So the hot topic this week is Facebook's purchase or Instagram. Mike Barash from Knock2x Public Relations up Butchershop Creative to be a part of CBS News segment that aired last night. Who better than to talk about photography and marketing than our very own Misha Vladimirskiy.  He discussed about it from a creative/photography point of view in the context of business which is still a little open-ended and unknown to the public. Check out the video of Misha talking to John Blackstone about image rights and the future. How do you feel about the recent acquisition? Will you still use instagram? What do you want facebook to do with it all?

David Foster Wallace was a magician. His ability to soothe, even flatter the reader, allowed Mr. Wallace to make arguments through osmosis. Arguments so hidden, the reader essentially failed to realize they were absorbing them in the first place.

Unlike Mr. Wallace, our sources of daily news have a way of hiding the fact that the world we live in is beautiful. This isn't entirely the news' fault. The news takes what it is given, and dispenses it in the most accessible way it sees fit. Stories of tornadoes, heated election campaigns, and financial struggles litter our daily dose of information provided by local, and national, news outlets.

In February of this year Aaron Lewis* created Current Events Poetry. A blog dedicated to telling unusual Bay Area news stories through poetic prose. Since its inception the blog has focused on an array of stories from a man arrested for eating cats, to the breakdown of Larry Flynt's Hustler Club's Stripper Mobile at the intersection of Kearney and Geary. "I started writing poems on strange news stories because I enjoyed the grace of rhyme and meter transposed onto the weirdness of the Bay Area.  I suppose I decided to publish them to the web in the name of 'zaniness appreciation.'  I hope it helps readers take a moment to consider the amazing happenstance, proud culture, and significant problems we have in our midst."

Even at a creative ad agency, such as Butchershop Creative, work can at times feel tedious. It is because of this that we wanted to give a brief shout out to Mr. Lewis and his quirky project. Thanks for keeping things fresh and inspiring. So inspiring that a couple of the poems come from one of Butchershop's very own. Check it out, we promise you won't regret it.

You can follow Current Events Poetry @news_poetry

*Aaron Lewis is a student at UC Hastings Law School and upon completion of the bar exam this summer will work as an attorney for a coalition of social justice and economic development nonprofits.

Just thinking about last weekend, how sunny it was, you know? Hung out in the park and watched dog real politik unravel before our eyes.