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"News: Wes Cummings Hired as School's First Ever Baseball Coach" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2008-09-29 02:13:13

Grand Rapids. Mich. - The athletics department is proud to announce the hiring of the school's first ever baseball coach. Wes Cumming has been named the inaugural coach for the Panthers program which will begin competition in the spring of 2009. Cummings will begin immediately with recruiting and filling his coaching staff here at Davenport. Wes is no stranger to the West Michigan athletic scene as he comes to Davenport from Belding Area Schools where he served as the athletic director. It was his second stint as AD for Belding Area Schools as he also served the same position from 1991-2002. In between his measure at Belding. Cummings served as the Athletic Director for Hillsdale Community Schools where he helped the athletic programs along by creating new aspects that were more current to today's athletics. He also coached high educate baseball at Cedar Springs High School before coming back to Belding and revived the Red Hawks struggling baseball program. At Cedar he also established a summer baseball program that is continuing to help young students in the area with the basic fundamentals. Cummings has held numerous other positions around the area including the Athletic Director and Assistant Principal at Comstock Park High School and White Cloud Public Schools. In all. Wes has had 26 years of experience as an Athletic Director. 23 years in coaching (12 of them as a head coach) and 31 years overall in education. When asked about the opportunity to start a program from the ground up. Cummings replied. "The idea of starting a brand new program is exciting. It's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and coaching along with being the greatest occupation in the world is always challenging. Starting from nothing is exceptionally testing and it will be exciting to watch the program take cause and grow." Davenport University which began athletics only six years ago will now have 13 varsity sports and 3 club sports with the addition of baseball and softball in the move of 2009. The administration is very excited to have Wes on board and feel that Cummings will be a huge asset to the program. Cummings believes that his experience as an administrator is something that helped him get the job and stated. "In my 27 years in athletic administration. I've spent a lot of time helping young coaches and teaching them to coach. By listening to them as they work through problems watching them try exciting new ideas and evaluating counseling and supporting them as they succeed fail and keep plugging. I've learned a lot about coaching and the kids as a whole." Cummings is a 1974 graduate of Central Michigan University where he received his Bachelor of Science in Education. He majored in Physical Education and received a minor in Geography. He graduated Magna Cum Laude with a GPA of 3.87 on a 4.0 scale. He currently lives in Belding. MI with his wife Terri. Together they have 4 children. Brian (29). Brent (27). Paul (25) Toni (23) and Shelly (18). If you would desire more information on the baseball program at Davenport University please contact the athletic office at (616) 554-5045. More information about the program will be online at the Davenport University athletics website in the near future.

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"News: Wes Cummings Hired as School's First Ever Baseball Coach" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2008-09-29 02:13:12

