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Make Yourself Some Merry Little Snow Flakes
A few simple steps and you soon will be decking the halls with a score of singing snowflakes! It’s that easy and they look that great!
They’d make a great stencil. Wouldn’t that be a fun costume for the Santa Ride–come as a snowflake!
Posted in art, how to Tagged: how to make snowflakes, snowflake costume [...]
Collected 2 hours ago from artpredator.wordpress.com via blog import
tagged art, how to, how to make snowflakes, snowflake costume
Miles from Now/here Today: Adventures in Evora, Redondo, Lisbon
I woke with this Cat Stevens song in my head as the rain gently falls on the Roman ruins outside my room, the wind howls, and the morning traffic honks. Voices murmur outside my room in Portuguese and  English. I open the curtains and the sun flashes on the dark wet ruins and white plaster [...]
Collected Nov 4, 2009 from artpredator.wordpress.com via blog import
tagged blogging, food, literary arts, music, video
Saturday is 350 Day: what will you do to raise awareness about the calamities of climate change?
This Saturday, October 24, around the world people are engaging in various acts to raise awareness and to encourage people to take action about climate change.
We’ll be taking our bikes that day wherever we go. It’s the ArtWalk around here so it should be fun.
Around the corner, we’ll probably drop by VCCOOL’s Rachel Morris is [...]
Collected Oct 22, 2009 from artpredator.wordpress.com via blog import
tagged environmental activism, politics, video, 350 day, climate change
Blog Action Day 2009: Focus on Climate Change
Blog Action Day is an annual event that unites the world’s bloggers in posting about the same issue on the same day on their own blogs with the aim of sparking discussion around an issue of global importance. Blog Action Day 2009 will be the largest-ever social change event on the web. One day. One [...]
Collected Oct 15, 2009 from artpredator.wordpress.com via blog import
tagged blogging, cultural events, environmental activism, nature, social media
2009 Burning Man Timelapse Video: day & night from atop a rickshaw
Now that WordCamp LA is over, it’s back to posting more about Burning Man 2009! This 2009 Burning Man video montage comes from the on-high vantage points of an airplane and then from atop a rickshaw. It’s edited from a day to night perspective. Check out the dust storms! From the shots of the fireworks [...]
Collected Sep 14, 2009 from artpredator.wordpress.com via blog import
tagged art, art shows & openings, burning man, burning man 2009 timelapse video, burning man 2009 video montage
Burning Man 2009 video makes YOU wish you were on playa dancing!
The videos and photographs are starting to show up online as peeps get back from the playa and starting sorting through their materials. I’ll add the ones I find that are worth watching here. This one begins and ends with a plane ride and offers a nice overview of the city form different perspectives, high [...]
Collected Sep 10, 2009 from artpredator.wordpress.com via blog import
tagged burning man, video, burning man 2009 video with views from an airplane
Flying Yoga Playshops with Sarah & Whaka: in Center Camp at Burning Man & LA area
Last night, we had the joyous pleasure of participating in a Flying Yoga Playshop (similar to the video above) with Sarah and Whaka at the ArtBarn. And, we’re happy to note they will be playing and sharing this joyous yoga practice in center camp during Burning Man!
When we arrived at the ArtBarn last night, about [...]
Collected Aug 23, 2009 from artpredator.wordpress.com via blog import
tagged burning man, burning mom, how to, video, acroyoga
How to Fur Your Burning Man Bike, How To Turn Your Bike Into a PlayaFly & other ArtBikes & ArtRides to go on!
I just got a kick stand for my bike!! Now to put a tennis ball on the end so it doesn’t sink into the playa! If you have some old tennis balls, hey, be a sport, and bring them–they’d make a great spontaneous gift!
Now, what, where and when will we ride?
I hope we get out [...]
Collected Aug 20, 2009 from artpredator.wordpress.com via blog import
tagged art, burning man, burning mom, cultural events, how to
Download Two New Radiohead Songs: “Harry Patch” & “These Are My Twisted Words”
On Weds. August 5, 2009, Radiohead released the song “Harry Patch (In Memory Of).” I love Radiohead, so I immediately stopped what I was doing when I heard on KCRW’s Morning Becomes Eclectic that they’d just received a new song. It took my breath away.
The video above offers a slideshow of images, mostly from [...]
Collected Aug 19, 2009 from artpredator.wordpress.com via blog import
tagged art, blogging, literary arts, music, poetry
I Can’t Go To Burning Man Lame Excuse #1002: Homer says no, Marge says go
Simpsons Family Burning Man from Aung T on Vimeo.
Funny for non-Burners, hilarious to Burners.
Aung also did last year’s Hitler Plans Burning Man. Here it is again, just in case you missed it.

