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Friday, November 02, 2012
ATIT Reheated (from five years ago today): Kucinich questions Pres. Bush's mental health (and admits he's "seen a flying saucer")
Democratic presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich questioned President Bush's mental health yesterday because of comments he made about a nuclear Iran causing World War III."...we have to start asking questions about his mental health," Kucinich, an Ohio congressman, said in an interview with The Philadelphia Inquirer's editorial board on Tuesday. "There's something wrong. He does not seem to understand his words have real impact."
Later that night, during the Democratic Presidential debate, Representative Kucinich admitted he had seen a UFO (see yesterday's All This Is That).
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Thursday, November 01, 2012
ATIT Reheated: The end of the polling place
By Jack Brummet, Nostalgia Editor
[This article is reprinted from November, 2008]
2008 was a good election. . .it was the first in which most of what and whom I'd voted for actually won. As you can see from the sticker they gave me after I voted, it was also the last time I will go to the polling place. I know most people like the convenience of voting by mail. I never actually have. Call me a Luddite, or troglodyte. I like the polling place--the flags draped around the churches and Elks Clubs, schools and community centers. I like the old men and women, working for minimum wage, who regard me with suspicion, even after 20 years of voting in the same precinct.
I've always missed those gigantic steel analog voting machines, where you physically pulled a metal lever. I'll miss the election monitors, the occasional exit poller, and most of all, seeing your friends and neighbors line up a couple times a year. It's progress, I guess, but it is also one more chink in the armor of communities and neighborhoods. I'll miss voting live and in person.
I've always missed those gigantic steel analog voting machines, where you physically pulled a metal lever. I'll miss the election monitors, the occasional exit poller, and most of all, seeing your friends and neighbors line up a couple times a year. It's progress, I guess, but it is also one more chink in the armor of communities and neighborhoods. I'll miss voting live and in person.
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Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Zombie Gnomes
By Mona Goldwater, Halloween Editor
Our friend T found this photo on FaceBook (https://www.facebook.com/StreetArtGermany). Sweet. "Foto by Hub09 - Social Design"
Our friend T found this photo on FaceBook (https://www.facebook.com/StreetArtGermany). Sweet. "Foto by Hub09 - Social Design"
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Spokane Sasquatch Encounter
By Jack Brummet, Paranormal & Unexplained Phenomena Editor
From Bigfootencounters.blogspot.com—Samantha13950 (the uploader) saw a creature walking near the upper right hand corner of the screen when she was reviewing footage she took on a hike. .
"I didn't even notice until I got home and saw it on the computer! This scarred the crap out of us!"
From Bigfootencounters.blogspot.com—Samantha13950 (the uploader) saw a creature walking near the upper right hand corner of the screen when she was reviewing footage she took on a hike. .
"I didn't even notice until I got home and saw it on the computer! This scarred the crap out of us!"
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The largest trompe l'oeil tarp I saw in Moscow
By Jack Brummet, Moscow Travel Editor
While I was in Moscow, I wrote about all the buildings under construction covered with those trompe l'oeil tarps. Like this one, hung on a building in the neighborhood where I stayed:
Here are two photos I took at The Kremlin, one side under construction, and one still open to the public. . .
While I was in Moscow, I wrote about all the buildings under construction covered with those trompe l'oeil tarps. Like this one, hung on a building in the neighborhood where I stayed:
Here are two photos I took at The Kremlin, one side under construction, and one still open to the public. . .
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Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Iran's PressTV uses fake Hurricane Sandy photo from the eco-tastrophe movie "The Day After Tomorrow"
By Mona Goldwater, Society Editor
Iran's PressTV used a photo from the 2004 eco-catastrophe movie "The Day After Tomorrow" to illustrate this morning's article on Hurricane Sandy.
Iran's PressTV used a photo from the 2004 eco-catastrophe movie "The Day After Tomorrow" to illustrate this morning's article on Hurricane Sandy.
