The Eyes are the doorway to the soul, in this case to a dream.
An abstract video representation showcasing a work of art by Windwalker titled "DREAM POP".The Eyes are the doorway to the soul, in this case to a dream.
An abstract video... more
Art video of my painting Cherry Eight. Painting is on a casino slot machine window of the same name.Art video of my painting Cherry Eight. Painting is on a casino slot machine window of... more
Art video of a painting I did on an old video arcade glass panel from the 80's. I obtained this because of the great artwork on the borders. I knew it would be a challenge to preserve the work from further deterioration and to create a painting to go with it. Original art was done by Watson and looks like a silk screen process. My original work is a state of the art reversed painting process.
Watch it in HDArt video of a painting I did on an old video arcade glass panel from the 80's. I... more
Local Syracuse film maker works with local actors and musicians to create a fictional film about who owns the drug trade in upstate New York.Local Syracuse film maker works with local actors and musicians to create a fictional... more
Article in JERK magazine about avant-gardati artist Windwalker.
His driveway comes up fast; I snap out of the trance. Is this guy gonna be on acid? I swing the door open and think to myself, If he offers me any, will I take it and go on crazy adventures with him?Article in JERK magazine about avant-gardati artist Windwalker.
His driveway comes up... more
In an economy where thousands of Americans are losing their jobs, it is almost impossible for refugees who come to the U.S. to find employment. Yet in the face of adversity, Rwandan refugees still find reasons to be grateful for a chance at a new life and reason to hope for the future.In an economy where thousands of Americans are losing their jobs, it is almost... more
So this happened a while ago... and then highly ranked Syracuse lost to Cleveland State...
And then this video goes viral.
It's been a rough week for coach.So this happened a while ago... and then highly ranked Syracuse lost to Cleveland... more
Defending champs Kansas the latest victim of a middle of the pack Big East power, Notre Dame taking down Texas, Seton Hall handling USC and VT, this is very much the year that the Big East can storm through the season and send 12 deserving teams out of 16 to March Madness.
But quality wins by Syracuse over Kansas, Notre Dame over Texas, UConn over Wisconsin and 11 teams still yet to lose a game with the rest of the conference with no more than one loss at this point, looks like it could be the most dominant conference we've had a chanc to see in a while...Defending champs Kansas the latest victim of a middle of the pack Big East power,... more
A police officer in the Syracuse, New York, area Tasered a 37-year-old mom repeatedly in front of her children during a routine traffic stop—and then arrested the mom, leaving the children alone in their family minivan for 40 minutes in freezing weather.
The incident took place in Onondaga County, New York, on January 31, but dashcam video of the incident only recently came to light.
According to a report at syracuse.com, what started out as a routine traffic stop “escalated quickly” when 37-year-old Audra Harmon challenged officer Sean Andrews’ assertion that she had been talking on her cell phone when he pulled her over. Harmon disputed that fact, as well as the officer’s claim that she had been speeding—doing 50 mph in a 45 zone.
An article at MSNBC.com describes the situation:
Harmon had been driving home with her 15-year-old son, whom she had just picked up from wrestling practice, and 5-year-old daughter. She said she was resting her right hand on her cheek as she pulled behind a sheriff’s deputy to make a right turn onto the road where she lived. After she made the turn, the deputy pulled off the road to let her pass, then pulled out behind her with his lights flashing and siren blaring.
When Harmon got out of her minivan to show Officer Andrews that she wasn’t in possession of a cell phone, and to ask to see video footage of her allegedly talking on the cell phone she didn’t possess, the officer ordered her to get back in her car.
“And then he pulled out his taser and said I’m under arrest,” Harmon said. “I got back in the car and he said he wanted me back out of the car now. And I said ‘Why am I under arrest?’ … He then yanked me out of the car … pulled his taser out and the first shot jolted me…”
According to Syracuse.com, “Harmon was charged with disorderly conduct, resisting arrest and going 50 in a 45 mph zone. The district attorney’s office dismissed the charges a month later—after watching the videotape, said her lawyer, Terrance Hoffmann.”
Amazingly, the officer had justified Harmon’s arrest by saying she had obstructed traffic by getting out of her minivan.
As MSNBC points out, when Harmon was arrested, her children, aged five and 15, were left by the side of the road for forty minutes.
Harmon is suing the Onondaga County sheriff’s office. Officer Andrews has been taken off street patrol and “reassigned” until an internal affairs investigation is completed, the sheriff’s office said.
