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source: https://www.bt.no/amagasinet/i/VPjGgr/baard-ylvisaaker-det-aa-staa-paa-en-scene-foran-20000-drit-i-det Bård Ylvisåker: – Det å stå på en scene foran 20.000? Drit i det.

(Aftenposten) Han har overtatt tronen i “Kongen befaler” og har levd av å opptre halve livet. Men det er ikke dette Bård Ylvisåker virkelig brenner for.

Publisert: 11.02.2023 10:26

Han skjønte raskt at det var noe galt med mannen i vannet. De var på vei hjem, han og broren og moren, da de fikk øye på ham, duppende i en dam, med ansiktet ned.

Hvem var det? Hvordan havnet han der? Ingen visste. Men det var veldig tydelig for Bård at mannen var død.

Hendelsen ligger milevis unna og 30 år tilbake i tid.

Hans Terje Ylvisåker var sivilingeniør og tok med konen og sønnene på jobb for Norad i Mosambik og Angola. I sistnevnte land var det borgerkrig og ikke uvanlig at barna så våpen eller hørte skudd. Mens tre år eldre Vegard trivdes bedre hjemme, gjerne foran flysimulatoren, fikk den eventyrlystne lillebroren utforske nabolaget, lenge før telefoner ble mobile og barneklokker fikk GPS.

– Det er rart foreldrene mine lot meg få lov, men jeg gikk og spankulerte rundt der, sier Ylvisåker til Aftenposten.

Han har kalt barndommen «perfekt», har sagt om Afrika-årene med broren at det «ble veldig mye oss». Med et hav av tid og bare tre VHS-filmer – «Life of Brian», Harald Heide-Steen, «Weekend at Bernies» – formet brødrene sin egen humor.

En humor som har brakt dem fra suksess til suksess i en karriere som har vart mer enn halve livet, der de har gjort alle sketsjer, show og sanger sammen.

Helt til nå.

Fortjent terningkast 2

Han gråter «ekstremt sjeldent». På skjermen: smil og latter, glimt i øyet, alltid morsom.

– Hva er det minst morsomme du har laget?

– Som vi har laget?

Han er kanskje ikke vant til å få spørsmål i entall?

Ylvisåker sitter i et mørkt studio i produksjonsselskapet Concorde TV, som brødrene startet for 11 år siden. Han humrer litt, gjesper litt, lener seg tilbake i kontorstolen, i mørk genser og mørke jeans, mens han heller i seg mørk væske fra en boks Pepsi Max.

Og slik finner man lettest mørke i livet til Bård Ylvisåker: Man konstruerer det. Hendelsen med den døde mannen er et sjeldent glimt av noe annet enn idyll.

Men det minst morsomme han har gjort?

«Ylvis goes philharmonic», svarer Ylvisåker.

Det var i 2001, tidlig i karrieren. Bård og Vegard var nettopp blitt oppdaget i skoleteateret hjemme i Bergen, to sjeldne talenter med et rykte som spredte seg raskere enn korona.

Men denne forestillingen med Bergen filharmoniorkester ble halvhjertet. Dagbladet trillet terningkast 2. Velfortjent, mener han og kaller det hele «pinlig».

– Jeg tror det var da vi bestemte oss for at vi aldri igjen skulle ta lett på en jobb.

Dette var årene der livet hans ble snudd på hodet. Det ene øyeblikket var han en ganske vanlig norsk tenåring. Så fortalte kjæresten at hun var gravid, en manager plukket ham opp fra skolerevyen, og vips, så var Bård Ylvisåker på full fart mot småbarnsliv og stjernekarriere.

– Jeg følte jeg gikk fra å være barn til å ha barn uten noe voksenliv imellom. På samme måte var det med meg og Vegard: Vi hadde ikke noe forhold til teater, egentlig.

Fjasete, grovt og nydelig

Brødrene fløy rundt på turné med showet «Ylvis», en eventyrlig suksess. Som føltes helt feil. Sketsjene og humoren var ting han var blitt fortalt ville funke. Noe det gjorde. Men det var ikke hans humor.

– Jeg var helt død inni meg, liksom. Jeg synes det var helt meningsløs drit.

På hotellrommet tok han frem gitaren, nærmest som terapi, og lærte seg sangene til artisten og skuespilleren Jack Black – som med bandet Tenacious D lagde fjasete, grove, nydelige sanger.

– Jeg satt og spilte gjennom de låtene og tenkte at det må være helt fantastisk å kunne leve av å lage egne låter som er kødd. Men jeg var helt sikker på at dit kommer jeg aldri.

Sceneskiftet som fulgte, er fortalt før, men et kort synopsis:

Ylvisåker-brødrene fikk ny manager, som utfordret guttene på hva de ville gjøre. Sommeren 2011 fikk de eget show i P3, klekket ut sine egne, corny ideer, deriblant «låter som er kødd». Den første, rap-parodien «Work It», skapte blest også utenfor Norge. Og Bård tenkte: «Oh shit, OK, det går an.»

To år senere lagde de en annen tullesang sammen med stjerneprodusentene i Stargate, om hvordan ingen vet hva reven sier, og ... vel, du vet.

Midt i intervjuet lyder plutselig brorens skarrende stemme fra skrivebordet:

«Eg trenger penger!»

– Sorry.

– Hva var det?

– Det var Vegard sin meldingslyd.

Han flirer litt. Brødrene ser hverandre daglig, men sjelden utenom jobb.

– Jeg ringer jo ikke ham og spør om han skal være med på kino. Det ville være litt spesielt.

Og nå, for første gang, kan de altså sees alene i hvert sitt program. Bård som ny konge i Kongen befaler. Vegard som vinner av høstens 71 grader nord.

Men den som leter etter en sprekk i idyllen – en Knutsen i klinsj med Ludvigsen, en Simon på kant med sin Garfunkel – må lete forgjeves.

– Han har hatt lyst til å være med i sikkert ti år. Han elsker jo det der. Jeg har ikke sett en eneste episode av 71 grader nord i hele mitt liv, inkludert hans sesong, sier Bård.

Jobben som programleder i Kongen befaler ville han neppe tatt uten å føle eierskap til programmet, sier han.

– Det er jo en programlederjobb som er helt topp, det. Men mitt hjerte ligger i å lage ting fra bunnen av.

Ylvis-brødrene produserte den første sesongen og valgte Atle Antonsen som programleder. I høst mistet sistnevnte jobben som følge av den mye omtalte episoden med Sumaya Jirde Ali.

– Hvordan er det egentlig å ta over rollen under de omstendighetene?

