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21 Feb 22:34

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12 Feb 22:54

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12 Feb 19:33

Uma Copa que não terá campeões

by Daniel Cassol

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Uma significativa vitória da sociedade aconteceu quando, nos protestos de junho de 2013, a mídia corporativa desceu dos helicópteros e foi para a rua. Essa vitória está simbolizada no dia 13, quando, usando imagens aéreas, Datena perguntou aos seus teleespectadores se eles são favoráveis ao protesto com baderna e eles responderam que “sim”. No mesmo dia, um repórter fotográfico (Sérgio Souza) ficou cego de um olho pela Polícia Militar e a repórter Giuliana Vallone também foi atingida no olho por uma bala de borracha.

Oito meses se passaram e a mesma Band que tem Datena em seus quadros chora a morte de Santiago Andrade, cinegrafista empregado da rede de TV, em um protesto no Rio de Janeiro. Atingido por um rojão disparado por um manifestante, que possivelmente usava a tática black bloc.

Além de todos os simbolismos envolvidos, há um crucial: no dia seguinte, 10 de fevereiro, houve uma outra manifestação contra o aumento da passagem no Rio de Janeiro. Relatos esparsos de redes sociais mostram que ativistas foram levados pela Polícia Militar, que não deu detalhes do que faria com eles. As redes de TV, todas elas, voltaram para os helicópteros. Não há imagens da rua.

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Santiago não é a primeira pessoa a morrer em uma manifestação, mas é a primeira que morreu porque estava lá trabalhando.

Outras vítimas aconteceram: a gari que teve uma parada cardíaca após inalar gás de pimenta em Belém; o jovem de 18 anos que foi atropelado; e no mesmo protesto em que Santiago foi alvejado, um aposentado fugiu do confronto e foi morto por um ônibus.

Santiago, porém, estava lá por obrigação, cumprindo o papel da sua profissão e da pauta determinada por seus editores. Isso não faz da morte dele mais importante que a dos outros três, mas torna a sua morte um fato político. A reação da mídia corporativa, assim como dos jornalistas, tem consequências mais sérias e repercussões mais drásticas. Tanto é que Paulo Paim, um senador petista, resolveu passar por cima da Comissão de Direitos Humanos do Senado na aprovação da Lei Anti-Terrorismo.

(Creio que é dever de todo cidadão brasileiro ler a Lei Anti-Terrorismo a partir de agora. Nada pode ser menos claro que “infundir terror ou pânico generalizado”. Somente a INCITAÇÃO a isso pode render oito anos de cadeia. Um texto sobre o perigo iminente de morte no Metrô de São Paulo no horário de pico poderia ser enquadrado como incitação ao terrorismo, por exemplo. É uma lei de incitação à paranoia.)

Se você, neste momento, está indignado com o fato de que a repercussão da morte de Santiago rendeu um editorial no Jornal Nacional, não questionarei: mas é assim que o jogo funciona. Se a morte de Santiago caísse no colo da Polícia Militar, como quase aconteceu em junho de 2013, é provável que a pauta “desmilitarização da polícia” estivesse na ordem do dia de todos os veículos de imprensa nacionais. Na era da informação, a repercussão dos fatos é tão ou mais importante que os próprios fatos, e os rolezinhos fake estão aí para provar.

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Em uma sociedade violenta como a brasileira, era improvável que a palavra de ordem “sem violência” de junho de 2013 demorasse muito tempo.

Antes dos protestos de junho, o Brasil era o 3º país com maior número de mortes de jornalistas. Em 2012, foram mais de 50 mil assassinatos, mais de 500 mil crimes contra o patrimônio, mais de 50 mil mortes no trânsito e estupros, como descreve o texto brilhante do Fernando Graziani.

Está correto quem vê com outra proporção a “violência de Estado” praticada pela Polícia Militar. Ao mesmo tempo, é difícil medir o que é violência individual e o que é de Estado: no momento em que 64% dos policiais se veem como despreparados para manifestações, fica claro que existe um cenário de omissão, onde a raiva individual e a excitação coletiva acabam superando a orientação técnica ou política.

