Don't Mess With The Muppets

...You'll get stung, as Fox News just learned:



(via DB on fb)

Ham-Tastic

New-ish SFA short film on Allan Benton and his hams...


CURED from UM Media Documentary Projects on Vimeo.


(via Eater)

Watch Out For The Go-Rillas

I'm a big fan of street art, especially when it's smart and classy, and also of guerrilla gardening.  So I'm obviously taken with this East London project from Steve Wheen...

DesignBoom has a few more details and pictures for you to check out.

Flula Rocks

I've only watched two or three of these videos, but dude is a genius - he's got a great formula for youtube and a big enough collection of videos to lead you down the rabbit hole for quite some time...

You Are What You Eat - Seafood & Plastics Are A Bad Mix

Great promotional poster on ocean plastics pollution and marine debris issues from Surfrider...

Here is the hyperlink for the campaign from the poster.

(via Cape Ann Fresh Catch on fb)

President Obama & Al Green

With the political news-scape (and the news generally) dominated by the increasingly mean, petty, ugly, and untruthful GOP primary contest it was nice to see this video start making the rounds...



It's nice to see a moment involving a politician that's just nice for a change.

(This video has been everywhere, I first got to it via THR)

Read This Now - Our Dehumanization

We are after all only human, which is at least part of the reason that we can succumb to collective dehumanization as a society so readily.

The recent youtube video appearance of US marines peeing on the bodies of taliban fighters in Afghanistan has brought appropriate statements of disgust and anguish over the reprobation but probably much too little introspection.

Sebastion Junger takes a look at how we got here as a culture and society and while he may not have a solution he at least gets closer to digging up the roots of the problem than most of the voices out there do these days.

There is another context for that behavior, though — a more contemporary one. As a society, we may be disgusted by seeing U.S. Marines urinating on dead Taliban fighters, but we remain oddly unfazed by the fact that, presumably, those same Marines just put high-caliber rounds through the fighters’ chests. American troops are not blind to this irony. They are very clear about the fact that society trains them to kill, orders them to kill and then balks at anything that suggests they have dehumanized the enemy they have killed.

Read the whole thing, he does a good job with the piece and it's an important point that he makes.