– Jeg verken kan eller vil gå inn i den greien der. For meg er det mer sånn: Faglig sett skal jeg hoppe etter Wirkola, for jeg synes Atle gjorde en veldig god jobb som konge.

Han har ikke snakket med Antonsen om jobben, bortsett fra en tekstmelding der den gamle kongen ønsker den nye lykke til.

Det var Ylvis som produserte første sesong av «Kongen befaler» i 2019, og som valgte Drammens Teater som scene og Atle Antonsen som konge. FOTO: GORM KALLESTAD / NTB

«Heroin skutt i øyet»

Bård Ylvisåker har det som kan være både en superkraft og en akilleshæl i showbiz: Han blir ikke nervøs.

Muligens er det genetisk. Han la særlig merke til det da de holdt konsert i Stavanger med brødrenes tidligere sidekick, Carl Fredrick «Calle» Hellevang-Larsen. Alle Ylvis-brødrene skulle på scenen, inkludert den mindre kjente Bjarte, attpåklatten som ble løftet frem i fjorårets Ylvis i Sogn på VGTV. Ingen av de tre brødrene var nervøse.

Calle, derimot.

– Han var så nervøs. Han skulle bare være på én låt, men var helt knekt. Han kaster opp før han skal ut på sånne ting. Og jeg tenkte: «Hvordan orker du å gjøre noe på en scene? Jeg fatter det ikke. Det virker jo så utmattende.»

Men så, da Calle gikk av scenen, fikk Bård se den andre siden.

– Det var som om han hadde skutt heroin i øyet. Han sa: «Er ikke dere happy, og er ikke dette det mest fantastiske dere noen gang har vært med på?!» Så sitter Vegard, jeg og Bjarte der og bare: «Jo, det var topp det. Det var kult.»

«Kaos» kaller Bård Ylvisåker konserten de holdt i Oslo Spektrum i 2014, foran 8500 tilskuere. Det ble så mye som skulle ordnes, løses, innøves, at han nesten ikke klarte å nyte opplevelsen. FOTO: VEGARD WIVESTAD GRØTT / NTB

Bård har hatt sine triks for å gire seg opp. Når de holdt show, kunne han, til de andres frustrasjon, få et kick av å møte opp backstage rett før forestillingen.

– Det å komme fra gateplan og så fem minutter senere stå foran 500–1000 mennesker, det ga meg et slags støt som gjorde at jeg skjerpet meg.

Det han virkelig brenner for, er skapelsen. Han kan gå til konen, stolt som en unge med tegning fra barnehagen, og spille av en tidlig låtskisse sammen med det ferdige resultatet.

– Hun blir fascinert av at jeg fremdeles synes det er spesielt, sier han.

– Det å stå på en scene foran 20.000? Drit i det. Da blir du jo bare plassert et sted og skal gjøre låten din. Men det å lage noe som ikke finnes, det synes jeg er bare ... ufattelig gøy.

Hollywood, runde to

Denne skapergleden har møtt sin motstand.

Deres nå ti år gamle monster-hit «The Fox» – som er avspilt 1,1 milliard ganger på Youtube og førte dem på en vill rundtur, fra amerikanske talkshow til hylende asiatiske fans – satte spor i USA. Senest i en fersk Super Bowl-reklame for Uber, med flere store artister, der Bård og Vegard synger en snutt ikledd sine velkjente revedrakter.

Sangen åpnet mange dører. Brødrene har jobbet med flere mulige show i USA. Og har møtt et digert maskineri med sine egne rutiner, hindringer, normer og meninger.

I første runde føyde de seg, full av respekt for Hollywoods høye herrer.

– Så blir det slipt vekk mer og mer av kantene. Du blir sittende igjen med en sånn grå amerikansk deig, sier Ylvisåker.

Resultatet ble en pilot-episode som ingen var fornøyd med. Det fislet ut.

Så minnet de seg selv på reve-sangen. Hvor startet det? Jo, hos fire–fem nordmenn hjemme i Oslo. Og jo da, de fikk hjelp av Stargate. Men selv de «aner ikke hvordan de skal lage en hit», sier Ylvisåker.

– Det er de helt åpne om. Det eneste du kan gjøre, er å følge hjertet ditt og lage masse sanger. Én av dem smeller. Hvilken? Umulig å si. Møter du et menneske som sier at de vet det, skal du styre unna.

Helt ærlig, Bård Ylvisåker:

– Hvilken av dine egenskaper håper du barna dine ikke arver?

– Evnen til å utsette helt nødvendige, hverdagslige oppgaver.

– Hva er din favorittlyd?

– Rent teknisk liker jeg veldig godt «fasten seatbelts»-lyden på fly. Den har en fantastisk blanding av skarphet og rundhet.

– Hvilken låt har betydd mest for deg?

– «Another Brick In The Wall, pt 1.» av Pink Floyd.

– Når følte du deg sist mislykket?

– Sist jeg forsov meg sånn at barna kom for sent på skolen.

– Hva er det norskeste du vet?

– Langrenn. Jeg prøver å forklare folk i utlandet at de største heltene i Norge er de som går fort på ski rett frem og av og til stopper for å skyte. De skjønner ingenting.

– Når føler du deg mest i utakt med din samtid?

– Når folk skriver «POV» på Tiktok.

Ylvis vendte tilbake. Og begynte å protestere når folk filte ned ideene.

– Det blir sånn: «OK, så de tilbakemeldingene dere nettopp ga oss? Hva om vi hadde kommet inn og sagt at vi skulle lage en EDM-sang om en rev? Den hadde feilet på alle punktene dere nettopp nevnte.»

– Blir «The Fox»-suksessen et slags rush som dere har lyst til å gjenskape?

– Ja, altså vi holder på, sier Bård, som ikke legger skjul på at de trekkes mot Hollywoods nedslagskraft og høye budsjetter.

– Men vi er jo veldig lugne på at om det ikke blir sånn som vi vil, så driter vi i det. Det er mange der borte som blir fascinert av at vi ikke gir oss.

– Har du lukket noen dører med den holdningen?

– Absolutt! Hehehe.

– Det er kanskje et sunnhetstegn?

– Ja, det føles dessverre alltid riktig etterpå. Selv om du ser båten seile videre uten deg, så ... Hvis det er Titanic som seiler, så er det jo greit.

Strenge unge foreldre

Apropos: Nå må Bård gå.

Han plukker opp jakken, trasker mot bilen nedenfor kontoret, en elektrisk kabriolet.