This video is from Syracuse.com, posted to the Web Aug. 13, 2009.A police officer in the Syracuse, New York, area Tasered a 37-year-old mom repeatedly... more
"Why Is a Journalism School Honoring a Blog Mogul Who Thinks Journalists Should Work for Free?
And the award for the Most Bitterly Ironic Media Award goes to ... the Fred Dressler Lifetime Achievement Award, to be bestowed upon Arianna Huffington by Syracuse University's S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at the upcoming Mirror Awards luncheon in Manhattan.
Congratulations, Arianna!
Now please excuse me as I crawl under my desk and curl into the fetal position.
Really, the school -- which exists to train journalists -- should know better than to honor a woman who thinks journalists should work for free!
Funny how the fact that The Huffington Post fails to pay most of its bloggers didn't come up when Newhouse Dean Lorraine Branham gushed about the blog mistress in a prepared statement: "Arianna Huffington was ahead of the curve with HuffPo. She embraced the use of new media but never forgot that no matter where or how you tell the story, content is still king. This is what we teach our students."
Oh, give me a break! Content, in Arianna's world, is not king, and it never was. Link bait is king; opportunism is king. If content was really honored at The Huffington Post, the site wouldn't have gotten in trouble last December for lifting content wholesale from other sites that do pay for their own content. (In case you missed the scandal, HuffPo's Chicago outpost got caught red-handed stealing detailed, bylined capsule concert previews -- not just quoting them but copying them in their entirety -- from the likes of the Chicago Reader and Time Out Chicago. See "Arianna Huffington's Scuzzy Copying Pisses Off Chicagoans" on Gawker.)
I've been raging about HuffPo's devaluation of content -- and, ergo, content creators -- since late 2007, when HuffPo co-founder Ken Lerer told USA Today the company had no plans to ever pay its bloggers: "That's not our financial model. We offer them visibility, promotion and distribution with a great company." ..."Good point. Here's an excerpt:
"Why Is a Journalism School Honoring a... more
If the heat doesn't kill us, will someone else pick up the slack? Syracuse police think that may be the case, after 4 days of shootings and violence leave 2 men dead. First Deputy Chief Michael Heenan said that a rise in violence during the hot days of summer are not uncommon because more people are spending time in the streets. Police say the four shootings are unrelated and it is not uncommon to have a string of shootings in a short time within the city.If the heat doesn't kill us, will someone else pick up the slack? Syracuse police... more
Sharing the road with cars can very dangerous for bikers. Downtown Syracuse is not exactly bike friendly, but that may change in the near future. City planners are proposing a way for cars and bikes to share the same road.Sharing the road with cars can very dangerous for bikers. Downtown Syracuse is not... more
Syracuse outlasted Connecticut in the second-longest Division I game ever, a six-overtime marathon that began at 9:36 p.m. Thursday and didn't end until 3 hours, 46 minutes later, when the Huskies simply couldn't keep up in a battle of attrition.Syracuse outlasted Connecticut in the second-longest Division I game ever, a... more
It was a game that appeared finished, but never really wanted to end. And after nearly four hours, six overtimes and countless records, Big East rivals Syracuse and Connecticut played a game whose legacy will resonate in college basketball lore.It was a game that appeared finished, but never really wanted to end. And after nearly... more
(Marquette, Michigan) - The Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge is in its biggest week with help from interfaith groups and American Indians in reaching the goal of one million pounds of electronics and one million pills.
The EPA issued the challenge to Great Lakes basin residents participating in over 100 projects that are collecting pharmaceuticals, electronics and household poisons. The EPA awarded grants to some of the projects.
Interfaith groups are involved in Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Ohio, New York and Pennsylvania. An EPA grant helped start the non-profit Earth Healing Initiative (EHI).
Trust between religions and interfaith environment projects are vital to protect the future of the earth, said a Lutheran bishop, who has participated in numerous Earth Day recycling projects.
"We are in an environmental crisis in many ways," said Lutheran Bishop Thomas A. Skrenes of the Northern Great Lakes Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. "The Great Lakes watershed is really a kind of a mother to all of us here in the upper Midwest."
The EHI involves American Indian tribes and "a coalition and partnership of churches, synagogues and other faith traditions joining together and sharing their projects and resources to heal, protect and defend the environment," said founder Rev. Jon Magnuson of Marquette, Michigan.
The Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin (MITW) is holding a curbside pickup of electronics for members during Earth Week, April 21-24. Over 1,000 pounds of electronics have been turned in at the MITW transfer station since April 1. The College of Menominee Nation hosts pharmaceutical/electronics collections on April 22.
