Bloggers Backlog 2

Ain't It Grand!
Objectivision in the Age of InfoGlut




Whoop-Dee-Doo

"We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force. "
Ayn Rand

Type A personalities make the world go round... with dizzying consequences.




What Goes Up...

"The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see." Ayn Rand

The idea that Osama bin Laden was responsible for the 9/11 attacks has been an article of faith for public officials and the mainstream media.




Carrousel of Progress

"You'll Get Me Out of My Car When You Pry My Cold, Dead Foot from the Accelerator."
bumper sticker

Our solution to rush hour gridlock is not to demand public transportation but to transform our immobile automobile into a temporary office, bank, restaurant, bathroom, and stereo system.




Gomer and Goober, a Hole in One.

If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject.
Ayn Rand

Monsanto and the U.S. government are dealing with unanticipated hazards of the pesticide Roundup in the South American drug war.




America's for Health

"The man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap."
Ayn Rand

With the passage of H.R. 3962, the Affordable Health Care for America Act, proponents of health care reform took an important step forward...


.... and blacks and women would know theyre place. people would be on there own to make or break themselves. No more government charity. If they were hungry, too bad, they can work. Thats what made this country so great before but the dems screwed it up.
anonymous comment SFDB





Fancitecture on the Beach

"A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom."
Ayn Rand

The Twisting Torso sculpture is a white marble piece based on the form of a twisting human being.




Time of the Signs

"Man's unique reward, however, is that while animals survive by adjusting themselves to their background, man survives by adjusting his background to himself. "
Ayn Rand

They paved paradise and put up a parkin' lot
With a pink hotel, a boutique, and a swingin' hot spot
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you got till it's gone
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.



Yield to the Preposterous

"The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. "
Ayn Rand

Anything that can possibly go wrong, does.

Part of the Problem

"The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me. "
Ayn Rand

It is now abundantly clear that we have at our fingertips all of the tools we need to solve the climate crisis. The only missing ingredient is political will.




Fountainhead Swamp Resort

"When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is. "
Ayn Rand


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Knight of Mischief

Nicolas Lobo is arguably the leading proponent of Miami Fringe.
With ramshackle cleverness that defies the Brittoesque doldrums of Miami's art image, we hereby crown Lobo the Fox in the Swamphouse . One can overlook Lobo only if blinded by mundane and contrived notions of what sculpture aught to be. In these times the evidence is abundant, wildly new artworks are popping up with regularity. These daring expressions of things to come deliver more than meets the eye, but admittedly the stuff is not for everyone.




Mess Gets in you Eyes

If you have not heard of Nick Lobo it is because he is intent on destroying the things he makes.
Such was the case with this life-size diorama made entirely from homemade play-dough mixed with cough syrup. The monochrome depiction is inspired by a somber photo of a meth-head's living room he found on the web. If you thing anyone can do that, try going to CVS to buy all the cough syrup on the shelf and you will quickly understand the complexity of Lobo's endeavors.

Well That's Just Chippy

Lobo has perfected a brand of brash and irreverent sculpture that transcends convention. It take a particular kind of disposition to be comfortable with the goings on inside the ingenious ignoble minds of artists that are not squeamish or concerned with predictable works of art. Be it Soylent Green or live fish eggs in popcorn, Lobo redefines the artist palette with the confidence of a mad scientist and the results of a seasoned composer of experimental noise.




Deep Miami Bass

Native of Miami, home-schooled Lobo is most comfortable outside the boundaries of the enclaves of fine art. But somehow the work is apropos for todays sensibilities. His most resent WTF is perfectly at home in the open air courtyard of the tony Bass Museum on Miami Beach. A quasi-public space, the concrete island surrounded by a placid water feature is often a makeshift shelter for the ever pungent and unsavory homeless transients known to haunt SOBE. With precise Lobo form, the tropical igloo creation provides a disconcerting visual to the otherwise uninviting institutional facade.



100 Points of Departure

What I can't show you about this partial geodesic enclosure is the audio component. For that you will have to actually visit. The buttery bungalow is outfitted with a battery of transistor radios tuned to every kind of station, creating a veil of noise that blankets the auditory senses with a jumble of sounds and information at a decibel found in elevators. The orientation, the scale, material choice and vulnerability define this sculpture as a seminal work for Lobo.




