Posted in art, completion, cucaloris film festival, ekphrasis, image prompts, independent art company, male nudes, painting, picture prompts, poetry, storybook collaborative, wabi sabi warehouse on October 24, 2008 | 28 Comments »
I’m writing from the coast of North Carolina as tropical rain and winds lash the house and the lights flicker inside. My extended family is gathered for a reunion here. There is something comforting about working while the winds rage and the lights flicker and the family sleeps peacefully around me.
Trying to juggle the needs [...]
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Posted in 10 to the 100th, conscientious objector, draft resistance, faith, google's 10 million, naomi swinton, pacifism, social justice, war and peace, war resisters international, what google got on October 21, 2008 | 5 Comments »
(from Google’s Project 10 to the 100th project proposal submitted tonight by Rick Mobbs and Naomi Swinton)
10. What one sentence best describes your idea? (maximum 150 characters)
Social networking for conscientious objectors, friends & families of COs & prisoners of conscience; connecting media, COs and the resources they need.
11. Describe your idea in more depth. (maximum [...]
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Posted in art, conscientious objector, ekphrasis, pacifism, steel sculpture, swords into war toys, vote, tagged art, conscientious objector, sculpture, war toys on October 19, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Cut from steel plate. I know, not the best answer. But it’s a start.
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Posted in 10 to the 100th, Bartos Institute, anger management, art, callings, changing the world, collaboration, conscientious objector, draft resistance, ekphrasis, faith, google 10 million, making a difference, pacifism, painting, questionable rights of the state, refusniks, swords into war toys, uwc-usa, war and peace, war tax resistance, war toys on October 18, 2008 | 6 Comments »
A couple of weeks ago I posted a notice about Google’s 10 to the 100th project. You know, Google’s call for ideas that could change the world and offer to fund the most popular to the tune of $10,000,000. Deadline is Oct. 20. I suggested a collaborative, web-based approach, using this or some other blog [...]
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Posted in Rockheads, ada corinna, art, broadus, children, collaboration, ekphrasis, halloween, image prompts, painting, poetry, stories, storybook collaborative, works in progress on October 16, 2008 | 10 Comments »
I’m actually posting these images on a Thursday, like I said I would. Life gets a little hectic here with a new baby, workaholic parents, a wild 9 year old. Almost 9.
Okay, about the baby. Omygod, what a baby. She is beautiful, with incredible eyes that are open to her soul, maybe beyond. She favors [...]
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Posted in agua prieta, an embarassment of riches, art, border issues, despair, faith, illegal immigration, immigration issues, mexican border, migrant resource center, migrant workers, race in america, southwest studies, stories, the wall, uwc-usa, why does good change take so long?" on October 12, 2008 | 5 Comments »
US/Mexico Border
by Marc Figueras, for the UWC-USA newspaper
followed by notes by Rick
After all the preparations for what was going to be a unforgettable experience in Mexico, Bart, Ditha, Gal, Hickson, Holly, Kwun Kui, Louisa, Nicole, Rayah, Rave, Zipporah and I finally departed at 6 a.m. in the cold of Montezuma’s mornings, destination Agua Prieta, Mexico. [...]
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“Historically, the conquest destroyed the outward form of what had already inwardly decayed; it cleared away with regrettable brutality and thoroughness a system of life which, with all its gifts of order, culture, and law, had worn itself into senile debility, and had lost the powers of regeneration and growth.”
-Will Durant
(on the decline of [...]
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Posted in art, cape cod, ekphrasis, friendshp, image prompts, kittery maine, love, marcia abigail ryder, painting, picture prompts, poetry, roger cole, storybook collaborative, teaching art, walking on water, wellfleet mass, winchester high school on October 9, 2008 | 8 Comments »
We’ll call this painting this week’s image prompt. I’m in Agua Prieta, Mexico, on the border with Arizona with a group of UWC-USA students who are doing a week-long Border Issues study. Internet is sketchy so while I have it I’ll say a few things, but first a picture and then a poem. More about [...]
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Posted in art, broadus aurelius, collaboration, ekphrasis, image prompts, painting, poetry, stories, storybook collaborative, works in progress on October 3, 2008 | 9 Comments »
Oops. It’s been a topsy turvy week. I apologize to those who have sent work in that I have not yet put up. I’ll try to post it later today or tomorrow. In the meantime, here is something Broadus and I started in the Spring that we are just getting back to. I don’t know [...]
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