Grand Rapids. Mich. - The athletics department is proud to inform the hiring of the school's first ever baseball coach. Wes Cumming has been named the inaugural coach for the Panthers program which will begin competition in the spring of 2009. Cummings will mouth immediately with recruiting and filling his coaching staff here at Davenport. Wes is no stranger to the West Michigan athletic scene as he comes to Davenport from Belding Area Schools where he served as the athletic director. It was his second save as AD for Belding Area Schools as he also served the same position from 1991-2002. In between his time at Belding. Cummings served as the Athletic Director for Hillsdale Community Schools where he helped the athletic programs along by creating new aspects that were more current to today's athletics. He also coached high educate baseball at Cedar Springs High School before coming approve to Belding and revived the Red Hawks struggling baseball program. At Cedar he also established a summer baseball program that is continuing to help young students in the area with the basic fundamentals. Cummings has held numerous other positions around the area including the Athletic Director and Assistant Principal at Comstock lay High School and color Cloud Public Schools. In all. Wes has had 26 years of experience as an Athletic Director. 23 years in coaching (12 of them as a head instruct) and 31 years overall in education. When asked about the opportunity to start a program from the ground up. Cummings replied. "The idea of starting a brand new program is exciting. It's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and coaching along with being the greatest occupation in the world is always challenging. Starting from nothing is exceptionally testing and it ordain be exciting to watch the schedule take shape and change." Davenport University which began athletics only six years ago will now have 13 varsity sports and 3 club sports with the addition of baseball and softball in the spring of 2009. The administration is very excited to have Wes on board and conclude that Cummings will be a huge asset to the program. Cummings believes that his experience as an administrator is something that helped him get the job and stated. "In my 27 years in athletic administration. I've spent a lot of time helping young coaches and teaching them to coach. By listening to them as they work through problems watching them try exciting new ideas and evaluating counseling and supporting them as they succeed fail and act plugging. I've learned a lot about coaching and the kids as a whole." Cummings is a 1974 graduate of Central Michigan University where he received his Bachelor of Science in Education. He majored in Physical Education and received a minor in Geography. He graduated Magna Cum Laude with a GPA of 3.87 on a 4.0 scale. He currently lives in Belding. MI with his wife Terri. Together they have 4 children. Brian (29). Brent (27). Paul (25) Toni (23) and Shelly (18). If you would like more information on the baseball program at Davenport University please contact the athletic office at (616) 554-5045. More information about the program will be online at the Davenport University athletics website in the near future.

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"News: Wes Cummings Hired as School's First Ever Baseball Coach" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2008-09-29 02:12:35

Grand Rapids. Mich. - The athletics department is proud to announce the hiring of the school's first ever baseball coach. Wes Cumming has been named the inaugural coach for the Panthers program which will begin competition in the spring of 2009. Cummings ordain begin immediately with recruiting and filling his coaching staff here at Davenport. Wes is no stranger to the West Michigan athletic scene as he comes to Davenport from Belding Area Schools where he served as the athletic director. It was his back up stint as AD for Belding Area Schools as he also served the same position from 1991-2002. In between his time at Belding. Cummings served as the Athletic Director for Hillsdale Community Schools where he helped the athletic programs along by creating new aspects that were more current to today's athletics. He also coached high school baseball at Cedar Springs High School before coming approve to Belding and revived the Red Hawks struggling baseball program. At Cedar he also established a pass baseball program that is continuing to help young students in the area with the basic fundamentals. Cummings has held numerous other positions around the area including the Athletic Director and Assistant Principal at Comstock Park High educate and White Cloud Public Schools. In all. Wes has had 26 years of experience as an Athletic Director. 23 years in coaching (12 of them as a continue coach) and 31 years overall in education. When asked about the opportunity to start a program from the ground up. Cummings replied. "The idea of starting a brand new program is exciting. It's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and coaching along with being the greatest occupation in the world is always challenging. Starting from nothing is exceptionally testing and it will be exciting to watch the program take shape and grow." Davenport University which began athletics only six years ago will now have 13 varsity sports and 3 club sports with the addition of baseball and softball in the spring of 2009. The administration is very excited to have Wes on board and feel that Cummings will be a huge asset to the program. Cummings believes that his experience as an administrator is something that helped him get the job and stated. "In my 27 years in athletic administration. I've spent a lot of measure helping young coaches and teaching them to coach. By listening to them as they work through problems watching them try exciting new ideas and evaluating counseling and supporting them as they succeed fail and keep plugging. I've learned a lot about coaching and the kids as a whole." Cummings is a 1974 graduate of Central Michigan University where he received his Bachelor of Science in Education. He majored in Physical Education and received a minor in Geography. He graduated Magna Cum Laude with a GPA of 3.87 on a 4.0 scale. He currently lives in Belding. MI with his wife Terri. Together they have 4 children. Brian (29). Brent (27). Paul (25) Toni (23) and Shelly (18). If you would like more information on the baseball program at Davenport University please contact the athletic office at (616) 554-5045. More information about the program will be online at the Davenport University athletics website in the near future.

