Landing : Athabascau University

Occupy Wall Street's Writing on the Wall

Here's spectacular footage of a very creative Occupy media project that occupied the wall of NYC's Verizon building on the occasion of yesterday's march.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxG4g62rnd8

The BoingBoing interview with the creator of this OWS "bat signal" adds a lot to this viewing experience.

... Opposite the Verizon building, there is a bunch of city housing. Subsidized, rent-controlled. There's a lack of services, lights are out in the hallways, the housing feels like jails, like prisons. I walked around, and put up signs in there offering money to rent out an apartment for a few hours. I didn't say much more. I received surprisingly few calls, and most of them seemed not quite fully "there." But then I got a call from a person who sounded pretty sane. Her name was Denise Vega. She lived on the 16th floor. Single, working mom, mother of three. ...