O resultado é um jogo de “morde-assopra”, no qual os policiais variam entre a omissão completa e a agressão deliberada, com raros lapsos de racionalidade. Esse jogo já minou as manifestações de junho no ano passado – assim que a catarse coletiva tornou-se um teatro para destruição de patrimônio a esmo, a maioria silenciosa saiu da rua. Ao lado desse teatro, a censura de opinião, as agressões a jornalistas, as respostas agressivas nas redes sociais, colocaram um quepe de general na cabeça de cada ator político. Todos parecem levar pequenos exércitos de opiniões e opinadores dispostos a matar e morrer por uma ideia, perpetuando um insano diálogo de surdos.

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Eu acreditava, na minha ingenuidade, que as jornadas de junho poderiam ser o estopim para um novo pacto, um novo contrato social, no Brasil. O que elas fizeram, até agora, foi apenas mostrar a fragilidade do nosso contrato social.

Desde o país artificial dividido em linha reta até a Copa que ninguém perguntou e todos vamos pagar, o contrato social brasileiro é um morde-assopra entre a cordialidade consentida e a violência sem razão de ser. As conquistas sociais são obras de abnegados que eventualmente obtém algum espaço político, ou movimentos de classes dispostos a romper barreiras. Quando o “monstro” da opinião pública foi às ruas, os governantes se esconderam nos seus gabinetes, tentando articular pactos de gabinetes que se tornaram tão frágeis que nem saíram dos gabinetes. Diante de um cenário que pedia a horizontalidade, com o aumento de participantes ativos no jogo democrático – seja construindo suas próprias mídias, seja criando núcleos de influência muito mais dispersos que o Jornal Nacional – quem manda no País enredou-se na cordialidade consentida (entre os seus) e na violência sem razão de ser (contra os outros).

A Lei Anti-Terrorismo, com a Copa como pano de fundo, é apenas mais um desses capítulos: governistas acostumados com greves, como Paulo Paim, colocam um ato patriótico hardcore para satisfazer ilhas de influência, e que se dane o “terrorista” que ficar na outra ponta, sendo torturado por policiais militares, espancado dentro de casa na favela ou atirado em um presídio para servir de soldado de alguma facção do PCC.

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No meio disso tudo, existe o papel imprescindível da mídia na era da informação. O papel da informação completa, analítica, didática, evitando a boataria e a falta de credibilidade.

O jogo político-social faz a morte de Santiago tornar-se mais problemática porque o papel da mídia, no imaginário social, está em mostrar para todos o que está acontecendo. Em denunciar os atos de violência. E a morte de Santiago, como referido no primeiro parágrafo, tirou as redes de televisão da rua e colocou nos helicópteros.

Não há vencedores quando Santiago morre. Você pode pensar o que quiser da mídia corporativa, e tem o direito disso, mas ela está ali cumprindo um papel na democracia. Ainda que o contrato social seja frágil, ainda que a sociedade seja desigual, ainda que a bobagem supere a relevância, se você tem um direito humano infringido e está diante de uma câmera de TV, o correto é você virar notícia. Se está operando a câmera de TV, mais ainda.

Se o contrato social brasileiro é frágil, é dele que depende a democracia. Se ele vai ser puxado e atacado de todos os lados, existem duas formas de agir: usando as nossas forças para atacar e provocando o conflito social, entre classes ou não; ou usando as nossas forças para garantir os direitos humanos, a convivência pacífica, a democracia direta.

É essa a encruzilhada em que estamos. Eu, sinceramente, não sei o que temos a ganhar com o conflito social institucionalizado. E se a democracia direta não nos satisfaz, há meios de mudá-la, que não sujam as mãos de sangue.

Luís Felipe dos Santos

11 Feb 18:57

It Will All Hurt – Part 5 – by Farel Dalrymple

by zacksoto

It Will All Hurt is a weird, sad, silly, and sketchy, fantasy adventure strip with magic and science-fiction and some fighting action.

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11 Feb 17:26

Surfin' Safari

"Waiter, I didn’t ask for this meal to go" *rimshot*

11 Feb 16:49

Mas Context — My Life in Middlemarch

by Dan

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Filed under: book covers, Magazines
11 Feb 16:38

Skomorokhs by Boris Messerer

by Dan

The Skomorokhs Come In - 50 Watts

The Skomorokhs Come In - 50 Watts

The Skomorokhs Come In - 50 Watts

Illustrations of “skomorokhs”—Russian minstrel buffoons—by Boris Messerer, c. 1972

via 50 Watts.