Dome Away from Home

I was fortunate to encounter this fascinating freaky homeless dancer fluttering about the place. Our transient butterfly guy was kind enough to allow for a few snaps of the old camera obscura in return for a caring smile and a couple of bucks to keep things equitable. If i didn't know better, I would think the clever cretin had built himself a manic makeshift deluxe nomadic tent right under the ski-slope nose of the Bass Museum.


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Go to Cuba

A revolution is not supposed to last 50 years


On the eve of Halloween 2009, it can be said that the museum of communism, aka island nation of Cuba, is " All Tricks, No Treats".

Watch Adrien Baschuk's excellent video "Waiting for a Revolution" currently on Current TeeVee.

The time is ripe for Generation Y.



Just 45 minutes from Miami...



Visit to grandpa's house

Family monogram at our house in Camaguey.

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news for the homeless

Hurray, Obama just signed the Hate Crimes Bill. Love that!

"We will never know how many incidents were never reported at all," Obama said.




Just like Clockwork... Orange. Have a nice pumpkin day.





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Mums the Word

There are murmurs in the dark and stylish undercurrents of the art world in the tropics, rumors and vapors of contested deeds, of provenance and piranhas in a resurgent cloud of mummy dust. The eyes of three thousand years are opening, winking and freaking people out.
But lips are shut as if sewn with the floss of art history, dreaded desire for death and rebirth and answers.

Question is: Scooby-Doo Where are You?



Body Farmer

The original "Body Farm" (started by William Bass)

KNOXVILLE, Tennessee (CNN) -- Nearly everything known about the science of human decomposition comes from one place -- forensic anthropologist William Bass' Body Farm.


"I'm 72 and I'm sorry I'm getting so old because I have all these things I've got to do," said Bass, who started the farm with one body and a small plot of ground in the fall of 1971.

Bill Bass is a star in a day sky.



Extract of Mummy

Local lightweight paper Sun Sentinal got the scoop on the Bass Mummy ( no relation to Bill Bass). We should all be astounded to the bone at this ghoulish discovery in the swamp, the tense traverse to Aventura Medical and the fate of this Boy from Cairo.

The Egyptian mummy, belonging to the Bass Museum of Art is at least 2,600 years old and is tucked inside a wooden sarcophagus.


Another blog said this of the 2500 year old tourist from Egypt.

After using 3D scanners to take a peek beneath the ancient bandages, it was what wasn’t inside that most surprised the doctors.


The mummyboy must have a good health insurance plan.



No Ticket, No Laundry.

The Bass Mummy may have charmed his way onto CNN inadvertently because if he knew what is being reported in major papers around the world, he may have been better preserved tucked away in the basement of the Bass.


PARIS — France's culture minister agreed Friday to return five painted wall fragments to Egypt after a row over their ownership prompted the Egyptians to cut ties with the Louvre Museum.

Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/09/france-to-return-stolen-e_n_315402.html

Hawass also cut ties with the St. Louis Art Museum after it failed to answer his demand to return a 3,200-year-old golden burial mask of a noblewoman.

Hawass also wants the return of the bust of Nefertiti – wife of the famed monotheistic Pharaoh Akhenaten – and the Rosetta Stone, a basalt slab with an inscription that was the key to deciphering Egyptian hieroglyphics. The bust is in Berlin's Egyptian Museum; the Rosetta Stone is in the British Museum in London.

Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/09/france-to-return-stolen-e_n_315402.html

Rosetta Stone Fortune Teller Child

and from a recent ocean drive puff piece.

With a chuckle, he asks, “Did you know we have a mummy? An actual Egyptian mummy! Think of all the children in Miami Beach who would otherwise never get to see a real mummy!”




Best Closing Sentence Ever...


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Surfside Library Closed

Dried up in the Swamp

The Surfside Community Center was just that, the center of the community. It was mistakenly demolished several years ago and so all we got is a barren lot with an ocean view that is closed to the public as if some old indian bones were found during the dig.

Closed Encounters of the Literary Kind

The old community center provided the residents of Surfside with a great big swimming pool, a nice little cafe, a comfortable assembly hall, a game-room and, no less valuable, our very own little library. The staff was courteous, dedicated and perfectly bookish. There were always people there. After the demolition, all the books and other resources were crammed into a miscerable windowless trailer in a parking lot behind town hall.

Reading Between the Lines.

A long time ago our founding fathers, after incorporating, decided to opt out of Dade County Library Tax and opened their own library with town tax revenues. It was not the library of congress but it was good enough for the times, a time before the internet. I remember growing up in Miami starving for information, spending hours downtown, always wanting more books, mags, papers. Availability was the issue, today it's the opposite, info-overload.




