Does GM deserve help from you and me?
During this sad hour of automaker bailouts let us reflect on how they have squandered their opportunities to create a new world and instead caused their own doom by failing to respond to the people and instead doing business as usual. Very sad. We could be so much further than we are if it weren’t for several units of corruption within the auto companies, interest groups lobbyists and the oil industry. And now, citizens will be paying for it.
You think we’ll be paid back? We won’t unless we require that if we’re not paid back that all assets and patents belong to the public domain if the money isn’t paid back within a specific amount of time. Who the heck would approve a loan without specific requirements, a co-signer and sufficient collateral? Stupid congress in both parties that’s who. Do yourself a favor this holiday season and watch this movie.
Once you see the film in it’s entirety I believe you’ll realize how wrong the industry is, and how very wrong it is to let them keep on truckin’. Companies are not working for the people, neither is the government. Face it, we’ve been burned so bad. And we come back for more.
Here is the film’s wikipedia article. If you like, start there and move onto the references cited.
December 9, 2008 at 3:00 am | conspiracy, design, politics, rants | No comment
Charlie Sheen and 911
A couple people at work were talking about the actor Charlie Sheen, because this past week he did a radio interview where he basically states his stance on the 911 attacks. This stance being that there are too many unanswered questions. Buildings came down too fast perhaps.
One of the people who was in my training group said, (referring to Sheen) “I don’t even want to see that guy’s face ever again.”
It was funny that he was so disgusted that Sheen would imply that we weren’t given the whole truth about these incidents. I on the other hand am not trusting of the government. Nor should anyone be in my opinion. Thomas Jefferson wasn’t trusting of the government and that’s why our founding documents were written the way they were. Regarding 911 though, there are plenty of missing materials being witheld from the public. We have Pentagon security camera footage that hasn’t been fully released We have security cameras from a nearby Sheraton hotel that still hasn’t surfaced.
We also have WTC Building 7 which has an extremely suspicious air around it. One being the beneficiary of the insurance policy on WTC says on a PBS documentary referring to the collapse of building 7, said “We had such terrible loss of life and the chief said he was having trouble containing the fire that I made the decision to just ‘pull it.’” Early evening that building came down, after having suffered some fires from debris of the other towers.
I haven’t read the 911 Commission at this moment in time, though it’s on my list. I have heard that the topic of WTC7 was kind of glazed over. This might make sense to some because it didn’t get hit by airplanes, and was certainly a dwarfed by the other destruction. But the statement made by that gentleman who collected the insurance policy is a bit annoying to say the least. That building apparently contained government offices. These are offices that We the people own. A decision to pull, if referring to a demolition, is a huge crime, as it’s destroying government property. Our property, our records. Do you know what was housed in Building 7? What were those offices.
I’ve enjoyed watching a lot of the alternative movies on 911. It’s really fascinating to see points of view that weren’t really available at the time. It is an unarguable fact that there is a coverup of 911. We are missing these videos. We are missing cockpit record data. At that level, there is a cover-up. Uncover these materials, and then more citizens and families of victims can rest easier. Until they uncover it, these government agencies deserve all of the flack, all of the litigation, all of the cries of conspiracy, all of the suspicion they are getting.
Were these buildings demolished by airplanes alone? Built to withstand an airplane hitting them, and both having been built to withstand 2500 degree heat, these buildings came down 30 minutes apart, disintegrated, and at freefall speed. Darn the luck you might say right? These airplanes sure were the magic bullets. Now if some of the building engineers are lying and actually the building was not up to that standard, they are responsible for defects in the building.
As much as I love the adventure of conspiracy, I’m not going to remain unswayed here. I’m looking out for more evidence that proves the official story is correct. I want the official story to be correct for many reasons. Right now though, I think that those buildings came down too fast for logic, faster than melted metal and pancaking of floors should do. They came down so perfect, too impossibly perfect. Building 7 is shrouded in mystery. The pentagon is full of missing pieces.
If the government and the agencies were more transparent you wouldn’t have these questions, you wouldn’t have so many conspiracy theories. It’s the lack of transparency that is our downfall here in the United States. The War on Terror is not a reason to withold the things that we withold.
April 1, 2006 at 11:04 am | 911, conspiracy, media, politics, rants | No comment
Art with a story sells better
What is it that makes digital art, photography or painting from a traditional way of doing it. I’m going to deliver a quick take on these matters in reference to value. This is not academic, it’s more situational. Because Art is so subjective, you can’t argue that one image is better than another. But what can be argued is when somebody purchases art from a computer, the story behind it is often so much less exciting than the story behind another form of art.
Let’s say you are at an outdoor art festival where hundreds of artists are showing and also selling their work. You can walk home that day with anything you like enough to buy. You run across a guy with these photo quality prints that he made with a computer. It’s got beautiful contrasts and the colors in it will look beautiful in your living room, you can visualize where it will go. You ask the artist how he made it. You are curious about these things. The artist tells you she made it with photoshop and it took 29 hours to complete because of the blending work with the mouse. Wow, that’s a lot, and you feel something from that work. Do you buy it? Maybe.
Then you come to another work. In fact this image isn’t a painting, and it’s not a photograph either. You’re not sure what it is. The colors are similar to the other piece you liked. This one would also go beautiful in your living room. “how did you do this?” you ask the artist
The artist goes into detail about how in Tibet, there are two elements used to create the pigments that will outlast the windy conditions on exposed rock in that region. That same chemical reation when applied to material X, create another interesting effect when applied to material Y. After a number of procedures, the artist can peel off the pigment from baking it at 1500 degrees.
You think to yourself “Whoa, that’s amazing!”
What has happened is that through that knowledge you gained from that process even if it is trivial in the rest of your life, this art now has two manifestations. The piece that is right in front of you, and the story that lies beneath. The story of the art is the adventure, and that story can be passed on to others. Anyone who comes to your house, you will be able to tell that story. Therein lies a value beyond the subjective, beyond how that art makes different people feel.
Now, of those two pieces, which one are you going to buy? I think we both know the answer to that. The science of art and what lies behind it is just as important. The strength of the work, and it’s value lies in this backstory. You’ve heard a million times that the artist loves the process. And it is that process which, becomes the story of the art. This is why there is little fear that digital art will replace actual art. A thousand years ago, an artist who understood a scientific principle which produced a consistent result. By using that science, the art is manifested – and this means that art won’t die, but will advance just as quickly. Every artist looks at something new and says “how can I use that?”
June 24, 2005 at 12:36 am | conspiracy, graphics | No comment
