Archive for the 'Things' Category

When is Revolution Wrong? (A Narrative)

Thursday, August 28th, 2008

A Two-Person Narrative Trying to Find One Answer in One Voice:
When is Revolution Wrong?
That question has been staring at me from the notebook cover on which I tattooed it for years, now. There hasn’t been a day when I haven’t thought of that question - but to think of and think about are two very [...]

The Kimchi Struggle

Thursday, August 14th, 2008

My first encounter with “kimchi” was when my brother-in-law brought three containers of this dish from Manila ten years ago. Kimchi is actually this traditional Korean dish made of vegetables, like cabbage, that was fermented with a variety of seasoning. So the moment my brother-in-law opened the plastic containers, it nearly knocked me out [...]

Zenotopia

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

Charles ‘Chas’ Llewellyn (www.zenotopia.com) was recently awarded $2,400 to continue production of Zenotopia, an animated film featuring puppet characters made from found objects who reveal a fantasy world of spirits in the real world of Western North Carolina.
Preview Zenotopia @ YouTube.
Via Citizen-Times.com (July 2, 2008): Link.
~ Karl Jones

The Changing World of Fakery

Wednesday, June 11th, 2008

“It never pays to own the genuine thing. If you are rich, you can wear fakes and everyone will believe they are real. If you are not rich, people will assume you are wearing a fake even if it is real.”
Thanks to advancing technology, counterfeit luxury goods are getting better. Much, much better: a [...]