bring out your dead

Dead Hearts, by Dead Mans Bones

This video features Machine With Wishbone, a kinetic sculpture created by American artist Arthur Ganson. (His TED Talk).

One of the Family has fallen on tough times and sincerely needs our support!

Hey everyone, Ink Tea's in trouble!

Friend-family Cole, who I love very much, has been having a damned hard time surfing the warm industry this year. In spite of desperately trying to find income, job hunting like mad, and generally being as responsible as a human can, she's reached the point where she has no more unemployment benefits, no job, and very little in the kitchen, an untenable situation, one she's helped me rise from in the past.

I am an Arts Administrator, photographer, and writer, based in Minneapolis, (or, alternatively, in Starving Artist land), trying very hard to get work. I have been unemployed for over a year now, in spite of lots of office skills, lots of experience, and lots of mailed resumes. I was one of the two Best New Spoken Word Artists of 2009 in Minnesota's Urban Griots Spoken Word Awards and represented Minneapolis at the 2009 Women of the World poetry slam in Detroit. I also teach poetry to immigrant children.

I will print photos from my flickr account at your discretion, do headshots and portraits, write poems for you, make mixed tapes for you, scrub your kitchen floor, or make you a delicious vegan dinner, if you can help me pay my rent and student loans off.

Here is her Etsy, where my favourite is her Sponsor a Roll of Film program. If you're feeling more direct, her Paypal address is inktea at gmail.com. Please help if you can!