OVO

An enraged steamagineer gives the business to a robot president. Public domain, as has been most of my work for more that twenty years. The difference between this idea / image and most of my work is that the option exists to purchase it on a mug or t-shirt.

Labels: art, commerce, fight, transportation, trevorblake

Trevor Blake: Who Gets to be Kitsch, Who Doesn't [LINK-ZUM]

Che Guevara ordered the execution of at least fifty and perhaps more than two hundred people while serving as a prison warden in 1959. All your revolutionary needs can be purchased at The Che Store. Joseph Stalin managed to murder or starve five to ten million Russians. There's a flocked plastic statue of Uncle Joe with your name on it. Mao Zedong is responsible for the death of seventy-seven million of his commrades. Sign up now for your plastic Mao bust.

I can think of another political leader who killed more than two hundred people, less than seventy-seven million people, and around the lower amount of five to ten million. But that political leader doesn't get to be kitsch. Perhaps the difference is that you have kill some people for the betterment of all people, not just your people. Then you get to be kitsch a generation or two later.

Labels: art, commerce, fascism, socialism

Trevor Blake: Bird Nest [LINK-ZUM]

This sign, photographed on 11 July 2007 in Portland OR, is no longer there.

Labels: art, commerce, portland, transportation, trevorblake

Dennis Dread Original Art for Sale [LINK-ZUM]

A rare oportunity to own original art by Dennis Dread.

In the late 1980s / early 1990s I lived in Knoxville TN and Dennis lived in New York state. I traded copies of my zine OVO for a t-shirt produced by Mutilation Graphics, and the t-shirt I got was almost certainly screen printed by Dennis. More than ten years later we found ourselves working at the same job, amazed that our paths had crossed years before. Dennis did the cover art work for OVO 16 AntiChrist. I have attended a number of art shows produced by or including Mr. Dread's work, but this is the first time I've seen original works (rather than high-quality prints) for sale. Recommended!

Labels: art, christianity, commerce, music, portland, zine

Trevor Blake: The Get Out of Your Mind Free Card [LINK-ZUM]

When is a movie theater not a movie theater? When is a flea market not a flea market? When does Confederate slave-ownership law show up in contemporary United States law? When does a group get special protection against discrimination - that special protection being the right to discriminate? The answer is when superstition gets enfranchised into law. Rather than following the Constitution of the United States (or, perhaps, common sense), United States lawmakers sometimes make laws that establish a State religion. This superstition is honored, that superstition is not. It is better, far better, far easier, far more fair, that government keep out of the superstition business.

Labels: christianity, commerce, theocracy

Oliver and Ruiz: the eBay Banksy print fraud [LINK-ZUM]

Unauthorised prints by the anonymous graffiti artist Banksy have been sold on eBay as limited edition, signed works, by employees of the company which publishes and authenticates the artist's works on paper, Pictures on Walls (POW). These have been stamped with a replica of the POW blindstamp and some of them carry forged signatures. The prices for the prints have then been raised by an illegal practice known as shill bidding in which sellers or their associates make offers for goods to inflate the price artificially. [...] In a statement Banksy, his dealer Steve Lazarides, and the directors of POW, confirmed that unauthorised prints "have been sold on eBay" and stressed that they along with members of the public "have been victims of criminal behaviour." The company has launched a full-scale investigation and is inviting concerned collectors wanting to reauthenticate their Banksy prints to come forward.

[Article continues at link. Where is the art, where is the crime? - Trevor Blake]

Labels: art, commerce

Ashley Petry: Non-Christian events concern for employers [LINK-ZUM]

Last December, retailers nationwide encountered a firestorm of criticism for removing Christmas themes from their holiday displays in an effort to avoid offending non- Christians. Instead, they inadvertently offended many Christians. The controversy reminded employers that being respectful of employees' religious practices often requires walking a fine line. The issue isn't relevant only in December. In fact, the autumn calendar is full of non-Christian holidays, such as the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, the Jewish holidays of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, and the autumnal equinox, an important date in many pagan religions. The challenge for employers is to accommodate employees who celebrate those holidays, thereby avoiding religious discrimination lawsuits, without alienating other employees.

[Article continues at link. Maybe the challenge is for secular employers to remember that men and women are free to practice the superstition of their choice off the clock. Because to honor one superstition must mean an employer has to honor all the superstitions. I'm a contributor to the most recent book by the Church of the SubGenius, titled The SubGenius Psychlopaedia of Slack - The Bobliographon. Pages 238-240 (compiled by Rev. Modemac) list the SubGenius high holy days, on which a SubGenius should never be required to work. There are three hundred and sixty five of them. - Trevor Blake]

Labels: christianity, commerce, islam, judaism, subgenius, theocracy

diy tags [LINK-ZUM]

DIY commerce del.icio.us games krankheit mac p2p paper robots rockets sex tools transhuman trevorblake

Labels: commerce, del.icio.us, DIY, games, krankheit, mac, p2p, paper, robots, rockets, sex, tools, transhuman, trevorblake

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