A Photo and a Print
August 21, 2013
Among the photos my cousin Fannie took in the 1930s, one stood out for me. It was a picture of Fisherman’s Wharf in San Francisco. This photo reminds me of…
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Ship Photos 1930s
August 18, 2013
I’ve posted several images of my cousin Fannie Black’s overseas excursions in the 1930s. Here are a few images on board the ship. Here she is looking so stoic, beautiful,…
France – 1935 – Postcards from Fannie
August 10, 2013
Here’s another set of postcards from my cousin Fannie’s trip to France in 1935. I love these old black and white postcards. These pictures look so serene, and since there…
The Bank Attack by Twice Thou-video
August 8, 2013
Culture about resistance, resistance cultural production! Check out this video by Twice Thou about resistance to Bank of America Foreclosures.
Postcards from my cousin Fannie – Vienna 1935
August 4, 2013
This is another set of postcards discovered in the ephemera of my relative Fannie Black who recently passed away in January of this year. She has an amazing range of…
Labor Victory! Palermo’s Pizza Workers in Milwaukee
August 1, 2013
It is a rare moment when one celebrates a labor victory in Wisconsin, much less anywhere in the U$A, yet that is the welcome news coming out of the Badger…
New York Photos
July 30, 2013
So, this is the second series of images of paper paraphernalia from my relative Fannie Simonowsky’s family archive. The first was a series of photographs of her trip to Russia…
Russian Photographs from 1935
July 23, 2013
First photograph: Moscow, The Kremlin, 1935 My third cousin, Fannie Simonowsky- Black, lived to the incredible age of 103. We all called her “Aunt” because in many ways she epitomized…
Ask First
July 22, 2013
Ask First from Brendan Anckaert on Vimeo. Just turned on to this brilliant reworking of the Robin Thicke creepy top-40 tune by a bunch of Canadian coastal queers…it’s all about…
Sandy Memorial Sculpture fundraising
July 17, 2013
Sarah Quinter, a good friend of Justseeds, has been working hard on a great Sandy Memorial Sculpture project, melding storm debris and the voices of those effected by the…
Google Google Apps Apps
July 12, 2013
Perusing the ol’ Hark! a Vagrant tumblr yesterday I came across this absolutely marvelous video by Miss Persia and Daddie$ Pla$tic for a song called Google Google Apps Apps. I…
Honoring Grace Lee Boggs
June 27, 2013
“History is not the past. It is the stories that we tell about the past. How we tell these stories – triumphantly, self-critically, metaphysically, or dialectically – has a lot…
I Am Bradley Manning
June 19, 2013
Some colleagues made this awesome, star-studded explosion of a video tribute to Bradley Manning. Watch it, think hard about it. What are YOU willing to do for what you know…
On The Shadows Of The Disappeared
June 14, 2013
There’s a really nice collection of Joao Pina’s photos of South America’s Disappeared on NPR Picture Show. In 1975, the right-wing dictatorships of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay and Paraguay…
Mic Crenshaw: Free My MInd
June 11, 2013
Radical Portland MC Mic Crenshaw has a new EP out and just posted a video for one of the tracks called “Free My MInd”. It’s a great cut: an homage…
A succinct cultural analysis of the use of cats in representing social change
May 28, 2013
I have been asked several times about the use of cats in my artwork and so I now present a succinct explanation of why I am not simply obsessed with…
Notes from the Farm
May 24, 2013
Notes from the farm: is the first in a series of drawings and writings telling of my experience coming back home to my family’s farm. It’s been nearly three years…
Art as a vehicle for social change
May 21, 2013
Vladmir Mayakovsky: “Art is not a mirror held up to society, but a hammer with which to shape it.” Hannah Hoch: “I wish to blur the firm boundaries which we…
Counterfeit: A Congo Diptych
May 8, 2013
A doomed past doesn’t mean a doomed future. The weight of history doesn’t bear down forever- people shrug their burdens off. I’ve got two new prints (here and here) up…
World War 3 Illustrated Tumblr
May 2, 2013
I just came across the World War 3 illustrated tumblr site where they’ve posted Magdy El Shafee’s comic “The Anonymous,” a contribution to issue #42 of WW3. Their Tumblr no…