Lately
Tittle This
ne of the most co-creative, capitalist savy painters of the modern age, Mark Kostabi launches a new game show where art critics and celebraties title his paintings for cash awards.
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Why do I love Kostabi and his lustrous career of factory art. Because, ha ha, in the face of art crowd pretension and the trendsetting judgment of elite "beholders," all that is sacred gets priced and sold in multitude. In the wake of Warhol, Kostabi is a shameless affront to contemporary views of artist originality, and he gleefully begets the question, as any modern artist worth their salt should, is this art? First paying people to paint like him, then to generate Kostabi ideas, all adding to his name on an hourly wage, he has now turned titling his paintings into a cash rewards game show. Kostabi rubs noses and dollar bills in the art world, and he manages to do it famously, artistically and lucratively.
Say What: Waste Free 101
he first thing people ask me when I tell them we've gone to a zero waste household is what does that mean. The immediate follow-up is, does that include recycling? Well we'd definitely have some serious trouble if it didn't.
The Zero Waste Challenge
OK, so my roomie, Miss Bliss, and I talked it over last weekend and we decided as a household to take on the zero waste challenge. Inspired by a recent article in Ascent Magazine detailing one woman's waste free odyssey, it made me think it's time to take my environmental consciousness to the next level.
The Essential Alan Watts
aith is a state of openness or trust. To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float. And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on. In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all. Instead they are holding tight. But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.
A Gem Rolls Off A Blog
'm trying to trick all my hopes and fears into the same bag where, like matter and anti-matter, they will annihilate each other in a brilliant flash and free massive amounts of energy. - will