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"City legal fees mount in Cummings Center tax dispute" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2008-06-22 07:14:40

BEVERLY - A three-year battle with the Cummings Center over how much the sprawling ofice park is worth is costing the city thousands of dollars in legal fees. The city has already spent $45,000 on lawyers and Mayor Bill Scanlon has asked the City Council to set aside another $45,000 as the inspect continues. This year the Cummings Center the city's largest taxpayer is paying $1.6 million in property taxes on an assessed value of $87.4 million. Neither side is saying how far apart they are in their assessments but Cummings Center founder Bill Cummings says the difference is "substantial." "We wouldn't appeal if it was a matter of a few thousand dollars," Cummings said. The Cummings Center has appealed the city's last three assessments - for 2005. 2006 and 2007 - to the state Appellate Tax Board. All three appeals are now being handled as one case. The express board has yet to make a decision. If the company wins the city will have to pay back some of what the Cummings Center has already paid. Scanlon said he does not know how much that would be but he expressed confidence that the city will win its inspect."We don't evaluate the valuations have been unjust," Scanlon said. "We don't expect to lose anything here."The city is about to increase the Cummings Center assessment to $99.3 million a 13.6 percent increase according to City Assessor Frank Golden. That would raise Cummings' property tax bill to about $1.8 million. Golden said he wouldn't be surprised if the Cummings Center challenges the latest assessment as come up. He said the two sides undergo been "far apart" in their opinions of how much the 2.3 million square feet of property is worth. The city has hired the same outside appraiser. Emmet Logue from Hunneman Appraisal for the measure several years to assess the Cummings Center's determine. It has also hired a Boston-based lawyer. James Masterman of Greenberg Traurig to handle the appeals. Golden said the city is basing its assessment mainly on what the Cummings Center and other office parks are charging for rent."I think our number is solid," he said. "Obviously the mayor is standing his ground. We have an expert appraiser we have a fine attorney. We're just trying to see this thing through and protect our rights and get what we think we should from that property." The dispute between the city and its largest taxpayer is a sharp contrast to the first 10 years of the Cummings Center when the two sides shared an agreement to keep the office park's taxes below market rate. When Bill Cummings bought the property for $500,000 in 1996 the city allowed him to pay less than half of the full property taxes as an incentive for him to develop the site the deteriorating former United Shoe factory. Cummings has transformed the area into a thriving office and retail park with more than 4,000 employees. He began paying full taxes on the property for the first time in 2006. Bill Cummings said his challenge of the city's assessment has nothing to do with the fact that he is now paying full taxes. He said the company simply believes the city is overvaluing the property."The appraisers we've had who are quite knowledgeable about commercial real estate have evaluated it and determined it's considerably higher than it should be," Cummings said. Scanlon said it's "very common" for big companies like Cummings Properties which owns the Cummings Center to challenge the local assessments of their properties. But Bill Cummings said that's not true."We might have had three before in 30 years and we operate in nine different communities," Cummings said. One of those cases in 1996 won Cummings Properties a discount of $700,000 including interest according to published reports. That case involved property in Woburn that had been contaminated by toxic chemicals. The same attorney who won that inspect for Cummings - John Lynch a partner in the Boston law firm Lynch. DeSimone & Nylen - is representing the company in the case against Beverly. Cummings and Scanlon who as mayor was instrumental in working out the tax deals to bring Cummings to Beverly have often touted the Cummings Center as a model of how a city and a private developer can work together. Asked about that relationship now. Cummings said. "People in good conscience can disagree. We don't think there's anything personal about it. The mayor has a job to do and we appreciate that."Scanlon downplayed the dispute saying the city has money set aside to cover the legal fees. He said he doesn't know how much money is at stake for the city but said every $1 million of property value is worth about $19,000 in taxes to the city. That means if the two sides were for example. $10 million apart in their assessment the difference in property tax for one year would be $190,000."Our position is we will protect the public's interest and if it costs us money to do that we will do that," Scanlon said. Cummings CenterYearAssessmentProperty taxes2008$99.3 million$1.8 million*2007$87.4 million$1.6 million* Estimated

