Drawing All the Time : Week 68
April 24, 2013
Camouflage Two, 2012, 13.75×9.5in, ink, acrylic, oil, and gouache on paper
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Drawing All the Time : Week 67
April 17, 2013
Two Cranes, 2012, 22.5×32.75in, ink on paper
Drawing All the Time : Week 65
April 3, 2013
<Editors note: Drawing All the Time was a series of blog posts produced by former Justseeds coop artist Colin Matthes. Colin posted 66 drawings to the Justseeds Blog before he…
Fragile! Fragile! Fragile!
March 12, 2013
Last week, on the sly, I went around with my phone’s camera and took pictures of all of the variations on the “Fragile” icon from shipping crates at the museum…
Dissatisfaction in Slovenia
February 15, 2013
There is a growing social movement in the small Eastern Europe nation of Slovenia. Protests against austerity and corrupt politicians began last December. Comrades sent this short video of the…
Mess Hall Farewell
February 9, 2013
People might have already heard that Mess Hall —the great experimental cultural space that has existed for 10 years in the Rogers Park in Chicago—is shutting down at the end…
define: Vibrancy
February 4, 2013
This past week I got a kick out of Thomas Frank’s article “Dead End on Shakin’ Street” in the last issue of The Baffler. Frank skewers the term Vibrant, particularly…
Whose Art Is This, Anyway?
January 28, 2013
I read an article yesterday at the Cluster Mag about the ever-widening circle of art-superstars who never actually participate in the fashioning of their own work. While this is nothing…
Antonio Frasconi- 28 April, 1919- 08 January 2013
January 22, 2013
Printmaker Antonio Frasconi passed away earlier this year. Frasconi was a Uruguayan artist that mastered the medium of woodblock printing. He produced artwork on a wide range of social issues…
Dreams of Vengeance
January 17, 2013
I woke up early and read another great post by filmmaker Adam Curtis on his excellent blog. In it, he describes the rise of fear and hatred among a populace…
Zinn Education Project Keeps Getting Better!
January 1, 2013
I’ve been enjoying the teaching materials and modus operandi of the Zinn Education Project ever since I discovered them back when we were working on the Firebrands book. These days…
“V” is for Veteran
December 27, 2012
My dad works as a Guardian ad Litem in rural North Carolina. As such, this year he was collecting donated Christmas packages from Toys for Tots, a project of the…
My print for the Munch Gallery Show
December 8, 2012
This is my print for the Sowing the Seeds of Love show at Munch Gallery in New York. It’s four color reduction print (four shades of grey!) turned into a…
La Persistencia de los Sueños install peek from Interference Archive
November 15, 2012
Sublevarte Colectivo is currently installing a retrospective exhibition at Interference Archive, that opens tomorrow, Friday, November 16th. Here’s a peek of them at work. All photos taken by Irina Arellano-Weiss
New writing by Cindy Milstein
October 22, 2012
The following essay was written for the anthology Revolutionary Love Letters (Minor Compositions, forthcoming in 2013), edited by Jamie Heckert, who kindly and lovingly gave me permission to share it…
Easton Cowboys & Cowgirls Book Release in Brooklyn, Tonight!
September 25, 2012
NYC Book Release: Freedom Through Football: The story of the Easton Cowboys and Cowgirls by Will Simpson & Malcolm McMahon Tuesday September 25th, 7pm Interference Archive 131 8th st. #4…
Solar Powered Golf Cart
September 24, 2012
I was out of the country for the past year. While I was away my father Neil designed and built a solar powered golf cart (in our case a work…
Street Books
September 21, 2012
I’m so inspired by this project taking place in Portland, Oregon. Street Books is a bicycle-powered mobile library for people living outside. It is bicycle with a built in cart…
Rad Graphics from Idinthakarai
September 21, 2012
A new friend here in Toronto, Ponni, shared some amazing political graphics by Aarti Sunder, criticizing the government’s use of the charge of Sedition to silence over 6,000 anti-nuclear activists…
The Illuminator Crew is “Crowd” Fundraising
September 19, 2012
The Illuminator, in case you haven’t heard, is a tactical media machine (aka a van with a really powerful projector, sound system, and library) that has been roaming the streets…