Week Two

Art

Gibbs Rounsavall, a local artist

One of my favorite artists in the Louisville area, Gibbs Rounsavall. I had the privilege of having Gibbs as a mentor and teacher during my high school days and have been following his work since I met him. His work is mostly abstract, focusing on line and color, but he has quite a bit of drawings too. He has had many group exhibitions, one recently I was able to attend at the Zephyr Gallery where I met his parents (who were quite lively and extremely encouraging of Gibbs' profession). The work he displayed there was mesmerizing, his paintings have a way of pulling at you, and giving you some weird feeling of tunnel vision. His drawings are quite remarkable too, my favorite one, called Be Idle in the Face of Nature (title picture) has so many interpretations, check it out!


Thinking

Quantum Communication

Quantum Communication is a video I came across a few months ago. I have always been interested in understanding the world around us, the Universe, why we exist and all of that good stuff. The video offered an alternative explanation to everything I understand about it, and thats what makes me want to share it with you all. Whether you believe in a God, a flying spaghetti monster or nothing it all, this documentary by David Sereda attempts to explain how communication works all the way from the quantum level, and what it has to do with the Laws of Attraction. Overall it was a very enlightening film for me, and maybe it can open some new doors of thinking for you too.



Social Issue

Unarmed People Killed by Police: Who's keeping Count?


This link focuses on stats and statistics of how many police officers that were killed in 2011, noting that it was up 13% from the previous year, however I wanted to cover the drastic rise in fatalities caused by police officers on unarmed people. Who is keeping track of that? What is being done to prevent this? The truth is, the data probably does not even exist, but we hear about it in the news almost all the time. Unarmed suspects killed.  The International Chiefs of Police, a police organization, tried in the 1980's to collect such information, but "the figures were very embarrassing to a lot of police departments," said James Fyfe, a professor of criminal justice at Temple University who is a former New York City police lieutenant. Why is this data not made available to better our police forces?