Photo by Marina Galperina via AnimalNewyork.com

Polly Morgan was my favorite artist on view at this years Armory Show. A taxidermist by trade, Morgan is a member of the Guild of Taxidermist in the UK, where she was born and raised. She adheres to strict rules and regs. Morgan's work is delicate, fancy, funny, and contemplatitive. I know there's nothing funny about a dead bird in a jar attached to a balloon but... Well if you saw a dead bird attached to a fake balloon, you'd be laughing, too.

Morgan began her art career in 2005. So excited to discover what she does next.

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The team up represents the best in digital repairs for our beloved gadgets and may put a gap in postings on Craigslist or ebay for broken electronics. Insurance claims may fall, too, cuz repaired phones and gadgets will be returned faster. In addition to cellphones the PhotoTech/CPR tag team will also offer repairs for gaming consoles like Xbox, Playstations, Ipods,  PSP's, Nintendo DS, and more.

"Now you can cancel your insurance on your phone, because we will be able to get your phone back to you more quickly and in proper working condition,” said Narraine, Phototech's VP of Operations.

Photo Tech on 110 East 13th Street and Chrysler Camera located at 367 West 34th Street (2nd Floor),  offer a six-month warranty on all repairs, phones and gadgets and looks to complete service on most phones within the same day.  Narraine says Photo Tech CPR® can complete a few repairs while you wait including cracked LCDs, dropped, shattered or damaged charging ports. While other repairs such as liquid damage or excessive impact damaged devices can take two to four days.

“We  understand how important the information is that many people keep on their phones or handheld devices. We know that local service is important so that people can quickly get their phones repaired and resume the rest of their day with minor interruption,” said Narraine.

For more information please visit www.cpr-nyc.com or www.phototech.com, call 212.673.8400, email service@phototech.com or stop by the store Monday to Friday 8:00am to 6:00pm and Saturdays 10:00am to 3:00pm.

Photographs by Italian Adolfo Farsari made around 1860.

Farsari was an abolitionist who served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. After the war ended he ended up in Japan working as a commercial photographer selling images to tourists. Japan had two photographers in the country at this time, Farsari and Kozaburō Tamamura. Over time the two would fall out and compete.

A street scene from the late 1880s.  It cannot be understated just how difficult it would have been to capture this scene at the time.  Due to the photographic techniques of the day these subjects would have had to remain still for four or five seconds in order for the picture to be captured without blurring.  As you can see the attempt was not one hundred percent successful as there was movement during the exposure time.  However, as a piece of social history this photograph is invaluable.  No one is sure how long the partnership between Farsari and Kozaburō lasted but it was not long.  By 1886 Farsari and Tong Cheong (a Chinese photographer) were the only commercial non Japanese photographers working in the country.  By 1887 Farsari was on his own. -Text by Quazen.com.

Farsari's abolitionist spirit and ideas about equality may be seen in his photographs of women who are photographed independently and as often as men.

For more images visit Quazen.com

Children working with artist Glen Ligon produced the  image on the right, 2000 I think. On the left, Malcolm Little in Detroit.

When I first saw the image on the right on display in a NY gallery I freaked. I thought, Oh gawd! Not another artist trying to be edgy! Lipstick on Malcolm X? Come on!

Several years later I learned Ligon was working with school children while on residency at The Walker Art Center. Ligon asked  kids to color characters from a children's coloring book called Lil Tuffy and His ABC's after attempts to work with branded characters seemed pointless.

I thought of this image of Malcolm while  I reading  reports online  (in the UK newspaper The Guardian in October during British Black History Month) that Malcolm X, America's black civil rights badass, former Nation of Islam member and  best friend of Muhammad Ali,  was a male prostitute and bisexual before he became MALCOLM X,  legend.  Here's what  some of the report said:

"Malcolm's complex, changing sexuality was never part of the narrative of his life until the publication of Bruce Perry's acclaimed biography, Malcolm – The Life of a Man Who Changed Black America. Perry is a great admirer and defender of Malcolm X, but not an uncritical one. He wrote the facts, based on interviews with over 420 people who knew Malcolm personally at various stages in his life, from childhood to his tragic assassination in 1965. His book is not a hatchet job, as some black critics claim, it is the exact opposite. Perry presents an honest, rounded story of Malcolm's life and achievements which, in my opinion, is far more moving and humane than the better known but somewhat hagiographic The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told To Alex Haley"

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News outlets are describing the manifesto as rambling.No surprise there.

Stack's Manifesto is quite eloquent in its rage against government and American life as lived by the greedy and the insane.

Read all 7 pages  on thesmokinggun.com, where the manifesto is archived. Bodies count and make change.