Category Archives: General Ramblings

Korehira Watanabe – Master Swordsmith

http://vimeo.com/32113233 Korehira Watanabe is only one of 30 master swordsmiths left in Japan. This beautiful documentary short, directed by Takeshi Fukunaga and made By Etsy.tv, tells how he’s followed his love and passion for making swords for over 40 years, even … Continue reading

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A Girl With A Blade

This is an excerpt of a thought process of an artist, a girl with a blade, who creates new from old:                         Erika Iris Simmons likes to take things … Continue reading

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Hugo & Victor

                I have become mesmerized with the content and imagery on Paris Pâtisseries, and their coverage of the famous Hugo & Victor shop in Paris speaks of an architectural designer’s dream as much … Continue reading

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Thought For The Day – Look Up

      I saw this in my feed a few days ago, and was once again smiling at one of my favorite quotes. I had seen it on an image at the Imaginary Foundation site as well, and fell … Continue reading

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EFF Wants You To See – Free Speech

                        EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) put out a new tutorial that clearly shows how tenuous our rights to free speech actually are. If we aren’t fighting to keep them … Continue reading

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Your Age Is Not A Problem

Natalie Warne is young but is driven by a belief: Anonymous Extraordinaries are the power behind any movement. She’s absolutely right about that. Look around you. See a project, any project, trying to come to life. Is it the belief of … Continue reading

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Occupy Berkeley’s Response

Here’s an image from redstartstudio’s video of Occupy Berkeley’s response to continued police brutality of protesters and the repeated removal of their tents:                       All over this country (and all over … Continue reading

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Occupy Has A New Meaning

Here’s The New School Reoccupied spreading the universal message that you cannot evict an idea whose time has come:                   Occupy means “to engage the attentions or energies of”, and this is … Continue reading

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OWS Loves The World

I thought that I would end the week with an amazing montage uploaded by A Giant Load of Gibberish. It’s been a rough week for the entire Occupy movement, and in particular for its source #OWS who lost their home after … Continue reading

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A Weakness Leads To…

http://youtu.be/BwB8L092ZzU Ok, I have a weakness for vampires. And that leads to me watch and read pretty much anything (well, almost) that has a vampire in it. As I was watching Twilight, I caught this awesome song that was playing … Continue reading

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