Quiet Please - Children Thinking

Some of my fondest memories of living in this quit seaside town was taking kids to the community center and library. My daughter and I would spend hours in the children's book section rummaging through old books. Those were valuable quality of life experiences no longer available to new families in town. Maybe the demand for such resources has changed but the human experience remains.






I Read a Book Once

A world without books is like a house with no kitchen.

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Obama Family Collection

In the Age of Re-creation

Art collecting is the art of parleying dollars into high-brow prestige, it is the art of patronage that is purported to have opened the gates of heaven to the wildly earthly wealthy such as the powerful Medici Family of the Italian Renaissance.

The Obamas patronage is not so much to buy their salvation but to harness imagery in the age of information. They understand the power of Art to transform the viewing public. This is why they partnered with "street artist" propagandist Shepard Fairey to create the now famous winning poster.




Lincoln's Long Looks

First Lady has been spotted at all the right fine art venues studiously taking in whatever contemporary art has to offer these days. But the bulk of their collection is actually quite safe consisting of blue-chip works and stuff they acquired through the years.




Pow-Wow-America

In the early years of collecting, the Obamas focus was on accessing works to build a foundation of historical art that represented their love of country. But without the guiding eye of credentialed curators, their collection laked cohesion, spark and that "i don't know what" that makes great collections like the Rubell Family Collection so important to art critics.



Word

Being of sharp mind and discerning taste, the Obama's soon got on the proper and predictable path to prestige and began to buy blue-chip artists such as the wordy works of pal Ed Rusha.



Looks for Sale

Here is a classic photo of the artist... looks go a long way in the art of schmoozing prospective patrons, and Ed was a looker.




The Antique Chanel

This old piece has been in the Obama Family Collection for two generations. Michelle found it in the attic in Hawaii and is having it appraised.



Old as Mold

President Obama has been caring these two weird things around for years, they are his "good luck with the ladies charm"



Innocence Lost

Even the first girls are in on the action. Here is a painting by Malia that sold for 25,000 at her recent show in a D.C. Gallery.




Art's First Cousin Fashion

Sasha has been dabbling in Fashion Design and is inspired by the Huxtables of Cosby Show fame. I think their rather good.




De-acquisitions

Stuff they want to get rid off.




Buyers Remorse

This was purchased at the suggestion of a curator no longer in favor. With the auction houses in a quagmire and saudi collectors focused elsewhere, this portrait of the butcher of baghdad has been shopped around and now hard to move.



Waiting List

Here are a few artwork the Obama's are trying to acquire.





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Prize of Pittsburgh

Post Traumatic G-20 Summit Syndrome

Pittsburg PA is a lovely town reminiscent of other post industrial cities that are actually shrinking in size and, though not immune to the economic melt-down, seemingly less affected than places like Miami, Las Vegas and others. While NYC is in a state of shock and contraction, the birthplace of Andy Warhol is relatively sound and celebrity free.




Hall of Hispanic Fama

Roberto Walker Clemente. With a name like that and a bat swing like king kong, he is the prize of pittsburgh. Here is a photo of an enormous bronze adorning the baseball field downtown, a giant among men and a Hispanic for all seasons.




Hammertime Willy

But not all art in public places is quite so epic and commanding. Just a few steps from the magnificent Clemente is this weird marble thing with what appears to be naked workmen having head-aches. It hurts just to look.



Corporate Hip

As with most things of money today, it is the corporate sponsors that hold the OPM to get things done. Andy Warhol understood this years ago and single-handedly re-educated the corporate Joe mentality to accommodate new ways of thinking about art, it's people... and branding. This giant painting is a collaboration of Warhol and Basquait, two giants who energized chemistry of the art world.





BrilloBox Branding

Ans so it is that we celebrate 100 years of Synthetic Rubber with the collaboration of The Andy Warhol Museum, Lanxess Rubber Corporation and artist team Ryan Alexiev and Hank Willis Thomas. Ryan and Hanks are the winners of a competition to create a work of art for the occasion of 100 year history of Unnatural Rubber. Laxess claims to be 'energizing chemistry' and indeed their sponsorship has been energizing to this artist memory of Andy Warhol, my Art Father.




Will Work for Play

The Warhol Museum is an impressive institution and a fitting tribute to Andy's legacy.
There is a bounty of artworks to enjoy and many displays of memorabilia. The caption for this photo reads "we started the magazine so we would get invites to the premiers". Kinda like opening a gallery so we can get free grolsh beer.




