We Are Called to Be a Movement
September 9, 2020
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…
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The Art of Protest
May 5, 2020
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…
The Warden Game
December 29, 2018
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…
Commonwealth review on Hyperallergic
June 26, 2017
“…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…
Shieko Reto’s GIFS
September 15, 2016
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…
Earth First! The Musical!
March 16, 2016
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…
Bill Ohrmann Paints It How He Sees It
September 3, 2013
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 review of the Justseeds show “Uprisings: Images of Labor”
April 1, 2013
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…
Wisconsin Uprising(s)
October 15, 2012
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…
REVIEW: Propaganda Prints
July 17, 2012
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…
REVIEW: Walking Shadows
July 10, 2012
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…
REVIEW: Marshall Law
July 3, 2012
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…
What is Planet of the Apes in a World without Black Power?
August 12, 2011
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…
In the News & New Reviews, Summer 2011
August 3, 2011
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…
The Graphic Impulse at MoMA
July 6, 2011
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…
In the News & New Reviews, Spring 2011
May 6, 2011
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…
Recent Press: Carlos Cortéz and Allied Artists
April 20, 2011
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…
In the News & New Reviews
February 2, 2011
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…
Print: How You Can Do it Yourself!
January 12, 2011
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…
Press Roundup, December 2010
December 18, 2010
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…
TIME OUT CHICAGO article on Justseeds exhibition in Chicago
December 9, 2010
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…
Dorothy Allison Book Recommendation
November 15, 2010
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…
Legacy of Brutality
October 30, 2010
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…
4 (pretty great) Films About Revolutionary South American Movements Told through the Viewpoint of A Kid
October 6, 2010
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…
REVIEW: Exit Through the Gift Shop
April 13, 2010
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…
REVIEW: Prestel Poster Book Series
March 29, 2010
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…
Philagrafika-Philadelphia
March 29, 2010
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…
A World of Wounds
March 28, 2010
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,…
LIST: Best 12 Books I Read in 2009
March 8, 2010
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…
Avatar-same old story
January 5, 2010
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…
Supply & Demand: The Hollow Magic of Shepard Fairey
October 27, 2009
LISTS: Twenty Poster Books of Note
September 16, 2009
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…
REVIEW: Mostly True
August 19, 2009
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…
The Big Dance
July 3, 2009
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…
Our Lenin: kid’s book from the USA, 1934
May 19, 2009
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…
REVIEW: Spring Book Roundup
April 16, 2009
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…
Review of “Signs of Change: Social Movement Cultures 1960s to Now”
April 6, 2009
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 Real Cost of Prisons
February 18, 2009
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…
A Moment in Time: Bingham’s Black Panthers
February 18, 2009
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…
Review: PEEL: The Art of the Sticker
February 13, 2009
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…
Review of Realizing the Impossible
January 24, 2009
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
December 29, 2008
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…
Guy Debord’s Digital ‘Game of War’
November 30, 2008
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…
Frentes, Coaliciones y Talleres
November 20, 2008
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…
Review of Realizing the Impossible
October 24, 2008
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,…
Philagrafika on Justeeds
July 28, 2008
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…
New Book: Diego Rivera: Great Illustrator
June 18, 2008
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….