On Friday, April 25, students at the tribal K-8 school are picking up litter and cleaning up the a reservation community. Students recently created "Garbage Monsters" out of bottles other items found in their trash, said Diana Wolf, MITW Solid Waste/Recycling Coordinator. Students gave presentations on other uses for the garbage.
"This interfaith earth healing effort is really a great gift that has been given to all of us," Skrenes said. “The church is called to bring people together to be part of the healing."
Examples of established interfaith organizations that are assisting the EHI include the University of Minnesota Lutheran Campus Ministry, the Duluth Arrowhead Interfaith Council, Marquette University Ministry in Milwaukee, several Catholic interfaith groups and the ELCA office of Ecumenical Formation.
The interfaith EHI is one of numerous environment and Native American projects founded by the non-profit Cedar Tree Institute in Marquette, Michigan including the Earth Keepers who removed more than 370 tons of e-waste, pharmaceuticals and household hazardous waste during three Earth Day clean sweeps.
The northern Michigan Earth Keepers belong to ten faith traditions with 150 churches and temples including Catholic, Episcopal, Lutheran, Presbyterian, United Methodist Church, Unitarian Universalist, Bahá'í, Jewish, Zen Buddhist and the Quakers. The EHI is working with the same faith traditions.
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College of Menominee Nation http://www.menominee.edu(Marquette, Michigan) - The Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge is in its biggest... more
(Chicago, Illinois) - Faith leaders across eight Great Lakes states are urging their members to participate in an Earth Day 2008 challenge to collect one million pounds of electronics and more than one million pills because trust is needed between all people to stop “an environmental crisis.”
The U.S. EPA Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge is in high gear with more than 100 projects involving hundreds of communities collecting pharmaceuticals, electronics and household poisons.
An EPA grant to the non-profit interfaith Earth Healing Initiative (EHI) is mobilizing religious communities in Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Ohio, New York and Pennsylvania.
A Lutheran Bishop who has participated in numerous interfaith Earth Day recycling projects hopes people of all faiths will help protect the environment.
“We are in an environmental crisis in many ways,” said Lutheran Bishop Thomas A. Skrenes of the Northern Great Lakes Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). “The Great Lakes watershed is really kind of a mother to all of us" in the Midwest.
Interfaith environment projects like the challenge will help ensure a better future for all humans, Skrenes said, adding “sometimes it's trusting each other that really counts in environmental work.”
“The culture, the society and the environment are now connecting in some fantastic new ways to build relationships between people,” Skrenes said. “We are building trust along and across denominational lines.”
The EHI is a coalition of American Indian tribes and a "partnership of churches, synagogues and other faith traditions joining together and sharing their projects and resources to heal, protect and defend the environment,” said founder Rev. Jon Magnuson of Marquette, Michigan.
Saying “it’s not your grandfather’s environment movement anymore,” Skrenes said that environmental work is now more mainstream and no longer “an obscure thing for a certain group of people” unlike 40 years ago when he was in high school “and I dare say some of my relatives said it was kind of a hippie movement.”
“The church is called to bring people together to be part of the healing,” Skrenes said. “This interfaith earth healing effort is really a great gift that has been given to all of us."
Interfaith organizations assisting the EHI include the University of Minnesota Lutheran Campus Ministry, the Arrowhead Interfaith Council in Duluth, the Marquette University Ministry outlets in Milwaukee, several Catholic interfaith groups and the ELCA office of Ecumenical Formation and Inter-Religious Relations.
The interfaith EHI is one of numerous environment and Native American projects founded by the non-profit Cedar Tree Institute in Marquette, Michigan including the Earth Keepers, who removed more than 370 tons of e-Waste, pharmaceuticals and household poisons during three Earth Day clean sweeps.
The northern Michigan Earth Keeper project involves the congregations of over 150 churches and temples representing ten faith communities: Catholic, Episcopal, Lutheran, Presbyterian, United Methodist Church, Unitarian Universalist, Bahá'í, Jewish, Zen Buddhist and the Religious Society of Friends commonly known as the Quakers.
The EHI is coordinating the same interfaith relationships. For more info call 906-401-0109(Chicago, Illinois) - Faith leaders across eight Great Lakes states are urging their... more
(Marquette, Michigan) - The new non-profit Earth Healing Initiative, based in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, is honoring faith-based and Native American environmental projects across the Great Lakes.
The interfaith Earth Healing Initiative (EHI) is currently collaborating with the USEPA to promote the Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge iacross eight states including providing faith community volunteers and spreading the word in churches and temples.