Data Illuminatta

The winning artwork is a graphical representation of the data turned 3-D showing the exponential growth of synthetic rubber from 1909 through 2009. I wonder how things are going in Manaus, Brazil home of natural rubber.



For Whom the Bell Tolls

Their dreams are a fabricators reality. Here is the bell in production at my studio. American marble aka styrofoam is the closest thing to conceptual clay available. It's mostly air and very forgiving.




Black is the New Green

Here is the artwork after buckets of MicroRubber coating made from your recycled tires.




Rim with Bling

Here is the center-piece of the sculpture in nowheresville North Miami getting pimped with Mirra-Krome. People like shiny round things...




Wheel of Fortune

Here is a snapshot of the "Wheel of Fortune" on display at the Warhol till January 2010. It is scheduled to travel around the world to remind folks of the power of chemicals.




Propaganda Promulgated

The Warhol also provides the public with exhibitions of other artists work. Currently they have a show by uber-controversial Shepard Fairey the "street artist" from RISD and Obama Poster Fame. More on him later.



AndyMouse

I met Warhol in the mid 80's when he befriended my pals Keith Haring, Jean Michel Baquait and Kenny Scharf. These fellas are the three musketeers of the East Village Art Explosion that Andy had built a foundation for. Their collective cautionary contribution to the art mindset is immeasurable in a world gone celebrity crazy.




Even republican twitty Cindy McCain understands the power of Celebrity that Warhol espoused perfectly so each of us would feel entitled to 15 minutes of fame.

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Bloggers Backlog

INSTALLMENT ONE

on Obama, Cuba and the Nobel Prize



The Currency of Ideas

The notion that an award is granted on the merit of ones accomplishments is understandable.

So it is apropos that the cuban-american community recognize president obama for relaxing restriction among neighbors, for the promise of reconciliation.



To Coin a Phrase...

History is written by the winners.



" patria o muerte"

The photoshop generation would like to thank the president for polishing our image towards enhanced hemispheric relations.




Where's the Beef?

The American people would like to thank the president and his administration for attempting to restore our rightful place in the world stage.




First Lady Visit to the Freedom Tower in Miami

News at eleven.




Hoboken N.J. Class of 1977

There are two kinds of Cube-Ams, miami and hoboken, NY.



Greetings from Florida

The manatee would like to thank the president for representing Hope and Change.


...and kenny's sideshow gets the last word...

...The psyop at this stage is centered upon Obama, elevating the man (who has been groomed for this his entire life by the agents of the empire) to the highest possible human position, the role of “Messiah.” The theme of “Obama the Messiah” has been played-up in every media, accentuating his dual racial and national heritage and portraying him as the great “bridge” between cultures, races and nations. This theme has been carried to its most absurd extreme in the form of the Nobel Peace Prize, which he was given for reading all the pretty-sounding words that flow across his teleprompter screen...


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swampspace gallery

TJ AHEARN JUKEBOX (PLAYLIST)

Back In Black --AC/DC
Win, Lose or Draw --The Allman Brothers Band
Never My Love --The Association
Surfin' Safari --The Beach Boys
Surfer Girl --The Beach Boys
Fun, Fun, Fun --The Beach Boys
Good Vibrations --The Beach Boys
Dizzy Miss Lizzy --The Beatles
Black Sabbath --Black Sabbath
Strange Brew --Cream
Green River --Creedence Clearwater Revival
American Pie --Don McLean
Light My Fire --The Doors
L.A. Woman --The Doors
Touch Me --The Doors
The Golden Road (To Unlimited Devotion) --Grateful Dead
I'm Into Something Good --Herman's Hermits
Kozmic Blues --Janis Joplin
Shapes of Things --Jeff Beck
Good Shepherd --Jefferson Airplane
Plastic Fantastic Lover --Jefferson Airplane
Inside --Jethro Tull
Lola --The Kinks
New York Groove --KISS & Ace Frehley
In The Evening --Led Zeppelin
Ramble On --Led Zeppelin
Sweet Home Alabama --Lynyrd Skynyrd
Nights in White Satin --The Moody Blues
Cowgirl In The Sand --Neil Young (CSNY)
Because the Night --Patti Smith
Just Like Me --Paul Revere & The Raiders
See Emily Play --Pink Floyd
Handsome Johnny --Richie Havens
Paint It, Black --The Rolling Stones
Crazy Mama --The Rolling Stones
Midnight Rambler --The Rolling Stones
It's Only Rock 'n' Roll (But I Like It)--The Rolling Stones
Play With Fire --The Rolling Stones
In Every Dream Home a Heartache--Roxy Music
Love Is the Drug --Roxy Music
Soul Sacrifice --Santana
At The Zoo --Simon & Garfunkel
Born to Be Wild --Steppenwolf
Quicksilver Girl --Steve Miller Band
I Love You --Steve Miller Band
Paper Sun --Traffic
The Acid Queen --The Who
Roundabout --Yes
Mustang Sally --The Young Rascals
Sunlight --The Youngbloods

