ArtLifter

Oakland is getting revved up

2011-10-28T21:38:00.000-07:00

On The London Riots

2011-08-16T19:54:00.000-07:00

Drawings of Tupac

2011-07-28T15:39:00.000-07:00

like button

2011-06-03T01:44:00.000-07:00

Well, what did you think was going to happen?

2011-04-07T17:49:00.001-07:00

another piece of evidence against an armed third party justice system

2011-04-02T13:30:00.000-07:00

Earthquake Japan

2011-03-11T10:15:00.000-08:00

Teabaggers Being Crazy

2011-03-04T06:46:00.000-08:00

Jeanies of Death

2011-02-28T09:29:00.000-08:00

This is on netflix watch instantly

2011-02-23T13:28:00.000-08:00

Make Yr Own Mashup Laurie Anderson's Oh Superman Vs. Austra's The Beat And The Pulse

2011-02-23T09:56:00.001-08:00

Push play around the same time with both videos on screen. Adjust volume as desired.

Look at how psychedelic we can cut up the infinite into tiny punctuations of time

2011-02-11T09:24:00.000-08:00

And of course, look at this other thing:

The Crisis of Capitalism RSA

2011-02-09T08:41:00.001-08:00

I've got bills, and the kids need to eat.

2011-02-09T06:33:00.001-08:00

Thich Nhat Hanh

2011-02-03T07:47:00.000-08:00

Criminal Activity

2011-02-03T06:38:00.000-08:00

2011-01-24T17:02:00.001-08:00

Dance Dance People's Revolution

2011-01-19T08:33:00.000-08:00

ghoti

2011-01-14T09:06:00.000-08:00

Today I learned that ghoti spells fish. "gh" as in tough, "o" as in women, and "ti" as in nation.

Don't Be Scared

2011-01-14T05:55:00.000-08:00

New Fuel Source Unveiled

2010-12-25T17:24:00.000-08:00

Sunlight shines through a crystal into water and carbon dioxide creating transportable fuel similar to the way a plant uses photosynthesis to create energy:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12051167

I support the RIGHT NOW PARTY

2010-12-09T14:29:00.000-08:00

http://clairestaples.blogspot.com/2010/12/right-now-party.html

In Your Dreams

2010-11-12T10:31:00.000-08:00

Kids like pigeons too.

2010-11-10T16:42:00.000-08:00

An Example of Meta Video

2010-10-29T14:54:00.000-07:00

After Last Season

2010-10-28T09:45:00.001-07:00

Ministry for the Manufacture of Dissent

2010-10-19T13:10:00.000-07:00

Eating the flesh of the white pig

2010-10-19T11:53:00.001-07:00

Radical Dude

2010-10-16T20:21:00.000-07:00

Capitalism?

2010-10-15T09:11:00.000-07:00

Totalitarianism?

2010-10-15T09:07:00.000-07:00

This is all the new haircuts I'm getting

2010-10-10T11:44:00.000-07:00

The Beatles' Paul McCartney for factory farming

2010-10-01T07:37:00.000-07:00

Find out more at Meat.org.

Yes to queer relationships between all people regardless of gender.

2010-09-18T09:06:00.001-07:00

Nice back pack removal GETTING LIGHT

2010-09-14T18:49:00.000-07:00

Everyone is doing it. Even you.

What we know we know, what we know we don't know

2010-08-05T06:44:00.000-07:00

But what about what we don't know we know? Which is to say, what about the things so engrained that we don't even know that we know them.
What about going to work?
Everyone has to go to work.
What about rich people?
MOST people have to go to work.
Why do people have to go to work?
To make money.
Why do people have to make money?
To buy food and clothing and pay rent.

We practice beliefs even if we don't believe in them. Physicist Nils Bohr kept a horseshoe over his door to keep evil spirits out. When asked about it he said "hey, I'm not crazy, I don't believe in that superstition... but I was told by someone that it works whether or not I believe in it."

Buckminster Fuller reminds us that the goal of Utopian society should be total unemployment. He goes on to say that probably 20% of us are workaholics who want to go to work, and that we should give them the means to get everything done that needs to get done, and the rest of us will be free to persue science, music, art, maths, philosophy, horticulture, agriculture, spirituality, and everything else that has been replaced by consumption.

We are working so dang hard to bring you a new entry; here's a look at our latest problem:

2010-07-29T21:22:00.000-07:00

If you started watching Mtv right now from the beginning, how long would it take you to watch it all (to whatever it's current state may be at the time you finish), if you watched each video, program, commercial, or other repeated material only one time?

7 billion human population of Earth. 1 in a million? There are 7,000 of you

2010-07-22T06:33:00.000-07:00

This means that everyone who ranks highest (at anything) sampled from 1 million people, enters into a group of 7,000 people. Telling someone they are one in a million is like saying "There are about 7,000 of you in the world today." And, as an aside, in a recent article in The Oregonian, Jeff Mapes mentions that 7,000 is the number of members of congress it would take to have the same number of reps per-capita we had at the start.
If we search youtube, we get this

Search options

“one in a million shot” results 1 - 20 of about 5,180

Necessitous men are not free men. -FDR

2010-07-14T12:24:00.000-07:00

I cried.