Filed under: Illustration
11 Feb 16:22

Deadly!: The Truth About the Most Dangerous Creatures on Earth

by Jess Rosenkranz

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Deadly! teaches us about all the interesting ways animals kill each other – mostly for dinner, sometimes for protection. Once again we have a loose drawing style with fantastic gesture and expression. Once again we have a lot of menacing going on, a theme I am fond of exploring in my own work.

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This zebra spread that convinced me this book was a keeper. There is a lot of violent animal death, but all the other animals seem quite unmoved. They’re all, ‘whatevs, circle of life.’ I also noted this indifference in the other poultry when some friends slaughtered their heirloom turkeys for Thanksgiving. I like that these animals are anthropomorphized in this way to act even more like animals.

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Everyone needs to learn about the evils of orcas. Even though they are called killer whales, everyone thought they were all cute and friendly until their recent bout of bad PR when they started killing their trainers.

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This book is definitely only for a certain kind of kid, one who likes science and isn’t afraid of a little bit of grossness (even though the gross parts are adorable, it still may have the capacity to scar a sensitive kid for life). The author and illustrator seem to dabble in this genre. Now that you have been warned,  you can get a copy here!

The post Deadly!: The Truth About the Most Dangerous Creatures on Earth appeared first on Book By Its Cover.

11 Feb 13:45

Weird true facts that sound false

by Cory Doctorow

A great and endlessly entertaining Reddit thread asks for weird facts that sound made up, but aren't, like "The Ottoman Empire still existed the last time the Cubs won the World Series" and "When you get a kidney transplant, they usually just leave your original kidneys in your body and put the 3rd kidney in your pelvis." And:

The United States in World War 2 created a bomb that used bats. The bats would be carrying small incendiary charges and would be released from the bomb in mid air, causing them to fly and scatter to different buildings in the area. The charges would then detonate and set all the buildings on fire. It was tested and proven to be very effective.

Russia is bigger than Pluto. (Surface area of Pluto: 16.7x10^6 km^2; Surface area of Russia: 17.1x10^6 km^2)

If you melted down the Eiffel Tower, the pool of iron would be less than 3 inches deep (in a square area the same dimensions as the tower base).

John Tyler, who became president in 1841, has 2 living grandchildren.

Mammoths were alive when the Great Pyramid was being built.

If an atom was the size of our solar system, a neutrino would be the size of a golfball, to scale.

Humans share 50% of their DNA with... bananas.

What's the most bullshit-sounding-but-true fact you know? : AskReddit (via Kottke)

    






30 Jan 20:52

2005 – Part 1 – By Sean Christensen

by zacksoto

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30 Jan 14:40

Woodcut

by Garth Borovicka

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There are things in our modern world that have become so ubiquitous that their wonder is easy to over look.  Wood and the growth rings they contain are one of those things.

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This book by the artist Bryan Nash Gill works to bring our focus back to the inherent beauty and history within a cut piece of wood.  I like that the concept is so simple yet layered at the same time.  The name Woodcut comes from the printing technique as well as the subject matter since these are wood cuts of cut wood.  IMG_6924-3

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As the artist made a series of prints the block would change.  The print above shows the same piece of wood as it would expand and contract with the seasons.

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I was pleased to learn that the original prints were huge, 4 by 4 feet in some cases. The growth rings in those massive slabs add up to hundreds of years.  Those printed rings show a history of that tree including worm holes, damages, etc.  Also visible are the marks the artist made while cutting and preparing the wood for printing.  I find this layering of history fascinating.

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The book itself is nicely done.  Nice printing quality and simple  layout that lets the works speak for themselves.  Each image also has a description by the artist that speaks to the characteristic of that particular piece of wood as well as the printing process.  He will decipher the life the tree lived from its growth rings and other elements.