Gee 20 - can you hear me now.

Very Good Lady

When Amy Goodman attended the 2008 Republican Presidential Convention in St. Paul Minnesota, she was one of the countless protesters that were beaten and arrested by the crazed and violent riot police. Ms. Goodman, a credentialed peace correspondent, was understandably upset, yet her calm and reasoned voice can be heard daily on Democracy Now (if you get it).

For this freedom loving American, it is heartbreaking to see and hear accounts of the heavy handed tactics and abuses of a militarized civilian police on ordinary folk.



Roll Out the Robocops

So it is that we should not be surprised of the conditions on the ground at the recent G-20 Summit in Pittsburgh, PA. Once again, our beloved city was subjected to a show of force that continues to escalate the disparity among the have-nots and the have-this.



Closed Circle

While world leaders met in a big circle-jerk of pomp and prosperity, the people of Pittsburgh were treated like the grunts under the thumb of the Grunch of Giants. Why cant they just go meet on some remote island. leave the struggling cities be.





Turn Left on Global Boulevard

This is what Globalization looks like. Obama said it's here to stay. The world is officially crazy.




That's Not Funny

This is the face of police in Europe.




More Than Just a Job

This is the faceless face of riot police in the USA. When there are no terrorist to be had, civilians will do just fine.



Mega-Deaf White-Noise

This is their new secret weapon. Go see the vid on the LRAD sound cannon. It's like a really bad rock concert. It was used on US soil forthe first time against civilians at the G-20.




Soapbox Serenade

It's tough to be heard over the mega-non-lethal sound cannon, rubber bullets, tear gas, water canon, trained dogs, billy clubs and the arsenal for the assault on civilians with legitimate grievances and a deep concern for the planet.



Not Your Grandmas Protest

This is what protesters used to look like.




Weekend Overtime

This is your neighbor practicing to bash your head if you get out of line.




Time to Make the Donuts

This is everybody at work, making an honest killing.




Dressed for Success

This is the new face of peace protesters. Gotta keep up with the Officer Jones.
Did you know that every Israeli civilian gets a free gas mask from their government?




Go Big and Go Green

This is what gets seen by mainstream teevee.



This is a wonderful pic of Woody Guthrie. Sign reads "this machine kills fascists"



Here is an email from our pal Michael Moore.

For Those of You on Your Way to Church This Morning ...a note from Michael Moore

Sunday, October 4th, 2009

Friends,

I'd like to have a word with those of you who call yourselves Christians (Muslims, Jews, Buddhists, Bill Maherists, etc. can read along, too, as much of what I have to say, I'm sure, can be applied to your own spiritual/ethical values).

In my new film I speak for the first time in one of my movies about my own spiritual beliefs. I have always believed that one's religious leanings are deeply personal and should be kept private. After all, we've heard enough yammerin' in the past three decades about how one should "behave," and I have to say I'm pretty burned out on pieties and platitudes considering we are a violent nation who invades other countries and punishes our own for having the audacity to fall on hard times.

I'm also against any proselytizing; I certainly don't want you to join anything I belong to. Also, as a Catholic, I have much to say about the Church as an institution, but I'll leave that for another day (or movie).

Amidst all the Wall Street bad guys and corrupt members of Congress exposed in "Capitalism: A Love Story," I pose a simple question in the movie: "Is capitalism a sin?" I go on to ask, "Would Jesus be a capitalist?" Would he belong to a hedge fund? Would he sell short? Would he approve of a system that has allowed the richest 1% to have more financial wealth than the 95% under them combined?