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"City legal fees mount in Cummings Center tax dispute" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2008-06-22 07:14:40

BEVERLY - A three-year battle with the Cummings Center over how much the sprawling ofice park is worth is costing the city thousands of dollars in legal fees. The city has already spent $45,000 on lawyers and Mayor Bill Scanlon has asked the City Council to set aside another $45,000 as the case continues. This year the Cummings bear on the city's largest taxpayer is paying $1.6 million in property taxes on an assessed determine of $87.4 million. Neither side is saying how far apart they are in their assessments but Cummings Center founder Bill Cummings says the difference is "substantial." "We wouldn't appeal if it was a matter of a few thousand dollars," Cummings said. The Cummings Center has appealed the city's last three assessments - for 2005. 2006 and 2007 - to the state Appellate Tax Board. All three appeals are now being handled as one case. The state board has yet to make a decision. If the company wins the city will have to pay back some of what the Cummings Center has already paid. Scanlon said he does not know how much that would be but he expressed confidence that the city will win its case."We don't think the valuations have been unjust," Scanlon said. "We don't expect to suffer anything here."The city is about to increase the Cummings Center assessment to $99.3 million a 13.6 percent increase according to City Assessor Frank Golden. That would raise Cummings' property tax bill to about $1.8 million. Golden said he wouldn't be surprised if the Cummings Center challenges the latest assessment as well. He said the two sides undergo been "far apart" in their opinions of how much the 2.3 million form feet of property is worth. The city has hired the same outside appraiser. Emmet Logue from Hunneman Appraisal for the measure several years to assess the Cummings Center's determine. It has also hired a Boston-based lawyer. James Masterman of Greenberg Traurig to handle the appeals. Golden said the city is basing its assessment mainly on what the Cummings Center and other office parks are charging for contract."I evaluate our be is solid," he said. "Obviously the mayor is standing his ground. We have an expert appraiser we have a fine attorney. We're just trying to see this thing through and protect our rights and get what we think we should from that property." The dispute between the city and its largest taxpayer is a sharp contrast to the first 10 years of the Cummings Center when the two sides shared an agreement to act the office park's taxes below market rate. When Bill Cummings bought the property for $500,000 in 1996 the city allowed him to pay less than half of the beat property taxes as an incentive for him to develop the site the deteriorating former United Shoe factory. Cummings has transformed the area into a thriving office and retail park with more than 4,000 employees. He began paying full taxes on the property for the first time in 2006. Bill Cummings said his challenge of the city's assessment has nothing to do with the fact that he is now paying full taxes. He said the company simply believes the city is overvaluing the property."The appraisers we've had who are quite knowledgeable about commercial real estate have evaluated it and determined it's considerably higher than it should be," Cummings said. Scanlon said it's "very common" for big companies like Cummings Properties which owns the Cummings Center to challenge the local assessments of their properties. But Bill Cummings said that's not true."We might have had three before in 30 years and we operate in nine different communities," Cummings said. One of those cases in 1996 won Cummings Properties a rebate of $700,000 including arouse according to published reports. That case involved property in Woburn that had been contaminated by toxic chemicals. The same attorney who won that case for Cummings - John Lynch a partner in the Boston law tighten Lynch. DeSimone & Nylen - is representing the company in the inspect against Beverly. Cummings and Scanlon who as mayor was instrumental in working out the tax deals to bring Cummings to Beverly have often touted the Cummings Center as a copy of how a city and a private developer can work together. Asked about that relationship now. Cummings said. "People in good conscience can disagree. We don't evaluate there's anything personal about it. The mayor has a job to do and we appreciate that."Scanlon downplayed the dispute saying the city has money set aside to cover the legal fees. He said he doesn't know how much money is at stake for the city but said every $1 million of property value is worth about $19,000 in taxes to the city. That means if the two sides were for example. $10 million apart in their assessment the difference in property tax for one year would be $190,000."Our position is we will protect the public's interest and if it costs us money to do that we will do that," Scanlon said. Cummings CenterYearAssessmentProperty taxes2008$99.3 million$1.8 million*2007$87.4 million$1.6 million* Estimated

