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LOOK, UP THERE!
CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX
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In mid-October 2011, NASA scientists working in Antarctica discovered a massive crack across the Pine Island Glacier, a major ice stream that drains the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. Extending for 19 miles (30 kilometers), the crack was 260 feet (80 meters) wide and 195 feet (60 meters) deep. Eventually, the crack will extend all the way across the glacier, and calve a giant iceberg that will cover about 350 square miles (900 square kilometers). This image from the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) instrument on NAS's Terra spacecraft was acquired Nov. 13, 2011, and covers an area of 27 by 32 miles (44 by 52 kilometers), and is located near 74.9 degrees south latitude, 101.1 degrees west longitude. Image Credit: NASA/GSFC/METI/ERSDAC/JAROS, and U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team
SPACE TO PARIS
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ZEPPELIN OVER SAN FRANCISCO
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Often seen cruising Bay Area skies about 1,000 feet off the ground, the Eureka airship is one of only two of its type in the world, and the only one in the United States that carries commercial passengers. This German-made zeppelin, owned by Airship Ventures, is not a blimp; though both types of airships are filled with helium, only a zeppelin has an internal framework.
Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin patented plans for a rigid-frame airship around the turn of the 20th century. The United States has long been a huge supplier of helium: a 1927 ban on exporting it forced the German airship the Hindenburg to use highly flammable hydrogen — until its fiery demise in Lakehurst, N.J., in 1937.
Source: The Bay Citizen (http://s.tt/15r6C)
WHITE SAVAGE
"In The Blue Tattoo: The Life of Olive Oatman, Mifflin's 2009 contribution to the subgenre of American historical studies known as the pioneer captivity narrative, she recounts the slaughter of Oatman's family by marauding Yavapai Indians near the Gila River in Arizona, Oatman's abduction, and her subsequent assimilation into Mohave tribal culture---so much so that she consented to the chin tattoo that was a traditional signifier of femininity, among the Mohave. Mifflin considers Oatman's transformation from Mormon pioneer girl into what the Victorians melodramatically called a "white savage," analyzing the significance of her years among the Mohave and ultimate return to white society in light of Victorian gender politics."
Lorenzo D. and Olive Ann Oatman, brother and sister, traveled with their family in 1850 across the Plains. While encamped on the Gila River,they were attacked by Indians who killed most of the family, left Lorenzo for dead, and took Olive and her sister Mary into captivity. Although Mary died in captivity, Olive was eventually ransomed and joined her brother in 1857.
THE MOONS OF SATURN
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Flying past Saturn's moon Dione, Cassini captured this view which includes two smaller moons, Epimetheus and Prometheus, near the planet's rings. The image was taken in visible light with Cassini's narrow-angle camera during the spacecraft's flyby of Dione on Dec. 12, 2011. This encounter was the spacecraft's closest pass of the moon's surface, but, because this flyby was intended primarily for other Cassini instruments, it did not yield Cassini's best images of the moon. Higher resolution images were obtained during earlier flybys (see PIA07638). Dione (698 miles, or 1,123 kilometers across) is closest to Cassini here and is on the left of the image. Potato-shaped Prometheus (53 miles, or 86 kilometers across) appears above the rings near the center top of the image. Epimetheus (70 miles, or 113 kilometers across) is on the right. This view looks toward the northern, sunlit side of the rings from less than one degree above the ring plane. The view was acquired at a distance of approximately 67,000 miles (108,000 kilometers) from Dione. Image scale is 2,122 feet (647 meters) per pixel on Dione. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute
SAN FRANCISCO PARITY IN 5 YEARS
Mapping Solar Grid Parity
SAINT SEBASTIAN
Title: Prick
Year: 2011
Duration: 3'00"
Type: Video Art / Political Activism
Poem by: Ed Madden
Music By: Max Simon
Saint Sebastian: Anthony Bellapigna
Camera, Photography and Editing: Stokes Piercy
Conceived and Directed by: Santiago Echeverry
Experimental and Political video art piece based on the poem Prick by Ed Madden, that uses the image of Saint Sebastian to explore the attacks of the Conservatives on the LGBT community. The word prick acquires a deeper definition especially when teenagers commit suicide after nasty words are being thrown at them like arrows. But like Sebastian, who actually survived his ordeal, things will get better when we expose and deal with these pricks for what they are: bigots.
Prick
Where the arrow goes matters,
like the x that marks the spot,
the mark on the map that says
you’re here (or not), the GPS
blue spot. If the arrow pierced
a heart, it’d be hard to tell
the normal and the queer apart,
so the right can only think
about the other parts—the pricks
in suits, little flags affixed
on coat lapels, Bibles holstered,
locked and loaded, equipped with scripture,
pins to stick and fix us—quick, boys,
pin the tag on the faggot—
not for who he is or loves,
but for what he does with what he has.
Ed Madden, ©2011
Where the arrow goes matters,
like the x that marks the spot,
the mark on the map that says
you’re here (or not), the GPS
blue spot. If the arrow pierced
a heart, it’d be hard to tell
the normal and the queer apart,
so the right can only think
about the other parts—the pricks
in suits, little flags affixed
on coat lapels, Bibles holstered,
locked and loaded, equipped with scripture,
pins to stick and fix us—quick, boys,
pin the tag on the faggot—
not for who he is or loves,
but for what he does with what he has.
Ed Madden, ©2011
http://www.echeverry.tv/generator.php?folder=real&body=prick
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