Evolution

I just happened to stumble across this on wooster collective today. This is some of the greatest street art I have seen in a while. Holy Wow! Click here to see the full view. (full view a must) Peace!

SEATTLE TO CLEAR ARREST RECORDS, PAY $1 MILLION TO WTO PROTESTERS WRONGFULLY ARRESTED IN 1999

In a landmark settlement reached by Public Justice on behalf of scores of people arrested in 1999 while peacefully protesting the World Trade Organization, the City of Seattle has agreed to seal and expunge the records of what a jury earlier determined to be their
unconstitutional arrests by Seattle police.

In addition, the settlement mandates that the City improve police training in order to prevent unconstitutional mass arrests in the future. Finally, the City will pay $1 million to compensate the protesters for the violation of their constitutional rights and the costs of bringing the lawsuit.

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Endgame

I was pretty exited to see this on YouTube. This is probably the most quoted phrase from Endgame with a video to it. Its a bit scary, but very nice! For those of you who havent read Derrick Jensen's "Endgame", I think it is time, for soon there won't be any. Earth First!

Derrick Jensen - What's your threshold?

So Cute...

James Nachtwey

I just happened to stumble upon this photographer by the name of James Nachtwey. His images are amaizing... be sure to check out his work at www.jamesnachtwey.com

First Human Powered Circumnavigation of Earth

I have been all over the internet lately looking up stories of touring. I plan on getting a bike and trying to live a life with the smallest ecological impact as I can. To get me pumped up about such a bike riding adventure, I keep coming across folks who ride across the country for fun. I happened to come across this, and I dont remember it happening at all but I love it so very much...



In June, 2004, a team of three, including Colin Angus and his fiancée, Julie Wafaei, left Vancouver on their bicycles. Nearly two years later, they rolled back in, looking like castaways, and having completed the first human-powered circumnavigation of the globe – a feat involving rowing unsupported across two oceans and trekking through 17 countries.



Julie cycle touring in British Columbia.
The team cycled, skiied, canoed hiked and rowed a route that took them to Alaska, across the Bering Sea and the Siberian winter, across Europe from Moscow to Portugal, then across the Atlantic to Costa Rica–a 156-day rowing odyssey. From there it was a short 8,300 kilometre ride back to Vancouver. Along the way they burned through 4,000 chocolate bars, 72 inner tubes, 250 kgs of freeze-dried foods, 31 dorado fish (caught from the sea), 2 offshore rowboats, 4 bicycles, 80 kgs of clothing. And they showed the world that if he can travel 43,000 kilometres without polluting the planet, then the rest of us can get off our butts, and clean up our own acts.
Julie completed most of the journey including a ten thousand km unsupported row across the Atlantic Ocean, becoming the first woman to row the complete Atlantic from mainland to mainland.




Colin and Julie rowing near the Caribbean Island of St. Lucia.
“We lay in the rowboat cabin as the seas swelled and the sky boiled like a devil’s cauldron. Slanting yellow sun beams cut between black squalls, and corrugated cirrus clouds interlaced the remaining areas of blue. Huge anvil heads roiled and billowed, like slow-moving atomic explosions. Flashes of lightning illuminated the IMAX screen of the horizon. Such energy and volatility would have been breathtakingly beautiful, if we had been watching from nearly anywhere else, and if it weren’t for the fact that it was all just a prelude to a killer storm.

It was hard to believe that yet another tropical cyclone was heading our way. We had chosen the worst hurricane season in recorded history to make our five-month, 10,000 km unsupported rowboat crossing of the Atlantic Ocean. Now, two months into our voyage, it looked very likely our expedition might come to an abrupt end.

Our voyage across the Atlantic was only a part of a much larger expedition: an attempt to complete the first human-powered circumnavigation of the planet. So far we had trekked, skied, cycled, canoed, and rowed non-stop across three continents and were half-way across our second ocean. Now, as I huddled in the dog-house sized cabin with my fiancée waiting for the Hurricane Epsilon to reach us, I cursed myself for ever believing I could achieve such an impossible quest.”
—From Beyond the Horizon


Both Colin and Julie are writing books detailing this journey. Colin’s book “Beyond the Horizon” will be released in March 2007.

Tattoo's!

Well, I have started to tattoo the people I care about. Its crazy... Ash, Doty, and Laura have all recieved tattoos that I had designed on the spot with them there. They all turned out great, and my friends are happy with them. Yes! If anybody out there likes my style and would like a custom piece, please drop me a line... Very Nice!

Doty's Arm piece: