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Clean green graffiti? Yes, this is reverse graffiti, making a statement by cleaning the city, i.e. removing dirt from dirty surfaces. The cops show up everytime…
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>Graffiti – Art Crime – Hardcore throw-ups
>If you dislike this hardcore post but enjoy the softcore post, bear in mind that the stuff featured in both posts are equally illegal. Seems like it’s mostly a matter of taste and understanding, right?
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Before we check the throw-ups, let’s celebrate 20 years of VIM hardcore action. Yes, I believe this legendary Swedish crew has been around for 20 years now. Truly unbelievable!
This clip demonstrates their top notch style. It’s cut from the Friendly Fire movie released in 2005.
And now, enjoy the throw-ups! The clips are rough cuts from the State Your Name movie. The pics are from all over the place.
>Zeitgeist – The movie / Remastered Final Edition
>I stumbled upon a guy this afternoon who had not seen Zeitgeist (go here for sources, subtitles and additional info). You may download it here (yes, it’s legal!). It’s a must see for everyone. Below is the remastered final edition, two hours of the most interesting conspiracy theories ever put on tape. Watch, digest and explore.
“It is my hope that people will not take what is said in the film as the truth, but find out for themselves, for truth is not told, it is realized.”
In my opinion this movie is about making a choice: Do you want to live your life through the eyes of someone else, or do you want to think for yourself? Question everything (Zeitgeist included, of course).
This YouTube channel has a bunch of interviews with the producer of Zeitgeist, Peter Joseph.
>Graffiti – Art Crime – Softcore
>This is the kind of graffiti/street art that even the average dork usually appreciates. Why? Because the dorks can relate to this stuff, because they understand (kind of) what’s going on, and then – all of a sudden – that kind of graffiti is acceptable to these dorks. Of course, that’s just a normal dork reaction and you should be free to feel that way… You’re still a dork, though.
The next graffiti post will focus on tags and hardcore stuff that the dorks don’t get at all and thus they immediately start raving about how graffiti should be stopped because it all looks the same, it’s ugly, linear and destructive. The problem here usually is that the dorks don’t understand how to draw a tag, how to build a piece and what it’s like doing that stuff in the dark – with the police constantly breathing down your neck. Tags and throw-ups obviously looks like shit to them, because they don’t get the picture.
That’s what I think bothers people the most about graffiti. They don’t get it and it’s in their face.
I guess I’m just tired of those lazy hypocritical bastards who always complain, but never make an effort. Now for the softcore stuff. Hope you like it! And don’t forget to check the video at the end of this post.
All photos stolen from the Fat Cap site. Please go there.
And here’s a pretty cool video, a wall-painted animation.
>Another EA Skate video
>Damn, I’m so psyched about this game I had to make another video to share its brilliance and amazing grace. More lines this time.
Check this space for some information about EA Skate 2.
>Know thyself! – The criticism of life
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Matthew Arnold, author of Culture and Anarchy, claimed that art is the criticism of life.
In our society people are viewed through a lens which magnifies wealth, power and bloodlines, where instead it should magnify the moral qualities of character. We tend to praise those who perform great deeds, but neglect those who aren’t that very explicit or ”successful”, the ones who lead their ”hidden lives”. The world only cares about status, and is completely blind to the worlds within us. This dependency on status is all we read and hear about wherever we go.
Art, literature and music may help us notice, understand and appreciate those hidden lives that are waiting to be born. Most of the times, the hidden values being offered through culture are those of most interest to the ones interested in moral qualities. This is where we find philosophy and radical ideas rarely talked about in the mainstream arena. This is where spirit and man collide, as opposed to society where spirit and man collapse.
Society teaches us to judge a book by its cover, to depend on status for credibility and to look up to the rich and famous. Culture might help as a cure to society’s sickness.
I do not wish to see men of culture asking to be entrusted with power; and, indeed, I have freely said, that in my opinion the speech most proper, at present, for a man of culture to make to a body of his fellow-countrymen who get him into a committee-room, is Socrates’: Know thyself! and this is not a speech to be made by men wanting to be entrusted with power.
Matthew Arnold, Culture and Anarchy (1882)
Earlier posts related to this subject:
Intelligent misanthropy – Part 1
Intelligent misanthropy – Part 2
>Nuclear war games – for real
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“People are tired of the Iranians and their stalling tactics.”
Those were the words of Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, on Monday. She claims that Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili on Saturday delivered a “meandering” monologue full of irrelevant “small talk about culture” instead of supplying coherent answers.
Well, it’s should be quite unnecessary to state how tired people are of the Americans and their warmongering, and what Rice don’t seem to understand is that Iran care deeply about culture and the meaning it has to nationality, pride and independence. I’m quite sure it has a deeper meaning to the average Iranian than the average Joe on the streets of Manhattan… Culture and spirit still hasn’t lost its importance in Iran. A war will certainly start to rip things apart. Is this what they want? Destruction of faith?
According to experts there are two possibilities to explain why USA met with Iran on Saturday.
First: Hopefully the Bush Administration has realised that the current warmongering approach to Iran is seriously dumb, and now they’re trying a more diplomatic stance. Maybe they’ve finally understood that Iran will strike back hard and relentless, killing loads and loads of Americans, if the US decide to go to war. Terrorism will raise its ugly head, larger than ever, and the US war against terror will fuel even more worldwide hatred.
USA simply needs a normal relationship with Iran, one that depends on negotiation, diplomacy and a will to change, not one that relies solely on war and aggression. However, the warhawks are just that – warhawks – so it might be (this is the second possibility) that this meeting took place for the warhawks to be able to say that “we tried talking to them, we tried it the diplomatic way, but they wouldn’t listen, they only answered with small talk about culture” – and then they will wage their ugly provokative war anyway. Like they always do…
It’s a game to these assholes.
Sure, I know Ahmadinejad and his crew are very good at provoking as well. However, they seem to hit the spot that hurts and confuses in quite a smart way, the letter to Bush in 2006 being one example. Where is Bush’s reply? The Bush administration’s stalling tactics are quite tiresome…
Life goes on towards death in the fast lane.
Entombed, Serpent Speech (1993)