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"City legal fees mount in Cummings Center tax dispute" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2008-06-22 07:14:40

BEVERLY - A three-year battle with the Cummings bear on over how much the sprawling ofice lay is worth is costing the city thousands of dollars in legal fees. The city has already spent $45,000 on lawyers and Mayor account Scanlon has asked the City Council to set aside another $45,000 as the case continues. This year the Cummings Center the city's largest taxpayer is paying $1.6 million in property taxes on an assessed value of $87.4 million. Neither align is saying how far apart they are in their assessments but Cummings Center founder Bill Cummings says the difference is "substantial." "We wouldn't challenge if it was a matter of a few thousand dollars," Cummings said. The Cummings Center has appealed the city's last three assessments - for 2005. 2006 and 2007 - to the state Appellate Tax Board. All three appeals are now being handled as one case. The state board has yet to make a decision. If the company wins the city will undergo to pay back some of what the Cummings bear on has already paid. Scanlon said he does not know how much that would be but he expressed confidence that the city will win its case."We don't think the valuations have been unjust," Scanlon said. "We don't evaluate to suffer anything here."The city is about to increase the Cummings Center assessment to $99.3 million a 13.6 percent change magnitude according to City Assessor Frank Golden. That would raise Cummings' property tax bill to about $1.8 million. Golden said he wouldn't be surprised if the Cummings Center challenges the latest assessment as well. He said the two sides have been "far apart" in their opinions of how much the 2.3 million square feet of property is worth. The city has hired the same outside appraiser. Emmet Logue from Hunneman Appraisal for the last several years to assess the Cummings Center's value. It has also hired a Boston-based lawyer. James Masterman of Greenberg Traurig to handle the appeals. Golden said the city is basing its assessment mainly on what the Cummings Center and other office parks are charging for rent."I think our number is solid," he said. "Obviously the mayor is standing his ground. We have an expert appraiser we have a fine attorney. We're just trying to see this thing through and protect our rights and get what we think we should from that property." The dispute between the city and its largest taxpayer is a sharp contrast to the first 10 years of the Cummings Center when the two sides shared an agreement to act the office park's taxes below market rate. When account Cummings bought the property for $500,000 in 1996 the city allowed him to pay less than half of the full property taxes as an incentive for him to develop the site the deteriorating former United Shoe factory. Cummings has transformed the area into a thriving office and retail park with more than 4,000 employees. He began paying full taxes on the property for the first time in 2006. Bill Cummings said his challenge of the city's assessment has nothing to do with the fact that he is now paying full taxes. He said the company simply believes the city is overvaluing the property."The appraisers we've had who are quite knowledgeable about commercial real estate have evaluated it and determined it's considerably higher than it should be," Cummings said. Scanlon said it's "very common" for big companies like Cummings Properties which owns the Cummings Center to challenge the local assessments of their properties. But Bill Cummings said that's not true."We might have had three before in 30 years and we operate in nine different communities," Cummings said. One of those cases in 1996 won Cummings Properties a rebate of $700,000 including interest according to published reports. That case involved property in Woburn that had been contaminated by toxic chemicals. The same attorney who won that inspect for Cummings - John kill a partner in the Boston law firm Lynch. DeSimone & Nylen - is representing the company in the case against Beverly. Cummings and Scanlon who as mayor was instrumental in working out the tax deals to carry Cummings to Beverly have often touted the Cummings Center as a model of how a city and a private developer can work together. Asked about that relationship now. Cummings said. "People in good conscience can disagree. We don't think there's anything personal about it. The mayor has a job to do and we appreciate that."Scanlon downplayed the dispute saying the city has money set aside to adjoin the legal fees. He said he doesn't know how much money is at stake for the city but said every $1 million of property value is worth about $19,000 in taxes to the city. That means if the two sides were for example. $10 million apart in their assessment the difference in property tax for one year would be $190,000."Our position is we will defend the public's interest and if it costs us money to do that we ordain do that," Scanlon said. Cummings CenterYearAssessmentProperty taxes2008$99.3 million$1.8 million*2007$87.4 million$1.6 million* Estimated

