The current addiction crisis involves the terrible connection between the over-prescription opiates by American doctors (things like popular painkillers like OxyContin and morphine) and the connection to the growing use of and dependence on street heroin. But I’m actually talking about a drug addiction crisis that began much earlier and primarily involved middle-class American women, whose only mistake was trusting that drug manufacturers and family physicians had thoroughly vetted the medications they were producing and prescribing. The trust was that your physician cared most for you .. when in fact, a physician can care more about income. Read the AP story online, about the current crisis of this issue: Drugmakers fought state opioid limits amid crisis. #PoliticsofPain

Drugmakers are Making Us Drug Addicts

Wally Byam, the creator of Airstream travel trailer, said: “Adventure is where you find it, any place, every place, except at home in the rocking chair.” In addition to recognizing the beauty in and potential of Hawley Bowlus’s original travel trailer designs, Wally Byam’s genius was understanding that in addition to a strong tendency toward wanderlust is the adventurous desire to travel and see the world before we leave it. COMING SOON: a new feature-length documentary, ALUMINATION, about the fascinating world of Airstream travel trailers and the Airstreamers who love them. From director Eric Bricker (Visual Acoustics: The Modernism of Julius Shulman), ALUMINATION will not only take the viewer on a feature-length film odyssey, there is a good chance of finding the best way to travel the road. Learn more, and provide support, at Kickstarter.

Airstreaming and Alumination: Adventure on the Road

Be raw, rough, honest, expressive ... and real.

Change has arrived and it's time that the art world increases its influence, inspiration, and power. We’re entering a very interesting time in the arts, when increasing numbers of artists will use their talents to push back against a growing climate of racism, inequality, and social conservatism. As Ted Wells says: "Jump off the BLANDwagon." 

Dark times can make life beautiful. With the arts, our lives can be transitional during a time full of powerful artistic commentary and vivid artistic and social expression.

Troubled Times = Great Art

Arts, architecture and culture can change our lives. What is the psychological process whereby one person inspires and influences another? In this interview, Dr. Raymond Richard Neutra traces the forty-year relationship between his parents and the great architect Frank Lloyd Wright.

Cheap And Thin: Richard Neutra and Frank Lloyd Wright

"It's the end of the world where we thought nature was an infinite resource and we could exploit it without consequence," Professor Richard Weller says. By bringing urbanization and conservation together in the same study, the essays, maps, data, and artwork in this Atlas lay essential groundwork for the future planning and design of hotspot cities and regions as interdependent ecological and economic systems.

Atlas For The End Of The World:  Urbanization Joins Conservation

Let's learn about architecture and design, art and culture ... and history.

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