Fractured Thoughts from Buckyben

Alot of stores are posting signs like this one:

Apparently, it’s a simple way to educate consumers who are not following the commodities price rise.

Tags: wheat, rise of coast, bread, costs more, food shortage

Who would have thought a whole industry of creative and interactive and engaging works would be all over the place. When I was a kid, I read comic books and watched cartoons, and thought, this could be better, and today, it is better, it was always better in my head, in my imagination. The stories would take on a life of there own, and some of what makes todays cartoons and continued story-lines from classic comics and new story-lines with new an interesting and creative characters, is that they have built themselves as continuations, improved themselves, and alot of like minded bros and gurls have really just gone there and made wicked awesome stories and characters! From legion of superheros, to ben10, to ben10 alienForce, to cable - the x-men franchise, spidey, batman&robin, teen titans, remakes and newbies, new comics - fantastic stories and movies. Re-inventions, good and bad, it’s pushing into the mainstream, and my Uncle recently said to me, “You know, when you were a kid, and would be interested in this ’stuff’ I got worried,. I thought, what would he do when he gets older and needs a job. He said one day, a friend said, he’ll do something that hasn’t been invented yet.”

I didn’t know how i was gonna make money when I was younger. I was a bus-boy, a camp counselor, a cook, a dish-washer, a bouncer, and then I was a photographer, and learned archiving, and then I landed a gig doing tee-shirts cause someone I met while waiting tables broke his ankle and needed a replacement till he got better. I got my lucky break, literally. What my uncle said was true. He was concerned, and sometimes I am too, but, what’s true is, so quickly the world has changed to become as fantastic and awesome as we want it to be. We are carving out new realms of content to explore and engage and new ways to see it, read it, hear it and interact with it, and whether the star trek tricorder is the device, or a new magic watch influenced by Dick Tracey, or some wicked spaceship time machine that makes you transform, or fly. Man, we got some wicked sweet times infront of us. I can’t wait to see what my kid makes.

Basically, foster the sharing, the growth, if you like the comics, the cartons, don’t let anyone tell you, enough with that junk. Dude, keep it going, Make your own. Your’s could be the next great one 30 years down the road, or even 30 days down the road. We are at a time where anyone can be the next awesome drop producer. Make it. Don’t listen to the may sayers. Make it again, and a gain and get someone else excited, they might be the one who gets it, but you may be the one who supplies the vehicle for them to get there. Work hard and be prolific.

It’s not about being right, it’s about taking the steps to get there sometimes. Produce, make it awesome. Re-work. Mess up. it’s great to mess up. You remember mistakes more than successes. It’s in the mistakes that you may find your awesomeness. Share with others. They might not like what you are doing. They may think it’s wrong. But the feedback is valuable. Show it to someone else. IT’s helpful. Don’t be too sensitive, cause, well, they could be wrong, but it is a valid opinion.

It’s a good quote, and I am taking it out of content, it’s from Barry Schuler about twitter and it’s short outage, run in parallel comparison to the outage AOL had early on. It’s contrasting service and users and reliance and loyalty, but it also gets to diligence, and making it gogo, and what in the end we get excited about:

We may accept low quality service cell phones. But when we pick up the phone, we expect a dial tone. When you send e-mail, you expect it will be delivered. So this clearly is something Twitter has to take seriously. If they do go ahead and understand that they need to have a bullet proof back end–and that sort of thing is expensive–they could wind up with the same good news success story. If not, people are going to go to someone else.

Do it. Be prolific. Mess up. Do it again. Getting right. Make it again. Better. Mess up, make it better, you get the point.

Tags: passion, do, doing the doing, comics, cartoons, scifi, adventure, ebn10, xmen, awesome

What “Condi” Rice is getting at, is that, yes, Rice and other grain prices are inflamed in part by the segmentation of crops for consumption, and for bio-fuel. It’s a nifty headline also. Thanks Condi.

And what a defining hand jester this is:
 

I visited costco for my monthly visit. Yeah, rice is really in shortage there. I asked the dude, what’s up with the rice shortage, one of the managers said, “Media scare, got all the customers buying up the rice. Only one in stock is Uncle Ben’s Fortified. We’ll have some other varieties in Tuesday, basmanti, and the such.”

Tags: rice, grain, shortage, food scare, politics, bio-fuel, media scare, food shortage

I start my new role as Head of Digital with Iris, http://www.irisnation.com . New Frontiers. It’s gonna be awesome. Wonderful to be joining a team of like minded individuals and make some kick ass work!

Here are some recent desktop images I’m been rolling with on my laptop. Some have lasted a week or two, while others only lasted a few hours.

Tags: sketch, art, photo, desktop, images, recent

The BBC reports that Polar bears are at risk in Canada.

