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Occupy Wall Street Posters
popthirdworld:
The best collection of Occupy posters from around the world.
NOTE: Check out the paint roller one of the protesters is holding up in this poster from Jakarta. Is it just a coincidence that it looks similar to a sickle - the symbol of Communist/Socialist revolution? Am I reading too much into it?
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Watchtheatlanticvideo:
Transit: A Photojournalist’s Quest to Tell the Stories of People on the Run
Espen Rasmussen, an Oslo-based photographer, has spent seven years documenting displaced people around the world for his Transit project, a multimedia work that includes photography, video, a website, and an exhibition at the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo. The videos blend Rasmussen’s photographs and...
welcome back, me
Hello, I went away for awhile and for that I apologize. The stream of social art will start up again soon.
October 2011
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September 2011
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Candy Chang's Before I Die Project →
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Candy Chang is a public installation artist. Before I Die is her project. It involved putting stencils up for a month on the side of an abandoned house in her neighborhood. The words, “Before I die…” really resonated with a lot of people, and she left chalk pieces so that residents can write on the wall and remember what is important to them in life.
“Before I Die transforms...
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Kickstarter: Wandering Souls Production of... →
This is a fantastic blend of spreading social awareness through theater, giving back to the community, and supporting the arts. Please consider donating; every little bit helps.
About Reflections…:
We are honored to collaborate with Saint Elizabeths Hospital in Washington DC on our fall project, Reflections: Plays from Saint Elizabeths Hospital. After we toured our production of Twelfth...
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“Criticism of society is ultimately revolution; there you have criticism taken to...”
– Bertolt Brecht (via seeingeyewantstosee)
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August 2011
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Generating Sparks: Art as a Mirror of Our Times →
vandegraaff:
By chance I walked into an art gallery in Toronto and got into a conversation with the gentleman who had the gallery showing. He talked to me about putting together a one-off newspaper about a myriad of topics and he asked if I’d like to write an article. I told him I very much was and he gave me…
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‘Where Children Sleep’ →
“It was a small room, at the top of the house. For a time, it was home to tropical fish. Later, two pet mice slept there, in a home made of fruit crates. The walls of the room were covered with posters of Madonna and Duran Duran. Then it was the Rolling Stones. Then Jimi Hendrix.
This was the childhood bedroom in Oxford, England, of James Mollison, 37, a documentary photographer who was...
July 2011
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The Last Meals Project →
haunting.
“The best way to predict the future is to design it -Buckminster Fuller”
– (via ihappeneduponacity)
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