Delo Creative: A Masterful Mix of Art, Vision and Edge

Let’s pretend for a moment, shall we? Here’s the scenario:  Creativity, Ingenuity, Possibility and Camaraderie are sitting in a room together and they’re deeply entrenched in a discussion.  On the coffee table lies a deck of Polaroid cards, each representing a “turning point” in the time-space continuum of Life.  All night long they’ve been shuffling the deck, cutting it, then taking turns drawing their next subject.

Their game?  To decide which of them was most influential in the particular scenario at hand.  Their current discussion revolves around this card, a snapshot of a red haired teen at a rock concert.  Here’s the turning point:

George Salisbury is a seventeen year-old kid who had been working in a screen-printing shop.  He had just produced a good number of Flaming Lips t-shirts, gone to one of their shows, somehow got to Wayne Coyne and said, “I’ve got this box of Lips shirts here, um, I just want to sell them and split the profits with you.” And Coyne replies, “Well, we’re out of shirts – so, okay.”

Possibility suggests it was him, mixed with a degree of Risk. He made that moment work, turning it into what eventually became a long-standing relationship with the Flaming Lips as the contemporary driving force behind all their visually creative production (posters, videos, Gummy Skulls, etc.).  Creativity and Ingenuity roll their eyes and posit that there wouldn’t have been a product in the box had it not been for them. Continue reading Delo Creative: A Masterful Mix of Art, Vision and Edge

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On the Horizon: Looking Up to the Future

When I was a kid, I remember going to the movies to see Tom Hanks star in Apollo 13. I loved the rumble of the rocket as it took off into space and how everything floated around after the astronauts left the point of gravity. It all seemed fun and exciting, but I never really understood what all it took to get those three men to the moon, or at least around the moon, and back.

In Stillwater, Oklahoma, most people come for the school and Cowboy football. But most do not even know about the aerospace success that happens just off Highway 51. In today’s video blog, we take a look at how Frontier Electronics helps astronauts and pilots get the equipment they need in the skies and beyond.
Andy Barth

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Is your kid playing video games OR being trained to do Drone strikes?

I have to tell you that this week’s comments are going to be somewhat vague, secretive. This week I am talking about drones. See, it looks like because we have increased drone strikes so much that the need for drone pilots has tripled. Oh I know what you’re thinking; they call them drones because no one flies them. So what’s the deal? Ok, here’s the top secret part. It’s really just a video game and maybe, just maybe our government is already in the process of training … Kids, Game Cube, Playstation. When I was younger I was really good at the space games, and if we would have had an alien invasion, I would have made Luke Skywalker look silly. I was also good at Street Fighter and the combat games… Maybe Wii and the Cube, or whatever’s out there is really just setting the youth of tomorrow on a flight plan of weapon system video games, at least until they figure out how to use all robots. We can blame people if they strike the wrong target, with robots…

My plan: put world leaders behind the controls of the game Street Fighter.., USA against Iran, or China. We’d whoop their butts …Only thing is we may have to barrow a quarter from China to play the game …I’m

Will Roberts

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On the Horizon: Coon Skin Cowboy

Growing up in a Southern Baptist church I hated children’s choir. Nothing against singing or even hymns, but choir practice was my least favorite time of the week. That’s because it was at 6pm Sunday night at the exact same time the Wonderful World of Disney came on TV, and it was there I could see old reruns of Davey Crockett, and Daniel Boone.

Both shows were my favorites as a boy. I missed the coon skin cap craze that swept the nation in the 1950s but I still spent many an afternoon exploring the nearby woods fighting imaginary foes with my trusty musket in hand. ( It even had a place where you could put a little cap of gun powder in the flintlock, but of course did not fire so all the neighborhood songbirds were safe)

This year the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum honored the star of those shows, Fess Parker, with their annual Western Heritage Award. It was a real treat for me, and one I think his family certainly enjoyed. In this week’s On the Horizon video blog we look back at America’s favorite Coon Skin Cowboy.

~ Rob McClendon
 

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My Little Victory Garden: Morning to Midday to Afternoon and…All the Time

In the coolness of the morning…

I put seven pounds of carrots through the food processor in order to turn them into carrot cake for the 4th of July, and carrot hummus for a healthy evening snack to enjoy with homegrown cucumbers.

To make carrot hummus, simply puree well in a blender or food processor: 1 c shredded carrots; 1/4 c. tahini; 1 can drained chickpeas; 2 quartered garlic cloves; 3 T rough chopped parsley; 1-2 T. olive oil; salt to taste; 1 T. lemon juice. To arrange like photo, simply peel cucumbers, scoop out seed-pulp, and fill seed space with hummus. Best served chilled.

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