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Monday, October 29, 2012
Faces No. 314 - The Russians
By Jack Brummet
[hand drawn on 8"x10" India Ink scratchboard; second image is digitally reversed]
[hand drawn on 8"x10" India Ink scratchboard; second image is digitally reversed]
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Starman? Cosmonaut? A relief sculpture in the Moscow Metro
By Jack Brummet, Moscow Travel Editor
I don't know who created this bronze relief sculpture, or when it was created, but I love it. It is about eight feet tall, on the wall of a Metro Station in Moscow. I can't remember which station I was in when I took this photograph, but I *think* it was Shabolovskaya station.
I don't know who created this bronze relief sculpture, or when it was created, but I love it. It is about eight feet tall, on the wall of a Metro Station in Moscow. I can't remember which station I was in when I took this photograph, but I *think* it was Shabolovskaya station.
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Dostoyevskaya Station and its controversial christening.
By Jack Brummet, Moscow Travel Editor
This is a photo of a mosaic of Fyodor Dostoevsky in the new subway station named for him (Dostoevskaya Metro Station). Unlike the old stations, with amazing architecture and artwork everywhere, marble floors and walls, and statues in every corner, the new stations are bleak and utilitarian (after the breakup of the Soviet Union, money was in very short supply). But they decided to spend some Rubles on this one. And it did
n't work out so well. In the end, people were so concerned about the vibe in the new metro station that the authorities delayed the opening. Critics say Moscovites should steer clear of the station. It is gloomy and the scenes from his books (the Crime and Punishment mosaic shows Raskolnikov holding an axe over the head of his landlady) are depressing. If you're going to make murals based on his books, what choice do you have?
Psychologists believe that the station and art will attract people who want to throw themselves under a train. "The deliberate dramatism will create a certain negative atmosphere and attract people with an unnatural psyche," a psychiatrist wrote in one paper. The artist responsible for the murals said "What did you want, scenes of dancing? Dostoevsky does not have them."
The opened the station in 2010 (it took 20 years to finish due to finance problems). They had to. The next station up the line couldn't be reached except by going through Dos. station. I couldn't find any reports of any suicides or mayhem happening since the opening.
The opened the station in 2010 (it took 20 years to finish due to finance problems). They had to. The next station up the line couldn't be reached except by going through Dos. station. I couldn't find any reports of any suicides or mayhem happening since the opening.
I can't think of many/any? buildings in America dedicated to native writers. Well, maybe except Jack London Square in Oakland.
The Crime and Punishment mural in Dostoeyevskaya Station.
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Sunday, October 28, 2012
Interactive video at Moscow's Sheremetyevo International Airport
By Jack Brummet, Russia Travel Editor
This photo is from Sheremetyevo International Airport near Moscow. I only had a minute, but wanted to explore this interactive exhibit more. Of course, I couldn't read the instructions or details about this, but you stand on two footprint silhouettes in front of a giant monitor. After a minute, four furry creatures begin cavorting around you on screen. I only stayed for a few seconds, and don't know how far this goes. But I felt like we would be seeing a lot more of these sorts of interactive displays in the future.
I guess, eventually, it could show just how you would look in that suit or dress you were looking at, or show you in your fab new kitchen or on the deck of your new boat. Better yet, it will put you into a Zelig world, with you as the star of any number of scenes, imagined and historical. This was done better than what I've seen done online with faces on on the Wii or Kinect. This is still in its infancy, I'm sure, but it has a lot of interesting possibilities.
This photo is from Sheremetyevo International Airport near Moscow. I only had a minute, but wanted to explore this interactive exhibit more. Of course, I couldn't read the instructions or details about this, but you stand on two footprint silhouettes in front of a giant monitor. After a minute, four furry creatures begin cavorting around you on screen. I only stayed for a few seconds, and don't know how far this goes. But I felt like we would be seeing a lot more of these sorts of interactive displays in the future.
I guess, eventually, it could show just how you would look in that suit or dress you were looking at, or show you in your fab new kitchen or on the deck of your new boat. Better yet, it will put you into a Zelig world, with you as the star of any number of scenes, imagined and historical. This was done better than what I've seen done online with faces on on the Wii or Kinect. This is still in its infancy, I'm sure, but it has a lot of interesting possibilities.
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Saturday, October 27, 2012
What did Ann Coulter do this time?
By Jack Brummet, ATIT Editor-in-chief
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Friday, October 26, 2012
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