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Late Night Open Thread: Art Has Power

by TaMara|  January 18, 20237:00 pm| 15 Comments

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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.

Late Night Open Thread: Art Has Power

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:

Late Night Open Thread: Art Has Power 1Hopefully the Instagram embed will work, if not, here’s the link

 

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  1. 1.

    phdesmond

    January 18, 2023 at 12:52 am

    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.

  2. 2.

    eclare

    January 18, 2023 at 2:01 am

    That piece is beautiful.

  3. 3.

    Betty

    January 18, 2023 at 7:12 am

    Good work by MSNBC to highlight this.

  4. 4.

    stinger

    January 18, 2023 at 9:07 am

    Thank you for this post, TaMara.

  5. 5.

    Steeplejack

    January 18, 2023 at 7:22 pm

    I was wondering where that post went! Had a tab open on it.

  6. 6.

    sanjeevs

    January 18, 2023 at 7:36 pm

    Jacinda Ardern to step down as NZ PM.

    New Zealand PM Ardern to step down next month – BBC News

  7. 7.

    lgerard

    January 18, 2023 at 7:38 pm

    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

  8. 8.

    Origuy

    January 18, 2023 at 7:45 pm

    NEW: Alabama is one of the few states that elected an election-denying secretary of state in 2022. And the first effect was swift: the new SoS announced within his first day that Alabama would be quitting a national consortium to help update voter rolls.https://t.co/484URhFOBr— Taniel (@Taniel) January 18, 2023

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    WaterGirl

    January 18, 2023 at 7:50 pm

    @sanjeevs: Less than 3 weeks from today!  Yikes.

  10. 10.

    Ohio Mom

    January 18, 2023 at 8:05 pm

    @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.

  11. 11.

    Sister Golden Bear

    January 18, 2023 at 8:08 pm

    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.

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    TaMara

    January 18, 2023 at 8:16 pm

    @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.

  13. 13.

    TaMara

    January 18, 2023 at 8:17 pm

    @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.

  14. 14.

    sanjeevs

    January 18, 2023 at 8:42 pm

    @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

  15. 15.

    satby

    January 18, 2023 at 9:52 pm

    Glad you reposted this TaMara! Good stuff!

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