Hoje finalmente fechamos a lista final de artistas que estarão em Do Outro Lado do Muro. Confesso que no começo, a exposição tinha uma pegada mais jovem, depois foi tomando uma proporção muito maior do que o pensado. Estou bem feliz com a lista final.

A primeira obra que escolhi, foi Demolição do Luiz Duva, que já foi apresentada por aqui no Sónar em 2004, no Piemonte Share Festival de Arte e Tecnologia (2005) e no Techne 05, em Milão 2005. É uma videoinstalação catártica, onde através de uma interface você pode esburacar uma parede.

Conheça em primeira mão os artistas que terão suas obras na exposição:

If you can't see the video because your job has it blocked *which is fine...you should be working ANYdamnWAY*, Mr. Illmatic and hooked up with ColorOfChange.org to deliver a petition with 620,000 signatures to Fox News and Bill "I Just Beat a Sexual Harrassment Case Because I Was Trying To Phone Bone A Coworker..and I Even Offered To Buy Her Sex Toys" O'Reilly in protest of their racist, sexist and fear mongering brand of "journalism." 620,000 signatures is a LOT of people to sign a petition, online or not. I mean damn, that's a helluva lot of online traffic and a HELL of a lot of Bic pens that lost their lives in the name of protest. Let's have a moment of silence for those server racks and ink cartridges. WE MAJOR!!! *see what I just did there? HA!*

And now on to my problem with Color of Change reaching out to Nas of all the damn rappers on the face of the Earth.  Oochie Wally and You Owe Me. Yeah, I said it. Oochie frickin Wally and You Owe Me. Regardless of how much A&R and label pressure *not to mention how many times he makes a Black Girl Lost or If I Ruled The World type track* Nas had to include those songs on their respected albums...he still had them circulating on MTV and BET.  It's not like those jawns were slow to bubble either. They spent a significant amount of time in the top 20 countdowns during their prime. I'm not even going to mention the fact that Nas has a new album out which needs promotion. From what I can tell from the youtube video, Nas only made one reference to the album.  I'm sure Billy will have his researchers and stat trackers count how many times Nas has said "nigga" and made derogatory terms towards women in his songs.

I'd really like organizations to stop using rappers/actors as spokespeople for your causes. I understand y'all may share views with said rapper/actor/athlete...they're still an entertainer. Go find yourself an educator or author. Go find yourself a CEO or a college student to put a face to your cause. As a 28 year old black man in the United States...I can remember Belly. I can remember the Oochie Wally video. I can remember when several members of the Dallas Cowboys got popped for coke. I can also remember when Bill Cosby stopped being Cliff Huxtable and he became William Cosby...the man that cheated on Camille. I can also remember when most of the programs on TV were suitable to watch at any time of the day. There was no Maury. There was no Jerry. There was only Phil Donahue and Oprah.  Children these days don't have those kinds of memories. All they know is 50 Cent, Heath Ledger dying of an overdose, Cita's World on BET, and "reality" television. I'm charging people that want to make a change to bring back the school book fair. Library trips. Finding guest speakers to come to your middle/high school that have actually GONE from ashy to classy by means of an education or the drive to succeed.

Once we're gone, the kids these days will have to deal with another Bill O'Reilly and they won't be armed with the weapons they need to take him down if all they can remember is Ocho Cinco doing a river dance in the endzone after a score.

Oh, and I'd like to big up ColorOfChange.org for at least making the attempt.

We had what was one of the scariest weather fronts I've ever seen come right overhead of our neighborhood.

While I should have had my full camera gear bag out, I didn't.  As Chase Jarvis just pointed out on his blog it's always a good idea to have a camera around at all times, even if it is an iPhone!  LOL.

Here's a couple quick videos I captured as my wife was yelling politely coercing me into the house and down to the basement.

About 32 seconds into the "storm18" clip, I realized it was time to get inside.

No one was injured, maimed or left behind before during or after this video.

Luckily it didn't touch down near anyone.

Voici la vue qui s'offrait de l'A-15, en direction nord, à la hauteur du viaduc du boulevard du Grand Héron, à Saint-Jérôme.  Il faut dire que des chantiers comme celui-ci sont beaucoup moins accessibles, compte tenu de la circulation automobile, qui y est maintenue.  Je dois donc, à ce moment-là, me contenter de poses prises à partir des viaducs.

Depuis le boulevard du Grand Héron, encore une fois, il s'agit maintenant de la vue en direction sud, de ce même chantier, soit celui de la reconstruction complète, en béton, de la chaussée en direction nord.  Celle en direction sud fut reconstruite l'an dernier.

