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That inspire, that I like, and that I hope you feel the same about

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Leave It To Banksy

Cannes has been too expensive for me to attend the last couple of years.  And it is really elitist, isn’t it? 

Leave it to Banksy to solve all those problems.  Welcome to The Cans Festival. Well, London is still pricey, but… YouTube is still free (tip from Bryan B.)
The Banksy book “Wall And Piece” has been a popular one in our house.  My son spotted some wild-posting for a recent show of Banksy’s on the day it opened and not only got us there ahead of the swarm but proceeded to pontificate to all attendees on the quality and political ramifications of his various pranks.  Not bad for someone barely over 4 feet tall.  Banksy’s done more to keep politics and resistance fun and accessible than anyone since The Clash.

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Monkey Business: Marlene McCarty


You missed a great gallery show in NYC.  Marlene McCarty’s gigantic pen and ink drawings were a sight to behold.  The detail and beauty in each drawing covered entire walls.  I was on my way out before I picked up the brochure that told the true story behind each drawing.  Dreams, fantasies, and entire other ways of life emerged fully formed but still encompassing that haze of delirium.  I never wanted a big house with big walls until I found these big drawings to cover them with.

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Music Videos For Airports

I travelled again last week, and although I wasn’t stuck on the tarmac for 4.5 hours this time, I did have a cancelled flight and several hours delay.  Brian Eno’s music needs an update.  Life in airports has changed.  It does feel like a bit like this great video though.  Somehow I found the ending quite sad.  

There’s also a good little interview with Cornelius at the Mangobot blog.

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Art From Waste: Chris Jordan



I stumbled upon Chris Jordan’s work last year and sent it around to friends.  I just went back to his site and was completely blown away again.  Running The Numbers, An American Self-Portrait is the work.  It “looks at contemporary American culture through the asustere lens of statistics.  Each impage protrays a specific quantity of something.  Statistics canfeel abstract and aneshtetizing, making it difficult to connect with and mke meaning of 3.6 million SUV sales in one year, or 2.3 million Americans in prison, or 32,000 breast augmentation surgeries in the U.S. every month.”

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… that I love & that I am inspired by

These are crazy times.  There is so much out there, so much that is available to us.  Yet somehow it seems harder to find.  Maybe there really is too much and we need some kind of filter.  Or maybe its that its really hard to be heard above the din.  So much money and effort is spent trying to make us care about things that we shouldn’t.  We need the amateurs to speak up, those that do it out of love and true passion.  

These Are Those Things is dedicated to the things that brighten our day: the good work, the original work, the work that strives and does not settle.  The work that is not afraid to fail and not afraid to reach, to move into uncharted terrain.  These are those things that make me want to keep working, to keep creating, to keep sharing.  
Thanks for taking a look.