Monday, 12 March 2012

Varsity Apartments, Boulder, Colorado, July l976

Allen Ginsberg, Philip Whalen, novelist William S. Burroughs, swimming pool area, Varsity Apartments, Boulder, Colorado, July l976.
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A Video Campaign and the Power of Simplicity

Invisible Children Funded By Antigay, Creationist Christian Right

Go to Trial: Crash the Justice System

(Thanx Sander!)

Taking The Piss

Chances are pretty good you've recently seen the ‘Banksy on Advertising’ quote that begins, ‘People are taking the piss out of you everyday.’ The passage is from Banksy's 2004 book Cut It Out, and it presents the idea that if advertisers are going to fill your world with ads, you have every right to ‘take, re-arrange and re-use’ those images without permission. The quote has been posted widely on Facebook, Tumblr, and Twitter, which is where I found it.
Here's the interesting part:
Most of it is swiped directly from an essay I wrote in 1999, in the ‘Death, Phones, Scissors’ issue of my zine Crap Hound. The first paragraph is more or less original, but the rest is mine, right down to the same words and phrases.
See for yourself. Here's the Banksy quote followed by the relevant part of my essay as it appeared in Crap Hound. (The full essay is linked at the end of this post.) Pink indicates indirect references, and yellow shows the direct swipes...

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Sean Tejaratchi @'Reading Frenzy'

What Banksy looks like...

'You can never go fast enough...'

Female Ohio Democrat Introduces Bill To Regulate The Reproductive Health Of Men

Nazi rules for jazz performers

Years of National Socialism, the 30s and the missing 40s

Image: Poster for an Exhibition in Dusseldorf (1938)

Kissinger says Putin is a 'patriot'

RasPutintin?
Kissinger said Putin, who was elected to a third term as president in an election marred by irregularities and protests against his rule, "is not anti-western."
"He is, above all, a Russian patriot who feels humiliated by the experience of the 1990s, which were in the most formative period of his career," Kissinger said in an interview with CNN, referring to the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union and the crisis that followed.
"He is very resentful of what he interprets as intervention in Russian domestic affairs and even more, of course, in what he may interpret and does interpret as some American tendencies to support his political opponents in order to encourage his overthrow," he said.
"But I believe that a dialogue is possible and on specific issues he can turn out to be a constructive partner," he said.
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Carl Sagan, Stephen Hawking and Arthur C. Clarke - God, The Universe and Everything Else

Holey Optochip First to Transfer One Trillion Bits of Information per Second Using the Power of Light

More Truth!!!

Septimius Severus ‏ @subverzo

The entire internet should be hijacking #Kony2012 to attach other war criminals; e.g. #Bush2012 #Cheney2012 #Kissinger2012 #Blair2012

TG Live 1981

The Mission Is Terminated - Live at Kezar Pavillion San Francisco 29th May 1981

The Clash: Westway to the World

US soldier kills up to 16 Afghan civilians in shooting spree

Truth

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♪♫ Apparat - Candil De La Calle (MTV Live Session)

Beset by online surveillance and content filtering, netizens fight on

Sunday, 11 March 2012

Fuxake!!!

Advertising - don't you just love it?

Queens of the Stone Age w/ Mark Lanegan - AOL Session (2002)

Josh Homme and Scott Reeder file lawsuit against Kyuss Lives!

Fer THE Bast'rd XXX

Change

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♪♫ Carter Tutti Void - V2 (edit)

Optimo - Live @ Honey Soundsystem SF (12/2/12)

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White Light 54 Mix – JD Twitch (Optimo)

♪♫ Jahtari Riddim Force - One Armed Swordsman

(from 'Jahtarian Dubbers Vol. 3')
Plus TAPES playng it live on a keyboard:

Jahtari

XXX (Your Sunday Sex Dwarf)

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Monday to Saturday too...*sigh*

Home

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Moebius RIP

Sedation of Millions

The 'Sedation Of Millions' print is inspired by the title of my favorite Public Enemy album 'It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back'. I think the biggest problem in America is the indifference and complacency about important issues that results from much of the population being perpetually hypnotized by conspicuous consumption, social media, entertainment, and self-medication. Using sedation and escapism for relief from the rat race might make us less aware (blissfully ignorant) but also less empowered to improve our role within the rat race… a vicious cycle of cause and effect.
- Shepard Fairey
(Thanx George!)

Atari Teenage Riot's Alec Empire Donates Money From Sony Ad to Hacker Group Anonymous

Alec Empire, frontman of the German electropunk group Atari Teenage Riot and founder of the Digital Hardcore label, is now also a 21st century Robin Hood of sorts.
Empire has handed a large sum of money earned from Sony Entertainment off to FreeAnons, which is part of the pro-hacker Anonymous Solidarity Network. The group offers financial support to individuals facing legal trouble for alleged work with the Anonymous hacker group.
The money came from licensing Atari Teenage Riot's song "Black Flags" for use in a commercial for the PlayStation Vita handheld console. It's a particularly humorous move considering that Anonymous has in the past been in direct conflict with Sony.
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