Encore le même chantier, mais cette fois depuis le viaduc de la côte Saint-Pierre, à Mirabel.  Nous regardons en direction nord, avec, au loin, la sortie vers l'A-50.

En direction sud, cette fois, toujours depuis le viaduc de la côte Saint-Pierre.

Maintenant, nous allons voir le chantier du nouvel échangeur, à la hauteur du chemin Notre-Dame, qui donnera accès au méga-complexe Lac Mirabel.

Je suis sur le chemin Notre-Dame, et voici ce qui sera probablement l'un des accès principaux vers le complexe.

Le chemin Notre-Dame, cette fois, à l'ouest de l'A-15.  On vot d'ailleurs le tout nouveau viaduc, au loin.  L'intersection de la photo précédenta est à ma gauche.

Cette image vous donnera une idée du terrassement qu'il reste à combler, sur le chemin Notre-Dame.  La couche finale d'asphalte devrait, en principe, arriver à égalité avec la grille, que l'on voit, au-dessus du réceptacle d'égout pluvial.

Ici, c'est l'approche du viaduc Notre-Dame, mais à l'est de l'A-15.

Sur cette photo, j'ai dû modifier quelques caractéristiques, car sinon, vous n'auriez rien vu; le soleil allait se coucher bientôt, le temps était nuageux, et le fait d'être pratiquement en pleine forêt n'aidaient vraiment pas, au niveau de l'éclairage.  Il s'agit du chemin Notre-Dame, qui sera probablement élargi, compte tenu du nouvel échangeur qui y sera aménagé.

Voici un avant-goût de la bretelle de sortie de l'A-15 nord, vers le chemin Notre-Dame.  Nous sommes toujours à Mirabel.

Avec la longueur du déboisement, ainsi que du chemin en construction, j'ai l'impression que la bretelle d'entrée vers l'A-15 nord sera quelque part, le long de ce qui semble être une nouvelle rue.

Déplaçons-nous encore une fois vers le sud, pour arriver à la hauteur du boulevard de la Seigneurie, à Blainville, pour des travaux de modification à l'échangeur existant.

La bretelle de sortie actuelle, en provenance de l'A-15 nord, est rétrécie, vers la gauche, de façon à laisser de la place pour le chantier.  C'est du développement, à l'ouest de l'A-15, qui amène à cette modification de l'échangeur.

La coupe des arbres, en premier plan, nous donne une idée de l'alignement de la nouvelle bretelle de sortie.  Les arbres que l'on voit au second plan seront abattus, eux aussi, pour faire place à la bretelle d'entrée vers l'A-15 nord.  Entre ces deux petits îlots boisés, on trouve le boulevard de la Seigneurie, en tranchée.  Les nouvelles bretelles seront aussi encastrées, pour aller rejoindre le boulevard, au moyen d'une intersection avec feux de circulation.

Les pluies abondantes de juin ont laissé leurs traces sur le chantier.  Le réceptacle d'égout montre la hauteur - ou devrais-je dire la profondeur - de la future bretelle de la sortie 25 de l'A-15 nord.

Bon, maintenant que ça commence à débloquer, je devrais pouvoir publier d'autres billets à photos.  La chasse aux images se poursuit ces jours-ci, mais j'ai encore en réserve les premières images de la blogue-mobile, qui prend du mieux de jour en jour, ainsi que de nouvelles photos, prises ce dimanche (20 juillet), sous la pluie et parmi les moustiques, d'un échangeur autoroutier qui s'est métamorphosé en "passe à chevreuils".

Je profite de l'occasion pour souhaiter d'excellentes vacances à tous ceux et celles qui profiteront des traditionnelles "deux dernières de juillet" typiquement québécoises, aussi connues sous le vocable de "vacances de la construction".  De mon côté, le travail se poursuit, pendant cette période, quoique de façon un peu plus relaxe.  Je prendrai une semaine de vacances du 24 au 30 août, soit juste avant la fête du travail.  Je tenterai de profiter de cette période pour faire une réserve de photos de chantiers, et de sites routiers, plus intéressants les uns que les autres, afin d'agrémenter plusieurs billets, l'automne prochain.

Helena Lundgreen featured in the june 2004 issue of Front magazine, on pages 24 and 25.

She was mentioned in some site's predictions for 2008.
When we searched for Helena Lundgreen, Google returned the search result: Did you mean: Helena Lundgren?
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