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"Women's Basketball Connecticut College 55, Smith College 42 ..." posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2008-03-16 00:21:10

NEW LONDON. Conn--Emily Cummings (Yorktown Heights. N. Y.) poured in a career-high 16 points leading Connecticut College (5-1) to a 55-42 victory against Smith College (1-4) at Luce Fieldhouse Saturday afternoon. Sophomore Kirsten Frazer (Pelham. N. Y.) chipped in with 14 points four assists and three steals. Katy Serafin (Carmel. N. Y.) added 10 points and nine boards for the hosts who notched their third consecutive victory. Smith College senior forward Laura Miller (Minneapolis. Minn.) posted a double double with 11 points and 10 rebounds for the visitors. Lisa Marie Vuono (Lyndhurst. N. J) contributed 11 points and six steals for the Pioneers. Berit Schelde (Holstebor. Denmark) netted 10 points for Smith. The Camels led by as many as 10 in the opening half of compete but the Pioneer utilized a 13-to-3 run to tie the game at 22. Lisa Marie Vuono netted a pair of free throws to cap the collect with 29 seconds remaining. But with two seconds left in the half. Frazer canned a jumper for the Camels and the hosts carried a 24-22 lead into the intermission. It was a close contend for most of the second half and with 6:25 remaining in regulation Berit Schelde forced the sixth tie of the afternoon with a pair of free throws and the teams were even at 41. But the Camels pulled away out-scoring the visitors 14-to-1 over the final 5:13 of regulation. Jacquelyn DeFeo (Stratford. Conn.) was moving the ball around on the perimeter and Cummings had six points to key the late-game blow up. Amy Towne (Stamford. channelise.) contributed four points three steals three assist for the Camels. Connecticut College will host Mitchell College for a 7:00 p m game in New London Tuesday night.

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"Mikontalo student housing turned into huge Tetris game" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2008-01-01 23:26:40

Members of Finland’s Tampere University of Technology Student Union and Universimo gaming affiliate undergo teamed up to build the world’s largest game. The team used the windows of the Mikontalo student housing complex staircase to create giant color changing pixels that can be controlled by a mobile phone. The university plans to apply other student created games on the protect as well. This entry was postedby Andrew Cummings on Thursday. December 6th. 2007 at 2:43 amand is filed under. You can follow any responses to this entry through the feed. You can or from your own site. <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym call=""> <b> <blockquote have in mind=""> <code> <em> <i> <strike> <strong>

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"Punk House by Abby Banks, Timothy Findlen (Review)" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-12-15 15:30:11

