My colleague Paul Schmelzer put together this hilarious (and not hilarious) little clip. It’s my fault he didn’t finish his count. I can be heard running up behind him at the end and saying “go left!”–I ruined a perfectly good count. The good news? I had just finished my own count and got to 100 even.
This count needs a soundtrack. How about “Riot Squad” by Bad Brains?
Seriously, play these at the same time.
In Waite Park, Minn. — a quarry town on the outskirts of St. Cloud with a population just shy of 7,000 — something extraordinary is happening this week. More than 3,000 people have tickets for that sold-out something. One million dollars has been spent to make it happen. Its architect is Merce Cunningham, the 89-year-old man — wheelchair-bound and with a wild nest of white hair — who sat yesterday at dusk at the bottom of a Waite Park granite quarry, 150 feet below the Earth’s surface, watching and waiting.
Read the rest here.
I contracted with the good folks at Minnesota Independent to cover the RNC when it came to town. Here’s what I wrote for them:
8.30: Crackdown begins: Food Not Bombs house among Saturday raids
8.31: The anatomy of a march: Veterans for Peace event ends in arrests
9.1: First blast of crowd control weapons; many more to come
9.1: Tear gas fired into crowd at Kellogg, MnIndy reporter hit
9.1: RNC Day One Diary: All roads lead to Kellogg Boulevard
9.2: RNC Day Two Diary (part I): Huck and me; on the convention floor
9.2: RNC Day Two Diary (Part II): Armies of the night
9.4: RNC march turns ugly as police use teargas, detain journalists
9.7: Crowd control at the RNC: Fifty million unanswered questions
In the midst of all of this, I did a radio interview with KCRW’s “To the Point” and a podcast interview with Glenn Greenwald over at Salon.
I work with two computer screens. And today I’ve got the constant/setting site open on one screen all day. It’s a project by Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino that shows the sun setting, in real time, wherever it happens to be setting at any given time.
Deschamps-Sonsino designed the site to pull photos posted to Flickr as creative commons that correspond to the cities where the sun happens to be setting.
When I first tuned in the sun was setting in Zaporizhzhya, Ukraine and it looked like this:
This site needs a soundtrack. I suggest queing up the Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy Daytrotter Session. Especially The Sun Highlights the Lack in Each, which is the third song down.
[via Waxy]
My old man is in the hospital–so I’m in my hometown. I’ve been staring out a window in a hospital on a hill and the view is fabulous. Lush trees and a bridge in the distance. But I’ve been staring a long time and I’m beginning to wish their were mountains.
Tooling around the internet, I found a page called Peter’s Guide to Map Creation: How to Draw Mountains. It’s a charming little tutorial, and I’m going to give it a shot on the dry erase board here, right under the words: NURSE: JAMI.
I’ve just discovered the photographs of Swedish photographer Lars Tunbjork. He has this series called Office. Two photos from the series had me digging through the pictures I took in Baghdad at the Ministry of Health just after the invasion and the looting. I put two of Tunbjork’s photos first. Then two of mine.
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