Marvin Gaye’s album, What’s Going On, has been called one of the great soul music records of all time. The album was showcased at a 1972 concert at the Kennedy Center in Marvin’s hometown of Washington DC. 40 years later, the Kennedy Center commemorated that live performance, and asked select musicians to re-imagine “What’s Going On” [...]
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Apple’s AirPlay could become a threat to cable giants, since it gives lets users port a broad range of content to their televisions. But apparently that’s news to Time Warner’s chief exec. The NY Times’ Bits blog reports that Glenn A. Britt said in a group interview that there’s no simple way to get web [...]
Urban Dictionary defines “supercut” thusly:
A fast-paced montage of short video clips that obsessively isolates a single element from its source, usually a word, phrase, or cliché from film and TV.
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This takes “ladies free before 10″ social engineering to a whole new, and creepy, level. And by this, we mean a new app that dozens of San Francisco bars will cooperate with by placing facial recognition cameras inside their establishments. Here’s the lowdown from SF Weekly, which points out that this follows a similarly alarming [...]
It’s hard to imagine two parts of American culture– mixed martial arts and Christianity– that on the surface are more incompatible. Jesus is known for telling his followers to turn the other cheek. MMA fighters are known for turning their opponents’ cheeks for them, with their fists, elbows, and knees. If there’s one existential truth it’s this: humans, especially American humans, are hideously complex. Yet the existence of ministries that embrace MMA still surprises.
The New York University student was accused of disorderly conduct, but the video showed him breaking no laws. In a twist, the student had actually been working on a project aimed at portraying police in a better light.
As a member of the self-identified “slash profession” – writer/organizer/educator/whatever pays the rent that month – I have learned how to wear multiple hats. How to move between different worlds and code-switch my headgear to meet a particular place and community. Alright, I got this big event coming up tonight…should I wear the Kangol, the fitted, or the yarmulke? (Correct answer: all three.) Sometimes, though, it’s a struggle figuring out which slash to bring out in which situation. Take Occupy.
Vanessa Bahmani, 31 year-old freelance photographer and artist in Brooklyn, is attempting to capture the faces and messages of the Occupy Wall Street movement in a series of black and white portraits. She launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise $17,000 to cover the cost of equipment, photo-processing, and travel between New York and the Bay Area — the two regions she wants to focus on.
In Iowa, the Occupy movement may be the 1 percent.
The state’s Democratic Party reports that while President Obama received nearly 99 percent of votes in Tuesday’s caucuses, about one percent of registered Democrats voted “uncommitted” — enough votes that there will be over two dozen non-Obama delegates sent in March to the party’s county conventions. And many of those delegates identify with the various Occupy movements around Iowa.
In just over three months, the Occupy Wall Street movement has grown from the confines of a small Lower Manhattan park to occupiers protesting in over 1000 cities across the globe. Since the Sept. 17 uprising in Lower Manhattan, a surplus of multimedia content has flooded social networks, 24/7 news cycles, and television sets across the world. Turnstyle News has curated a sample of the more memorable images we saw during the Occupy Wall Street movement in 2011 and added a question: What will become of the Occupy movement in 2012?
As more protests on behalf of foreclosed homeowners take place throughout the country, Occupy Atlanta seems to have found a rallying point that is attracting support and participation from a wider spectrum of Georgia residents. A week has passed since Occupy Atlanta began its occupation of foreclosed homes, and for some Georgians, their participation in a protest or occupation is the first time they are engaging in political and economic activism.
On a practical level, farmers have been involved in Occupy Wall Street almost since the movement’s emergence. As soon as tent cities sprung up in parks and plazas across the nation this past September, small farmers in the Northeast, California, and elsewhere were making donations, trucking in excess produce to keep protestors fed.
Newt Gingrich, who is favored to come out on top during the Iowa Republican caucuses at the beginning of next month, was “mic checked” yesterday in Iowa city while he was speaking about his plans for brain research funding.
Thousands of protesters stopped a 6 p.m. evening shift at the Port of Oakland, and an early morning shift at 3 a.m., which resulted in 24 hours of halted trucks and ships in Oakland. The port closure was the largest event Occupy Oakland had organized since its encampment was evicted nearly a month ago on Nov. 14.
After a port closure early Monday morning, protesters convened at Frank Ogawa Plaza in downtown Oakland this afternoon to hear speeches and rally together for a second march to the Port of Oakland, as part of a coordinated West Coast Port Shutdown effort on behalf of the Occupy movement.
Today marks a big move for Occupy protesters on the West Coast. At dawn across the West Coast, protesters marched toward port terminals in Portland, Long Beach, Seattle, Ventura County and Oakland to halt truck drivers from participating in morning shifts.