I have come to believe that there is no getting around the fact that capitalism is opposite everything that Jesus (and Moses and Mohammed and Buddha) taught. All the great religions are clear about one thing: It is evil to take the majority of the pie and leave what's left for everyone to fight over. Jesus said that the rich man would have a very hard time getting into heaven. He told us that we had to be our brother's and sister's keepers and that the riches that did exist were to be divided fairly. He said that if you failed to house the homeless and feed the hungry, you'd have a hard time finding the pin code to the pearly gates.

I guess that's bad news for us Americans. Here's how we define "Blessed Are the Poor": We now have the highest unemployment rate since 1983. There's a foreclosure filing once every 7.5 seconds. 14,000 people every day lose their health insurance.

At the same time, Wall Street bankers ("Blessed Are the Wealthy"?) are amassing more and more loot -- and they do their best to pay little or no income tax (last year Goldman Sachs' tax rate was a mere 1%!). Would Jesus approve of this? If not, why do we let such an evil system continue? It doesn't seem you can call yourself a Capitalist AND a Christian -- because you cannot love your money AND love your neighbor when you are denying your neighbor the ability to see a doctor just so you can have a better bottom line. That's called "immoral" -- and you are committing a sin when you benefit at the expense of others.

When you are in church this morning, please think about this. I am asking you to allow your "better angels" to come forward. And if you are among the millions of Americans who are struggling to make it from week to week, please know that I promise to do what I can to stop this evil -- and I hope you'll join me in not giving up until everyone has a seat at the table.

Thanks for listening. I'm off to Mass in a few hours. I'll be sure to ask the priest if he thinks J.C. deals in derivatives or credit default swaps. I mean, after all, he must've been good at math. How else did he divide up two loaves of bread and five pieces of fish equally amongst 5,000 people? Either he was the first socialist or his disciples were really bad at packing lunch. Or both.

Yours,
Michael Moore


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american carnival

Part-Time Lawn Ornaments Needed

It appears the spending season is just around the corner with Halloween fast approaching followed by turkey day then new years. With it all comes the added pleasure of having to spend and stuff. So we here are curious as to how is your Holiday Fund going? Is you budgetary be strained?




Saturday Morning Food Bank.

It is becoming abundantly clear that for more and more folk prospects are grim. There will be no extra cash for celebrating. There are few treats to be had, instead there is plenty of coping with the tricks of an ailing society. All i can say is "please help someone less fortunate, anyway you can".




A waste is a terrible thing to mind.

Some folk believe everyone can "pick their selves up" somehow. They try to bludgen us with misguided notions espoused by eliminationists loud-mouths like Glum Beck, Rush Limpbauh and Bull O'Reilly. This candid of a demonstrator from the recent 'million' wrong Republican protest on Obamishtan, DC begs the question, 'what will you be for halloween?'




I Like Ribbons.

The four cardinal questions this holiday season are: Who can you Help? What will you Do to Help? When will you Start to Help Someone? Where will you Go to Help Others?





Uncle Joe's Cruddy Fried Chicken

With the full moon of Octoberfest comes the tally of the annual harvest. With halloween comes the new year of the occult. With scoobie doo affection a big shout out to pal Joey Arias, entertainer and humanitarian. Feliz Apio Verde.





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FDOT WTF

Hopscotch for the Hopeless.

For three years residents and motorist along Biscayne Boulevard on Miami's Upper East Side grudgingly put up with the total demolition and re-building of the public commons. Business went out of business, traffic backed up for miles and the scheduled completion... well let's just say whatever.



It ain't over till it ain't over.

It's been less than a year since the roadwork was completed. Street life was decent again, businesses began to rebound from the rubble and tar hell. So imagine what a surprise to find work crews tearing up perfectly good sidewalks to build planters for trees.



Please Use Other Sidewalk?

Take a walk up the Boulevard... if you can avoid the obstacles. The planters are placed strategically so as to make the sidewalks rather People Un-Friendly. Who decides these things and where are they from, Planet Plunder?




Stupid Is.

And where they actually had created a perfectly good place to plop a palm... huh?!@%$ They just had to crush more concrete on the side. Like Bedrock City, it is now abundantly clear that Metro Dade is crazy about concrete and crushed rock.




It's Just a Job Mon.

People need jobs but the grunts get chump change while the contractors get filthy rich and the streets remain basically about the same. Maybe moneys would be better spent putting the guys through vocational training or assuring that their kids have other opportunities besides ditch digging menial laborers.




We Report, You Retort.

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Belated Day of Atonement

Papa Does Preach

With all due respect, why is it that it is mostly the ultra- conservative fundamentalist types who feel that children will grow up to be sinners in need of repentance and worthy of redemption?