As the ice melts and the thaw continues from the last ice age, It will be accompanied by a continued migration north and southward by many species, including humans, and a loss of habitat for others that became specialists. It is unfortunate in many ways that this thaw is increased, many now agree, but Humanities footprint. From greenhouse gases and pollution abound. Surely oil drilling, natural gas drilling and other resource harvesting is in the near fut re as well.

Tear.

Tags: Bear, Polar bear, snow, ice, environment, endangered, animals

BRETT ARENDS reports for the WSJ that “…maybe it’s time for Americans to start stockpiling food.” NBC’s the today show picked up on the article, as did many other news outlets.

Is this just sensationalizing, or is it a valid critical response to the factors that are clearly influencing fast rising prices.

That is when most American consumers will learn of the current food situation, which means possible hoarding is here already.

Bay area shoppers are asked to limit rice purchases.

Sam’s club says it’s actually limiting sales of rice.

The Washington Times reports, Americans have begun hoarding food!

Patrice Hill reports;

“Farmers and food executives appealed fruitlessly to federal officials yesterday for regulatory steps to limit speculative buying that is helping to drive food prices higher. Meanwhile, some Americans are stocking up on staples such as rice, flour and oil in anticipation of high prices and shortages spreading from overseas.
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The regulatory clash came amid evidence that a rash of headlines in recent weeks about food riots around the world has prompted some in the United States to stock up on staples.”

The nbc report gives a shout to the Passover holiday with;

“Rice isn’t the only food in short supply. The unleavened bread snack matzo, popular with Jewish families during Passover, is also hard to find.”

The reporter misses that Matzah is also a replacement for the normal grain and the yeast additive to leven bread and other symbolic and process orientated aspects of regular food consumption.

Yet, I find in this concept an interesting parallel of using one food to replace others. That is essentially what could occur on a large scale as a result of the food hording and the potential for a food crisis, and with the rising cost, what many families will soon be involved in. Using the Matzah as a concept analogy is enriching, not like enriched flour, but can provide a window into the awareness that a shift in diet and a recognition for what so many take for advantage of with modern food habits.

Tags: food, yum, shortage, where?, cali, commodity, trade, farmers, production of food, matzah, matzah shortage

Happy Earth day. Is it time to go green?

We can do it! The Gore environmental crew get WE into the collective consciousness of achieving change. Together, WE can make change. Side from the cheesy walk in video , slash, into that the site serves up on visiting it. The concept is solid, and the Clickz crew recognizes the ad spend and social tools used for the campaign.  Internet As Cause Marketing Hub?

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Searches on Facebook turn up as many as five different groups and causes with names like “We campaign,” “We Can Solve It” and “Alliance for Climate Protection.” It’s not clear which, if any, of these are run by the Alliance and which were spontaneously created by enthusiasts, or worse, potential spammers who just want to capitalize on awareness of the climate crisis.
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The green craze is in the minds of alot of users and finding the right collectives to share your time with online will vary, and it will most likely take time for a creator to make a place online that a large portion of the green online user base feel a sense of togetherness and even bringing the information and the experiences they crave as green users. Is just giving to the green cause enough? What can you do. Is using cloth bags instead of plastic and paper a effective way to help? What else can I do? How can I reduce my carbon footprint? And what can I do to get my government and other governments to actual do something?

Here are some steps to go green online from Siite interactive, Alan Ruthazer.

And Norton goes green on the new NG special in ‘strange days on planet earth’. As he said on the Today show today, “It’s like csi.” When you buy the dvd from 2005, does the revenue go in part to a green cause? I’m interested to see if the new segments will go into bio fuel and Gm crops…

Is bio fuel going green,
“…The situation has been compounded by a surge in demand for bio-fuels…”
or being wasteful.

With Earth day 2008, WE have a number of Green outlets and communities and efforts to share in and be a  part of. Many of which are to be short lived. But the desire by users the world over is to find that group, that collective that can make change happen.

Endpoverty is sharing this video about Environmental Sustainability. People need to care, and do, and refuse to let governments not do!

Tags: green, environmentalist, interactive, earth, do go, earth day, WE, strange days on planet earth, gia

I have become infatuated with the food ‘crisis.’ The idea that a bad crop could lead to a chain of events that could inflame prices past the oil inflammation we are currently experiencing. The American media is now on it. And it seems to be utterly surprising for many that this could even be on the cusp of occurring. Instead of a Wendy’s commercial with ‘wheres the beef?’ – Customers at Costco were heard saying, ‘wheres the rice?’

The Drudgereport headline the other day began to report on the food production:

Price conscious shoppers have been following the food cost rise. And the media is getting into it more and more. The oil factor is a contributing factor, but what about the production of food. That is where the fascination and infatuation resides for me.

How fast would a food shortage come about if crops go bad? Will individuals and governments manipulate the shortage of food for political and religious ends?

Will Genetically Modified(GM) crops be embraced to keep production levels up? What could the ramifications be! It’s like the beginning of the new sci-fi futurist movie and it could unfold before our eyes for real.