Culturally Yours

Arts and culture go hand in hand, and today I begin a new regular feature called Culturally Yours, where I  share creative cultural projects that both pose and answer good questions about our crazy culture. Today the three featured projects approach these creative questions and answers through various artistic media: Oratory, print and video.

Creative Mornings is a monthly lecture series founded by Swiss Miss and organized in LA by Jon Setzen. When the lecture series expanded from NYC to L.A. last year, I hopped on the Creative Mornings train and never looked back. Each month a Creative speaks and then answers questions while we (the audience) sip complimentary coffee, listen, tweet, get inspired and meet other creatives. The events are always free and held in different rad venues littered about our fine city. Now, Creative Mornings has expanded to numerous cities around the map. (See above.) This month, I am especially excited to attend because my best friend, Shannon Flaherty is speaking. If you are in the LA area, I wholeheartedly encourage you join us for a morning of creative inspiration.

Culturally yours,
Justina

Like all great movements, The #Occupy movement has begun to develop a visual language that will go down in history. Occuprint has collects said imagery and provides the art for free download for non-commercial use. As the movement grows and proliferates through cities around the globe, it is fascinating to watch the visual language morph and explode into a visual movement.

Occupy Everything by Colin Smith
We Are Not Prey by Geoffrey Escher
Separatin of Corporation and State by Adam Winnik
The Beginning is Near by  Alexandra Clotfelter

If you are wondering what is going on with the #Occupy movement since most of the camps have been raided and shut down by city police and local governments, read this article written by my boyfriend fiancé :) about Five Ways the Movement Continues on KCET. It’s damn good.

Culturally yours,
Justina

The Love Project attempts to uncover what love is through a series of video questionnaires of people on the street.  What *is* love? Do you believe in Soul Mates? What does love feel like? From the profound to the ridiculous to everything in between, watch a few of these videos to see just how broadly love can be defined.

Culturally yours,
Justina