Exit Through The Gift Shop

Imagine that you are a struggling artist-or worse yet, a struggling street artist.  Not only is your art generally not worth much, but it is a crime to make it and someone doing Community Service will be along shorty to cover it up.  But all is not that bad, a handful of street artists are being taken seriously, chief among them a man known as Banksy. Exit Through The Gift Shop is the story of a handful of graffiti artists who have taken the art of defacing private and public property to a new level.  Not content with plain old…

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NASA-Not What It Used To Be

When I was a kid being an Astronaut was a big deal.  Rocket launches were a big deal.  It was easy to believe that all those Science Fiction stories about living on the moon and exploring the universe were going to become reality.  And not in some distant future, in the here and now. NASA in the here and how is kind of a joke.  I love Space Center Houston, but at the same time, I hate that they rent themselves out for Corporate Events and Birthday Parties like they are a branch of Disney.  I know that Space Center…

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