The latest Gallup poll on weight is scary. In the last twenty years our standards for weight have changed. We actually believe we need to be larger.
Of course, this could be due to us all getting taller, moving away from skinny as ideal, or the obvious obesity epidemic. The latter is most likely true.
If you put these average weights into the CDC’s body mass index calculator, then our averages are way overweight, borderline obese.
The graph doesn’t show a downward trend…
The latest Gallup poll on weight is scary. In the last twenty years our standards for weight have changed. We actually believe we need to be larger.
Of course, this could be due to us all getting taller, moving away from skinny as ideal, or the obvious obesity epidemic. The latter is most likely true.
If you put these average weights into the CDC’s body mass index calculator, then our averages are way overweight, borderline obese.
The graph doesn’t show a downward trend…
The story on this photo is that the rebel groups were searching for Libya’s ex-leader Muammar Gaddafi. They found him alive in a sewer (photo below) and he immediately said “don’t shoot.”
Ten minutes later Al-Jazeera is broadcasting an image of him beaten, bloody, and dead. After which celebrations reverberated throughout the city with this young man leading them, golden gun in hand.
Continue reading “You know you’re a dictator when…you own the golden gun (Libya’s Gaddafi) (photo)”
The story on this photo is that the rebel groups were searching for Libya’s ex-leader Muammar Gaddafi. They found him alive in a sewer (photo below) and he immediately said “don’t shoot.”
Ten minutes later Al-Jazeera is broadcasting an image of him beaten, bloody, and dead. After which celebrations reverberated throughout the city with this young man leading them, golden gun in hand.
Continue reading “You know you're a dictator when…you own the golden gun (Libya's Gaddafi) (photo)”
This project and this movement is about mobilizing the masses and nothing is more important than numbers when it comes to a protest’s strength and longevity.
That is why we are providing everyone with free downloadable posters, graciously provided by graphic designers around the country, to not only promote this site and efforts down on Wall St. but to help mobilize in other communities, to inspire, to promote, to inform, and to strengthen the occupiers’ efforts.
Here are my favorites of the 50+ available:
Continue reading “Art, icons, and posters of Occupy Wall Street”
I’m happy with this Time cover mostly because I’m proud to help acknowledge and amplify the influence of protest movements this year, especially Occupy Wall Street. Exposure leads to dialogue, and I’m glad that the issues Occupy is concerned with are finally being discussed.
With the cover image I wanted to capture the dedication and spirit of defiance that any protester must possess in the face of arrest or worse.
Time provided me with images to sift through and I illustrated from a photograph that I thought would be a good reference for an iconic and compelling protester. In my art I try to emphasize the most powerful essence of an image and eliminate anything superfluous. In this case I felt there was a powerful contrast between the intensity of her eyes and her unthreatening yellow knit beanie. I wanted the protester to come across as serious, but not scary. Most of the protesters I’ve met are normal, idealistic, young adults, so I thought the “person next door” feel was important. Ironically, I found out that the subject of the photo I illustrated from is an LA resident and employee of the Robert Berman gallery who I have worked with. I hope to meet or speak to her at some point.
This Time issue is a documentation of an irrefutable phenomenon, not an incitement to protest(I wish I had that degree of influence over Time’s agenda) even though I do encourage people to stand up for their beliefs and protest if necessary . Regardless, if this Time cover encourages others to stand up for their ideals, I think it is a victory.
And, the artwork:
I’m happy with this Time cover mostly because I’m proud to help acknowledge and amplify the influence of protest movements this year, especially Occupy Wall Street. Exposure leads to dialogue, and I’m glad that the issues Occupy is concerned with are finally being discussed.
With the cover image I wanted to capture the dedication and spirit of defiance that any protester must possess in the face of arrest or worse.
Time provided me with images to sift through and I illustrated from a photograph that I thought would be a good reference for an iconic and compelling protester. In my art I try to emphasize the most powerful essence of an image and eliminate anything superfluous. In this case I felt there was a powerful contrast between the intensity of her eyes and her unthreatening yellow knit beanie. I wanted the protester to come across as serious, but not scary. Most of the protesters I’ve met are normal, idealistic, young adults, so I thought the “person next door” feel was important. Ironically, I found out that the subject of the photo I illustrated from is an LA resident and employee of the Robert Berman gallery who I have worked with. I hope to meet or speak to her at some point.
This Time issue is a documentation of an irrefutable phenomenon, not an incitement to protest(I wish I had that degree of influence over Time’s agenda) even though I do encourage people to stand up for their beliefs and protest if necessary . Regardless, if this Time cover encourages others to stand up for their ideals, I think it is a victory.
And, the artwork:
It’s pure genius. Nail through the foot, BB gun, hot door handle, ice the entrances, feathers and oil.
It’s pure genius. Nail through the foot, BB gun, hot door handle, ice the entrances, feathers and oil.
The next time someone asks you to drive less or recycle, try not to think about how much that annoys you. Instead think about the world that your children or grandchildren will live in. Will it be better or worse than the one you enjoy now?
Many signs are pointing to it being worse. One of those indications comes from an article in the San Diego Union-Tribune discussing the incoming extinction of Abalone on the West Coast.
..baby boomers who grew up peeling them off rocky outcroppings so that the practice became part of California beach culture.
“You used to be able to get an abalone sandwich for lunch when I first got here in the early 1970s,” Butler said.
I’ve never eaten an Abalone or even seen one. Am I already a part of that generation experiencing a worse world?
Abalones were a staple of coastal life for centuries — a nearshore fishery once topped 5.4 million pounds — until they were all but wiped out by disease, overharvest, predatory otters, poaching and habitat destruction.
By 1997, state officials had shut down all abalone fisheries south of San Francisco in hopes of saving the species.
In many ways the answer is yes, the environment passed down to me is worse than it was before.
The good news is that the solution defies generations. It requires the passion and motivation of young scientists combined with the wealth, political policies, and experience of older, often retired, specialists and philanthropic individuals.
The National Marine Fisheries Service recently formed a task force to save the black abalone, which was listed as federally endangered in 2009. A recovery plan is expected in about two years, though scientists said it’s complicated by poaching in the United States, limited harvest enforcement in Mexico and the potential that climate change will speed the spread of disease in the population.
There is still an abundance of hope, but first we must overcome our balking at minor inconveniences.