Via Colori

This past Saturday and Sunday in Houston's Sam Houston Park (downtown), a ton of artists tempted the cloudy skies and did their thing on Bagby and Allen Parkway streets. Literally, on the streets.


There were some outstanding artists on the scene ... and many were sitting, squatting, and crouching ...


The skies were cloudy both days and constantly threatened rain, but only a few drops fell ...


It's not every day you can attend a free event in Sam Houston Park ...


She's not made of chalk, but she's still a work of art ....


These artists did it all....from portraits ...


...to fantasy ....


...to .... puppies!


to ... well, just about everything. And all of it would be gone, wiped away by people and cars within 24 hours. Temporary and transient. And art.


"VIA COLORI. HERE TWO DAYS. GONE FOREVER. Clever. But not quite "gone."

Happy World Hello Day

DID YOU KNOW?
World Hello Day is November 21. Celebrate World Hello Day by saying hello to 10 people. The objective is to greet people and show world leaders that communication is a better way to solve conflicts than the use of force.

World Hello Day was started by Brian and Michael McCormack in 1973 as a response to the Yom Kippur War. The day is now observed by more than 180 countries.

Go to Care2.com and send an eCard.

Newt=Whore

Newt Gingrich is now the front-runner for the Republicans? The circus continues unabated!

OWS signs

So what will happen to the Occupy Wall Street movement now that it's being crushed, rather violently, by the police?

There have been some really great signs in this movement, and one thing I've noticed in particular is that I haven't seen one misspelling yet. It's a small thing, sure, but just goes to show that these people are not uneducated yahoos.

One of my favorite signs that rather sums it up...

You can see a whole lot more of them by clicking here.

Time Lapse Orbit

from Talking Points Memo

Stunning Time-Lapse Video of Earth

Composed of photographs by NASA astronaut Ron Garan (@astro_ron on Twitter) taken from the International Space Station from August to October 2011, German artist Michael Konig edited images of Earth into a spectacular time-lapse video. According to Konig, the images were taken from an altitude of about 200 miles above Earth with a high definition camera. Konig aimed to let the images speak for themselves in the video.

“All in all I tried to keep the looks of the material as original as possible, avoided adjusting the colors and the like, since in my opinion the original footage itself already has an almost surreal an aestethical (sic) visual nature,” he wrote on the video’s caption.

Earth | Time Lapse View from Space, Fly Over | NASA, ISS from Michael König on Vimeo.

Here’s a list of the shooting locations, in order of appearance:

1. Aurora Borealis Pass over the United States at Night
2. Aurora Borealis and eastern United States at Night
3. Aurora Australis from Madagascar to southwest of Australia
4. Aurora Australis south of Australia
5. Northwest coast of United States to Central South America at Night
6. Aurora Australis from the Southern to the Northern Pacific Ocean
7. Halfway around the World
8. Night Pass over Central Africa and the Middle East
9. Evening Pass over the Sahara Desert and the Middle East
10. Pass over Canada and Central United States at Night
11. Pass over Southern California to Hudson Bay
12. Islands in the Philippine Sea at Night
13. Pass over Eastern Asia to Philippine Sea and Guam
14. Views of the Mideast at Night
15. Night Pass over Mediterranean Sea
16. Aurora Borealis and the United States at Night
17. Aurora Australis over Indian Ocean
18. Eastern Europe to Southeastern Asia at Night