GM is looking worse every day

Looks like its a wrap for GM, their shitty quality is catching up with them again(Reuters)

"General Motors Corp is recalling nearly 1.5 million Buick, Chevrolet, Oldsmobile and Pontiac mid-sized cars due to a potential leak of engine oil that could cause an engine fire...GM said some of the vehicles have a condition in which drops of engine oil may be deposited on the exhaust manifold under hard braking."

Talk that shit now about quality GM, how can you promise customers that you will pay their payments if they lose their jobs if your company wont exist by the end of the year.
Remember the Formula for a company to initiate a recall
Take the number of vehicles in the field (A) and multiply it by the probable rate of failure (B) and then multiply the result by the average out of court settlement(C). A*B*C= X if X is less than the cost of a recall they don't do one. Makes you think how many people GM lit up in fires before they deemed this a problem?



Revelation stress and depression isn't good for your heart. (Reuters)

"Heart patients who become depressed have a higher risk of developing heart
failure, regardless of whether they take antidepressants, U.S. researchers said
on Monday. They said the study is the first to look at whether depression
raises the risk for heart failure, a chronic condition affecting 5 million
Americans in which the heart gradually loses its ability to pump blood
efficiently. "Our data suggest that depression is an important and emerging
risk factor for heart failure among patients with coronary heart disease," Heidi
May of Intermountain Medical Center in Utah, whose study appears in the Journal
of the American College of Cardiology, said in a statement.
Prior studies have shown that depression is about three times more common after a heart attack and depressed patients are at higher risk of a second heart attack.

Break through study doctors way to apply all that schooling. They are probably all depressed about the debt they are left with after surviving a heart attack.

We are all performers

"We're all asked to be performance artists every day...We're all being watched."
.:Adriana Yoto:.


Surfing the internet early this morning I was came across an article from yahoo, on a couple who built an apartment inside of a shopping mall. Specifically the shopping mall in the picture above. The apartment is part of a larger social experiment the couple was/is conducting, in the petri dish known as the American super malls. Below I included a video produced by Townsend and Yoto followed by some Pictures they posted on their website.






Interestingly enough this was not Michael Townsend and Adriana Yoto(The creators of the mall apartment) biggest project to date. On their website : Michael Townsend was quoted

"The Apartment in the Mall was never intended to be specifically an ‘art’ piece, it was a home, an escape and an oasis away from a significant task that was consuming my life at the time. During the four years that we were building and living in the mall, my days were consumed by the creation of a memorial for all those who lost their lives at the World Trade Center. Starting the week after September 11th, we began drawing the portraits of every single firemen and airline passenger on the buildings of Manhattan, life-size with tape. The 500 portraits, and their corresponding web pages took over five years to finish. It involved over 30,000 hours of computer time making the website and was completely unfunded."

This is the introduction posted on their website http://www.tapeart.com/hope/nyc/index.php.

"The week after September 11th, we set off into the City to draw a record of the lives lost. Using a specialized tape, we drew life-sized portraits of every airline passenger and fireman on the buildings of Manhattan. The drawings are counting all 2,749 who passed away in the tragedy.
This website, the Eleventh of September: an act of remembrance, is the cumulative result of 30,000 hours of volunteer effort, compiling five years of documentation and biographical information relating to the people and our journeys through New York City."

The map of the drawings in New York City can be uploaded to your cellphone, viewed on Google earth or you can use this transit map posted on this website where they identified the location of each outline.


Both projects can be viewed through there website http://www.tapeart.com/hope/nyc/index.php. and on youtube if you search for the username TapeArt. I thank the artist for sharing this with everyone and hope that you are interested enough to read more about it.