The HONK! Festival is a revolutionary street spectacle of never-before-seen proportions that converged on Davis Square in Somerville, MA on October 10-12, 2008!
We’re glad to have Witt Wisebram as a new author for the Groundswell Blog. He’s the founder of WonderRoot, an Atlanta, Georgia based nonprofit uniting artists and community to inspire positive social change. He’s also a musician, check it out!
New York City has begun decorating the city’s taxi cabs with hand-painted, adhesive, weatherproof images of giant decorative flowers. The flowers, mostly painted by children around the nation, are fastened to the roof or hood of the cab.
According to the New York Times:
“The flowers “will soon transform the ubiquitous yellow icon into a mobile artistic canvas,” according to a news release from Portraits of Hope, the nonprofit program that is organizing the effort.”
The brothers who started Portraits of Hope in 1995, Ed and Bernie Massey, initiated this public art project, called Garden in Transit to “provide creative therapy for seriously ill and disabled children, but has expanded to include children and adults participating through schools, after-school programs, hospitals and nonprofit groups.”
The ADL is actively opposing Iran’s pursuit of nuclear technologies, and have started promoting their efforts with a poster and sticker campaign. Their website promises further action in the coming weeks.
Jessica Vitkus at Slate has created some rather excellent crafts to influence the upcoming presidential elections, politically appropriate for both RepubliCrafts and DemoCrafts. I was partial to the God-Free Cross-Stitch:
Battles of Troy (2004) is a study on the internal economy of contemporary globalized cinema production, through the eyes of the lowest unit in the production hierarchy - the extras. The focus of the study is the making of the Warner Bross Motion Picture »Troy« (2004). Starting in 2003 with a budget of 185 000 000 USD, Troy is one of the most expensive productions ever made. It interprets Homer’s Illiade. The project is based on the fact that 300 people from the core »specialised« group of stunds in »Troy« are Bulgarians. The warner Bross project, executed by the British branch of the company, shot in UK, Malta and Mexico suddenly appeared to be in need of an elite group of extras that not only possessed the physical prowess necessary to convincingly stage the battle scenes, but also had a believably Mediterranean look. The perfect soldiers were recruited from the Sports Academy in Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria.
Also via VVORK.