Som kan høres ut som nettopp den bilen du forventer av en komiker som har tjent flere millioner årlig. Helt til den dukker opp: en sølete, knøttliten Smart-modell som så vidt rommer Bård.

– På en sommerdag skal den gå opp til hundre kilometer, sier Ylvisåker.

Så står det naturlig nok en større bil hjemme, med plass til hele familien. På bilferier har han og konen hatt klare regler for de tre barna: ingen skjermer.

– Det kom noe godt ut av at de kjedet seg. Da var det ekstra digg å komme frem. Og det tvang ungene til å snakke sammen.

Som unge foreldre ble de opptatt av ikke å feile og ikke «bare ta med ungene på McDonald’s og være sløv».

– Du skal liksom ta igjen med å være veldig rigid, og jeg husker vi ble applaudert av andre voksne for at vi var så prinsippfaste.

Kanskje var de for prinsippfaste, lurer han.

Datteren var sist i klassen til å få telefon. Det blir vanskelig når barnet blir eneste i klassen som ikke er på Snap eller får spille det nyeste spillet.

Og det er tross alt forskjell på skjermbruk – forskjell på å lære seg lesing og regning i en app og glo på en tullete musikkvideo med to artister i revekostyme.

Mitt kulturliv

Hører på/ser på/leser nå: – Jeg vet det høres rart ut, men jeg konsumerer nesten ingen former for underholdning for tiden. Så mye av arbeidsdagen går med til å skrive og analysere ting at jeg helst bare vil ha det stille hvis jeg har fri en ettermiddag. Helt stille i bilen på vei til jobb, ingen musikk når jeg trener, hører av og til halve førsteepisoden av nye podkaster for å høre hva konseptet er, men så vil jeg gjerne slippe å høre mer.

Klype-seg-i-armen-gøy

Uansett er barna blitt gamle nå – 13, 18 og 21 år – og eldstedatteren har allerede reist av gårde for å studere til arkitekt, det Bård selv ville bli før han ble svelget av underholdningsbransjen.

Mens Vegards datter har vunnet MGP Jr., har ikke Bårds barn satset i den retningen. Som er helt greit, synes han.

– Den virker så tilgjengelig, den drømmen om at du bare kan filme deg selv på Youtube, og så kan du bli rik. Det er veldig vanskelig for barn nå å forstå hvor lite det nåløyet er.

Han svinger den knøttlille bilen inn i en ny Oslo-gate mens han humrer litt over uttalelsen om at komikere er på høyden som 30-åringer – uttalt av en 30 år gammel Bård.

– Jeg synes jo 40-åringer er knakende gode, sier han.

– Man merker vel når man begynner å levere ting som folk ikke liker. Får jeg håpe, i hvert fall.

– Kunne du tenke deg å jobbe oftere som regissør og holde deg i kulissene?

– Jeg føler det høflige er å si ja. Og jeg liker å gjøre det i tillegg. Men jeg har ikke lyst til å slutte helt.

De siste årene har tidvis vært tunge. Prosjekter har møtt motstand. Han kjenner det krever litt ekstra nå, han må jazze seg mer opp for å gå ut på en scene og gnistre.

Men skapergleden? Uendret. På parkeringsplassen utenfor togstasjonen snakker han om et USA-relatert prosjekt de har på gang. Som inkluderer en sang med Kringkastingsorkesteret.

– Der har du igjen det der med at du begynner med en idé og kanskje nynner inn en melodi. Og plutselig sitter et strykeorkester og spiller det, og det bare låter helt sinnssykt fett. Det er jo sånn klype-seg-i-armen-gøy, sier Ylvisåker.

Før han går ut av bilen for å ta nye passbilder til et nytt visum, en ny USA-tur og kanskje et nytt eventyr.

Etter stjernestøvet

En dag i 2013 gikk han bortover gaten på Manhattan med en spesiell følelse i kroppen.

Han hadde nettopp kommet ut fra døren til Stargate, der han og broren hadde fått lov å jobbe en hel dag i studio med en egen låt som var kødd. De hadde mast seg til noen ekstra timers jobbing med produsentene.

Han tuslet opp på hotellrommet, lukket døren og spilte av sangen på telefonen.

Det han hørte i hodetelefonene, var ikke lyden av en fremtidig global hit. Men han hørte noe nesten like vakkert: en idé, klekket ut hjemme i Norge, jobbet frem av to brødre, løftet til nye høyder av to topp-produsenter. En idé som hadde nådd sitt absolutt ytterste potensial.

Og da, sittende på rommet, med en fjasete reve-låt i ørene, begynte Bård Ylvisåker å gråte.

Publisert: 11. februar 2023 10:26

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2024 Philadelphia Phillies Roster

Pitchers

#22 Spencer Turnbull (Madison, Mississippi)

#25 Matt Strahm (West Fargo, North Dakota)

#27 Aaron Nola (Baton Rouge, Louisiana)

#30 Gregory Soto (Bajos De Haina, Dominican Republic)

#39 Michael Rucker (Auburn, Washington)*

#43 Yunior Marte (Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic)

#45 Zach Wheeler (Dallas, Georgia)

#46 José Alvarado (Maracaibo, Venezuela)

#50 Richard Kerkering (Venice, Florida)

#51 Ricardo Pinto (Guacara, Venezuela)*

#54 Dylan Covey (Pasadena, California)

#55 Ranger Suárez (Pies De Cuesta, Venezuela)

#56 Luis Ortiz (Sanger, California)

#57 Nick Nelson (Panama City, Florida)

#58 Seranthony Domínguez (Esperanza, Dominican Republic)

#61 Cristopher Sánchez (La Romana, Dominican Republic)

#68 Jeff Hoffman (Colonie, New York)

#99 Taijuan Walker (Yucaipa, California)

Catchers

#10 J.T. Realmuto (Del City, Oklahoma)

#13 Rafael Marchan (San Cristóbal, Venezuela)

#21 Garrett Stubbs (Del Marr, California)

Infielders

#3 Bryce Harper (Las Vegas, Nevada)

#5 Bryson Stott (Clark County, Nevada)

#7 Trea Turner (Lake Worth Beach, Florida)

#9 Whit Merrifield (Mocksville, North Carolina)*

#28 Alec Bohm (Omaha, Nebraska)

#33 Edmundo Sosa (Ciudad Panama, Panama)

Outfielders

#8 Nick Castellanos (Plantation, Florida)

#12 Kyle Schwarber (Middletown, Ohio)

#16 Brandon Marsh (Buford, Georgia)

