sunset over deepwater horizon

"An actually existent fly



is more important


than a possibly existent angel."






Ralph Waldo Emerson 5. 25. 1803 – 4. 27. 1882

Party of No...

your table is ready.

I desperately do...

that there's intelligent life somewhere...

Poignant

Korean artist Do-Ho Suh’s “Some/One, 2001”















The seven foot sculpture resembles a Korean suit of polished armor.

Up close,
it reveals an assemblage of thousands of overlapping artificial dog tags that represent individual soldiers.
In its deceptive simplicity, the soldiers become subsumed into the sum total of the piece.

Suh is engaging the viewer in a conversation about the identity of the individual versus the collective.

4 Dead 40 years ago

KENT, Ohio - More than 1,000 people crowded the hill and Commons at Kent State University on Tuesday to remember four students who were killed and nine who were wounded during antiwar protests 40 years ago.

John Filo, who took the Pulitzer Prize-winning photo of Mary Vecchio kneeling over the body of slain student Jeffrey Miller, said, "It's always tough coming back."

Vecchio, who was a 14-year-old runaway when the photograph was snapped, said the memories "draw me to different places, some dark lows and some highs, feeling sad and scared."

The really sad thing is, that our generation really hasn't kept its promises to change the world.

Many of us tried; some are still trying; but, things have, by and large, really only gotten worse.

yeah

"I want to turn the clock back





















to when people lived in small villages
and took care of each other"



Peter "Pete" Seeger 5. 3.1919