Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: art, ☭☭☭, ⚑, channel 33, dubai, egypt, egyptian revolution, February 11th, january 25, political graphics, posters, solidarity
 - Caesar Diablo |
 - Nick Bygon |
| So this site tells me that Mubarak’s finally gone. A nice day in history: Feb 11th saw the beginning of the 1979 Iranian Revolution, and Nelson Mandela’s 1990 release from prison. Shades of Dubai’s now defunct Channel 33, which used to have a daily 15 minute “Today, in history!” programme. I remember watching it at 19:00 every night for about a year, right before my mother sat down to The Bold and the Beautiful. The one with the stripes and bolt of pink satin in the sax-y opening credits. |  |
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: 50 cent, acéphale, battle of algiers, carvaggio, castration anxiety, decapitalism, don't gaze me bro, judith beheading holofernes, laura mulvey, linguistic determinism, posters, queen's english, tattoo, twitter
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Perhaps I should make this a recurring thing? Above, an animated take on Carvaggio’s Judith beheading Holofernes, with the original after the jump. I don’t know too much of the story; this provides a tidy summary, albeit on Gentilleschi’s version. To the left, the tattoo—three years in the considering—that I finally got this summer. Kind of awkwardly, I’m beginning to use it, or rather the Acéphale reference, as an insta-barometer of people I meet. |
I don’t think I’ve ever come across a text more beautiful or true. To the extent I’m writing about it, perhaps misguidedly, in a grad school applicaiton question that asks about your favourite writer, and a specific work. (more…)
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: battle of algiers, bones, crass, dubai, francois robert, ghost of petrodollar bubble past, headspace, mount kimbie, music, photography, posters, punk, skeletons, zines
The weather’s really been turning lately, and with it comes new music. Or, new-old music—I’m currently reacquiring most of that late 80s extended dischord family turn to post hardcore. (And at that, can’t find Embrace anywhere). It’s not quite right though, and older hardcore and crust still seems a little too abrasive for the moment. Suggestions please? Otherwise it’s been a lot of dubstep, or post-dubstep, or whatever people are calling it lately. This weekend I saw Mount Kimbie at Public Assembly quite by accident – the first gig I’ve ben to in I don’t know how long. I don’t think I even know how to just listen to music anymore, nevermind obsessively live and consume. (more…)
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: aesthetics, augmented reality, book covers, calligraphy, CIA, documents from the U.S. espionage den, espionage, ettela'at, farsi, graphic design, intelligence, iPhone, iran, iranian, kashmiri, nineteen eighty bore, persian, political, posters, revolution, script, surveillance society, technocracy, typography
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I came across these killer Iranian graphics from Belog today – mostly posters and book covers, and all pretty sick. I don’t speak farsi so I can’t be sure but the one on the left seems to say something like “(her?) song incites/stirs”? Speaking of the script, I taught myself to read it when in Mumbai/Srinagar earlier this summer – it’s pretty close to Arabic, except with a few more letters and joined differently. Which works fine reading Urdu, but Kashmiri not so much – though I do have a fair amount of years before I’d need fluency for PhD research. |
documents from US espionage in Turkey and Palestine
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: anarchism, art, ☭☭☭, ⚑, calorie free propaganda, electoral politics, emiliano zapata, emma goldman, obama, peter kropotkin, posters, sds, shephard fairey
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Street artist Shephard Fairey‘s – perhaps better known for OBEY and ANDRE THE GIANT – iconic Obama posters are pretty well known by now. I’m seeing a lot of takes on them; here’s some I particularly like.
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