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Bike Art Revolution
Cheap, small, and powerful, the bike is true underdog technology; escapist, activist, iconoclastic, and libertarian.

Boyd Vance: Arts Activist
Boyd Vance is not a huge man; he's rather small, not necessarily imposing at all. He wears large glasses that he re-adjusts constantly to punctuate his sentences. They are not really sentences as much as phrases; he speaks too quickly to be bothered with finishing complete thoughts.

Boyd Vance, East Side Vigilante
Caught up in an unabashed verbal torrent, he conveyed twenty year's experience in theater, community service, and nonprofit arts work in ways as messy and exhilarating as the process itself must have been.

By Definition, Media Arts
The Texas Commission on the Arts formed a Media Arts Task Force to discuss how best to nurture the media arts, a young and emerging field with it's own special needs and challenges.

Carnality TV
It was gaudy synchronicity that Temptation Island even ended up on my television screen. As a lark and an exercise in anthropological slumming, we decided that it was worth a laugh or two. I stand corrected.

The Carver Museum
The George Washington Carver Museum is the first African American museum to be organized in the state of Texas.

Confessions of a Media Junkie
Essentially humans are bundles of cells that can't survive without communicating, and we've developed some pretty awe-inspiring communication networks. That's how I justify the fact that I am a pop media junkie.

Copwatching
Copwatch is a grassroots organization which seeks to curb police brutality by confronting it as it occurs in the streets.

The Creative Prescription Art therapy practitioners and advocates hold the belief that creative expression has the power to heal.

Digging Up the Bones
Know your roots. Don't steal another group's identity because you feel you don't have one -- and don't borrow it either. Find your own bones, your own roots, and cover them with your own skin. Vince Bland delivered this message to me while we talked about the 7th Annual Austin Independent School District Powwow and American Indian Heritage Festival.