So being the new girl in a new town, I am actually in the process of downloading the first episode of The Mary Tyler Moore show. As I keep hearing “You’re going to make it after all…” (the only part of the theme song I can remember) in my head, I figured it is an [...]
Archive for the 'anti-war.' Category
Back in September, I wrote about the Dream Rocket, an amazing project headed up by the equally amazing Jennifer Marsh! The idea behind the Dream Rocket is to cover a (real!) rocket with quilted panels made from around the world… facilitating our global wish for peace. The panels themselves, were a bit spendy for me [...]
You’ll have to turn up your speakers to hear this properly. It’s been transferred from VHS, and is a 1993 performance by 10,000 Maniacs at the inauguration of President Clinton. This morning I read that already this year there have been 219 American soldier deaths this year in Afghanistan, up 41% from all of [...]
The photos below are just a few of the many photos online of political graffiti, click on the photo to go to the photographer’s Flickr page.
Rome, Italy
Oxford, UK, 1993
St. Petersburg, Russia
Want more?
*Global Graphica
*Wooster Collective
*GraffitiStudies.info
*Art Crimes: War Murals
*Graffiti: The Art of Politics
*Torontoist: Taking it to the Streets
*Anti-Bush Graffiti: 25 countries, 6 continents
*Streetsy: 40+ [...]
I just finished the piece above, which is graffiti of the Palestinian hijacker Leila Khaled spraypainted on the wall between Bethlehem and Jerusalem. Leila Khaled was a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). It was a choice made originally to highlight the fact that what we may view through [...]