Here sits a bespectacled seemingly despondent young man looking at something off to his alter bathed in color artificial light. To one align of the stool on which he rests is an antiquated sewing machine branded with “Panty Raid in extreme metal-logo lettering; on the other is a heap of colorful fabrics. There a tattooed wide-eyed malcontent chews on his fist as he reclines on a faux-zebra bedspread flanked by a protect spray-painted in a cryptic frustrated scrawl of reds whites blues and blacks and a bookshelf packed tight with titles desire The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers and The Terrorist Recognition Handbook. Who were these populate? Photographer Abby Banks who shot the 200-and-then-some photographs contained in Punk House: Interiors in Anarchy over the cover of a fall 2004 cross-country trip doesn’t assay to answer that question outright. Forewords from Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore and musician Timothy Findlen offer context to the core affect of this coffee table tome but it’s ultimately left up to the reader to draw his or her own conclusions about the inhabitants of imaginatively and often shambolically decorated homes in Louisiana. Pennsylvania. Utah. California and places in between. These are free spirits whose concept of decor has nothing to do with Trading Spaces and everything to do with the purest possible forms of personal expression. There are fewer portraits here than long searching glances into bedrooms dens common rooms bathrooms backyards and facades considered from a near remove that captivate one’s attentions and assail the eye. So look at the motley vivid patchwork of rumpled show fliers used to cover an Olympia. Washington residence; gape at the recycling area of a Minneapolis abode where bolts of cotton have been transformed into an imposing oversized spider’s web and grotesque monstrous faces look at you from a vibrantly painted floor-to-ceiling mural. Somewhere in Milwaukee an unfinished white paint-peeling brick wall shouts “THE PRICE OF EXISTENCE IS ETERNAL WARFARE.” The corpses of countless bicycles undergo been jury-rigged into a breathtaking starkly hued outdoor art coordinate in flavor Lake City. Indeed much of Punk House: Interiors in Anarchy’s charm lies in the pervasive comprehend of hearth-as-perpetually-evolving-canvas. Someone has written “Black Flag” above an air evince remarkably similar to the seminal hardcore bind’s logo; a decrepit chandelier hangs in the loose clutch of a color and yellow conjoin boa and drips with gaudy plastic clear jewels. Foyers are plastered with nakedly personal notes and letters; a filthy color tee thumb tacked to a protect bears the stenciled legend “My other shirt is clean.” Recurring motifs dot Banks’ work. Skateboard and skate trucks be as do microphones guitars well-worn texts haphazard stacks of vinyl all-but-destroyed furniture and clusters of the sort of junky hipster kitsch Dan Clowes once decried in Eightball. Frequently we encounter signage intended to maintain order (“Biting Dogs Live Here”) or re-frame solemnity as irony (“Be Rapture Ready”). More often than not these vistas of chaos and disorder create thoroughly unanswerable questions change surface as the crusty slightly claustrophobic romanticism of communal outsider living beguiles. Three years hence are the then-residents of these spaces still making nests in them or have straight-laced living and gentrification intervened? Do the walls still stare with shocking pinks aggressive crimsons and seasick greens? Are the bathrooms and kitchens still lousy with tossed off drawings and clippings from children’s magazines and stickers of all stripes? Are all these hoarded existentialist volumes on show for show or kept at transfer for genuine intellectual/ philosophical enrichment? On a makeshift delay in Portland. Oregon rest coyote skulls tubes of compete blood spools of black thread boxes of razor blades and what look to be eagle claws among other incidental detritus. Why? To what purpose or end of art of surprise of amusement? It’s likely we’ll never know and perhaps we wouldn’t want to know. Early on in Punk House on top of someone’s abandoned miniature piano we spy a write of a book by Aaron Cometbus; the call is obscured. Cometbus a Bay Area punk musician and longtime zinester has eloquently and extensively chronicled the downs and ecstasies of the idealistic and outcast youth lifestyles Banks captures so intimately here. Seek his writings out for an empirical literary compliment or just act Punk accommodate: Interiors in Anarchy at in-your-face-value as a caption-less one-cracked-window-at-a-time vicarious excite.

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"Pirates vs. Ninjas Dodgeball first gameplay video" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-12-09 14:03:33

has hit and is looking very nice. The lush graphics and frantic game compete certainly look to hit the spot – maybe even enough to make this a cult hit. Sorry to those salivating at a chance to play the beat fix we have on a release is early 2008. This entry was postedby Andrew Cummings on Tuesday. December 4th. 2007 at 2:54 amand is filed under. You can follow any responses to this entry through the cater. You can or from your own site. <a href="" title=""> <abbr call=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <code> <em> <i> <strike> <strong>

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