Random and unofficial posts from a communications professional, husband, writer, photographer, manual laborer and pickup truck driver living and working in the Memphis, Tennessee / North Mississippi area.
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
Jim Henson at work.
“I play drums in a horror influenced trashy rock and roll band.”
(San Francisco, CA)
He didn’t speak English, but his son described him as ‘extremely chillaxed.’
Extremely chillaxed…
“The Green Machine” ……. becomes green!
The Green Machine is a mobile produce market bringing fresh fruits and vegetables to neighborhoods with limited access to fresh produce in Memphis, TN.The Green Machine will stop throughout the city in designated “limited food access” neighborhoods, 5 days a week, Monday - Friday. Along with fresh local produce, the market will offer information on community services, healthcare tips, special guest appearances, and the services of volunteers from diverse professional sectors to support a full-circle healthy community.
This is great!
The laid-back Philadelphia guitarist has become something of a patron saint for the Great Recession’s legions of accidental bohemians, who work hard while hardly working. Kurt Vile’s transfixing new album is arguably his best yet.
Posting to listen to later….
Pasha 183, known as “the Russian Bansky,” died last night, but his art lives on.
Myeongbeom Kim - Untitled Wood
life:
Not originally published in LIFE. On the set of Batman, 1966.
(Photo: Yale Joel—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)
The New Yorker: Walmart Art
For the past ten years or so, propelled by an epiphany he once had at the loading dock of a Winn Dixie, the artist Brendan O’Connell has been painting Walmarts: people shopping, and products on shelves, and people removing products from shelves and paying for them. He was fascinated by…