The Best Cover of 96 Tears Ever There Was

2010-07-14T05:41:00.000-07:00

You could be looking at LOLcats (or you could start thinking about the insurmountable shortcomings of being a leftist liberal)

2010-07-12T07:33:00.000-07:00

Slavoj Zizek in Examined Life

2010-07-12T06:18:00.000-07:00

I guess if you have a terrible speech impediment you tend to say the most important shit you can think of.

It's time once again for us to see some art that a lot of other people have already confirmed is good.

2010-07-12T05:42:00.001-07:00

by fred tomaselli

by tara donovan (toothpicks)

Headlines

2010-07-08T06:34:00.000-07:00

Kate Moss

2010-06-30T05:21:00.000-07:00

$2.6m of solid gold in the shape of Kate Moss by Marc Quinn.

This picture is making my hangover worse.

2010-06-27T09:01:00.000-07:00

Death and Money (Shit yeah, I'd be smiling holding a big stack of money if I were getting paid to hold it and smile too.)

2010-06-25T09:14:00.000-07:00

GOOD NEWS! I just had a poem published!!!

2010-06-24T08:31:00.000-07:00

Yes, I just has a poem, written by me, published, also by me, as the next entry on this blog! I hope you're happy for me.

Here's a NEW POEM

2010-06-24T07:58:00.000-07:00

Ladyshark pieces color the ocean red where the sea meats the sky
And we draw our silk blouses tight to the throat
And drink warm milk while the piano lights up the room
And what were those fucking lessons for
I've never had an experience with music

Let's not talk
Let's not talk anymore
About anything
Ever

I'm done feeling sorry for myself
Starting tomorrow if I'm still here
And I'm going to get on board
And I'm going to sell
Sell
Sell

And the money will come
And I'll have a new piano
And I can really concentrate
On my hobby

But what has any of us done to get things done
Before this

Not Much

And so now, at this late hour, you're going to get in the game
Suit up
You need to smile more if you want to get on the field
The cameras are rolling
And those frowns aren't paying the bills, buddy

If you want to go eat bugs and worms sit in your own shit all day, be my guest
But not on my dime

MY DIME

My dime: the one that owned land before you were born
My dime: the one that tells you where you can't be
My dime: the one that says you have to work for me if you want the Dr. to sew your finger back on
My dime: Whose breast is a cannibal dynamo

Yes, we've talked about this before
But now we really mean it

How long until I can quit?
The French just added another six years
And America is worried its old people are living too long

Did I hear myself right?

America
Is worried
Its Old People
Are living too long

And we work for the least of us
Because that's who's the boss
And that's who sells your life back to you
On TV

And iPods
And cell phones
And in cars and trucks
To get to work

And apartments so cheap
We can live on what they're paying us

Not homes
No gardens
No dogs, don't even think about horses
Not real dogs, just little special dogs
Bread to be tinier than nature would allow
To live
In little boxes made of plastic
Inside of bigger little boxes made of sheetrock
And painted with plastic
And counters made of plastic
And wood that stinks of the glue holding its tiny particles together
And a stove that gets hot on electricity
And a plastic bath tub and a plastic sink
And a plastic floor
And a carpet made of tiny fibers of plastic
Held onto a grid of plastic with plastic glue
And all the windows
Made of glass
In sills caulked with plastic
Seal off the world that made me

If you can't get out, the only thing to do
Is find a way deeper in

Mike Jittlov's "Meriday in the Morning"

2010-06-24T07:56:00.000-07:00



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Here are some names I made up.

2010-06-24T07:50:00.000-07:00

Evan Scoot
Richard Shelmster
Clifford Reedenbook
Helmsey Ford
Virginia Beech
Dan Sutherlynch
Clause Crabgrastry
Dr. Wynona Morgenstein-Holden
Sam Whittow
Dave Flanders
Mitchel Francisco
Craig Fragin
Chloe Frech
Patrick Freeburg
Noah Koenigg

There are probably some people with these names, but I'm not talking about them at all.

We will adapt ourselves past the point of no return.

2010-06-13T10:47:00.000-07:00

And furthermore:
I read an article today on the bbc news about a painting that had sold for more than any other painting by an Indian artist in the history of recorded time. It sold for $3.5m. The picture of the actual painting is tiny, the caption says: "The painting has been hailed for its expressive brush strokes." The painting is a geometric abstraction, like a grid painting.

Things I was going to get around to showing you sooner or later

2010-06-11T08:03:00.000-07:00

Now here are some paintings I like:

mark grotjahn:

pat steir:

Willem De Kooning

Peter Saul

Karin Davie:

david reed:

philip guston:

peter halley:

patrick caulfield:

gary hume: