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RIP: School Bus Artist Tom Kennedy

Tom Kennedy, the San Francisco-based artist/activist and father of Topsy Turvy, drowned over the weekend in San Francisco. Topsy Turvy (shown right) was a piece of school bus protest art designed to follow the 2008 presidential election and argue against what it’s designers considered the upside down spending priorities of the United States. More modified vehicles and school buses at Kennedy’s Web site. More videos and well-wishes here.

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