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The post where i found this is called “Beware-Gentrification”.

Remember you can deface gentrification too. If you need caution tape, come and get some, the supply is free and unlimited!

Francesca Galeazzi offset her carbon emmisions in the North Pole. I wish i have done this myself. I’m so envious. Just lovely.

I haven’t done anything bad. because I have offset the carbon emissions generated by the CO2 cylinder, through an online Gold Standard Carbon Offsetting scheme! Cool no? This is great stuff. one can go about consciously polluting the world, wasting energy, producing tonnes of waste and abusing natural resources without feeling guilty at all!! One can simply pay somebody to compensate for his/her ‘bad’ actions somewhere else, and become Carbon Neutral!

Don’t you think this is great?

I don’t know what she mean with “bad” actions,though. I wish moral were supressed from the climate discussion. Is so akward.! Specially when you are actually doing something good!

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That’s right. Green capitalism.com

According to the About section of this hell yawwwn of a blog is SO easy!!! Ride a bike and eat organic. Fulfill your desire to be “GREEN” , so you can save money to buy in the future.

There is a seemingly-glaring contradiction between being “green” and being a “capitalist”. From the prices of organic produce at the grocery store, it would appear that I could save money by purchasing conventional produce. Saving money so that I can purchase other goods in the future defines capitalism: the trade of goods and services for money. By choosing not to purchase organic or local produce, I am contributing to myriad environmental and social problems. In other areas of my life I act in accordance with my environmental and social beliefs. For example, I ride my bicycle eight miles round-trip to work each day: rain or shine. I do this for many reasons:

• It is good for my health.
• It is good for the environment.
• It saves money on gas, insurance, and car maintenance.

What other behaviors would both exemplify my desire to be “green” and to have money to purchase the goods and services that I want in the future?

Fuck.Green. and eco-zoombies ugh!

ol slambert posted a photo:

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For those of you in New York City, tonight provides a rare opportunity to see one of Guy DeBord’s Situationist films during “Views from the Avant Garde” at the New York Film Festival. The film is called ”
In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni.” It’s very rare and, from what I hear, VERY inspiring.

The Lincoln Center calendar puts it this way:

Like all of Debord’s films, In girum stands apart from cinema, not to mention the modern world as it has evolved into its present state. Images from magazines, comics, and popular films are turned inside out (a process defined by Debord as détournement) to illustrate what he sees as the complete vacuity of mediatized society, of which we the viewers are unknowing participants.

For those of you who aren’t fanatical Situationist fans like I am, the Situationist Internationale was a group of artistic political agitators whose movement began in France in the early 1960s. They condemned consumer culture and supported a more direct unification of life and art, seeking to release life from the cycle of buying and selling and fill it with human investments. We see their influence in all the art actions that groups like AAA and others participate in: culture jamming, detournment of billboards, you know… shop dropping and “you don’t need it” stickers are very much a part of the Situationist legacy. Except they also had massive revolts.

In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni
Series: 46th New York Film Festival [Sept. 26 – Oct. 12, 2008]
Director: Guy Debord, Country: France, Release: 1978, Runtime: 100 begins at 6:30 pm, tickets available at box office only.

The L.A. Times is reporting Clear Channel has its eye on 674 state owned digital billboards on California Highways. The billboards were installed to alert drivers to road hazards and for Amber Alerts providing “urgent bulletins in the most serious child-abduction cases.”

But now the state is listening to Clear Channel.

Apparently California needs money. In the Governor’s budget it says, “chronic underinvestment has increased congestion and has resulted in California having some of the most distressed highway and road conditions in the United States.”

Of course, this is the neo-liberal fantasy:

1. the government under-funds infrastructure
2. infrastructure falls apart
3. Conservatives claim that government can’t be trusted and we need private industry and competition!
4. Conservatives then make private, exclusive deals with corporations so they can sweep in to the rescue/for the profit.

I can’t imagine this proposal going very far, but the whining about being broke and the publicity that follows may be intended to prepare voters for a comparatively less disgusting option.

As argued in the L.A. Times story, yes it’s an eyesore, yes it might be dangerous to drivers, yes it will train people pay less attention to a sign designed to help abducted children and tell them about emergencies - thereby nearly nullifying it. But more important that that, it’s public space and public property that belongs to us, not corporations.

But perhaps you’re more fiscally minded. This is another bad deal made by politicians with advertising and marketing companies. (Politicians who are most likely being lobbied by and receiving campaign donations from Clear Channel.) Sen. George Runner (R-Lancaster) says the money will be used for highway repair and potentially may be “tens of millions of dollars.” The California Transportation Commission’s annual budget is $28,466,000,000.

Another drop in the bucket. Sorry Amber.

Thanks for the tip from reader Sam.

Date: Sat., Oct. 4 | Screening: 4PM, talk: 5PM, free. Eyebeam.

FOOD (Gordon Matta-Clark, 1972, 43 min.) is a film documenting the legendary SoHo restaurant and artists‘ cooperative that opened in 1971.  FOOD was designed and built largely by Matta-Clark, who also organized art events and performances there.As a social space, meeting ground, and ongoing art project for the emergent artists‘ community, FOOD was a landmark in the history and mythology of 1970s SoHo. The screening will be introduced by Robert Kushner (manager, FOOD ‘72 – ’74).

Nato Thompson, Creative Time curator, and writer on political art and culture, will speak about the prospects for alternative, or “radical”, infrastructures as support systems for work and ideas that may not fit easily into institutional frameworks. He will respond to the work of Other Options as possibilities for a new vocabulary on experimental practices that makes transparent the contexts and power structures in which the work is produced.

Finally, I’m done! Tanda Foundation started informal activity this morning. And although we still in Beta everything seems to be working fine.  For now you can join only by invitation, visit the Foundation to learn how to get one.

Tanda Foundation is an experimental and informal non-profit held and run by its users. We aim to found new ways and means to support creative practice, without relying in institutional inertia (or the lack of it)and encouraging our members to give small donations to build a public fund for support our creative practice and decide our own cultural agenda.

The process of application, reviewing, voting, and collection of funds it is accesible to all its Patrons and Candidates, aiming to provide an accountable platform for funding.

The Foundation relies on 2.0 infrastucture to exist with minimal costs and being able to perform as an automatic not-for profit.

Ben at inCUBATE wrote an article about Foundations run by artists. The article includes Josh Greene’s Service Works,  Joanna Spitzner Foundation and Tanda Foundation. All of this projects are also on view on Other Options, which closes on October 11th. Come and check it out!

Proximity is a magazine dedicated to contemporary art and culture. Our mission is to amplify discourse on local and global art ecologies. We hope to serve as a map—of artists, collectives and alternative spaces to commercial galleries, museums and universities—as means of connecting and cultivating sustainable creative communities. is a magazine dedicated to contemporary art and culture. Our mission is to amplify discourse on local and global art ecologies. We hope to serve as a map—of artists, collectives and alternative spaces to commercial galleries, museums and universities—as means of connecting and cultivating sustainable creative communities.