"Be The One," a campaign urging citizens to petition the Congress towards passing and funding a comprehensive Gulf Coast restoration plan, has drawn criticism from some who point to the group's corporate oil and gas industry backers.
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30 July 2010
Women of the Spill - And the Oil Men Who Love Them
29 July 2010
20 July 2010
Death Imitating Art - Sophie D
"It's another average humdrum day in a crumbling civilization," were the first words that Sophie D ever said to me. I was enjoying my solitude drawing in my favorite neighborhood spot...the t-shirt I had on gave me away as someone to talk to.
It sparked a conversation that delved into what was wrong with the city as we compared how many mutual people we knew who had been killed through senseless murder or who had OD'd or killed themselves since Katrina. It's a tale you wouldn't ordinarily share but it was one of those conversations.
"Wouldn't it be nice if you could shock people into cleaning up this city?" she asked me. It would be since people don't seem prepared to listen nicely anymore. Sophie D set about to wake people the hell up. Here are some samples of her work and then a couple of news stories where Somewhere in the City, the Blood was Real:
Mobile, AL
New Orleans, LA
New York, NY
New York, NY
Baton Rouge, LA
And here are the two recent news stories...
In New Orleans at Nola.com
In Mobile at Modmobilian.com
It sparked a conversation that delved into what was wrong with the city as we compared how many mutual people we knew who had been killed through senseless murder or who had OD'd or killed themselves since Katrina. It's a tale you wouldn't ordinarily share but it was one of those conversations.
"Wouldn't it be nice if you could shock people into cleaning up this city?" she asked me. It would be since people don't seem prepared to listen nicely anymore. Sophie D set about to wake people the hell up. Here are some samples of her work and then a couple of news stories where Somewhere in the City, the Blood was Real:
Mobile, AL
New Orleans, LA
New York, NY
New York, NY
Baton Rouge, LA
And here are the two recent news stories...
In New Orleans at Nola.com
In Mobile at Modmobilian.com
17 July 2010
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