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December 2010
7 posts
A pretty brutal review in French:
fluctuate.net, WikiLeaks et Halo associés par le Street Art
And a somewhat nicer comment in Spanish:
vandal.net, Un artista urbano se inspira en Wikileaks y Halo 3 para crear su obra
More links
BoingBoing, SF Street Artist Sandwich Mashes Up Halo/Wikileaks
Kotaku, WikiLeaks’ Next Scandal Is… A Halo 3 Collaboration
On the Italian Internets, too
Another online link, in Italian.
Artsblog.it, Julian Assange, icona della controcultura pop
Big on the Internets
A few online links:
Uptown Almanac, Julian Assange: Street Pop Icon
Uptown Almanac, More WikiLeaks Street Art Going Up on Valencia
Warholian also linked to the Assange/Biggie poster.
And a mention from the print press:
Vancouver Sun, 9 Dec 2010, The iconisation of Julian Assange: Wikileaks founder gets statues and street art
November 2010
8 posts
Another week
Another week gone by.
Last week we watched Popaganda: the Art & Crimes of Ron English in my Propaganda class. This week we had crit, my Iraq War/Halo stuff was pretty well received.
In my Spaces of Hope class, I was recommended Arendt’s On Revolution (specifically chapter 6, dealing with participatory democracy in federalist times). We’ve watched a few RSA Aminations. First,...
Space & Power, Sick, Next Semester Classes
From my Spaces of Hope Class on 11/9:
Recommendation to read Dispersing Power by Raul Zibechi.
Recommendation to read The Production of Space by Henri Lefevbre. This also came up in one of the post-bac critiques last week.
On the subject of place-based politics and imagination, recommendation to check out Arif Dirlik, Arturo Escobar, and JK Gibson-Graham.
As a divergence, we talked about a few...
Women in Posters, Comics and Hip Hop Album and...
Zach gave a presentation on women in poster art today in my propaganda class.
Some artists and prints he referenced:
David Lance Goines, Howl, 1983
William Bradley, Stone, Kimball, The Chap Book, 1895
Edward Penfield, YWCA, 1917-18
Howard Chandler Christy, If You Want to Fight, Join the Marines, 1918
J Howard Miller, We Can Do It, 1942
Unknown, Girls Say Yes to Boys Who Say No, 1968
Saul...
October 2010
6 posts
Second Critique
Some thoughts on my second postbac crit:
read Chester Arnold: On Earth As It Is In Heaven (ordered)
never begin a talk with an apology.
specificity makes you connected to everyone.
read Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (ordered)
check out Robbie Conal’s Men With No Lips and his other political posters
tell more. don’t try to be subtle. be more specific. ask yourself, how can you...
September 2010
17 posts
Grad School Second Week Highlights
I was chosen to lead (solo) the seminar discussions in both of my seminar reading classes. The good news is I got the responsibility out of the way, it’s a once a semester thing. The bad news was not getting much sleep doing all the reading and preparing outlines and discussion topics.
First up was David Graeber’s “Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology” for my class...