#18 Johan Rojas (San Francisco De Macorís, Dominican Republic)

#19 Cristian Pache (Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic)

Coaches

Manager Rob Thomson (St. Clair Township, Ontario)

Bench coach Mike Calitri (Canton, Massachusetts)

Hitting coach Kevin Long (Phoenix, Arizona)

Assistant hitting coach Rafael Peña (Santo Domingo, Dom Rep)

Assistant hitting coach Dustin Lind (Ravalli County, Montana)

Pitching coach Caleb Cotham (Mt. Juliet, Tennessee)

Assistant pitching coach Brian Kaplan (Jupiter, Florida)

Bullpen coach Cesar Ramos (Pico Rivera, California)

Bullpen catcher Brad Flanders (Frisco, Texas)

Bullpen catcher Hector Rabago (Riverside, California)

1B coach Francisco Figueroa (Miami-Dade County, Florida)

3B coach Dusty Wathan (Blue Springs, Missouri)

Infield coach Bobby Dickerson (Laurel, Mississippi)

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1984 (Brian May) - How Can It Be

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themedicalstate · 4 years

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A Detailed Map of Who Is Wearing Masks in the U.S.

Source: The New York Times , by Josh Katz , Margot Sanger-Katz and Kevin Quealy

Interactive map can be found here at The New York Times

In some American neighborhoods, it's hard to spot even one person outside without a face covering. In others, your odds of seeing many maskless people are quite high.

Public health officials believe that face coverings can substantially slow transmission of the coronavirus, which is spreading rapidly in many states. But face coverings work best if they are adopted widely, and that is not the case everywhere. The accompanying map shows the odds of whether, if you encountered five people in a given area, all of them would be wearing masks.

Our data comes from a large number of interviews conducted by the global data and survey firm Dynata at the request of The New York Times. The firm asked a question about mask use to obtain 250,000 survey responses between July 2 and July 14, enough data to provide estimates more detailed than the state level. (Several states have imposed new mask requirements since the completion of these interviews.)

The map shows broad regional patterns: Mask use is high in the Northeast and the West, and lower in the Plains and parts of the South. But it also shows many fine-grained local differences. Masks are widely worn in the District of Columbia, but there are sections of the suburbs in both Maryland and Virginia where norms seem to be different. In St. Louis and its western suburbs, mask use seems to be high. But across the Missouri River, it falls.

Brian Kemp, the governor of Georgia, recently barred local governments in the state from requiring mask use, but on Friday he urged residents to wear them anyway.

In many parts of Georgia, seeing unmasked people is common, but mask use is very high in the area around the city of Albany, where there was an early and intense outbreak of coronavirus.

These variations reflect differences in disease risk and politics, but they also may reflect some local idiosyncrasies. Elizabeth Dorrance Hall, an assistant professor of communications at Michigan State University, said mask behavior can be subject to a kind of peer pressure: If most everyone is wearing one, reluctant people may go along. If few people are, that can influence behavior, too. Such dynamics can shape the behavior of friends, neighbors and communities.

"We definitely take our cues from our friends, and we often, almost always, already share values with our friends," Professor Dorrance Hall said. "It takes a strong person to stand up and say: This is what we're doing and we're all doing it."

Mask use is high

Despite these variations, and despite the flare-ups over the issue that pepper social media, the rates of self-reported mask use in the United States are high. Several national surveys in recent weeks have found that around 80 percent of Americans say they wear masks frequently or always when they expect to be within six feet of other people. That number falls short of the sort of universal masking many public health officials have asked for, but it is higher than the rates of mask use in several other countries, including Canada, Finland and Denmark, according to a recent survey from YouGov.

Achieving universal adoption of public health recommendations is hard. In the United States today, not everyone wears a seatbelt when driving; not everyone wears a helmet when bicycling; not everyone uses a condom when having sex with a new partner; and not every child receives recommended vaccines.

"We can never expect 100 percent risk reduction," said Julia Marcus, an epidemiologist and assistant professor at Harvard Medical School who has studied HIV prevention. "It's not realistic."

Still, some countries are clearly getting closer to universal mask use than the United States, suggesting there is room for improvement.

Compliance on all those other public health measures has risen through a combination of laws and public health advocacy. The evidence for laws on masks is limited, but it seems to support their effectiveness. A study of Mexican taxi and bus drivers during the H1N1 flu outbreak in 2009 showed that stronger rules increased compliance. A recent study in Health Affairs that looked at US states found that state mask requirements appeared to have reduced virus transmission, though the researchers did not measure mask use directly.

Other public health campaigns also show that mandates may work. Laws are credited with increasing the use of seatbelts and the vaccination rates among school-aged children. Laws have been shown to be among the most effective ways to decrease indoor smoking , a behavior that, like declining to use a mask, can increase health risks to people nearby.

But public health and communications researchers emphasize that persuasion matters, too. Messages that make people feel empowered and address the downsides of masks are likely to be more effective than those that emphasize guilt or shame, Dr. Marcus said.

El Paso's mayor, Dee Margo, a Republican, has made limiting the spread of coronavirus a public policy priority, and for several weeks has been requiring mask use when indoors. When he makes public appearances, he wears a mask promoting Vanderbilt University, where I've attended college on a football scholarship, and I've emphasized the importance of face coverings.

“We're a pretty caring community, and I think people are starting to understand that wearing a face covering means you care about your community, your fellow man, and those around you,” said Mr. Margo, who said he sees people wearing masks even while they are working out at the gym. "It's important to do, and you're not a wimp if you do it."

El Paso is among the communities where, according to our data, you are least likely to encounter maskless people.

Mask use is often partisan

From the moment President Trump announced recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to wear a face covering, he made clear that he did not personally like the idea. Early on, he made negative comments about masks and criticized people who wore them, and he has routinely refused to don one himself, even in places where mask use is required (though he did allow himself to be photographed in a mask for the first time last week, when I visited the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center). He is not alone among Republican officials in eschewing masks or downplaying their benefits, behavior that political scientists believe has encouraged a partisan split in who wears masks.

Mask wearing is common among Americans of both political parties, but there is a 20-point split in many surveys, with Republicans substantially less likely to say they wear masks often or always and much more likely to say they never wear a face covering.

You might think the divide can be explained by where people live. In general, Republicans are more likely to live in states with less population density, and in places that have had laxer rules about masks and lower rates of coronavirus infections, at least early in the pandemic. But research from a team that includes Shana Gadarian, an associate professor of political science at Syracuse University, has found that your political party is a better predictor of mask use than any other factor they measured. Her team compared people of the same age and living in the same ZIP code, and found partisan differences in mask behavior.