Because God gave them the Day of Atonement.




Air Superiority Complex

What amount of talking with God will make up for the things man does to his neighbor?

None, but get confessing anyways on the Day of Atonement.




A Tree Grows in Jerusalem

Is there a place on earth so holy that it guarantees salvation to the pilgrims who trek across the desert for a ticket to heaven?

Not really, you can celebrate the Day of Atonement anywhere.




Red Buttons Pusher

With all the trials and tribulations that a lifetime can deliver, why are some folk hell-bent on more death and destruction? Are they out of their blinking minds?

No, they have the Day of Atonement to fall back on.




Yoruba Rituals Not Just in Hialeah

And how is it that ones past indiscretions can be wiped away for a day with no food and a pile of prayer?

Very nicely on the Day of Atonement.

Hey wait a moment, is that Mr. Clucky ? !@#$&

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Swampy Opening

JUKEBOX
by T.J. Ahearn

The music spanning the Sixties and Seventies represents a dynamic shift in the cultural strata of western civilization and beyond. Rock 'n Roll the prevailing musical genre signifying that era remains embedded in our contemporary society -- to the point of banality as it is often co-opted for TV advertising and mass media. The evocative, imaginary scenes in the works in this show are ignited by the spark of the music's intent and flavor-- reflections on concepts of Utopianism, sexual liberation, spirituality, ecology, war resistance and other themes that continue to be relevant today.

The opening reception will feature live spinning by famed DJ Yard!!!

catalog with text by Gean Moreno

Libations courtesy of Grolsch usa

THIS IS A NICE TIME TO REINVENT YOURSELF.
GET YOUR COMPILATION CD NOW!
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Uglitecture Digested

Romance with Erosion

Just because a building is old doesn't mean it is ready for the wrecking ball.
On the contrary, if a building is beautiful, no amount of erosion can take away its relevance.

Here in the swamp there are many, many buildings that look so damn dull, neglected and down right slummy its not funny. We may have a stringent Building Code but it obviously says nothing about style culture and the necessity for decency in design of our urban terrarium.




Building and Blunder

Winner of the ugliest building ever, till we drive down to the next neighborhood.



Barn For All Seasons

This thing has got three siding treatments showing its unseemly renovation history. It is actually rather interesting in an old florida whatever way.



Colored For Business

A little paint can go a long way in making the miami architecture less blase, but it's no cure for the lack of design elegance.



Gone Postal

This relic is a gem owned by the US Postal Service, it has been closed for years and deteriorating by the day.



On the Intersection of Miami and Ugly

A corner building that does nothing for the community, except contribute to it's aesthetic bankruptcy.




Begging for a Mural

When do perfectly good buildings go south? When they are owed by people who take pride in not knowing anything about art and design.



Church of Deco Modern

Here is another gem, currently a Haitian church in need of a giant faith based mural of Jesus riding a donkey or scenes of the apocalypse.



Home Cheapo

Obviously this was once a Big Daddy liquor store but no more. Who owns these ugly buildings?




Ugly is the New Ugly.

Even with build new construction there is a sense that no one is driving the design train.
Here is a brand new wreck of a space, people unfriendly but U. G. L. Y.

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pandemic in the panhandle

...MARTY MOVING VERY LITTLE...

It 's been a slow storm season this year so how's bout a man-made disturbance?



Pregnant Women and First Responders Only.

"... The U.S. has spent more than $1 billion to purchase and administer a total of 195 million H1N1 vaccine doses being made by five companies,..."



Germaphobes Unite.

"... that outbreak was as phony as they come. I was one of the people duped into taking a Swine Flu shot and it made me so sick. I was sick in bed for three months after taking the vaccine...."



Tiny But Deadly.

The key patents for this monkey harvesting process are held by a private military contractor DynCorp that’s been paid billions of dollars by the U.S. government to run military-like operations in Afghanistan, Colombia, Bosnia and Mexico (near where the swine flu was first discovered).


Big Brother's Pig Problem.

" The United States will donate 10% of its supply of vaccine against pandemic H1N1 influenza virus to developing countries that do not have the resources to procure it on their own,..."


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Mo Sad on 9 eleven

911

The Real Story of What Happened on September 11, 2001
is the Sacrosanct Truths of Maniacal Schemers.

The Official Lie is a Story Best Told in Pictures.

Never Forget.

A Con-Job Need Only Work Once.