Not all of the prints in the book are cut from a single tree.  A number of them are assembled from cut off lumber, branches and burls.  The patterns in these prints transform into a variety of natural and man made images.  In these images I see area views of farm land, seashells, birds, islands

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In the final section the artist talks about how he came to this body of work and gives a more detailed walk through of the printing process.  You see the tools and techniques he uses and there are some great photos of the blocks that he prints from.

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Bryan Nash Gill is an artist who has worked in a variety of mediums and disciplines.  I was sad to learn that he passed away this past year.

This book will serve as inspiration to those fascinated by art, nature and natural science.

The post Woodcut appeared first on Book By Its Cover.

29 Jan 16:12

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27 Jan 17:01

Russian Placards

by peacay
Propaganda lithographs from 
'Russian Placards, Placard Russe 1917-1922' 
by Vladimir Lebedev, 1923

"The activities of the painter, designer, illustrator, and constructivist, Vladimir Lebedev, encompass a very broad period: from the early 1910s through to the early 1960s, and, consequently, his stylistic [oeuvre] connects with many different trends and avenues of inquiry. In fact, Lebedev started his artistic career as a graphic designer when he was only 14 years old by designing postcards for the Fietta Art Store on the Bolshaia Morskaia in St. Petersburg (his home town); and only a few years later he was already a prolific illustrator of popular and children's magazines[..]

Consciousness of the material of the work (the ink, the print, the lightness of the paper, the brilliant color of the poster's chromolithography) is [..] a condition that unites the various artistic experiences and concerns of Lebedev's career. For example, Lebedev's activity as a caricaturist for the St. Petersburg satirical journal, 'Novyi Satirikon' (New Satyricon) might seem to be quite contrary to his experimental compositions for the posters that he designed for Okna ROSTA (the display windows of the Russian Telegraph Agency) just after the Revolution. 
Chronologically, no more than two years divide these different endeavors since Lebedev began to work for 'Novyi Satirikon' in 1913, intensifying his contributions in 1917-18, while in 1920 he was already invited to participate in the Petrograd Okna ROSTA. Visually and stylistically, the two collaborations are very different, but, nevertheless, they both derive from a single sense of the integrity and inner logic of the graphic materials being employed."
['A Public Art: Caricatures and Posters of Vladimir Lebedev' by Nicoletta Misler IN: The Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts, Vol. 5, Russian/Soviet Theme Issue (Summer, 1987), pp. 60-75.]

Russian placards, 1917-1922 (Vladimir Lebedev) - The lamentation of the Entente
The lamentation of the Entente



Russian placards, 1917-1922 (Vladimir Lebedev) - The union of village and town (workman and villager)
The union of village and town (workman and villager)



Russian placards, 1917-1922 (Vladimir Lebedev) - The red vision of Communism...(..)
The red vision of Communism is brushing over Europe. 
The placard represents the bourgeois saving themselves from two workmen.



Russian placards, 1917-1922 (Vladimir Lebedev) - The Red Army and Navy defending Russia's borders
The Red Army and Navy defending Russia's borders.



Russian placards, 1917-1922 (Vladimir Lebedev) - The new bourgeoisie In the Republic of labour (threat to the proletarian State)
The new bourgeoisie In the Republic of labour (threat to the proletarian State)




Russian placards, 1917-1922 (Vladimir Lebedev) - The Entente gives suck to Koltchak...(..)
The Entente gives suck to Koltchak. Entente— a puppit (sic) 
decorated with a garland and the Tower of Eiffel, 
the latter with British and French flags on It. Koltchak 
in a three-cornered a pistol case on his back.



Russian placards, 1917-1922 (Vladimir Lebedev) - Productive propaganda. A caster with a casting spoon in his hands, a mould in the left corner
Productive propaganda. 
A caster with a casting spoon in his hands, a mould in the left corner.



Russian placards, 1917-1922 (Vladimir Lebedev) - Agitation for utilizing the bourgeoisie...(..)
Agitation for utilizing the bourgeoisie for proletarian purpose. 
The bourgeois in a grey top-hat and apron waits 
upon the workman (feeds him with fish).



Russian placards, 1917-1922 (Vladimir Lebedev) - Agitation for the closing of markets...(..)
Agitation for the closing of markets- "the marauder in heaven and the simpleton in hell". 
The placard represents an owner of a market- stall sitting in a grand house 
at a table with provisions and a gramophone standing on it, 
while a starving citisen under the table is defending the markets.



