Happy Fathers Day!What have you done for the community lately?

The last game of the 2019 season. Our Pirates won their last nine games straight including this final championship game, beating the odds on favorite. We couldn't be more proud to have sponsored the Pirates for this 4th and final season. What a blast!

I shot the video and my son who played the game, and is in the video, edited the whole thing on an iPad.

School Of Life Monday: No One Really Knows

I’m suing the U.S. government for causing the climate change crisis #YouthVGov

from Boing Boing:

My name is Kelsey Juliana and I’m suing the United States government for causing and accelerating the climate change crisis. I’m 22 years old and I’ve been a climate advocate for more than half of my life.

The constitution guarantees all Americans the right to life, liberty, and property. But how is anyone supposed to live a life of freedom amid a climate crisis? My own government is violating my constitutional rights by its ongoing and deliberate actions that cause climate change and it’s not right.

I, along with 20 other young people from around the country, filed a lawsuit against the federal government in 2015, called Juliana v. United States



We’re not asking for money. Instead, we’re asking the Court to order the government to develop and implement a National Climate Recovery Plan based on the best available science.

This plan should end the reign of fossil fuels and quickly decarbonize our atmosphere so that we can stabilize our climate system before it’s too late.

The longer we go without climate recovery, the more we risk allowing our climate to spiral completely out of control.



All of the expert witnesses in our lawsuit say that we are currently—already—in the “danger zone” and an “emergency situation” with only 1°C of planetary heating. Allowing the planet to heat up any more is not safe for our species, as well as so many others. And according to the Trump administration’s most recent environmental impact statement, the planet could heat as much as 7°F before the end of this century.

We cannot allow this to happen because we simply will not survive.

We originally filed our lawsuit against the Obama administration. That administration tried to have the case dismissed, but the judge ruled in our favor and found that we should be allowed to go to trial.

In 2017, the Trump administration inherited the lawsuit and it has done everything in its power, employing every conceivable tactic, to deny my fellow plaintiffs and me our right to present our case in court. This administration is so fiercely attempting to silence our voices.

At this point, every level of the federal judiciary—the U.S. District Court, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, and the Supreme Court—has denied the Trump administration’s efforts to have the case thrown out. Yet it will not halt its efforts to avoid standard legal procedures and confront us, the nation’s youth, in court.

Just last week the Trump administration asked the United States Supreme Court to again circumvent the ordinary procedures of federal litigation and stop our case from going to trial.

Our trial is officially scheduled to begin on October 29, 2018 in Eugene, Oregon, but it is currently on hold while the Supreme Court considers the Trump administration’s new request.

What we’re asking for could change everything.

My fellow plaintiffs and I want you with us as we fight for our right to be heard at trial to confront the United States government for knowingly violating our constitutional rights. Supporters will hold rallies in every state around the country on October 29, so if you can’t be with us in Eugene, find your local rally here.

Get regular updates by following @youthvgov on social media.

You can learn more about this case and get regular trial updates by tuning in to the No Ordinary Lawsuit podcast here.

Lastly, if you have the means, click here to make a donation to Our Children’s Trust, the nonprofit organization that supports our lawsuit and many others like it around the country.

My 10 Year old showed me one of the nice videos he's listening to...

The other stuff is just SO FAR OUTA CONTROL it makes what we thought was heavy seem like it's nothing?
I thought people got over the misogyny and violence, in videos and music already, damn. it's as bad as ever ...
and in music young kids are listening to... damn.

other than the consumerist bits, there's some nice thoughts in this one here...



BONUS ILL :



And this is as soft as it gets...

THE KIDS WILL HAVE THEIR SAY - TODAY!

Some of the recent headlines :

11 of the Most Dramatic Moments in a Day of Confrontation Over Guns

Marco Rubio Is Jeered and Lectured During Town Hall Discussion on Gun Control

Florida G.O.P. Faces Growing Pressure to Act on Gun Control

Grieving Father Presses Trump: ‘How Many Children Have to Get Shot?’

"The days are long, but the years are short."

from Boing Boing:

Dad shares time-lapse of his daughter from birth to age 18 [and son to 14]
A Dutch filmmaker made a touching time-lapse video that journeys through his daughter Lotte's entire childhood, from birth to age 18.

Frans Hofmeester shared his "Portrait of Lotte, 0 to 18 years" on YouTube Friday in celebration of her birthday. The video's description reads:

To better understand the psychological phenomena of memory and time, Hofmeester sought for a concept that could be supported through the mediums of film and photography.

The time-lapses confront us with our mortality. In a montage of less than 6 minutes, the viewer can observe one of the most mysterious and profound processes in human life - to grow up and age.

Hofmeester attempts to create and preserve a sense of reality. Thus, the portraits are created without the use of extra make-up or filters - bare, honest, unpolished and uncensored.

Lotte's brother Vince's life is also being documented in this way, though he's still got four more years of portraits to go.

Henry the Emotional Environmentalist

found somewhere in the social media sphere...
Love this kid.



FOLLOW HENRY AT: https://www.facebook.com/emotionalenv...

DEAD, DYING, DIED. 😂😂😂 Picked Henry up from school the other day and I had no idea he was this passionate about our planet. Don't litter or he might call you the "S" word!

