Songwriter Jonathan Kluth performs not only in, but with his car.
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Creative Activism in Bulgaria
From Marcy LaViollette: Appreciated and reblogged from animalnewyork.com
Bulgaria’s Soviet Soldier Statue Vandalized Again: The Ukraine Colors Edition
by Marina Galperina
Animalnewyork.com
February 25, 2014
The most hated statue in Sofia, Bulgaria has been painted in the colors of the Ukrainian flag, in solidarity with the revolution and the deadly protests in the former Soviet Republic.
It is, essentially, a gigantic bronze relief to remind the Bulgarian people about an invading Soviet forces that crushed and “liberated” the country from its a reformist uprising 45 years ago. It was previously vandalized in June 2010 when the soldiers were painted as Superman, Ronald McDonald, Santa Claus and other capitalist/pop culture American icons, captioned below in graffiti: “In step with the times!”
It was vandalized again in August 2013, when it was sprayed entirely in hot pink and tagged with the words “Prague “68”³ and “Bulgaria apologizes” in Czech and Bulgarian, as in, sorry about the Warsaw Pact, you know, that time Bulgarian troops aided the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia.
And of course, that time in August 2012 when it was briefly balaclava”ed in tribute to the jailed Russian feminist art-band activists of Pussy Riot.
lead image: AFP Photo/Nikolay Doychinov
This Way, Please
From Peter Markus:
Boise craft-beer maker ordered to remove sign near Connector
by Zach Kyle
Idaho Statesman
March 13, 2014
When Woodland Empire Ale Craft opened in January, the brewery announced its presence with a billboard mimicking the nearby green and yellow signs on the westbound entrance of the I-184 Connector. The sign read like a freeway off-ramp: “Craft beer: right here.” An arrow points to the brewery parking lot.
The Idaho Transportation Department is not amused.
Read more here.
Mike Merrill, Human IPO
An interesting metaphor for the merging of life and work…
Meet the Man Who Sold His Fate to Investors at $1 a Share
by Joshua Davis
Wired
March 28, 2013
On January 26, 2008, a 30-year-old part-time entrepreneur named Mike Merrill decided to sell himself on the open market. He divided himself into 100,000 shares and set an initial public offering price of $1 a share. Each share would earn a potential return on profits he made outside of his day job as a customer service rep at a small Portland, Oregon, software company. Over the next 10 days, 12 of his friends and acquaintances bought 929 shares, and Merrill ended up with a handful of extra cash. He kept the remaining 99.1 percent of himself but promised that his shares would be nonvoting: He”d let his new stockholders decide what he should do with his life.
Read the full article here.