A Love Letter to 2011
April 9, 2013 2:39 PM Subscribe
Molly Crabapple's Shell Game "Illustrates Occupy and the Revolutions of 2011"
Democracy, Ow: A Q&A with Discordia authors Laurie Penny and Molly Crabapple
Street Art And The New Bohemian
Art After Occupy
Democracy, Ow: A Q&A with Discordia authors Laurie Penny and Molly Crabapple
Street Art And The New Bohemian
Art After Occupy
When I got the job as a staff artist at a nightclub, the dream came true. It was the sort of impossibly swank joint where Saudi princelings blew $20,000 a night on champagne. Meanwhile, onstage, the world’s best vaudeville performers would do acrobatic, carefully choreographed acts about cutting off banker’s heads. My boss had the depravity of a Borgia prince, but goddamn, he understood my art. I drew my beloved performers as gods. Customers were coke snorting pigs.VIA
It got me thinking that all it takes to get political is a sharp eye, a mocking disposition, a discomfort with your place.
Neato! Was expecting Lower-East-Side-circa-1970s-style woodblock prints (ala Bread & Puppet Theater) but am digging the illustrative intricacy.
posted by spamandkimchi at 3:56 PM on April 9, 2013 [1 favorite]
2011. I remember it as if it were only yesterday.
posted by Halogenhat at 4:58 PM on April 9, 2013
posted by Halogenhat at 4:58 PM on April 9, 2013
From twitter: @gemini_scorpio: Didn't think this would happen: New York ordered to pay up over NYPD's destruction of Occupy property. #ows http://t.co/qWkZGtuJTx
posted by The Whelk at 8:49 PM on April 9, 2013 [2 favorites]
posted by The Whelk at 8:49 PM on April 9, 2013 [2 favorites]
wow, that illustration is beautiful. put me down as another "my god, I remember it like it was yesterday."
posted by You Can't Tip a Buick at 9:09 PM on April 9, 2013
posted by You Can't Tip a Buick at 9:09 PM on April 9, 2013
Yeah sometimes I freak out that's 2013 and "what the hell did I do for the last two years?' and then I remember -oh wait THAT THING.
posted by The Whelk at 9:15 AM on April 10, 2013
posted by The Whelk at 9:15 AM on April 10, 2013
Homeland Security Spied On Peaceful Protestors; Worried About Protests Getting News Coverage (huffington, original)
posted by jeffburdges at 10:55 AM on April 10, 2013
posted by jeffburdges at 10:55 AM on April 10, 2013
New York ordered to pay up over NYPD's destruction of Occupy property.
NYPD Raid on Occupy Wall Street Just Cost the City $350,000
Thanks, NYPD: OWS Library Wins Settlement As City Hemorrhages More Money
posted by homunculus at 12:49 AM on April 11, 2013
NYPD Raid on Occupy Wall Street Just Cost the City $350,000
Thanks, NYPD: OWS Library Wins Settlement As City Hemorrhages More Money
posted by homunculus at 12:49 AM on April 11, 2013
We're all going to see the show tonight!
posted by The Whelk at 11:27 AM on April 14, 2013 [1 favorite]
posted by The Whelk at 11:27 AM on April 14, 2013 [1 favorite]
The Spirit of Occupy Wall Street Is Alive in Berlin
posted by homunculus at 3:28 PM on April 17, 2013 [1 favorite]
posted by homunculus at 3:28 PM on April 17, 2013 [1 favorite]
Cops Who Pepper-Sprayed, Punched Occupy Protesters Escape DA Charges
posted by homunculus at 5:22 PM on April 21, 2013 [1 favorite]
posted by homunculus at 5:22 PM on April 21, 2013 [1 favorite]
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