Tuesday, April 27, 2010

OShhhit!

Friday's Front Page

The Next Day's

Thursday, April 15, 2010

Stayin Afloat


Some Advice in white my grandma passed onto me

Comissioned


New Murals At the Half Moon patio

Graffiti

These speak for themselves


A couple of notes though...
*Despite what the media might tell you about New Orleans, know that this is city is still good for the looting. I striped these off a classroom wall flooded out and abandoned.
*The chalkboard still had the date written on it (the 26th) and the teachers name (they were still doing beginning of the year introductions)

Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Far Out Apples

My sister has had me thinking about stuff like this for more than a minute now and this apple juice ingredients list is a perfect example of the kind of bullshit she enjoys busting.

Its cools that 'Ocean Spray' is actually 100% juice but its got me scratching my head why it takes no less than 10 countries to come up with the concentrate. Its naive these days to assume that the food we eat in the US would actually come solely from the United States. But this list of countries on here encompasses 3 continents and a big swath of the globe. Its like a whose-who of industrialized nations and WWII players. I'm sort of wondering how come Japan didn't make the list? (No Fujis in the O-Spray?)

But back to a more local level. I think the absurdity of this list is the kind of thing Katie hopes to help remedy with her various community projects in Knoxville. you can get a good rundown of what a tour-de-plants looks like and what it means to glean on her site, Who Shares Win.

The buzz is building for her current project the Urban Land Scouts. I can't quite divulge what its all about just yet but suffice to say I would dig getting the chance to collect a few of these cool patches (The ball of earthworms and the eyeball caught my eye as well as the B-log.)

Monday, April 5, 2010

In Praise of College Radio


I used to work with this here DJ D-Train some months ago over at the Grease Trap they call the Dough Bowl. He was always one of the best to schlep thru a shift with. This picture was so good I couldn't help but upload it for you guys (the dude in the Anubis headpiece also deserves an honorable mention)

This came from the VOX, the semi-annual newsprint-published zine from WTUL, the local college radio station. A free radio station that prints a free magazine? That's some compounded media-on-media action. Alright!

Other highlights from this rag include a big long essay in praise of City Park by my pal Chris H, the weird images they subtely put behind every article (see: t-rex feet behind Darryl's "best-of" for instance), and this barcode on the cover
WooHoo! 91.5!!