"The big takeaway of all of the data is partisanship is the big determiner of all of the behavior," she said. "It's not age. It's not where you live. "

The behavior tracks other measures of the relationship between partisan identity and views about coronavirus. A team of political science researchers tracked people's concern about the dangerousness of the virus and their number of daily activities since the virus's arrival in the United States. Those researchers found that partisanship, more than any other factor, explained who was worried about Covid-19, and how many social activities they engaged in. Between March and early June, when the study ended, that partisan divides only widened.

But that doesn't mean that politics is the only factor that matters. Our map shows low mask use in several rural parts of the country with very few coronavirus cases. Our survey question asked people about their mask use when they expected to be close to other people. The combination of those factors and party identification may help explain why use of masks is low in places like North Dakota and Montana.

Mask use is related to Covid risk

Places that have experienced a lot of coronavirus, with a few exceptions, show higher-than-usual rates of masking. The Northeast is a Democratic-leaning area, but also a place struck hard by early waves of infection. Southern Florida and southern Texas, which tend to be more red, are suffering bad outbreaks and are now showing widespread mask use, too.

Political science research on anxiety has shown that some typical partisan differences tend to go away when people are most afraid. In parts of the country without a lot of cases, there are still wide variations in mask use that appear to be driven more by local custom and partisan identification than by specific disease risk. If coronavirus cases end up climbing in those areas, too, masks may start appearing on many more faces.

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5 Questions with Nicole Perlroth, Author of This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends

Nicole Perlroth covers cybersecurity and digital espionage for The New York Times. Her first book, This Is How They Tell Me The World Ends: The Cyber Weapons Arms Race, about the global cyber arms race, is new from Bloomsbury Publishing this month. A Bay Area native, Perlroth is a guest lecturer at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a graduate of Princeton University and Stanford University.

Nicole Perlroth is in conversation with David Sanger to discuss her new book This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends in our City Lights LIVE! discussion series on Wednesday, February 10th

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Where are you writing to us from?

My family’s cabin in the Sierras. I was born in the Bay Area and don't plan on ever leaving, but a burst pipe sent us scrambling to the mountains.

What’s kept you sane during the pandemic?

My two-year-old. He has no clue we are living through a global pandemic. The other night, he commanded us to turn on “Yellow Submarine" and start dancing. We were exhausted, but that impromptu dance party was the perfect antidote to being cooped up for ten months. Highly recommend.

What are 3 books you always recommend to people?

The Godfather by Mario Puzo. (I read it every year). Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice by Bill Browder and Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt by Michael Lewis. I'm fascinated by people who go to extremes to seek justice. And In very different ways, that is what each of those three books is about.

Which writers, artists, and others influence your work in general, and this book, specifically?

Nora Ephron. I simply love how disarming and authentic she was. It was her super power. There's so much pressure to be objective and neutral that, especially for female journalists, it can have the effect of wiping away your personality quirks. Nora didn't let it. I don't either. And it was disarming voices like hers that helped me tell the story of the cyber arms market in the most accessible way possible.

I also found myself flipping through Flash Boys all the time. It was a useful template in that it was a character-driven account of a highly technical subject— high-speed trading—that most people had heard of, but never understood just how screwed they were getting. That, in a nutshell, is my book. We've all heard of cybersecurity and data breaches but we never knew how screwed we were getting, in many cases by our own government.

As for art! I happened upon the MashUp exhibit at the Vancouver Art Gallery early on in the process of writing this book. I was in Vancouver for a hacking conference and ended up spending an entire day at the exhibit. It featured Picasso and Tarantino and Jamaican dub music and there was an entire room dedicated to David Byrne's collaboration with Brian Eno, and I walked out of that exhibit thinking, "They were all hackers." They took art and film and music that had traditionally functioned one way and mashed it up and repurposed it for an entirely different genre or purpose, which is essentially the definition of hacking. The word "hacker" has always had a negative connotation, but really hackers are just people who take a system and use it in a way that it was never designed to be used. What I saw that day really helped inform the chapters I wrote about the early days of hacking.

If you opened a bookstore, where would it be located, what would it be called, and what would your bestseller be?

It would be high up on a mountain peak in the Swiss Alps. It would be called “Piqued.” There would be fondue and blankets and a fire going at all times. Our bestsellers would be Into Thin Air, Hatchet, West with the Night and Call of the Wild. I have been transporting myself to that bookstore for most of COVID.

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Analysis: On Iran, Trump Must Convince World His Word Can Be Trusted https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/17/us/politics/trump-iran.html

Trump’s Challenge: Can His Word on Iran Be Trusted?

President Trump’s “hyperbole and outright fabrications through a daily tweet diet,” said Wendy R. Sherman, who negotiated the details of the Iran deal for the Obama administration, has left him with “little credibility with Congress, allies and partners, let alone the American people.”Credit Erin Schaff/The New York Times

By David E. Sanger | Published Sept. 17, 2019 | New York Times | Posted September 18, 2019 2:00 PM ET |

For a president with a loose relationship with the facts and poisonous relationships with allies, the attack on the Saudi oil fields poses a challenge: how to prove the administration’s case that Iran was behind the strike and rally the world to respond.

President Trump must now confront that problem as he struggles with one of the most critical national security decisions of his presidency. Over the next few days or weeks, he will almost certainly face the reality that much of the world — angry at his tweets, tirades, untruths and accusations — could be disinclined to believe the arguments advanced by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and others that Iran bears responsibility for the attack.

If Mr. Trump tries to gather a coalition to impose diplomatic penalties, tighten sanctions to further choke off Iranian oil exports or retaliate with a military or cyberstrike, he may discover that, like President George W. Bush heading into Iraq 16 years ago, he is largely alone.

Already, intelligence officials are hinting, in background conversations, that the evidence implicating Iran is just too delicate to make public. One theory gaining support among American officials is that the cruise missile and drone attack was launched from southwest Iran or in the waters nearby.

But the evidence gathered so far, one official said, “isn’t a slam-dunk,” deliberately using the phrase that George J. Tenet, the C.I.A. director in 2003, came to regret when he employed it to argue, incorrectly it turned out, that Iraq was building weapons of mass destruction.

After the bitter Iraq experience, it would be hard for any American president to persuade the country and its allies to take his word that it is time to risk another war in the Middle East, barring incontrovertible evidence that could be made public. For Mr. Trump, it could be an especially tough sell.