The EHI is one of several faith-based environment projects created by the non-profit Cedar Tree Institute in Marquette, Michigan.
Rev. Jon Magnuson said it's important for people of faith to protect the environment because the Christian church is at a “tipping point” in its relationship with itself and the Earth.
Quoting nineteenth century theologian Walter Rauschenbusch, Magnuson said “if a man or woman wants to be a Christian - she or he - must stand over and against things as they are and condemn them in the name of a higher conception of life revealed by Jesus.”
“I believe the environmental crisis that we are now involved in is a great tipping point in the church’s own evolution of its self-understanding,” Magnuson.
Roman Catholic theologian Thomas Berry “talks about three rivers converging at this time in human history,” said Magnuson, Cedar Tree Institute/Earth Healing Initiative founder.
“The first river is an avalanche and explosion of scientific knowledge that is pointing to the interconnectedness of everything,” Magnuson said. “The greatest polluter of Lake Superior (is) a major factory in China."
“We have atmospheric loading here where contaminants are carried over by wind currents and then deposited in rainfall,” said Magnuson. “The second stream is the health crisis that is facing us - the CDC (reports) 80 percent of all cancers are environmentally triggered."
“The third river Thomas Berry calls ‘Indigenous wisdom” - wisdom from the native communities around the world that is resurging,” Magnuson said. “For instance, their protection and use of plants both in Latin and South America as well in parts of north America - the protection of sacred sites."
“We realize now these are connected to protection of plants, animals and an ecosystem that holds great medicinal qualities for communities and individuals,” Magnuson explained.
“So these rivers are coming together,” said Magnuson. “It is an historic time - it is a tipping moment, a tipping point - the church needs to be here."
Magnuson recognized the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin that has three projects connected to the Earth Day Challenge and thanked the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community and other tribes that participated in Cedar Tree Institute events like the four-year restoration of Upper Peninsula wild rice beds by at-risk teens and tribal elders called the Manoomin Project.
The KBIC participated in the three Earth Keeper Clean Sweeps that saw the public turn in over 370 tons of hazardous waste, pharmaceuticals and electronics across northern Michigan. The annual Earth Day (2005-2007) collections were part of the interfaith Earth Keeper Initiative.
“The Native American community has been a partner with us from the very beginning on everyone of our projects,” Magnuson said. “They sent volunteers (and) provided several trucks to be able to haul polluted materials and hazardous waste.
“So we are thankful to many of the tribes here in northern Michigan for being partners and we look forward to working with tribes in the Earth healing Initiative,” Magnuson said.
The Cedar Tree Institute co-founded the Earth Keepers who work closely with ten faith traditions on environment projects that include college students, at-risk teens, American Indian tribes and others.
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The CTI Earth healing Initiative is developing the same relationship with these faith communities in northern Michigan and others across the Great lakes.
The faith communities: Roman Catholic, Episcopal, Lutheran, Presbyterian, United Methodist (Marquette, Michigan) - The new non-profit Earth Healing Initiative, based in... more
With so many highly anticipated Big East matchups on tap, Villanova stormed past Syracuse in what's so far been the biggest bubble decider game... 'Nova now gets a much demanded rematch with Georgetown after that last second foul screwed 'Nova of a monumental upset a month ago.
Providence v. West Virginia taking place second...
If Providence wins this somehow, they'll a huge, huge game against UConn...
4 huge matchups in one day at the Garden...
Capped off with Seton Hall v. Marquette...
Can't get more exciting than that...
This tourney could showcase a good 11 teams that all deserve to be in March Madness...
Though the selection committee hates the Big East enough to only limit them to like 8 each year...
Can they finally push 10 in this year??With so many highly anticipated Big East matchups on tap, Villanova stormed past... more
Just think...
No one ever thought the Big East would be this balanced...
Everyone has beaten up on each other quite attrition-like.
12 Big East Teams...
8 Pac 10 Teams...
4 A10 Teams...
And then the rest of the league.
That would be some March Madness wouldn't it?
And who isn't excited about Seton Hall's recent run of thwarting Louisville, Providence, and Cinci? Just think...
No one ever thought the Big East would be this balanced...
Everyone... more
Given that the Big East is hands down the best conference in all of college basketball, sporting like 12-14 deserving teams for March Madness every season, for Rhode Island to jump out and defeat the mighty trifecta of South Florida, Providence, and Syracuse this past month is crazy!
muy loco!Given that the Big East is hands down the best conference in all of college... more
