tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2143843667296816868.post6606535067709012276..comments2024-03-27T03:11:58.288-04:00Comments on Kitchen and Residential Design: Ramón Coronado's art speaks quietlyPaul Anaterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05777487147630173644noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2143843667296816868.post-10459322060663191942010-01-22T13:15:04.234-05:002010-01-22T13:15:04.234-05:00Hey, I think The Home Depot is missing a shopping ...Hey, I think The Home Depot is missing a shopping cart... or two. Those things are not cheap. I looked on line and found I could get one (on sale) for $145. <br /><br />Just think, if LA County could get the cost of all of those stolen/abandoned shopping carts and apply it to building parks, would they actually do it? (They could reserve some of them for swing sets and benches of course.)<br /><br />When you think of the actual cost that NOT having parks and recreational activities for youth indirectly costs LA(and other cities throughout the US), maybe it's a concept worth exploring. Especially when our tax dollars are spent instead dealing with gang violence, building and maintaining prisons instead. In CA, it costs about $137 mil a year to imprison and litigate death row inmates. Life without parole would cost approx $11.5 million. <br /><br />To see sobering costs of not managing, guiding and providing wholesome after-school activities for youth and allowing the proliferation of gangs, see statistics by the Violence Prevention Institute: http://www.violencepreventioninstitute.org/gangs.html <br /><br />Also see the real costs of caring for homeless Americans:<br />http://www.homelessamerican.com/cost.html<br /><br />I really appreciate Ramón Coronado's expression of this HUGE irony in our society. He may not intend on doing any more than to provoke a reaction, but I think he's onto something important. Setting our priorities in order isn't just a moral issue.PamDesignshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04665101465799990453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2143843667296816868.post-42158118982247410162010-01-22T10:11:59.445-05:002010-01-22T10:11:59.445-05:00I think an important part of the job of an artist ...I think an important part of the job of an artist is to be the conscience of a given culture. Sometimes that conscience celebrates the better aspects of it and sometimes it points to the not so great parts. I think what bothered me about last week's graffitti china service was that it celebrated a symptom of disenfranchisement and didn't seem to want to do anything more than provoke a reaction rather than suggest a solution.Paul Anaterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05777487147630173644noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2143843667296816868.post-46432690028301983752010-01-22T09:58:42.990-05:002010-01-22T09:58:42.990-05:00It's interesting how Ramon Coronado took this ...It's interesting how Ramon Coronado took this unfortunate situation that he's seeing all around him and creating something out of it that's postive, unlike Vivienne Westwood who seems to have taken a very similar kind of unfortunate situation (homelessness) and made it into a completely travesty of a fashion statement—complete with makeup that looks like frostbite.Nimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12312747104116687193noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2143843667296816868.post-61022502484508075242010-01-22T09:11:39.560-05:002010-01-22T09:11:39.560-05:00Applaud, applaud for his creativeness and vision. ...Applaud, applaud for his creativeness and vision. -Brenda-mrsbenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13490065292054880863noreply@blogger.com