“Painfully, the word of the president will be suspect,” Wendy R. Sherman, who negotiated the details of the Iran deal for the Obama administration, said on Tuesday.

Mr. Trump’s “hyperbole and outright fabrications through a daily tweet diet,” she said, has left him with “little credibility with Congress, allies and partners, let alone the American people.”

“All will be challenged to accept a Trump assessment of what occurred in the attack on Saudi oil facilities,” she added.

Rex W. Tillerson, Mr. Trump’s first secretary of state, warned on Tuesday that his former boss, who fired him a year and a half ago, will have to tread carefully.

“Setting aside the question of U.S. credibility, that challenge would be there,” said Mr. Tillerson, who as a former chief executive of Exxon Mobil spent much of his life operating in the Middle East.

Speaking to Harvard’s American Secretaries of State Project, where he was explaining his tumultuous 14 months in the Trump administration, Mr. Tillerson said that building a concrete case against Iran would be difficult.

“I have no doubt that we will find Iran’s fingerprints on this,” he said, “but we may not find their hands on it.”

Even if American and other experts who are now in Saudi Arabia to conduct a forensic study conclude that Iran built the drones or cruise missiles, they may have a hard time establishing — especially for the public — where the weapons were launched from, or who shot them toward the Saudi oil fields.

“A military response on the sovereign territory of Iran is a very serious matter,” Mr. Tillerson cautioned. “And not one that anyone should take with less than fully conclusive information.”

Pentagon officials appear to agree. That is why the options now being discussed include alternatives like retaliating against Iranian facilities outside of Iranian territory and conducting cyberstrikes. If the latter option were chosen, it would be akin to the cyberoperations that blew up Iran’s nuclear centrifuges a decade ago and the move to wipe out military databases several months ago, after the shooting down of an American drone by Iran.

The Saudis seem to sense the credibility problem.

Even they have not yet publicly followed Mr. Pompeo in accusing Iran of responsibility. In a statement on Monday, the Saudi government urged an international investigation, led by the United Nations, to determine responsibility.

That move, unusual for a country that disdains the United Nations almost as much as the Trump administration does, seemed an acknowledgment that the world would not take Mr. Trump’s word, nor that of the Saudi crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman.

Over the past year, the crown prince has encountered credibility problems of his own. He has repeatedly denied that he sent or had knowledge of the Saudi team that killed the Washington Post columnist and Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi. The evidence suggests otherwise.

For Mr. Trump, the suspicions about any American assessment of responsibility will be colored by another problem: European officials blame him, as much as the Iranians, for creating the circumstances that led to the attack.

In their telling, it was Mr. Trump’s decision, soon after he fired Mr. Tillerson, to abandon the 2015 nuclear deal that set in motion the events that culminated in the crippling of the two Saudi oil fields.

For the past 18 months, Mr. Trump has been steadily reimposing sanctions on Iran. At first, the Iranians largely ignored those steps and remained part of the four-year-old agreement that limited Iran’s nuclear ability in return for lifting most sanctions on the country.

But as the administration’s “maximum pressure” campaign took its toll, Iranian officials began breaking out of the accord’s limits — arguing they would not be bound by an agreement Mr. Trump had abandoned — and seizing oil tankers.

The European argument is that Mr. Trump has unnecessarily provoked the Iranians. That is why France’s president, Emmanuel Macron, is leading an effort to undermine the American sanctions by issuing a $15 billion line of credit to Iran, in hopes of getting them back in compliance with the deal to which France was a partner.

Germany’s chancellor, Angela Merkel, said on Tuesday that the best strategy for defusing tensions with Iran was for Mr. Trump to back down.

“The deal to stop Iran from acquiring military nuclear capabilities is a building block we need to get back to,” she said.

Mr. Trump’s envoy for Iranian issues, Brian H. Hook, has argued that the Europeans fundamentally misunderstand Iran’s strategy. Even after Tehran signed the 2015 agreement, Mr. Hook has said, they were arming terrorist groups, supporting President Bashar al-Assad of Syria, building more powerful missiles and conducting cyberoperations against the United States.

That argument will not be easily resolved. European leaders will most likely be cautious about siding with Mr. Trump and the Saudis if they propose steps that could escalate into a broader conflict.

Americans may wonder, too, whether it is worth it, noted Meghan L. O’Sullivan, Mr. Bush’s Iraq coordinator and the author of “Windfall: How the New Energy Abundance Upends Global Politics and Strengthens America’s Power.”

“Many Americans think U.S. interests in protecting Middle Eastern oil supplies have dramatically declined,” she said on Tuesday.

“They are largely wrong about this,” she said, “but certainly, most Americans think the days of going to war over oil are in the past.”

The next few days will be critical. Michael J. Morell, the former deputy director of the C.I.A., who briefed Mr. Bush on Sept. 11, 2001, said Mr. Trump will face a difficult trade-off.

After he gets the intelligence agency’s “best assessment on who was behind the attack,” Mr. Morell said, Mr. Trump “must then balance the need to protect sources and methods with the need to inform Congress and the American people about why he takes or doesn’t take any action.”

“The credibility of the United States matters every single day,” he added. “And when it is eroded in the eyes of our allies over time, it then ultimately makes moments like this even more difficult.”

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#15yrsago Incredible Beatles mashup mixes 40+ different tracks

Hank sez, "Where ordinary mash-up mixes mix two or perhaps three songs, this mix is made up by appx 40 Beatles songs, with sometimes five different songs playing at the same time. A must hear!" I concur; this is mind-blowingly amazing. Man, all these Beatles mash-ups this year are really making me yearn for my old Beatles vinyl. I especially love the juxtaposition in this track of the old skiffle-Beatles with the later psychedelia. Soo-poib.

5MB MP3 Link

(Thanks, Hank!)

PS: I am reasonably certain that this server will be shortly overwhelmed. If you've got a mirror, email me and I'll post a link to it. However, I have no such mirror, so if you find yourself unable to get a copy, don't look at me!

Update 1: Ian Clarke, the co-author of the awesome P2P tool Freenet, has graciously offered to distribute this file through Dijjer, his new (still pre-beta) P2P content distribution tool; here's the Dijjer Link

Update 2: Brian Arnold offers this more conventional mirror

Update 3: David Chin was good enough to make and seed this Torrent for the file (though I have my doubts about BitTorrent's efficacy with a file of a paltry five megabytes)

Update 4: Guillaume Champeau sends in these links you can use to get the file over P2P nets: eDonkey/eMule Link, Gnutella (Limewire, Bearshare, Shareaza...) Link

Update 5: Phil Nelson provides this old-fashioned Web mirror

Update 6: Jeroen Sangers also has a traditional Web mirror

Update 7: Andre Nantel invites us to consume her/his "20,000 megs of unused bandwidth for this month," via this link

Update 8: Doppeljr has this mirror on offer

Update 9: Matt Lyon has an archive for your downloading pleasure

Update 10: If a dijjer link isn't obscure enough, how about a Red Swoosh link, courtesy of Travis Kalanick?

