Exit Through The Gift Shop - A Banksy Film

Ever I since I saw this movie I can not keep thinking about Street Art and Banksy. Street artist use's the street as their canvas, and instead of sending their message through a gallery, their message is put out on the street for public viewing. Banksy is viewed as the most renounced and famous Street Artists, and now he has just completed a documentary on street art. Below is the first 5 minutes of the film, Exit Through the Gift Shop.

The BP Oil Spill - Live

Live Oil Spill (link).

I guess mud and golfball's didn't work.

MARCUS NILSSON

I really am enjoying the work of Marcus Nilsson. He has done a great job photographing food. I especially like the juxtapose technique he does to display his subject.

Early Bird

This Robin has made a nice home outside the kitchen window. Here she is feeding her three babies a nice big worm.

Photo via Tim

NC Local Food Action Guide Released

According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, North Carolinians spend about $35 billion a year on food. If individuals spent just 10 percent, or $1.05 per day, of their existing food dollars on local foods, approximately $3.5 billion would be available in the local economy. And part of that $3.5 billion would flow back to farmers and food businesses. Greater spending locally can also increase the economic activity at the regional and community level, which can translate into jobs.
For full report and more information please visit CEFS or http://growingsmallfarms.wordpress.com

AHPeele Traffic Jam on Saturday

AHPeele Traffic Jam in Raleigh this weekend!!! This is a flea market type-of-thing, where artists bring their crafts, and other cool people bring their yard sale items. I also hear there will be food and music.

Don't miss out!

The event runs this Saturday (5/15) from noon to 6pm at Ahpeele Studio (map link).

Oil Spill Imagery

Oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, disaster on 1 May 2010, heading towards the US Mississippi Delta coastline.

Imagery Information:

2010/130 - 05/10 at 16 :35 UTC
Oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico
Satellite: Terra

NASA/MODIS Rapid Response Team (Click to enlarge) (link)

Find Your Local Farmer's Market

Find your local Farmers' Market and farm on NC Farm Fresh.

Betty White hosting SNL

This is one of the best Saturday Night Live's I have seen in a long time (link)! With host Betty White, musical guest Jay Z, and a SNL reunion from some of the renouned female actresses, Rachel Dratch, Tine Fay, Amy Poehler, Ana Gasteyer, Maya Rudolph and Molly Shannon. Skits included Sally O'Malle (I'm 50 and I like to kick), NPR with Betty's Muffin, Census door-to-door, the bronx beat and the opening Lawrence Welk's skit.

jónsi: go

Go is the debut solo album from Jónsi (of Sigur Rós). Pitchfork leads their article on Go with, Jónsi Birgisson doesn't do small (link). This album definitely matches the high expectations.

Stream Go

Eat well and be well

ADRIENNEATS - A holistic perspective on eating, cooking, & living
Adrienne is a Raleigh-based graphic designer pursing a holistic nutrition degree. She shares recipes, healthy tips, the healing properties of food on her blog, while using local and seasonal products, her nutritional education and her creative self. This is my favorite blog to figure our new recipes, learn about my seasonal food, grab tips on cooking and become inspired. Eat well and be well (Adrienneats).

Putting the Current Oil Spill into Prospective

We have now encountered the worst oil spill ever. It is estimated that 14,670,000 barrels (2,001,364 tons) of oil was spilled in the Gulf of Mexico last week by BP (http://bit.ly/InDeepWater). This is big!

To put this into prospective see diagram developed by David MacCandless on Information is Beautiful. MacCandless's In Deep Water explores this oil spill in the prospective of total spilled volume, current surface area, and wildlife recovery.

When Sea Levels Attack!

This graph is an easy way to understand the meaning of sea level rise. The data was taken from the lowest, most conservative figures I could find. Predictions vary widely. This is because there are a slew of different climate change prediction scenarios. Each one foresees a particular range of sea level rises, depending on ice-melts, temperature rises and many other factors. It's not an exact science.
via http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog

Will Allen an Urban Farmer

TIME Magazine lists the 100 people who most affect our world for 2010. Among this list of mainly the rich and famous is an urban farmer from Minneapolis, Will Allen. Will Allen, 62, is leading the local food movement with Growing Power Inc., his main 2-acre Community Food Center. This area, no larger then a supermarket, houses 20,000 plants and vegetables, thousands of fish, plus chickens, goats, ducks, rabbits and bees.