"In Spanien, Israel und den USA haben Bürger im letzten Jahr wochenlang zentrale Plätze besetzt, um für mehr Chancengerechtigkeit, gegen soziale und wirtschaftliche Ungerechtigkeit und den übermäßigen Einfluss von Unternehmen zu protestieren. „Die Empörten“ werden sie genannt, denn gerade in Spanien hielten viele der Demonstranten ein kleines Buch in der Hand: „Empört Euch!“ von Stéphane Hessel. Vor gut zehn Jahren protestierten schon einmal weltweit Menschen gegen diese Missstände und stürmten die Gipfeltreffen der G8-Staaten und der Welthandelskonferenz. Und auch damals hatte vor allem ein Buch die massenhaften Protest mitbefeuert: „No Logo“ von Naomi Klein, die Bibel der globalisierungskritischen Bewegung ..."
Foto: New York Shitty
Die Krise mag in immer neuen Gewändern erscheinen, aber es bleibt stets dieselbe Krise. Sie begann im Jahr 2007, als der lange Wirtschaftsboom endete. Seither sind die Finanzmärkte in Aufruhr, die Politik ist in Alarmbereitschaft. Fünf Jahre Krise und kein Ende ... Wir müssen daher versuchen, den Überblick zu behalten, Zusammenhänge zu erkennen und die bisherigen Verwerfungen zu verstehen, die erst Hausbesitzer, dann Banken, Unternehmen und schließlich Staaten erfassten.(via Nerdcore)
A series of interventions/photographs for which I collect sentences from business proposals that are being emailed to me and that I have plotted out as vinyl adhesive letters. With those sentences I look for vacant commercial windows (shops, offices). Once a suitable window is found I then paste a sentence on the empty shopping window. Oddly enough the business opportunities a vacant shopping space offer work beautifully with the empty promises of loads of money in your email box(via rebel:art)
When wishes are out of reach, simulation is taking over our leisure time and our holidays. Imaginary worlds are created, often under massive technological exertion, in order to offer us experience as reproducible merchandise. Although the quality of these adventures on demand sometimes proves to be rather dubious, the boom does shed light on one thing: the yearnings and dreams underlying people’s daily lives.(via Ignant)
Forty-six artists, including Shepard Fairey, have contributed black-and-white artwork to the Police Brutality Coloring Book, a 48-page DIY publication inspired by incidents of violent police action against Occupy Wall Street activists. “I wasn’t directly involved with the movement, but I had been down there a few times and was sympathetic to the cause,” said Police Brutality Coloring Book creator Joe “Heaps” Nelson ... Then it turned out that Chelsea Elliott, one of four women pepper-sprayed during a Sep. 24 protest march in Manhattan, was a friend of a friend of the New York artist. The incident, and others like it, spurred Nelson into action. “I am outraged at how the police are treating people,” he said, “and moral outrage is not my default setting. And then when I saw that guy at Cal Davis [University of California at Davis campus police Lt. John Pike] calmly spray those kids in the face, I knew I had to do something.”(via Nerdcore)
"Considering his own material as "post-post-post pop", through juxtapositional use of color, shape, and text, Mr. Wax is able to articulate his fascination with our consumer culture. The corporate co-optation of human emotions, the ubiquity and sentimentality of plastics, the seductive false promises in the language of PR, and the biased value judgments placed on feeling "good" versus "bad" are all themes discussed in his work."(via Sweet Station)
Bronx Boys is an intimate photo essay about the lives of young people in the Bronx during the 1970s, 80s, and 90s. Shot over two decades by photojournalist Stephen Shames, Bronx Boys takes the viewer inside the lives of young people living at the epicenter of a crack cocaine epidemic that devastated their community. The story tracks their childhood on the streets, their loves and losses. It includes a powerful first person narrative by Martin Dones, one of the young men Shames followed and who survived life on the streets.(via Ignant)
