October 27, 2009

Our sisters and brothers to the North…

So I tend to go to Canada quite a bit. It’s a beautiful place, I must say.
Calgary is particularly my favorite. I have some wonderful family out there that are kind enough to make their home my home. The last time I was out there we started talking about the oil that was north of there. Apparently a process had been figured out to get oil out of the dirt and sands that were within the earth north of Edmonton. Basically, it was clear cutting and destroying land, and using what is left of fresh water to create a chemical process that boils everything out, washes the dirt left and there you have oil.
The more we were talking, the more interesting it became, something I had never thought before then, where our oil comes from and goes to. I’m from Mobile, Alabama, on the beautiful Gulf of Mexico. Everytime you look out there you see oil barges and platforms, burning the evening sky. It’s horrible. When talking to my friends in Calgary, they mentioned how they had a shortage of oil there when the hurricanes where hitting the Gulf. So this oil they make, destroy their land with, then comes to us.

Here’s an exert from a really interesting documentary H2Oil that should hopefully be available on video soon.

Speaking of clear cutting and Candians,
here’s an interesting exert from the new documentary End:CIV

Here’s another new one, dealing with one of the first premise’s of the book End:CIV

IF you get a chance, check out submedia.tv and watch “It’s the End of the World as We Know It”. It’s funny, but very informative.

One last video, an older one from Gogol Bordello,
“wanderlust king”

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August 24, 2009

New WM3 Auction!

Sorry, i know it’s been a while since i’ve updated.
It’s been a crazy time.
We here at Royal Street Tattoo are auctioning off tattoos to benefit the West Memphis 3.
I did this several months ago, and now my friends here at Royal Street are jumping on board.
Place your bids and learn more at Skeleton Key Auctions

Food has been a big thing on my mind lately.
I recently saw Food, Inc.
Here’s the trailer,

If you get a chance, check it out.
You can learn more at Foodincmovie.com

I also watched The Future of Food,
here’s a clip:

It’s all really interesting, and frightening.
The scary fact that we don’t know where our food is coming from, and what it does to get here. Vegan, vegetarian, meatatarian, whatever, our food is no longer the food we think it is. We are now consuming chemicals on a daily basis that have been proven to be the cause of much of the illnesses and such that we suffer from today. In the end it is our responsibility to take the control of our food into our own hands.
One way we can do this is my eating local and organic. Most states have websites that will show what local farmers markets are in your area. Localharvest.org is a great help in finding your local farmer’s markets. Just type in your zip code, and it will pull up all the ones in your area.
It’s time we knew what we were consuming, and who we are getting it from.
and lastly,
Here’s a clip from the new derek jensen documentary End Civ.
It looks like it’s going to be pretty amazing.

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