Category: projects

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Graphopolis

Looking at graphic augmentation of the city + civilians.

…from a protest in Paris over the Iranian post-election crackdown, and the murder of  protester Neda Agha-Soltan:

Photo Jacques Brinon/Associated Press
Photo Jacques Brinon/Associated Press

…election posters hung in Tripoli around the election in spring 2009:

photo Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
photo Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

…images from Delete! (2005) site-specific project in Vienna, Austria
by Steinbrener/Dempf:

still from Delete! Delettering the Public Space
Delete! by Steinbrener/Dempf, Vienna, 2005
still from Delete! Delettering the Public Space
Delete! by Steinbrener/Dempf, Vienna, 2005

…in Toronto, Sean Martindale and Eric Cheung are turning street ad posters into
planters with The Poster Pocket Plants :

Poster Pocket Plants, image from The Torontoist
Poster Pocket Plants, image from The Torontoist (Click on image for more great pics.)
image from Spacing Toronto
image from Spacing Toronto

…the Object Orange project in Detroit from 2006:

Object Orange, Detroit
Object Orange, Detroit

..where the flat and the fizzy meet, with a cherry on top — artwork by Vinchen:

artwork by Vinchen
artwork by Vinchen
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Veni vidi vici (crest II sketch)

crest_squirrel

Schematic/crest of 3 shields of the Grey Squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris).
Originally imported from America to Great Britain ca. 1840 as a living lawn ornament. On left, the nationalist  imperative that the Greys should now be exterminated; on right; deforestation in part to supply the Briitsh Royal Navy with timber historically contributed to the near-vanquished Red Squirrel’s loss of habitat, helping to pave the way for the victorious Greys.

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Red rant

OK.

I’ve *sort of * held back on indexing the negative spooge that leaks from the corpulent sides of the Us vs Them discourse, but here is a brief list:

Red Squirrel’s Nut Cracking Nationalism
excerpt:

I used to conceal my identity from the disgusting hammer wielding fascist scum, that threaten to burn people alive! But I hide NO More!

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Infidel Blogger’s Alliance (sic)
excerpt:

Grey squirrels dont blow them selves in the underground…

(insert tasteless joke here)

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The Fall’s Mark E Smith in Squirrel Death Probe
excerpt:

The gruff singer claimed he would “happily set about an endangered red squirrel with a set of professional hedge-clippers”.

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Drawing V (study for a taxidermy arrangement)

Red vs. Greys
Red vs. Greys

Working on a plan to make a taxidermy sculpture, if I can get Paul Parker to give me all his bullet-ridden Grey culls. They’ll be put to good use, employ one of my favorite taxidermists, and look something like zombies from Shaun of the Dead. (The Red will be old fare, nothing newly killed unless I can get a pox victim stuffed).