I am reposting because it was so late last night when I posted it originally and I really wanted more people to see this wonderful studio and this artist’s mission. We are planning a trip to New Orleans in the next year or so and this studio is now on my list to visit.
I was setting up the DVR to record the town hall and caught this interview (embedded below). I was so taken by the art, and then Brandan Odums and his mission, I thought they deserved to be highlighted.
This piece (lots of fun stuff at this link) is now on my wishlist:
Hopefully the Instagram embed will work, if not, here’s the link
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Wednesday Afternoon Open Thread
phdesmond
i watched the msnbc special tonight, from which you posted the clip. i found it satisfying — i wasn’t expecting a veteran of the little rock 9 in 1957.
Minnijean Brown-Trickey.
eclare
That piece is beautiful.
Betty
Good work by MSNBC to highlight this.
stinger
Thank you for this post, TaMara.
Steeplejack
I was wondering where that post went! Had a tab open on it.
sanjeevs
Jacinda Ardern to step down as NZ PM.
New Zealand PM Ardern to step down next month – BBC News
lgerard
It seems Mr Santos, among his many other accomplishments, was also a drag performer.
His new friend marge is not going to like that
https://newrepublic.com/post/170070/george-santos-drag-queen-kitara-brazil
Origuy
WaterGirl
@sanjeevs: Less than 3 weeks from today! Yikes.
Ohio Mom
@Origuy: What a example of PJ O’Rouke’s maxim, “The Republicans are the party that says government doesn’t work and then they get elected and prove it.”
@sanjeevs: I knew nothing about New Zealand politics before Covid and Jardern’s leadership in steering NZ through the pandemic. It will be interesting to see what she does next.
Sister Golden Bear
Another NC power station was hit by gunfire. Fortunately no outages.
Also, a good short video explaining what happened in the prior NC power stations attack. The resulting outages in Moore County were because of the design of the power network, which lacked redundancy.
TaMara
@sanjeevs: Wow, that’s surprising. Though I suspect NZ won’t go down the crazy train track with their next PM, so there’s that.
I really like her whenever I watch her in an interview.
TaMara
@lgerard: His defrauding of a Vet and the resulting death of a service dog because if it, made the national news tonight. I can only hope the consequences of that reveal matches the crime.
sanjeevs
@TaMara: Hope not.
But the main opposition party – National, seems to have been pretty heavily penetrated by the Chinese in the past.
Yang Jiang was a very important fundraiser for them.
China-born New Zealand MP denies being a spy | New Zealand | The Guardian
satby
Glad you reposted this TaMara! Good stuff!