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A Dreamyfish Art film short 'The BP oil spill: a fish's plea'

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Presenting to you my new '8mm film short' of Dreamyfish Art denizens sending a message to their 'Gulf Coast cousins' concerning the scar that is the BP-Gulf oil spill of April 20, 2010. And no one seems to know how to begin to cure it. Committee meetings shall be held in Washington so we know it's a point of discussion there but the sea is way too deep. Therefore, conclusions leading to actions may be politically tentative and risky but who knows the consequences of action until you try? And yet...things feel...fishy. In more ways than one. Because... If this entire Capitol Hill charade with BP, Transocean, and Halliburton execs (lined up like little penguins quacking out of both sides of their bills about how they don't-know-can't-say-wait-and-see) is really about BP filing for bankruptcy and skirting their responsibilities while making off like racoons, then I, for one, will be very very cross...no, enraged to the point of complete snitdom at the oil in...

giving thanks in Minerva's Glen 11.22.07

Minerva's Glen is my latest piece at Associated Content...a poem with art. Sad when the hoot of an owl is a rare occurrence in one's environment where once it was common to hear bird calls of all sorts. Progress: They Call It Civilization! But the Ecology Sux: Now that's a hoot. Encroaching on pristine regions where bracken and lichen still infest limbs and branches...tsk. The presence of bracken and lichen indicates that the air is pure enough for them to grow, a lovely sign which is disappearing soon as developers get their mitts on the area and their much-touted 'build-out' in progress. So Who Needs Clean Air? A family member lives in Raleigh NC where particulates are worsening his asthmatic condition. Does the American by-the-of-the-for-the government make any effort at all to protect our air from high emissions of these tiny killers? And this is "America" brought to you by...the robber baron classes, both royal and not-so-royal. If you don't kno...

Blue Tree Forest

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Here is one of several drawings done since 2003 of various views of Blue Tree Forest. Is the moon hiding?