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October 11, 2001

Not So Friendly Sky
Birds teary eye view of lower Manhattan on October 11, 2001



NYT today reports:

As the anniversary of the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, approaches on Friday, pieces of the World Trade Center rubble from that day have never been more accessible. A new campaign is under way to speed up the process and increase the volume of giving away pieces of steel big and small from the debris.


WHAT EXACTLY ARE WE SUPPOSED TO REMEMBER?



Carnage
Air-bags worked just fine in this disabled vehicle about a block away from ground zero.


Brooklyn Heights Fire Station.
I delivered money for the firemen that my daughter collected selling lemonade in Miami.


Crowd Control
Gawkers gather in solemn silence to get a glimpse at the wreckage of the World Trade Center Towers.


Hymns for the Fallen
Chorus of visitors paying their respects near the site.


Pre-Bail-Out Money Changers
Wall Street workers taking a break from whatever they do.


Keep On Trucking
Big chunk of twisted steel making a quick exit from the hole bound for Fresh Kills Land Fill.



The Healing Power of Street Performance
Swampthing shares a teary smile with a street performer.

WHAT I CAN'T SHOW YOU ON THIS BLOG IS
THE STENCH IN THE AIR AFTER THE ATTACK.
IT SMELLED WORSE THAN THE OFFICIAL STORY.
QUITE FOUL.

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False Flag Oracle

When Dick Cheney cleaned out his desk, he took his secrets with.
He refused to testify under oath when asked about 911.

Can you spot the lady at the edge of this precipice? She had no time to clean out her desk.
Neither did 100,000+ Iraqi civilians victims of Bush's illegal war.

Some big questions that are haunting many folk are:

Who Really Did It?
Why did Building 7 Collapse?
Was Flight 93 Shot Down?

Ask man what happened on September 11, 2001.
You will get every-which-kind-a-round-about answer imaginable.

Man has a knack for misinforming and complicating the Truth.

So I went to where I go to get answers to the really big questions.

The Ocean.
But she did not answer.

So then I asked these two very nice ladies... who are the culprits of 911?

One is ok with the official story about 19 rag-tag Arab patsies,
The other is suspicious that it may have been a False-Flag Inside Job by self-serving co-conspirators. Both have moved on with things.

That's a 50/50 ratio between what good people believe happened on that fateful morning.

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Old Glory's New World Odor

Found at the Fresh Kills Land Fill on Staten Island, NY

In a few days I will tell the readers who is really responsible for the attack on 911.

HELL, WHY WAIT...

Here is the link to the list of the 103 co-conspirators of 911.




The official story of 911 is the Lie of Our Lives.
The next False Flag caper will not be so subtle.


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Tony Enclave

Who's got Barak's back?

While the Obamas are on vacation in the tony enclaves of Martha's Vineyard...




A Foot Massage for the Tireless Peace Mom.
... our Peace Mom Cindy Sheehan is understandably concerned for a world of perpetual war profiteering because, as we all know, more of our children will perish in the name of national insecurity and the big bamboozle that is 911.







If you want to know who does not want peace on earth, just follow the money.

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Swampy Openings

swampspace gallery is pleased to present:

H Y P E R C U L T U R E
an installation by Victor Muñiz

Opening Reception Saturday August 29 6-12pm

Hyperculture refers to the staggering rate of change in modern technological societies. It is the condition of perpetual interregnum. In other words hyperculture is our constant state of being between knowing and feeling while information continues to flow with increasing volume. The rampant illnesses of our society--including the disintegration of the family, the degradation of the environment, unlimited commercialism, and unrelenting stress are familiar to us all.

Victor Muñiz examines the profundity of Hyperculture according to the Gaian hypothesis that the earth is a self-regulating organism. Can the same be said of information? Does it lead a life of its own or is it merely a disposable by-product of mass culture?

In the age of information, Muñiz is a terabit of talent.

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Also Visit the TM Sisters at Locust Projects.




"I was learning, watching people's reactions and interactions with the drawings and with me and looking at it as a phenomenon. Having this incredible feedback from people, which is one of the main things that kept me going so long, was the participation of the people that were watching me and the kinds of comments and questions and observations that were coming from every range of person you could imagine, from little kids to old ladies to art historians." Keith Haring 1984

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Little Read Schoolhouse

It may still be a hot summer out there, but today is the first day of school...



What will our kids learn this year?



What will our kids make?



What will they wear on the first day of school?

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