Lauren E. Bohn, Journalist at NU, has stories about Iraq

Check out Lauren's stories:

  http://news.medill.northwestern.edu/chicago/package.aspx?id=152905

OUTERNATIONAL - SIR NO SIR

If Red Hot Chili Peppers met Rage Against the Machine

War School - Ctrl.Alt.Shift (Film Competition Winner)

This disturbing short film gets to a point quickly and clearly

Home Fires blog at New York Times

Todays NYTimes online has an article on an Iraqi Translator/Faulkner expert living on a temporary pass South of London, with a stipend that only feeds him, not his wife and four children.  It is part of a series entitled Home Fires:

HOME FIRES

Home Fires features the writing of men and women who have returned from wartime service in the United States military. The project originated in 2007 with a series of personal accounts from five veterans of the Iraq war on their return to American life; the 2009 version includes dispatches from the forum's original contributors, and from new participants.

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/category/home-fires/


Some of the discussion is reminiscent of the discussion with Jaber, Heidi and Chris last night at the coffee shop.  Only Jaber hasn't become disillusioned so much as disheartened I think.

Mental Explosion

I have so many Ideas and questions that it's great (except for the lost sleep) 
1. Do I want a fiscal sponsorship or not-for-profit?
2. Both? Is that legal?
3. In other words, how do I support my art and the charity?
4. How do I retain copyright of my art - or artistic control anyway? or do I? or should I?
5. If I sell something, am I the artist or the not-for-profit.
6. If I publish something, am I publishing it or is the not-for-profit?
7. In other words, if I start a not-for-profit, can I still make art? or is it all part of the NFP?


AND:
1. I can take my built Cabinets and put monitors in, then chalk the cabinet
2. Can't forget to interview Iraqis and Widows in particular.
3. How to light the granite slab - and should it be polished?
4. Make a documetary
5. Make an independent film

Etc...