Feel free to share, Henry the Emotional Environmentalist wants to make sure everyone stops being so dumb to the environment.

SNOW WHAAAAAT?

clip found at Presurfer, thanks!

Some interesting and infamous musicians ... when they were children

from our friend Tara McGinley at Dangerous Minds

Nick Cave

This morning, my husband sent me the above baby Nick Cave photos for a chuckle (talk about a “bad seed” wonk wonk). For whatever reason, it became my mission, dear Dangerous Minds readers to find even more photos of rock starts (that was a typo, but I’m leaving it) as children. So, yeah, this what I’ve spent my morning doing. YOU’RE WELCOME.

We were all babies once, you know!



Debbie Harry (who turns 70 on July 1!)

 



David Bowie

 



Dolly Parton

 



Brian Eno

 



Kathleen Hanna

 



John Lennon with his mother

 



Kelley and Kim Deal

 



Lydia Lunch

 



Marc Bolan

 



Joey Ramone with his father.

 



A one year old Diana Ross with her older sister Barbara Jean “Bobbi” in 1945.

 



GG Allin

 



Sid Vicious

 



Brian Jones

 



Boy George

 



Patti Smith

 



Lemmy Kilmister

 



Jimi Hendrix and dad

 



Janis Joplin

 



Freddie Mercury

 



Nina Simone

 



John Lydon

 



Ian Curtis

 



Syd Barrett

 



Genesis P-Orridge, then known as Neil Megson

 



Björk

After Banksy - Parkour in Gaza

some crazy shit for the 4th

NYPD tries to stop longboard skaters during Broadway Bomb, fails miserably

The Broadway Bomb brings together more than 2,500 longboard skaters each year in New York City to push eight miles through Manhattan, from West 116th Street to the Charging Bull in the Financial District. Since it’s inception in 2000, the NYPD has tried to hamper the event by hassling skaters, blocking roads, and even handing out tickets. This year the NYPD busted out the orange netting to try and corrall the skaters. They failed miserably. It was so bad that someone set the folly to the music from Benny Hill and it couldn’t be more appropriate.

Kids Will Eat Their Veggies If You Explain Why They Need To

from Smithsonian.com

Kids, it turns out, are not completely immune to logical explanations or adverse to eating vegetables. Combine these two things, new research indicates, and children are more likely to gamely down their greens. They may not start loving broccoli, but they’ll eat it for nutrition. ScienceDaily dishes:

The researchers assigned some preschool classrooms to read nutrition books during snack time for about 3 months, while other classrooms were assigned to conduct snack time as usual. Later, the preschoolers were asked questions about nutrition.

The psychologists conducting the study hypothesized that even preschoolers can grasp the concept of nutrition. Explaining why it’s important to eat vegetables, the researchers reasoned, would play into children’s tendency to “want to understand why and how things work,” they told ScienceDaily.

It worked. The kids assigned to read about nutrition ate twice as many snack time veggies as they had been—all of their own will. They also had gained a theoretical understanding of nutrition—that nutrients in food helped their bodies function. This second accomplishment was pretty unique:

When the conceptual program was pitted against a more conventional teaching strategy focused on the enjoyment of healthy eating and trying new foods, the results showed that both interventions led to increased vegetable consumption. Yet, the children in the conceptual program showed more knowledge about nutrition and a greater overall increase in vegetable consumption.

So perhaps the best strategy for convincing picky kids to dig into their lima beans and brussels sprouts is a two-pronged attack: explain to them why those veggies need to get in their stomachs and make sure to demonstrate just how tasty those healthy offerings can be.

SCIENTIFICALLY ACCURATE SPIDER-MAN

FaceHeads.ru

from The Fox Is Black

This short film/instructional video by Russian art collective FaceHeads is a simple, clever exercise in spontaneous art-making. Narrated by an anthropomorphized chunk of cardboard, Instant Face Maker details how to create a myriad of accidental characters by marking a page full of erratic lines and superimposing a set of eyes on top.

I love the way this short embraces the intuitive and accidental side of creativity. By reducing the parameters, the participants have to use their imaginations to assign meaning to the random shapes on the page. It’s surprisingly easy to do once the only context is a pair of eyes and its immediate surroundings. The human brain loves to find order in chaos. You can find more work by FaceHeads here.

Kids React to The Upcoming Election

Joey BADA$$ Hip-Hop Will Never Die! HOT & New to Me, Dig it!

and who makes videos like this anymore? DOPE.



feelin' this track too



I really appreciate that some one is still making Hip-Hop like this.

Thanks, Faith Newman

Obliteration Room: a stark white room with thousands of kid-placed colored dots

from BoingBoing:

(Image: GoMA Blog)

Yayoi Kusama's installation The Obliteration Room at the Brisbane Gallery of Modern Art started as a stark white room, and then thousands of passing children were given brightly colored dots with which to decorate it. The result is exuberant and marvellous.

(Image: Stuart Addelsee)

This is What Happens When You Give Thousands of Stickers to Thousands of Kids

LEGO Hard Core Show for Black Friday!

This Kid Is On It.

thanks, DangerousMinds