Russian placards, 1917-1922 (Vladimir Lebedev) - A work-woman...(..)
A work-woman. (Raising productivity through joining 
together small hand-working and trade industries).



Russian placards, 1917-1922 (Vladimir Lebedev) - A workman with nationalised entreprises in his hands
A workman with nationalised entreprises in his hands.



Russian placards, 1917-1922 (Vladimir Lebedev) - A workman sweeping the criminal elements out of the Republic (work conrol)
A workman sweeping the criminal elements out of the Republic (work conrol).



Russian placards, 1917-1922 (Vladimir Lebedev) - A marauder at a stall with wares (the struggle against sale in the streets)
A marauder at a stall with wares (the struggle against sale in the streets).



Russian placards, 1917-1922 (Vladimir Lebedev) - A bourgeois tearing his hair...(..)
A bourgeois tearing his hair on account of the 
second meeting of the International Congress.

"In contradistinction to the satirical drawings of 1913-18, which, basically, still derive from the Decadent culture of the European and Russian Fin de Siècle, the ROSTA posters of 1920-22
rely on different external stimuli. These examples of "public art" are organized according to the juxtaposition of simple colored masses floating against the white background of the paper, i.e., they depend upon a much more abstract and austere formal arrangement for their effect. 
True, some of the ROSTA posters are also satirical and caricatural, but they are very different from the drawings in 'Novyi Satirikon'. For many reasons, they signalled a turning point in Lebedev's artistic biography, and it is not by chance that they evolved after his encounter with cubism."
['A Public Art: Caricatures and Posters of Vladimir Lebedev' by Nicoletta Misler IN: The Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts, Vol. 5, Russian/Soviet Theme Issue (Summer, 1987), pp. 60-75.]
{for clarity, some very minor grammatical changes  were made to the quotes by Misler}


27 Jan 16:54

Japanese Book Cover: Burning Chrome. Yukimasa Okumura. 1987



Japanese Book Cover: Burning Chrome. Yukimasa Okumura. 1987

27 Jan 16:04

Aberta a temporada de invasões animais

by Daniel Cassol

Craques internacionais, golaços, futebol em alta definição, nem mesmo a Copa do Mundo anima tanto o torcedor quanto um cachorro invadindo um estádio. Segundo este critério, o único relevante, podemos dizer que a temporada do futebol brasileiro definitivamente começou.

Na quarta-feira passada, dia 22, um cachorro simpático e JUGUETÓN já havia dado as caras no gramado do Gilbertão, durante a partida entre Linense e Rio Claro pelo Campeonato Paulista. Ele só queria se divertir.

No último sábado (25), porém, um COELHO invadiu o gramado do Ecoestádio, em Curitiba, durante Atlético-PR x Operário. É a prova concreta de que o futebol brasileiro evolui e abre espaço para invasões de outros animais.

A participação do simpático coelhinho quase termina mal. A manifestação, que era pacífica, terminou com um ato de vandalismo do jogador do Operário, que abalroou o animal que cavocava o chão e comia grama ao lado da goleira defendida por Rodolfo, do Furacão.

A temporada do futebol brasileiro começou.

26 Jan 19:55

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26 Jan 15:32

Projeto no Senado ressuscita AI-5, agora no futebol

by Juca Kfouri

O ex-presidente da OAB do Rio de Janeiro, Wadih Damous usou a sua página no Facebook para qualificar como “o AI-5 do futebol” o projeto de lei 728/2011 de autoria dos senadores Marcelo Crivella (PRB-RJ), Ana Amélia (PP-RS) e Walter Pinheiro (PT-BA) proibindo greves no país durante os jogos da Copa do Mundo.

Além disso, o projeto inclui o “terrorismo” no rol de crimes com punições duras e penas altas para quem “provocar terror ou pânico generalizado”.

“Esse monstrengo, se virar lei, suspende a Constituição e, ao criar o tipo penal, totalmente aberto, de terrorismo, sepulta, de vez, o direito constitucional à manifestação pública”, afirma Damous.

