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The ECSTASY of Making Art, Not Waste
“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and...
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Ecocity Dreamin’
What can I say, I love the intersection of art and ecology. It’s one of the reasons I respect the work Richard Register and Kirstin Miller have been doing with Ecocity Builders so much. They realize...
View ArticleLethal Birdbath
The photo above is the Grand Prize winner of the Visuals & Voices Eco-Art, Photography, Poetry and Writing Contest for Bay Area Middle & High School Students. I thought this amazing piece of...
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Dances on Walls: How flying women are making the planet cooler
Last night, on our way to see some live music at a local cafe in San Francisco’s Mission District, my friends and I were stopped in our tracks by an unusual looking Women’s Building on 18th Street....
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Ecocities Illustrated: The Art of Richard Register
I truly believe that art and creativity must play a vital role in inspiring the ecological changes we need to see in this world. 350’s Earth Art project goes to the very core of that, and it’s been...
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Ascension of John Long
I’ve been wanting to post this video by my old buddy Phil Long for a while. It documents the process of making an incredible leather mosaic tribute to his father who was murdered by pirates off the...
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Seeds for Creative Change: Tuber Creations relaunches
Creative portal Tuber Creations takes a plunge into deeper waters No matter where you stand on the state of the planet, there seems to be a consensus that things cannot go on the way they have been. We...
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Street Art and its Role in Creating Ecocity Culture
…is the title of a presentation I will give at the upcoming Ecocity World Summit August 22-26 in Montréal, Canada. I just found out a few days ago that my proposal got accepted, and so now I’ve got to...
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Environmental Artist Blacklisted by Canadian Government. You Can Help Turn...
“Who was the idiot who approved an art show by that woman, Franke James?” Memorable words from one of Canada’s top officials on hearing that the Canadian Embassy in Croatia had offered support for...
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Death never felt so full of life
“Let’s have fun at a death party” is probably not the most commonly uttered combination of words in the English language. There’s something a bit too irreverent and dangerously inappropriate about the...
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Do I Need This?
…is the question I ask myself all the time. Living in times in which it often seems harder to avoid new stuff than to accumulate it, I ask this question not just for the sake of a planet drowning in...
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Urban Prototyping: Magical Pieces of the Future
Living in San Francisco, I’ve come to appreciate and almost expect my fellow residents’ relentless drive for innovative use of urban spaces, to redefine what it means to live and interact with each...
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Happy Dia de los Muertos
Note: I wrote this a couple of years ago, but it’s always a fun re-post. Excited to pay my tributes to the ancestors and those who have passed tonight. Death never felt so alive! “Let’s have fun at a...
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“They’re making art out of recycled crap!”
The Art of Recology: The Artist in Residence Program 1990-2013 San Francisco Airport Museum, March – October 2013 United Terminal 3 (exhibition viewable by ticketed passengers) This exhibition...
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The bio I never planned to write…
Visions of Hagia Sophia: a writer with a camera taking a self-portrait during a wintery bike tour of Istanbul. In 2009, after 13 years of wordsmithing and playing in a rock & roll band accompanied...
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WARNING: Graphic Humor May Cause Severe Climate Change Awareness
So here I am, fresh off the proverbial boat to witness Week 2 of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Lima, Peru, aka COP20, or the 20th session of the Conference of the...
View ArticleBirthing, Dying, Becoming Crip Wisdom: 4 questions for Sins Invalid artist...
A few years ago, I wrote a piece for YES! Magazine entitled Speaking for All Bodies (Not Just the “Perfect” Ones) about Sins Invalid, a performance project on disability and sexuality that incubates...
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What do we do now? Tomorrow documentary offers solutions without the clichés
Those of us concerned about the planetary challenges of our time know the varying degrees of trepidation that can accompany a showing of yet another documentary attempting to address the world’s...
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Do I Need This?
…is the question I ask myself all the time. Living in times in which it often seems harder to avoid new stuff than to accumulate it, I ask this question not just for the sake of a planet drowning in...
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Urban Prototyping: Magical Pieces of the Future
Living in San Francisco, I’ve come to appreciate and almost expect my fellow residents’ relentless drive for innovative use of urban spaces, to redefine what it means to live and interact with each...
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