February 2012
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Shephard Fairey pleads guilty, faces up to 6... →
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I’m happy he owned up to lying, but for his sake hope he doesn’t have to go to jail.
Although that would be very Orwellian if he did…OBEY!
Now that he might be as “consistent” as Ron Paul, maybe people selling imitation posters and T-shirts will soon be finding cease and desist letters suggesting them to OBEY copyright laws from Fairey in their mailboxes… excuse...
Perilous: Target Corporation's obsessive... →
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When a Minnesota-area man received coupons for baby products from the Target Corporation addressed to his teenage daughter, he was outraged. My daughter is in high school, he complained to a Target store manager. Why are you sending her this stuff? Turns out she was, in fact, pregnant, but he…
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...and you can do the same thing if you please..
The news of Mike Kelley’s death seems to have hit me in a strange place, like a nerve sticking out of dental cavity. I never thought myself a big fan of his work. His presence is too pervasive in what and how I experience Art, it’s difficult not to be affected by his suicide at some level. Perhaps having been an Studio Art major at an university in Greater Los Angeles area makes it...
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Mike Kelley (1954-2012) [Artillery Mag: Killer... →
“‘No. I never believed in anything,’ he said with a hollowness in his deep throaty voice. He seemed detached, but somehow all these questions about his personal life were something that had been drilled over and over in his life. It seemed like a rehearsal. He seemed bored, yet attentive.”
I needed to wrap up our interview as I felt I was taking too much time from Mike....
January 2012
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Slavoj Žižek · The Revolt of the Salaried... →
The notion of surplus wage also throws new light on the ongoing ‘anti-capitalist’ protests. In times of crisis, the obvious candidates for ‘belt-tightening’ are the lower levels of the salaried bourgeoisie: political protest is their only recourse, if they are to avoid joining the proletariat. Although their protests are nominally directed at the brutal logic of the market, they are in effect...
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Hélas / Hell As
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tooearlytoolate:
The ubiquitous cruise ship from FILM SOCIALISME (2010) tragically sank today a few days ago. Story here.
EURO CAPITALISME (2012)
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Mother Jones magazine on Tumblr: DO NOT, REPEAT... →
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Via Yahoo Sports:
…a gym owner in Dubai thought a picture of the infamous Auschwitz concentration camp would be a great advertisement poster for his gym. He thought wrong. Phil Parkinson, 32, posted a picture to the Circuit Factory’s Facebook page of the railroad tracks leading to…
I can imagine existing a Monty Pythonesque parody sketch with this overused cliche, set in...
December 2011
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BBC News - Faecal transplants used to cure... →
About 30g (1oz) is taken and blitzed in a household blender with some salt water. This is poured through a coffee filter to leave a watery liquid.
Dr MacConnachie inserts a tube up the patient’s nose and down to the stomach. Other doctors use a different route to the bowels.
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