Posted in burning man, burning mom, cultural events, literary arts, video Tagged: Homer says no to going to Burning Man, The Simpsons Burning Man [...]
Collected Aug 17, 2009 from artpredator.wordpress.com via blog import
tagged burning man, burning mom, cultural events, literary arts, video
I Can’t Go To Burning Man Lame Excuse #1001: I don’t have a BIG art project! 5 To Do Tips
Here it is the last few weeks before Burning Man and you really want to go, but you know everybody there is doing some way-cool art project, and well, you don’t have a tuba, you think you don’t have anything to contribute and no time to make that Art Car aka Mutant Vehicle, that special [...]
Collected Aug 16, 2009 from artpredator.wordpress.com via blog import
tagged art, burning man, burning mom, how to, shenanigans
Burning Man Evolutionary & Revolutionary Art 2009
Why go to Burning Man?
What’s the big deal? Isn’t it just a big rave? Isn’t just a bunch of naked high people? I am frequently asked these kinds of questions, and I answer:
I go for the mind-blowing art and the soul inspiring people who make it.
In the video above, a 5 minute time lapse of [...]
Collected Aug 14, 2009 from artpredator.wordpress.com via blog import
tagged art, art shows & openings, burning man, burning mom, cultural events
Superman, Mardi Gras & Omar Faruk Tekbelik: All at the Skirball in LA
What do Superman, Mardi Gras and Omar Faruk Tekbelik have in common? They’re all at LA’s Skirball Center this August!
Thursday, August 6, at 8pm enjoy the Mardi Gras music of The Wild Magnolias See New Orleans’s acclaimed Wild Magnolias in action, showcasing irresistible, upbeat music and stunningly ornate costumes. More…



Listen to Sample All Skirball galleries [...]
Collected Aug 6, 2009 from artpredator.wordpress.com via blog import
tagged art, art shows & openings, literary arts, music, video
On Sound Poetry with Bill & BP
You can watch this, the traditional way, by hitting play and watching and listening.
Or make your own sound poem. Start one video, then start the next one about 10 seconds later, so they both play at the same time, creating a new sound poem.
Posted in poetry, video Tagged: conceptual poetry, concrete poetry [...]
Collected Jul 13, 2009 from artpredator.wordpress.com via blog import
tagged poetry, video, conceptual poetry, concrete poetry
Poet Walt Whitman Sells Levis 501 Jeans in new ad campaign & Ellyn Maybe on Being an Artist
Whitman wears his Levis well to inspire a new generation, the millenials, the “Os” (for Obama) generation: http://goforth.levi.com/newdeclaration/gallery
OR hear here:
“America” (in MP3 format)
Bypass the Levis site and its accompanying ad campaign by clicking the link above to hear Walt Whitman’s original 36-second wax cylinder recording of what is thought to be Whitman’s voice reading four [...]
Collected Jul 6, 2009 from artpredator.wordpress.com via blog import
tagged literary arts, poetry, poetry readings, writing, america
Celebrating Independence
Above is a Muppet version of celebrating Independence Day. Below are a few of the many thousands of families who walked on Main from near our house to the July 4 street fair downhill in downtown; this photo is close to the tail end of the parade–the Big Monkey and the small boy are wearing [...]
Collected Jul 4, 2009 from artpredator.wordpress.com via blog import
tagged environmental activism, literary arts, politics, fossil fuel free ride, independence day
Burning Man by Bike plus TARP for the Playa Bound & for the Do Lab
Ahh yes, getting warmed up for playa bike rides with the First Friday ArtRide tomorrow night! Meet up with us at the Son Jon Road City yard parking lot before 5:30 or from 530-6pm, OR outside or inside the Artists Union Gallery or the bar at Aloha or C St restaurant along the Ventura Beach [...]
Collected Jul 2, 2009 from artpredator.wordpress.com via blog import
tagged burning man, burning mom, environmental activism, literary arts, video
Here’s to you: MJ, FF, Ed McMahon & Sky Saxon “You’re Pushing Too Hard”
You’re Pushing Too Hard
My friend Ron Wells writes:

Amidst the passings of the King of Pop, the poster icon for Charlie’s Angels, and Johnny Carson’s sidekick, few will notice or mention the death of Sky Saxon, lead singer and songwriter for the  mid-60’s garage band, The Seeds. He died on June 25 in Austin, Texas. [...]
Collected Jun 28, 2009 from artpredator.wordpress.com via blog import
tagged literary arts, music, video, "you're pushing too hard", obituary
Hardy Wallace aka Dirty South Gets A Really Goode Job
So his wasn’t the prettiest face on the page, I am sure he’d be the first to admit.
But anybody who knows Hardy, or gets to know Hardy, knows he’s a really Goode guy.
No surprise that Murphy-Goode snapped up the guy who flew across the country to be first in line in San Francisco to sign [...]
Collected Jun 26, 2009 from artpredator.wordpress.com via blog import
tagged blogging, video, environmental activism, wine, gwendolyn alley is not murphy-goode
Ojai Music Festival Opens Tonight in Libbey Bowl
My whole life I have been hearing and reading about the Ojai Music Festival which takes place every June practically in my backyard (OK, Ojai is about a 20 minute drive away) in one of my favorite places, under the oaks and sycamores of Libbey Bowl, an outdoor amphitheater. The Festival opens tonight and features the musicians [...]
Collected Jun 11, 2009 from artpredator.wordpress.com via blog import
tagged blogging, cultural events, music, video, eighth blackbird
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