Watercolours Not Team Colours Not Gang Colours



Pretty sure this one is from Minneapolis
http://blog.lib.umn.edu/jrock2/rockblog/cat_recently_noticed.html



Regarding the Winnipeg Sun piece about the German vending machines that sell miniature art, I couldn’t help but think that society’s new way to honor a lifestyle through a number and letter ID in a vending machine. Take health food for example, what a triumph busybody moms must have felt nation-wide when they saw the first vending machine stocked with Fruit to Go.

Personally-I know I say this all the time- I'm sick of sports being portrayed as the absolute antidote to gangs. Is releasing pent up violence on some poor sap with a ball really any healthier than smashing a car window? Do not get me wrong. I love sports, growing up, they were a huge part of my life, and still are. But, I can't help but feeling that we're projecting the message that they're the only appropriate option.

The election has only made everything worse, with sports on the top of the agenda for basically every candidate, not to mention former Jet Thomas Steen taking the Elmwood-East Kildonan ward by storm (I'll chalk that up as an implied victory for sports). With Shaneen Robinson yammering about that boxing club she -ALMOST STARTED- and let me just say that that potential boxing club has had a huge effect on my life- I plan to stay the hell away from gangs. -It's hilarious because this is definately the least of Shaneen's many credentials, but it was the topic that she couldn't help working in every 3 seconds at the Senior Centre forum. Doesn't this prove that the whole sports/gang garbage was way to close to the forefront of this election?

Most importantly, why doesn't anyone every talk about Graffiti Art Programming Inc. at Higgins and Gomez? Their contributions are notable among city workers, they do tons of programming with Community centres and free play drop ins,  but regardless of their contributions they're always overshadowed by some sporting effort.
We need to start encouraging the young artists and musicians in Winnipeg as much as sportsmen.
 I move that we give young artists opportunity for exposure but distributing their work in these art dispensers.

Movement number 2- Everything that happens in Winnipeg is tainted by weather. If we put on an awesome concert the headline reads: Fans Brave Sleet and Snow for MTS Centre Show. A lot of people apparently didn't even get out to vote because of the wind and rain yesterday (almost knocked me right off the sidewalk at one point in the afternoon).
Why don't can put the sweet art machines beside smaller vending machines that dispense gloves. That way, customers’ fingers will be appropriately limber for art selection. This started off as a joke, but now that i'm thinking about the times I would have killed for gloves, they could probably make a killing- or rather prevent a killing that would ensue from somebody killing somebody else for gloves.
Link to the article
Graffitti Programming Inc.