By: Luke Holden To begin, I’d like to recognize that I’m not a psychology expert (nor do I aspire to be), but I do feel I have some experiential knowledge to share about the mind in relationship to the artistic process. We are all our worst critics. Inside of us [...]
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By: Patricia Wilkie It is difficult to say exactly how Occupy Wall Street started as we are witnessing a web of global interconnectedness with social movements in the 21st century. With rising global inequality, there are also protests globally. For example, thanks to the technological age, we were able to [...]
Written by: Patricia Wilkie Imagine a world where a gene found in a cold-water fish is placed into a potato in order to produce a new organism that has the desired trait of surviving a freeze. It looks like a potato, tastes like a potato, but it is not genetically [...]
By: Patricia Wilkie “No Budget cuts until tax dodgers pay up”. This is a slogan of the newly formed grass roots organization, US Uncut. It was formed in the wake of federal and state lawmakers grappling with incredible budget deficits, coupled with the impact of corporate tax breaks being in [...]
By: Anna Chapman “Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.” – Gautama Siddharta The moon traversing the sky night after night, whether it is a tiny silver, or a round, golden orb is a reminder that for thousands of years human beings have observed [...]
By: Patricia Wilkie In Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, and Wisconsin, something is happening, people are coming together in the name of change. Revolution is in the air, and moving like pollen in the wind, waiting to be carried where it can stick. People are asking for change, even in our own Madison, Wisconsin. [...]
By Patricia Wilkie – Happy 2011/Happy Paradigm Shift: We face many challenges this year. Most pertain to the economic and ecological state of our country and world. For example: The cost of living has gone up but wages have frozen, and the middle class is quickly diminishing. The United States [...]
By: Melissa Cohen In February of 1970, the Isla Vista branch of the Bank of America was burned to the ground. This action followed a series of protests at UCSB that underscored the overwhelming discontent of many students regarding bureaucratic and unilateral decisions made by the administration at the University, [...]
By: Patricia Wilkie What is the cost of war? The United State’s involvements in the Middle East are (to say the least) complicated, serious, and controversial. Whether or not one agrees with our occupations in Iraq and Afghanistan, it is undeniable that our involvement is costing lives and costing money. [...]
By: Patricia Wilkie So the question then is, do we let corporate interests yet again decide what is best for our state, for our world? Do we allow disinformation and backwards solutions to take hold in the Golden State? Do we turn a blind eye to who exactly is funding [...]
By: Guner Tautrim Permaculture What does it mean and why are we hearing more and more about it? Some say it stands for ‘permanent agriculture’ and some say it stands for ‘permanent culture.’ Definitions of this word are many. “Permaculture is an approach to designing human settlements and agricultural systems [...]
By: Julie Jennings ARTicle When I sat down with the charming Laura Inks and asked her what exactly it is that she does, she laughed and grinned mischievously. Bubbling with enthusiasm, she informed me of her busy life in Santa Barbara and her commitment to sustaining the arts in the [...]
By Alison Hensley This festival is unique because our community has created it. Sol Food originally started as a small community project focused on bringing together local resources for putting the idea of eating locally into practice. I was inspired to create something that would educate and empower people to [...]
By: David Fortson What do you know about that egg in your refrigerator? Well, you’d best find out as we are in the midst of a nationwide recall of 380 million eggs due to salmonella. That’s a lot of bad omelets. Of course, as you dig in to this huge [...]