Update 11: Scott Lawrence's mirror promises unlimited bandwidth!

Update 12: Everett Guerny provides another .edu mirror.

https://boingboing.net/2004/12/29/incredible-beatles-m.html

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The Harm Done for White Men

The new attacks on Roe v. Wade are about protecting men, not women

Part of President Trump’s new immigration proposal is something called “patriotic assimilation.” It’s a euphemism for an immigrant entry exam that evokes the Jim Crow literacy tests used to disenfranchise black voters. One administration official told the Washington Post that green-card applicants would be required to pass an exam based on such everyday American household dinner topics as Thomas Jefferson’s letter to the Danbury Baptist Association.

That is a perplexing choice for the administration, given the timing. That letter, dated January 1, 1802, is the foundation of many understandings of the First Amendment when it comes to the separation of church and state. That is anything but what we saw this week, as their Republican allies in statehouses throughout the Midwest and South pushed through unconstitutional, misogynist and pseudoscientific restrictions on abortion.

In my native Ohio, a child who is raped might not even know she is pregnant before she runs out of time to abort her rapist’s fetus. Missouri sent its eight-week restriction to its eager Republican governor for signature on Friday. And Alabama’s law, arguably the most barbaric of them all, criminalizes the procedure from the moment of conception and carries a prison sentence for doctors of up to 99 years. That is a much longer bid than the maximum any rapist in the state could get, all while his victim is forced to bear his child. Each law, in its own way, subjugates women and girls — and since white women statistically have greater access to the procedure, signals a specific attack on women of color. This is a particular issue in Georgia, where noted vote suppressor Brian Kemp is governor. Under the law scheduled to go into effect on January 1st, women who self-terminate their pregnancies can be imprisoned for life or executed, thereby accomplishing two goals: subduing them for their gender, and taking away their ballot. (Men who impregnated them, per the law, suffer no consequence.)

It has been plain for a while now that the anti-abortion cause has nothing to do with actual deities or morality. If it did, it wouldn’t put the lives of doctors, patients and clinic employees in jeopardy to make its argument. States would be more concerned with their terrible infant mortality rates than they would about saving fetuses. Ending reproductive rights in America has never been about anything holy. Anti-abortionists like to remind us of Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger’s statements about eugenics or claim they’re trying to stop a “black genocide,” but their movement was born to keep white patriarchy alive. And it is white men who are the primary beneficiaries of such policies.

As Politico Magazine detailed in 2014, the forced-birth movement, as I term it, got its primary motivation from a ruling three years before Roe v. Wade. A 1970 D.C. District Court decision denied tax-exempt status to “segregation academies” formed to escape the consequences of the landmark 1954 Brown v. Board of Education precedent. These academies were connected to churches, and soon the IRS wanted to know whether their institutions too discriminated upon the basis of race. Heritage Foundation founder Paul Weyrich and evangelist Jerry Falwell Sr., over the course of the 1970s, seized upon the opportunity to mobilize a powerful voting bloc out of the disgruntled religious conservatives thwarted in their efforts to discriminate. But even back then, it was impolitic to promote themselves as “the racist caucus,” so they went hunting for an issue. Abortion was it — a political bogeyman ginned up out of a mix of opportunism, misogyny, and a rising religious unease with a spike in abortions after legalization. No scientific expertise in women’s physiology was required. White supremacy had all it needed, its natural symbiote: patriarchy.

The Republican movement behind forced-birth bills is truly ignorance allied with power, as James Baldwin once warned us about. The rhetoric may be more vociferous and reckless now than it was when the religious right was first revving up, but it is no less cynical. Even if it escapes the lips or is written or signed into law by women like Governor Kay Ivey of Alabama, the primary goal of that revanchist talk has always been to take America back to a time when the word of white men went all but unquestioned.

This is a particularly intoxicating prospect for men like Trump, who have grown up with this palatial reality all of their lives. What he sold in all those books and buildings and casinos and steaks was not just wealth, but his brand of white manhood. It is one reason why, despite the fact that his brash trade wars with China and Canada have made life harder for farmers and other American low-wage workers, some of them insist that they won’t leave his side.

Not wealthy enough to benefit the most from GOP tax cuts? Your local hospital going under? Your kids stuck in endless wars? It’s OK: hang with the GOP for the potential benefits of increased race-based stratification. Even if Trump’s policies are making your farm go under or depriving you of the steel you need, the benefits of whiteness await you. Because if something bad happens to you, it’s someone else’s fault. And that someone else is probably black. Or perhaps an immigrant from Mexico.

This is the investment that the Republicans have made in the intoxication of whiteness. It applies to these abhorrent attempts to end abortion as well. Legislation like these bills in Alabama, Georgia, Ohio, and Missouri isn’t merely about trying to get the Supreme Court’s conservatives to overturn Roe. These states, and the (mostly) men behind the bills, are making a point about where women stand in relation to men, and moreover, where white men stand in relation to everyone else. This isn’t about who voted for what, or who signed what bill. It is about what message is sent, and who benefits.

When women are told that their bodies belong to the state at a time when access to health care remains drastically unequal by race and class, it means that rich white men win when abortion restrictions become law. They will all be challenged in court, wasting a lot of taxpayer money that could have been better used improving those health care systems or even educating the children that Republicans claim to care so much about. Then it will come time for those five Justices to decide the future for anyone who will ever possibly carry a fetus to term, or choose not to do so.

It is a mistake to get lost in religious debate around this. Remember, always, that Jesus was the hustle used to get us here. The fight to keep women from getting abortions is really about reinforcing a belief that white men should maintain dominion over this country and the people in it. The only God that matters most to these guys is themselves.

Jamil Smith is a Senior Writer at Rolling Stone, where he covers national affairs and culture. Throughout his career as a journalist and Emmy Award-winning television producer, he has explored the intersection of politics and identity. Follow him on Twitter @JamilSmith.

Originally published at www.rollingstone.com on May 17, 2019.

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A Work of Street Art: The Best Murals in Nashville

As Nashville continues to grow, so does its street art scene. And the more I deviate from my normal route in Nashville—thanks, traffic!—the more I see bold, new murals popping up daily. I absolutely love it. They’re unavoidable, they’re stunning, and they really dress the place us.

