We wish you a joyous holiday season and a peaceful year ahead, filled with simple pleasures.

Your friends at Sproutreach,
Rob & Lisa

A wonderful video using animated simple illustrations to explain some of the science behind the squid’s (Loligo opalescens) remarkable ability to alter its skin pigment and patterning, often producing iridescent colors that move across its skin surface.

Audio production and animations are by Sophia Tintori, of Casey Dunn’s Lab at Brown University. Produced with support from the National Science Foundation.

Above: A button I recently designed for the Sacred Heart Peace Community in Camden, New Jersey — the poorest city in the US, twice declared “America’s Most Dangerous City” (2004, 2005, Morgan Quitno Corp.), and also the city where I was born.

The Sacred Heart Peace Community is a volunteer group that includes my mother. It was formed in 2002 “to stand on the side of life with all the struggling people of Camden and of the world” and to create opportunities for local residents to “participate in resistance to war and all forms of violence.”

Peace to Camden and the world.

- Rob

Looking for anti-war graphics?:
For many more anti-war graphics, created by designers and artists from around the world, check out www.anti-war.us, a site “dedicated to the free distribution of anti-war graphic material”. All designs on the site are “created voluntarily and distributed free to activists around the world.”