There’s
no Room in This Bed previews at The Dance Factory in Newtown (JHB) this Friday, and then carries on through next week. We was featured in The Star yesterday! The piece, inspired
by the current pandemic of silence around HIV/AIDS, is really starting to come
together b/w set, text, anime and movement; if in Joburg, check
it.
READ
THIS NOW. In contrast to my seemingly centrist post, below, this is about
how I really feel. Bush is going down! And, though I doubt they would go
for it, a Dean/Kerry ticket may just be what we need to win this thing…
This
article, entitled, "Dean
Defense Forces: Lobbing E-mail at the Enemy," scares me a bit. On the
one hand, it’s nice to have a Dean Defense League. On the other, it winds up painting
a picture of Dean that we may not want. Howard
Dean’s supposedly all-encompassing liberal stance is what thrusted him into
fame for grassroots liberals, such as myself. The press, and pieces like these,
are continuing to paint that picture, with the slant of "those silly neo-hippies."
Dean *is* my choice candidate. This is because he is very progressive on social
issues (we need this) and farily conservative on economic (we also need
this). Though I do not agree with some of his beliefs, it’s things like his gun-control
and death penalty stances that will bring the middle (and the South) to our side.
Face it: on most issues, he is a centrist. On the most *important* issues, he
is not. This is why I like him :)
Note that Dean himself keeps trying to remind us that he goes to the center on
the formerly mentioned issues. Sometime before the primaries, he’s going to have
to use the fame he is getting from liberals to prove to the rest of the Democratic
party that we are all on the same team. We need to recognize this, and make room
for it, too. Right now, grassroots progressives control the Dean campaign. We
do not want it to stay this way - because he will never win on that vote
alone. We have to invite people other than activists on board. Dean is already
trying to do this; so should his supporters.
Oh Boy, is this tasty. Click, and scroll, just a bit, to read, “Why the critics still dont get Howard Dean”
Some new-ish art calls for fellow digital creative types:
Transmediale ‘04
ISEA2004, 12th International Symposium on Electronic Art
Biennale of Electronic Art Perth 2004
Stuttgarter Filmwinter 17
Digital Art Lab, Holon - call for proposals
This is too funny. I believe they are unveiling the “fugheddaboudit” sign in my old hood, Prospect Heights, Brooklyn.
The Mob Project. Nice idea, but I think the creators might explore the fact that it has a *bit* more to do with things other than stupid human fun…
Newsday.com - COLUMN: The Iraq War, or America Betrayed. This one’s from my pop.
