Author: Steve

These are the times that try men’s souls: The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us,…

SFist: Bush Street Renamed http://sfist.com/2008/11/03/bush_street_renamed.php Bush Street Renamed. (We never got caught though – http://visitsteve.com/work/puppet-street/)

Javelin – Soda Popinski from Ian McAlpin on Vimeo.

A Canadian comedy duo called The Masked Avengers from CKOI 96.9 FM in Montreal, Quebec pranked Sarah Palin, convincing her (and her team) they were receiving a call from French President Nicolas Sarkozy. open

The Signifying Monkey – Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Signifying_Monkey In his writings of the late 1980s, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. presents the concept of Signifyin(g). Wound up in this theory is the idea that the “master’s house” can be “dismantled” using his “tools” if the tools are used in a new or unconventional way. To demonstrate this process,…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l63SRpGXBHE who is “batman”?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qq8Uc5BFogE Wassup 2008

The Age Question: John McCain

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Barack Obama is the greatest MC of all time. Barry Michael Cooper: When Politics Became The New Hip Hop

“To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world says you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.” -Robert Louis Stevenson CREATIVE DC: Reclaiming public space

Designers should define their role broadly as agents of good in the world, and limit their work to ‘legitimate’ products: those that are needed, and those that can be made without damage to nature or — through the unethical actions of manufacturers and investors — damage to people. Industrial designer Phillipe Starck, on the purpose…