Saturday, October 27, 2012
Friday, October 26, 2012
Border Patrol agents find ancient pottery in the Patagonia Mountains
Sonoita Border Patrol discovered different type of pot last week: agents found two pieces of ancient pottery while patrolling on foot in the Patagonia Mountains.
The agents found one intact ancient pot and a piece of another pot while patrolling in the rugged Patagonia Mountains last week, according to a news release form Customs and Border Protection. Agents notified U.S. Forest Service officials, who took the artifacts to a local facility for further study. After initial inspection, the Forest Service believes the pot is genuine, and could date back to as much as 1,000 years.
Sunday, October 21, 2012
Shaman's Gallery
Gordon’s Panel, also known as Shamans’ Gallery, contains the oldest prehistoric evidence of man in the Grand Canyon and is quite possibly the most important rock art panel discovered on the North American continent.
The site was used by Indian shamans to try and communicate with the supernatural for thousands of years. Did they actually see what they painted? The images are multicolored, abstract, and life sized. Underlying these figures are earlier images. Some of the smaller figures in the caves, the oldest paintings, look like neanderthal man paintings. Other paintings look like deer with huge antlers, “space men” with antennas, and objects that look like space craft. The writings here The oldest prehistoric evidence of man in the Grand Canyon and is possibly the most important rock art panel discovered on the North American continent dating back 1400 to 20,000 years.
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Saturday, October 20, 2012
The American West, 150 Years Ago
In the 1860s and 70s, photographer Timothy O'Sullivan created some of the best-known images in American History. After covering the U.S. Civil War, (many of his photos appear in this earlier series), O'Sullivan joined a number of expeditions organized by the federal government to help document the new frontiers in the American West. The teams were composed of soldiers, scientists, artists, and photographers, and tasked with discovering the best ways to take advantage of the region's untapped natural resources. O'Sullivan brought an amazing eye and work ethic, composing photographs that evoked the vastness of the West. He also documented the Native American population as well as the pioneers who were already altering the landscape. Above all, O'Sullivan captured -- for the first time on film -- the natural beauty of the American West in a way that would later influence Ansel Adams and thousands more photographers to come.
Timothy O'Sullivan
Friday, October 19, 2012
Endangered Tattoos
Volunteers Get Inked to Help Save Species [Slide Show]
The project, called extInked, was conceived by the Ultimate Holding Company in Manchester, England—a collective of freelance artists who try to use art to spur discussion of uncomfortable social issues. In 2009 the collective worked with conservationists to identify 100 rare and endangered species in Britain, and then brought in artists to ink 100 volunteers in a three-day public marathon. Mammals, amphibians, reptiles, birds, fish, invertebrates, plants and four species of fungi were colored onto the necks, arms, legs and backs of obliging “ambassadors.”
Scientific American
Countdown to Armageddon
It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine....
Good morning slaves...
Thursday, October 18, 2012
Speaking of repressed emotions....
....as an avid reader I have encountered many worthless articles, essays, lists, books and other manuscripts....but every once in a while I come across something that just begs me to say...Are you fucking kidding me? and now, without further ado, for you reading pleasure may I present a small sampling of these vital survival and yes, cool uses for paracord ....
- 44 Really Cool Uses of Paracord for Survival
- 1- Secure a tent
- 2-Secure a tarp between trees
- 3-Hang tools from your belt
- 5-Secure things to the outside of your backpack
- 9-Make an emergency belt to hold your pants up
- 11-Replace a broken bra strap (it happens)
Just wait it gets even more enlightening...
- 18-Hang something up off the ground
Holy Shit! without the valuable piece of advice of number 18 I can not even conceive how I have managed to stay alive in the wilderness for all these years !
- 22-Keep rolled up items secure
- 24-Tie objects together for easier transport
- 25-Bundle stuff together
- 34-Tie stuff down so it will not blow away in a storm
- Tie bad guys or intruders to a tree or chair
Back the fuck up bitch! I got Paracord!
You know what? I just can not bring myself to continue without adding
number....
- 45-make a garrote to choke some stupid asshole.
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Saturday, October 13, 2012
The 6th World
Navajo Astronaut Tazbah Redhouse is a pilot on the first spaceship sent to colonize Mars. But a mysterious dream the night before her departure indicates there may be more to her mission than she understands.
FUTURESTATES
Something I have wanted to learn for some time.....
Sand Painting
My first attempt....mostly gravel...
In the sandpainting of southwestern Native Americans (the most famous of which are the Navajo), the Medicine Man (or Hatałii) paints loosely upon the ground of a hogan, where the ceremony takes place, or on a buckskin or cloth tarpaulin, by letting the colored sands flow through his fingers with control and skill. There are 600 to 1000 different traditional designs for sandpaintings which are known to the Navajo. They do not view the paintings as static objects, but as spiritual, living beings to be treated with great respect. More than 30 different sandpaintings may be associated with one ceremony.
Butterfly - The Secret Life of Chaos
Chaos theory has a bad name, conjuring up images of unpredictable weather, economic crashes and science gone wrong. But there is a fascinating and hidden side to Chaos, one that scientists are only now beginning to understand.
I hope that seeing the excitement of solving this problem....
...will make young mathematicians realize that there are lots and lots of other problems in mathematics which are going to be just as challenging in the future.
Something to think about.....
The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every night, staring fixedly, that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little.
~Ray Bradbury
Friday, October 12, 2012
Utah's reclusive cabin burglar turns up on video
Law enforcement officials have obtained surveillance video for the first time of a mountain man who has been breaking into dozens of cabins, stealing guns and supplies, across southern Utah.
In this undated photo provided by the Iron County Sheriff's Office in January, a man is seen walking past a cabin in the remote southern Utah wildness near Zion National Park. Authorities believe the man in the photo, captured by a motion-triggered surveillance camera sometime in December, is a suspect responsible for more than two dozen cabin burglaries over the past five years.
This undated photo provided by the Iron County Sheriff's Office shows , a remote camp littered with supplies and trash in the southern Utah wildness near Zion National Park. Authorities believe the camp was left behind by a suspect in more than two dozen burglaries of mountain cabins over an area of roughly 1,000 square miles for the past five years.
Saturday, October 6, 2012
Arizona Ski-Resort Will Pump Sewage Snow on Sacred Mountain
Klee Benally, a member of the Navajo tribe, has gone to the mountains just north of here to pray, and he has gone to get arrested. He has chained himself to excavators; he has faced down bulldozers. For 10 years, the soft-spoken activist has fought a ski resort’s expansion plans in the San Francisco Peaks that include clear-cutting 74 acres of forest and piping treated sewage effluent onto a mountain to make snow. But he appears to be losing the battle.
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PSYCHOPATHIC GARBAGE in UNIFORM
psychopath psy·cho·path (sī'kə-pāth') n. A person with an antisocial personality disorder, especially one manifested in perverted, criminal, or amoral behavior. Also called: sociopath a person afflicted with a personality disorder characterized by a tendency to commit antisocial and sometimes violent acts and a failure to feel guilt for such acts.
The Cult of the Dead Fish
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