We Are Called to Be a Movement
We Are Called to Be A Movement by Rev. Dr. William J. Barber This summer Rev. Dr. William Barber of the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call For Moral Revival…
We Are Called to Be A Movement by Rev. Dr. William J. Barber This summer Rev. Dr. William Barber of the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call For Moral Revival…
A small glimmer of hope and enjoyment arrived in the mail a little while back, a copy of the new political poster book by Jo Rippon and Amnesty International, The…
I came across this on Twitter last week: a newly compiled version of Ed Mead’s 80’s text adventure “The Warden Game“. Ed was a member of working-class anticapitalist urban guerrilla…
“…two series of prints from the Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative evidence smart and stylish design sensibilities.” The Justseeds/Interference Archive exhibition Commonwealth: Water for All, which is currently on display at the…
Colleague Shieko Reto has been making some awesome retro GIFs addressing aspects of trans life and everyday politics in Malaysia. Here’s a selection of some of my favorites along with…
Colleague Maren Ward has been putting together a musical celebrating 30 years of Earth First!– the radical, no-compromise environmental movement that brought direct action to the forests, mountains and deserts…
I spent two weeks in August traveling around Montana. My friend Elizabeth and I hiked to hot springs in the Bitterroot Wilderness, counted Golden Eagles and Nighthawks in the Paradise…
Margaret Rozga – one of Milwaukee’s great activists for the past five decades – wrote the following review of the recent Justseeds show in Milwaukee. She writes: “Uprisings: Images of…
Dylan A.T. Miner recently wrote a short catalog essay for the work that I created in collaboration with Paul Kjelland for the 2011 Mary L. Nohl Fund Fellowship for Individual…
Propaganda Prints by Colin Moore (London: AC Blackwell, 2010) Propaganda Prints is an ambitious project, attempting to present the full scope of “art in the service of social and…
Walking Shadows: A Novel Without Wordsby Neil Bousfield (San Francisco: Manic D Press, 2010) Walking Shadows is an impressive volume of work. Following in the footsteps of Frans Masereel…
Marshall Law: The Life and Times of a Baltimore Black Panther by Marshall “Eddie” Conway and Dominque Stevenson (Oakland: AK Press, 2011) AK Press’s recently published memoir by Marshall…
I must admit, I ran out to see Rise of the Planet of the Apes the day it came out. I’ve been a life long fan of Planet of the…
Here’s another short round-up of recent news and reviews: UK’s Huck Magazine has printed an excerpt of Dara and my intro to Signs of Change: Social Movement Cultures 1960s to…
I finally made the trip up to the Museum of Modern Art for German Expressionism: The Graphic Impulse. The exhibition will only run until July 11th. The Neue Galerie has…
It’s been a little while since I posted a collection of reviews and such, so here’s a recent batch, plus some old ones that slipped through the cracks: 1) Signs…
print by Lampert/Matthes Third Coast Digest has a great review by Jackelyn Wicklund about the Carlos Cortéz show in Milwaukee at WPCA that includes a number of prints by Justseeds…
There is an article about Colin Matthes’ Carlos Cortez mural at OnMilwaukee.com: Mural project is a work of admiration and kindred consciousness “The campaign increased my desire to make something…
A few months ago I picked up an amazing book called Print: How Your Can Do it Yourself by Jonathan Zeitlyn. It was first printed in 1974, in the heyday…
Some great recent press: 1) Peter Linebaugh does a duel review of Signs of Change and Celebrate People’s History for Counterpunch HERE. It’s a great long-format review, and well worth…
Lauren Weinberg, Art and Design editor at Time Out Chicago, wrote an article on the Justseeds RESOURCED and “Operation Exposure” show at the In These Times building that opens today…
On the plane ride back to Providence from Chicago, I dug into my backpack and pulled out the book I have been intending to dive into for years– Dorothy Allison‘s…
I got a great used book for my birthday, World Architecture 2 a large picture book of architectural trends from 1965. It contains many examples of Brutalism, an architectural style…
This may seem like an obscure genre, but there’s a good few of these movies out there…. there’s even some I didn’t include because they weren’t any good! With all…
Exit Through the Gift Shop A Banksy Film I never pegged Banksy as a fan of gothic novels, but he and his crew pull off a pretty good Shelley…
Chinese Posters, Stefan R. Landsberger & Marien van der Heijden (Prestel, 2009) Soviet Posters: The Sergo Grigorian Collection, Maria Lafont (Prestel, 2007) North Korean Posters: The David Heather Collection, David…
I was fortunate enough to have Favianna Rodriguez and Jesus Barraza drop by my house late last Thursday. With very little arm twisting, at 1AM, they convinced me to go…
Here’s a list of ten of my favorite quotes pertaining to the state of the world that I’ve gleaned in the past several years: A: “We don’t change our behavior,…
I’ve been trying to organize some of us Justseed-ers to start posting top ten lists of various things, I’ve always thought they were fun to both write and read. To…
Just saw Avatar tonight. I appreciated the anti-capitalist, pro-environment message, its too bad it comes in the tired narrative of whitey coming to save the natives. It was exciting, the…
I was making out a list of books for a friend, and realized I could share it with all our blog readers. For those that don’t know, I’m both a…
Bill Daniel Mostly True Microcosm Publishing, 2008 Hummm, book? zine? scrapbook? film companion? Mostly True straddles all these things, introducing us to the cluttered archives (and head?) of Bill…
I used to play in a park across the street from the county jail while growing up. I vividly remember (when I was really young) heavily armed policeman guarding those…
I can’t remember where I found this book, but this is a children’s biography of Lenin published in 1934 by the CPUSA press. The writing is a basic heroic summary…
As a lover of books, I’ve been meaning and wanting to regularly review them here on the blog. Unfortunately life and work seem to rarely leave much time to convert…
Posted below is the long version of an exhibition review of Signs of Change that I wrote for the April/May issue of Left Turn. 800 Images, Histories, and Struggles: A…
Review: Illustrations from the Inside: The Beat Within edited by Louis E.V. Nevaer Mark Batty Publisher, 2007 The Real Cost of Prisons edited by Lois Ahrens PM Press, 2008 Back…
When I was in LA I got over to the California African American Museum to see Howard L. Bingham’s photographs of the Black Panther Party. The exhibit is made up…
PEEL: The Art of the Sticker Dave and Holly Combs Mark Batty Publisher, 2008 Stickers, easy to make, easy to use, a quick and cheap way to get…
Here’s a new review of Realizing the Impossible from the UK anarchist mag Direct Action #41: Reviews: Realizing the Impossible: Art against Authority by Josh MacPhee and Erik…
Modern Chinese Woodcuts A few years ago I picked up a book of Chinese woodcuts, written in the early 80s, put out by a state press and updated in the…
I am a gaming nerd!! Everyother Thursday, I get together with a group of like-minded geeks and we engage in German boardgames. Good times. Over the weekend, while hanging out…
Although Frentes, Coaliciones y Talleres: Grupos Visuales en México en el Siglo XX has been out since 2007, it was only yesterday that I finally got my hands on a…
The AK Press blog, Revolution by the Book, just posted a review of Realizing the Impossible written by Alan W. Moore, a long time NYC radical artist, theorist and teacher,…
Here’s a link to Philagrafika‘s take on the recent Justseeds collaboration at Space 1026. Philagrafika is a “virtual space for sharing artistic projects using the printed image in new and…
I was on tour in 2000, my band had played a sloppy show the night before and our host (Erik Ruin) took us to The Detroit Institute of Arts (Det….