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Al Gore on Creative Activism

Click to play or download here: Al Gore On Creative Activism.
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New Anti-Smoking Ads Warn Teens ‘It’s Gay To Smoke’

New Anti-Smoking Ads Warn Teens ‘It’s Gay To Smoke’
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Do It!

[Audio clip: view full post to listen] The Pink Fairies – Do It (1971) Listen to this song and you can’t help but be reminded.  You can’t succeed if you don’t do it. Don’t think about it, don’t talk about it, don’t write about it, you just gotta do it. Pointless comedy after the jump…
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Jonah Lehrer on Colbert

The Colbert ReportMon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c Jonah Lehrer Emotions vs. Rationality in decision making. Artists need to embrace the emotional influence their work has in decision making.
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“Oblique Strategies”: Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt’s “How to Win” card game

  Brian Eno, the father of ambient music and Peter Schmidt, an English artist, created this deck of cards called Oblique Strategies in 1975. It is now in it’s fifth edition. Via Drawn!: Oblique Strategies is a deck of cards created by Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt after thinking about approaches to their own work [...]
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Politics as Product

Happy Spokesmodel Selection Day to one and all. I am certainly not the first to comment on the commodification of American politics in general and this race specifically, but a little more can be said before we’re on the next distraction tomorrow. This election has been primarily a contest between the values of experience and [...]
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Wassup 2008

Funny, engaged in pop culture, arguably hard-hitting message… this is good.
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Laugh at a Campaign Pitch? Sure. Visit the Grandparents? Not So Much. – NYTimes.com

MIAMI — When Sarah Silverman told young Jews to get their lazy rotund rear ends to Florida to persuade their grandparents to vote for Senator Barack Obama, one question loomed: Would they go? This weekend was the first big test, a kickoff for the so-called Great Schlep, and so far, momentum has been building with the [...]
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Larry Flynt Producing ‘Palin porno’ political parody

I think the key line here actually comes at the end. “Whatever you think of Larry Flynt, the man knows his First Amendment,” Kelly concluded. Seriously, that smut monger is a true champion of the First Ammendment, and we should all remember that the freedom of speech is the freedom to be offended. Now is [...]
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The Penguin “gets it”

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