Unsilent Night meets Santacon. I took my aging VHS camera to Phil Kline’s great annual musical event, Unsilent Night. Phil Kline’s piece, using masses of the public to march with boomboxes playing his specially made tapes, is ethereal, cosmic and beatific. Santacon
is a bunch of anarchistic Burning Man types shouting HO HO HO and bar-hopping to oblivion! Their accidental/serendipitous intersection in Washington Square Park was a great New York moment. I’m making a Flash movie from the video I shot. The video capture stills below will give you some idea of what went on, but the combination with the audio should help bring them to life.

Phil Kline in Washington Square Park Happy Santas Phil Leads the masses

Tree Sit Blog - Remedy is an activist who has been sitting 150 feet up an ancient Redwood in Freshwater, California for over Eight months.

A group of five young activists, from the San Francisco Bay Area’s Independent Media Center and regional wireless user groups, has provided Remedy with a Linux-based laptop and a panel antenna. A car battery recharger powers the equipment, which will connect to an 802.11b access point 5.5 miles away in Eureka. - Wired Article by Amit Asaravala

Mark Fiore creates amazingly on-the-mark political cartoons skillfully employing Flash animation. He makes me laugh at things that otherwise would make me cry.

His work appears in the Washington Post, the LA Times and other publications.These cartoons appear in SFGate.com.

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via Peri Hupsous our Oregon Reporter