Wednesday, January 21, 2009

A NEW DAY



THE 44th PRESIDENT OF UNITED STATES OF AMERICA


President ~ Barack "Barry" Hussein Obama, Jr.
• Born on August 4, 1961, in Honolulu, Hawaii.
• Barack means "one who is blessed" in Swahili.
• Raised in Hawaii and Indonesia.

First Lady ~ Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama
• Born on January 17, 1964 in Chicago, Illinois.








FORMER VEEP DICK CHENEY

EXITS WASHINGTON IN A WHEELCHAIR!





IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN CHAINS & LEG SHACKLES!




Saturday, January 17, 2009

"Miss B: The Dancing Bird Figure"









Miss B: The Dancing Bird Figure marionette was made from piano mechanisms, cabinet parts, wire and felt by The Pianistas, a very busy people who were also adept at utilizing their free time. During the long winter months, activities were created to pass the time and entertain... Children would use whatever scraps of materials leftover to make their own figurines, dolls, games and other amusements... like the Dancing Bird Figure... During the turn of the 20th Century, at a road-side general store in New Jersey, Cyrus Braintree acquired the Dancing Bird Figure from a member of the Pianistas tribe... Braintree gave the bird figure the name: Miss 'B', the Incredible Dancing Bird and created one of the most popular Vaudeville shows of its time. With the help of a friend who was a bicycle repairman, he made a coin operated juke box outfitted with a mechanism that would cause the small bird figurine to dance to the music... Miss "B" reached the height of popularity in 1927... Tragically, the bird figurine was destroyed in a hotel fire on East 42nd Street in Manhattan during November of 1929, where Braintree, down on his luck, was trying to stage a comeback tour. Braintree survived the fire, but never recovered from the loss. He made several attempts to create new versions of the bird figure (of which the 10 inch tall "Dancing Bird Figure" is an example), but with no success...


Thanks to M. Frassinelli, for information on this video clip


Friday, November 7, 2008

The People have spoken

 



          1st panel:   Obama     (image by Shepard Fairey)
          2nd panel: McCain/Palin     (image by Scattergood-Moore)
          3rd palel:   Fist     (based on 1960s Black Panther poster)

 

Friday, August 22, 2008

The Imperial President

GEORGE W. BUSH

based on the Ingres painting
Napoleon on His Imperial Throne, 1806

image created by PantherProUSA, © 2008


The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism. By Andrew Bacevich. Published by Metropolitan Books. "...identifies a profound triple crisis facing America: the economy, in remarkable disarray, can no longer be fixed by relying on expansion abroad; the government, transformed by an imperial presidency, is a democracy in form only; U.S. involvement in endless wars, driven by a deep infatuation with military power, has been a catastrophe for the body politic. These pressing problems threaten all of us, Republicans and Democrats. If the nation is to solve its predicament, it will need the revival of a distinctly American approach: the neglected tradition of realism..." - The American Empire Project


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Monday, February 25, 2008

Monday, October 1, 2007

TODAY IS OCTOBER 1st


I want freedom, the right to self-expression, everybody's right to beautiful radiant things. - Emma Goldman