Right now, the Environmental Protection Agency is considering reversing a Bush administration decision that has prevented California and other states from taking action to reduce global warming pollution from cars.

And EPA is taking public comment before making a ruling. I signed a petition and sent it in. Can you as well? CLICK HERE!

Thank you.

The exhibition traces how Asian art, literature, and philosophy were transmitted and transformed within American cultural and intellectual currents, influencing the articulation of new visual and conceptual languages.

It explores how American art evolved through a process of appropriation and integration of Asian sources that developed from the 1860s through the 1980s, when globalization came to eclipse earlier, more deliberate modes of cultural transmission and reception.

Vanguard artists consistently looked toward “the East” to forge an independent artistic identity that would define the modern age—and the modern mind—through a new understanding of existence, nature, and
consciousness.

The Third Mind refers to a “cut-ups” work by Beat writers William S. Burroughs and Brion Gysin, whose cult of spontaneity in art and life drew inspiration from Asian attitudes.

This manuscript composed of random texts and images evokes the eclectic yet purposeful method by which American artists often appropriated material from Asia to create new forms, structures, and meanings in their work.

Grounded in documentary evidence of the artists’ encounters with Asia, this exhibition shows how artists working in America adapted Eastern ideas and art forms to create not only new styles of art, but more importantly, a new theoretical definition of the contemplative experience and self-transformative role of art itself.

via: guggenheim.org

Occupation: Advertising/ Graphic Design Student
Where are you originally from? Santurse, Puerto Rico
What was your most rebellious attitude or experience in adolescence?
When I told my mother “Only because you haven’t gone to certain parts of the 5 boroughs, you can’t assume that they are dangerous.” After that, she let me explore areas I have never gone before.
What are your top 5 favorite albums?
I don’t like albums. Just give the song and I will be happy about that.
What moment in history would you have loved to witness?
I would like to see the craziness when Adolf Hitler hurt the innocent during the holocaust. I just want to see the change within a ill man.
How old were you when you lost your virginity?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
How do you feel about technology?
If we continue on the way if is (”making things easier and faster”), We’ll end up like the humans in WALL-E
Do you believe in Fate?
If I die and relive on the spot….. best believe that FATE will be concocting in my head.
If you can change one thing in the world what would it be?
Racism.

Jaguars once ranged as far north as the Grand Canyon in the United States. But only a few have been documented in the U.S. since 1971.

One in particular, a 16 year-old dubbed Macho B, was the most photographed jaguar in the country.

Late last month, Macho B was inadvertently caught during a research project, and Arizona Department of Game and Fish officials took the opportunity to fit him with a GPS collar. Researchers were excited at the prospect of studying the behavior of jaguars in the U.S. based on the data that Macho B would send back.

But that excitement turned to sadness. Days later, Macho B had to be euthanized when it was determined that he was suffering from terminal kidney failure.

The fight for U.S. jaguars lives on. Later this month, Defenders will be in court to force federal officials to develop a recovery plan for U.S. jaguars — a move the Bush Administration refused to take on. Read more. Adopt a jaguar

via: Defenders.org

The Cargo crew has finally published pictures from their January show. Click HERE to view Cargo’s photo journal. Above: Will {karmaloop} and The Brooks Brothers.

After getting a B.F.A. from School of Visual Arts, New York in 1980, Kenny moved back to his birth state of California.

One very important and guiding principle to Kenny’s work is to reach out beyond the elitist boundaries of fine art and connect to popular culture. He believes that artists have a social responsibility to engage others in a thought process that ultimately brings the creative process into everyday life thereby enhancing the quality of the experience.

Before Sex and the City’s Carrie Bradshaw, Samantha Jones, Miranda Hobbes, and Charlotte York tore up the town, there was Helen Gurley Brown, the real-life editor in chief of Cosmopolitan.

In this deliciously tantalizing book, Cosmo’s leading lady told women how to be glamorous and sophisticated and how to fill their lives with romance and delectable men. She showed women how to meet men and sweep them off their feet-all while looking and feeling fabulously sexy. Since that time, sexual attitudes may have changed, but the art of being a woman has not.

Still provocative after all these years, Brown celebrates the pleasures of flirting, of enjoying affairs from beginning to end, throwing brunches and dinner parties, finding men where you might not think to look, dating (and ditching) married men, and being both feminine and powerful.

It’s been over 40 years since Helen Gurley Brown’s Sex and the Single Girl sent shockwaves through American culture. How times have changed, or have they?

Helen Gurley Brown became the Editor-in-Chief of Cosmopolitan in 1965. For five years she was voted by World Almanac one of the 25 Most Influential Women in the U.S.

via: bn.com

Name: Estel Barth
Occupation: Architect
Where are you originally from? Paris, France
What was your most rebellious attitude or experience in adolescence?
So many!!! Go camping with my girlfriends when I was 13 saying her parents were with us (she did the same) and been drinking all the time! Go to concerts saying I was sleeping at my friend’s and stay/hang out all night in the street/subway. Jump on concert’s stage.
What are your top 5 favorite albums?
Bleach, Nirvana
Overpowered, Roisin Murphy
The Understanding, Röyksopp
Aux Armes et caetera, Serge Gainsbourg
Substance, Joy Division
Light & Magic, Ladytron
David Bowie (most of the albums!)
What moment in history would you have loved to witness?
The Second World War
How old were you when you lost your virginity? 17
How do you feel about technology?
Pretty good, thanks.
Do you believe in Fate? Not really.
If you can change one thing in the world what would it be?
I would clean that old garbage which is our planet Earth!

We were supposed to be hard at work yesterday, planning for the release of our Spring 2009 Collection… When these two characters {Gerry & Rich - Amivectio} showed up with two cases of beer. Our master planning turned into a discussion about Gandhi vs. Che? If you see these two shady individuals drinking on the job in a town near you, please take a flick, and report them to friends@amivectio.com. Thank you in advance!