Creative Recreation

They really are that fantastic

But, you have to give respect to the Adi T.O.s

T.O. Art

I got feeling a little homesick just now and decided to look up my favourite band, The Hidden Cameras, to see if they are putting out any new material (all I discovered is I missed their European tour back in May!). Anyroad, I discovered they released two very limited edition LPs of their last album with artwork from two T.O. based artists (Munro and Vocat). That meant I needed to look at Daryl's webpage. Here is a sample of Pact for Adventure

"If you are interested in getting a tattoo of any of the images from my folio, Pact For Adventure, prove it. Get in touch with me, and I'll send you a clean, clear high-resolution version of whatever image you've got your eyes on. Once you get the tattoo done, send me photo documentation (actual prints) of the process. In exchange, I will give you a free copy of the folio."

More Questions than Answers

I just stumbled on Dropping Knowledge, a German-based non profit association. The website:

invites you to ask and answer questions covering social themes of global significance. When you ask in order to understand, when you answer in order to share, this is what we mean by dropping knowledge.

A pretty tempting idea, and some questions are relevant:

Is it possible to make peace more profitable than war?

While others are just plain strange:

If it would be possible to copy food lossless within a few seconds from any point across the world to any other, who would pay the prisons needed for all the evil third world country copyright pirates?

and, of course, lame:

What happened to Love?

It may work better if they moderated the questions a little bit better. And if the person who wrote the question had to submit a 500 (give or take) word essay giving their opinion. And it wouldn't hurt if they actually had more questions covering social themes of global significance.

Anyroad, maybe the second question isn't too bad. I would pose it as such:

If it were possible to "teleport" food safely and economically, what impact would it have on the world's economy?

or: What if a deadly human disease emerged and it was found to come from a domesticated farm animal (think mad cow, but on a larger scale) how would that affect meat consumption and the farming industry?