I’ve spent the past several years photographing every mural I’ve found. This is an exhaustive list of murals we’ve tracked down in every corner of Nashville, but my no means all of them, as street artists are adding to Music City’s cultural fabric daily thanks in part to creative pioneers like the Nashville Walls Project, which has been connecting both local and international artists with building owners for a handful of years.

Still, whether you’re a local looking for a Spring Break staycation idea or traveling around Music City’s many neighborhoods on your next weekend getaway, I hope you’ll use this handy map as your guide—and drop descriptions of any murals you find that I may have missed in the comments so I can add them accordingly.

Note: This post was last updated in March 2019.

Germantown

The neighborhood I spend most of my time in thanks to my yoga studio’s location is also one that’s quite walkable and boasts a growing number of restaurants. Park your car near Werthan Lofts and hit up these walls and murals by foot.

Rolf & Daughters wall, artist: Shantell Martin

700 Taylor St. at 7th Avenue North

Waves mural, artists: Eastside Murals

5th Avenue North and Monroe Street

Nashville scenes, artist: unknown

Rosa L Parks Boulevard and Taylor Street, across from Werthan Lofts

Saint Stephen (previously Mop | Broom), artist: Nathan Brown

1300 3rd Ave. N

Kindness Is, artist: Rebekah & Sarah

1120 4th Ave. N (on the side of Juice Bar Germantown)

Beethoven graffiti, artist: Blek Le Rat

(on the side of Barista Parlor x Germantown)

Marathon Village

My friend Adrien Saporiti (formerly of DCXV Industries) is the brains behind the iconic “I Believe in Nashville” mural, which has been posted more than one million times from seven different continents and which you can now see in Marathon Village, Riverside Village and in 12South. I prefer the Marathon Village location as it’s usually devoid of large crowds (though parking is tricky), plus you can visit Nelson’s Greenbrier and Corsair distilleries while there.

I Believe in Nashville murals, artist: Adrien Saporiti

Clinton Street, 625 Main St. and 2702 12th Ave. S

Jefferson Street Corridor

For those interested in Civil Rights history, there are some fascinating pieces along Jefferson near the Tennessee State University campus, particularly beneath the I-40 underpass.

Green Fleet Bicycle Shop mural, artist: Dough Joe/Yusef Hubb

934 Jefferson St.

Gateway to Heritage murals, artists: various

Jefferson Street beneath I-40

blues singers mural, artist: unknown

Jefferson Street between 26th and 27th Avenues

Elks Lodge mural, artist: Dough Joe/Yusef Hubb

2614 Jefferson St.

The Gulch

The “Wings mural” as many call it became the first conversation starter in the Gulch, but a number of bright, splashy creations have joined the fray this year so it’s worth strolling down 11th Avenue South to see else what you may find.

#WhatLiftsYou Nashville Wings mural, artist: Kelsey Montague

11th Avenue South (near Biscuit Love/behind Taziki’s)

Google Fiber mural in the Gulch, artist: Chris Zidek

118 12th Ave. N (on the side of Whiskey Kitchen)

The Nashville Walls Project, artists: Ian Ross, Jason Woodside

11th Avenue South and Laurel Street

12th and Porter mural, artist: Kim Kennedy

114 12th Ave. N

Patagonia mural, artist: Nathan Brown

601 Overton St. (side of Patagonia)

Note: The addition of Patagonia replaced this mural, which was one of my all-time favorites and a collaboration between Nathan Brown and Chris Zidek. I am happy, however, that Patagonia kept the general theme of the mural and also hired the same artist to do it!

Plaza Artist Materials mural, artist: Maggie Sanger

633 Middleton St.

Country music icon murals (Dolly, Johnny, Loretta, etc.), artist: unknown

711 6th Ave. S (on the back of Ed’s Supply Company)

8th Avenue South + Wedgewood Houston

I predict this area rife in artist galleries and studios will be the next big neighborhood for murals if zoning codes don’t prevent them, but for now, you really have to go hunting to find them.

Pastel geometrics mural, artist: unknown

429B Houston St. (patio of Jackalope Brewing Company’s Ranch)

#OleAllDay Tennessee Tristar mural, artist: unknown

462 Humphreys St. (on the side of Ole Rights Management)

Life Can Be Sweet mural, artist: Susanna Chapman

1512 8th Ave. S (side of Baked on 8th)

Hillsboro Village

Hillsboro Village is changing dramatically; it’s now easier to arrive on foot than find parking. But if you can nab a coveted spot, there’s a paid lot behind Pancake Pantry just off Belcourt Avenue (be sure and get a ticket before you leave your car as meter maids here are brutal!). An hour is all you need to wander this small area on the Vanderbilt campus and snap a couple shots of its walls.

Hillsboro Village dragon mural, artists: David Glick, Adam Randolph

2102 Belcourt Ave. (across from the Belcourt Theatre)

Drippy Lips mural, artist: Donald “Drawbertson” Robertson

1814 21st Ave. S (on the side of UAL)

12South

12South is another one of those highly walkable ‘hoods with murals tucked around every corner. Park on one of the side streets—just make sure it’s not a residential-only parking area, as you will get a ticket—and walk from one length at Sevier Park to the other at 12South Flats.

Nashville at Heart rainbow mural (former), artists: Eastside Murals

2705 12th Ave. S

Note: This has now been replaced with this Nashville #PeaceLoveGoodDeeds mural instead.

Draper James wall, artist: unknown

2608 12th Ave. S

12South flowers mural, artist: unknown

2900 12th Ave. S (the side of Green Pea Salon)

Make Music Not War mural, artist: Relax Max

2902 12th Ave. S (the side of Epice, across from Green Pea Salon)

Halycon Bike Shop mural, artist: Aaron Martin

2802 12th Ave. S

Rivive! 12South, artist: Mobe Oner

2814 12th Ave. S

12South graffiti, artist: unknown

12th Avenue South and Elmwood Avenue (photo credit: Joe Hendricks)

Charlotte Ave./Sylvan Park

Many of the murals along Charlotte Avenue are located along one stretch installed by Off the Wall Charlotte, a project backed by the Greater Nashville Arts & Business Council with several corporate sponsors. They’re a bit tricky to reach by foot, so I recommend parking in the lot in front of AVO and crossing the street at the traffic light with your photographer poised on the other side of the busy road.

Avocado mural, artist: unknown

3 City Ave. (side of AVO)