hemp for victory . . .

Hemp for Victory (full version)

Uploaded on Jan 20, 2009

United States Department of Agriculture, 1942

Hemp for Victory is an educational film promoting hemp farming in the United States. This film contains high-quality information about the Cannabis Sativa plant and large-scale hemp production for industrial use. It has the thorough-yet-entertaining feeling of a Mr. Rogers factory-tour video.

The farkinga version of the film is an improvement on previously available editions:

1) the audio and video are synced
2) the complete film is time-compressed into 10 minutes

The original version of Hemp for Victory is in the public domain because it is a production of the US government.

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Can you summarize an art exhibition in a few words or sentences? A haiku, a sonnet? Click here to read more. Check out these examples . . .

Haiku Review: Allen Ruppersberg’s decades-long text-and-(found)-image project into memory and reconstruction has taken many practical and strategic turns. The latest, “No Time Left to Start Again,” is one of the most accessible and, perhaps for that reason, most affecting. This time Ruppersberg is acting the avid record collector, documenting early rock ‘n’ roll through its recordings; the amateur magician, researching spells; and – returning to his own salad days – a topical historian of “LA in the ‘70s,” and who knew whom and how.

Allen Ruppersberg. Honey, I rearranged the collection asking myself the question—Who is the founder of conceptual art?, 2010. Silkscreen and collaged photographs on paper

38-1/4 x 50-1/8 inches

Image courtesy of Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles

Photography by Brian Forrest

Copyright Allen Ruppersberg

(Margo Leavin, 812 N. Robertson Blvd., W. Hywd 90069, thru Oct. 23.)

Haiku Review: Ron Rizk and Cindy Kane are both masters of a kind of meta-still life. Rizk describes observed objects with exacting precision within gently weathered framing structures (actually painted illusions) while Kane wields a somewhat looser brush in her intimate rhapsodies of objects enlivening the covers of art and other magazines. (Yes, the New Yorker.)

Ron Rizk, Time Exposure, 2010. Oil on panel 28 x 22 ”

Courtesy of Lora Schlesinger

(Lora Schlesinger, Bergamot Station T3, S. Monica 90404. Thru Oct. 16.)