Collection

I posted this over at MostlySkateboarding but figured some of you guys might have missed it. My parents brought all my old skate videos and magazines up to my new house and I was stoked to finally have them with me. Click on the images to see them really big. While going through my old magazines I found the first and only two issues of Journal, the short lived east coast magazine and a couple of old Alien Workshop zines. Also on the shelf are some old zines from old friend and Berrics contributor Dallas Clayton and others.

Manufactured Landscapes Opening

This is the opening of Manufactured Landscapes and it is awesome. I remember seeing this at Sundance and being blown away. You probably already know about Edward Burtynsky but if not, check him out. Via: Triumph of Bullshit.

Food and Eating

Michael Pollan has an article/movie review in the New York Times Magazine about, among other things, how Americans spend more time watching cooking shows than they do cooking. There are lots of interesting statistics most striking to me was the one in the quote below.

"Already today, 80 percent of the cost of food eaten in the home goes to someone other than a farmer, which is to say to industrial cooking and packaging and marketing."

Food for thought...

We started watching Lost.

In Defense Of Food

I just finished reading In Defense Of Food by Michael Pollan. There is lots to think about from this book about what we eat and how we eat. It makes me thankful to my parents for bringing me up in a great food culture with home cooked family meals every night at 7PM and a garden in the back yard. We had plenty of cookies and chocolate chips around the house, but no soda for a long time. There was very little convenience food. Any meals had to be made from scratch for the most part. Big thanks to my mom for always cooking for us. 

Filming

Hurts but I wouldn't have it any other way.

Sister Corita Link Round-Up

Aaron Rose's documentary on Sister Corita is screening in Los Angeles and it got me thinking about her again and tracking down some interesting links. I first heard about her through this Weekend America story. This AIGA article is a good quick introduction to the artist. I also came up on three clips from Rose's documentary. Clip one, clip two, animation.