runner.” Allusions to Kung Fu movies, popular in the African American communities in the 80s, can be seen in his work as often as references to black scholars like socialist and Pan-Africanist Du Bois. A title such as “Triple Consciousness,” pays homage to Du Bois’ classic socio-historical essay compilation “The Souls of Black Folk” from 1903.
Some of Johnson’s most well known work are his portrait series, which he began in early 2000. The artist is inspired by the likes of American reformer, abolitionist and writer Frederick Douglass and also depicts himself as various fictional members of the “The New Negro Escapist Social and Athletic Club.”
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