BUDGET IMBALANCE: THE PRIVILEGED VS AT RISK PROGRAMS (INFOGRAPHIC)

Startling comparison of budget cut possibilities to valuable programs contrasted with tax break equivalents given to the wealthy.  You can argue about pork, too much government, but you can't ignore the incentives that keep the money leaders feeling entitled.  Restoring a sense of unity and sanity when assessing our economic instability is the only way out; Especially when you take into account the last figure at the bottom of this chart. Via @Good

                             Infographic via Center For American Progress

JR HAS LANDED IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

On March 2nd, 2011, TED Grand Prize recipient, French Street Photographer JR, will reveal his "wish" to the world.

When he won this past October, JR was awarded $100,000 and a wish for the TED community to help him fulfill. As a run up to his highly anticipated live web cast announcement in Long Beach, California, JR is popping up around town with twenty pieces from his latest project, "The Wrinkles of the City." View the live web cast on March 2nd at TED.

Here are a few that JR has pasted up so far of native Angelenos that he'll be featuring around Los Angeles. Check out his website for new additions as they are completed. Via: JR + Arrested Motion

GET DOWN TONIGHT

Via: Ffffound

GUY WALKS ACROSS AMERICA + THE GUYS BEHIND THE WALK

Comprised of 2770 still frames, a Levi's sponsorship and a little camera trickery, the journey that is 'Walk Across America' epically merges stop motion and time lapse with the help of... a protractor. Get your nostalgia on with the official video and then see how production studio, Conscious Minds, brought their vision to life. via: agency record



Every stop, Google Map'd for your curiosity. Great insight into the places and people the team met and saw along the way.

View Guy Walks Across America! in a larger map

PIZZA, GUNS AND STRIP CLUBS: AN EXERCISE IN SEARCH

Great piece put together on location based web searches for a few of Americans favorite things.

via: Floating Sheep

Look away if you scare easily. The state of employment in the U.S.