O advogado lembra que o Estado brasileiro afirma que não se “curvará” à OEA, para processar e punir torturadores, em cumprimento a tratados internacionais firmados pelo Brasil.

No entanto – disse – se “ajoelha” diante da FIFA e se submete a aprovar leis de exceção ao nosso ordenamento constitucional”.

Damous não tem dúvida de que os combates que se avizinham serão duros.

24 Jan 19:35

Jon MacNair

by Jeff

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Drawings by artist Jon MacNair. See more below!

View the whole post: Jon MacNair over on BOOOOOOOM!.

24 Jan 18:35

For All Mankind: Vintage NASA Photographs 1964–1983

by Editor@juxtapoz.com (Juxtapoz)
For All Mankind: Vintage NASA Photographs 1964–1983
An exhibition, "For All Mankind: Vintage NASA Photographs 1964-1983," opened at Breese Little in London yesterday. 'This exhibition comprises an overview of space exploration from 1964 to 1983, providing a comprehensive selection of over 100 rare and vintage NASA photographs. The achievements of NASA and the Apollo programme languished in the popular imagination from the end of the 1970s until the early 2000s, neglected in the wake of previous euphoria...
21 Jan 13:32

Healthy Is the New Gangsta: An Interview With Dead Prez's Stic

by GEF
from The Huffington Post


Rap and health consciousness may not seem like a natural duo, but for Khnum Ibomu, or Stic -- best known as half of the rap group Dead Prez -- promoting a healthy lifestyle is a natural extension of the themes of political activism, social justice and personal motivation that run through his music. In a recent HuffPost blog, 7 Ways to Eat Good on a Hood Budget, he laid out tips for eating healthy without breaking the bank. I talked to Stic about how he became interested in the holistic lifestyle -- and why "healthy is the new gangsta."

Seamus: In your piece, you say you don't have to break the bank to eat healthy. But what about the argument that you can feed a family dinner at a fast food place for twenty dollars?

Stic: Well, you know, I understand that. Coming from the hood, coming from low-income and no-income communities, I understand that that seems like the logical thing to do. Yeah, you can feed a family of four for twenty bucks on fast food for one night, but you can take that same twenty dollars and get vegetables and fruits and make soups and salads -- and different snacks, raisins and nuts -- for the week, or at least a few days. And it's healthy food.

Most people know you as a musician and an activist, but there are probably people who don't know about the health, fitness and food side. How'd you become interested in this stuff?

I came down with a condition called gout, in my leg. Basically, I was living the young rapper's life: smoking weed, drinking, eating whatever was at the fast food restaurant. And one day I woke up with gout. In a nutshell, my wife helped me heal by introducing me to a vegan lifestyle and from there I wanted to get use of my leg back -- so I took up kung fu.

I always say having gout in my early 20s was a blessing in disguise... but I don't want it again [laughs].


We know from stats that poorer areas have worse access to healthy food -- and more access to convenience stores and fast food.

The thing about it is that in those communities -- what a lot of people have started to call food deserts -- you tend to get what's convenient. You get what you have a taste for, from the chemical addiction in these things. That's a whole other level of how these fast food products wreak havoc on people -- in terms of the obesity epidemic and heart disease and all these things.

You make an interesting point in your piece, where you say, We have to spend less money on alcohol, video games, TV, cigarettes. To what extent do lifestyle changes have to do with choices -- versus structural changes, like no access to healthy food?

I'm an advocate of bottom-up and top-down. So I think that we have personal levels of responsibility over what we can do to educate ourselves to resist the culture of disease and addiction. But then we have social responsibility. As an artist, we have a unique place in that because we help articulate and create the inspiration, the interest, the intrigue, into some of these things happening.

Throughout your music, you've dropped in themes of health. Maybe what people know best is the 2000 song "Be Healthy." That didn't feel mainstream then. How much has that awareness changed?

It's changed dramatically, man. The Workout is the first ever hip-hop album to be authentically hip-hop, artistically, but to have the theme of every track promoting health and wellness. People like KRS-One before us has classics like the song "Beef" about the beef industry. And he was an educator and he inspired groups like us to come about.

Is our society doing a good job of getting the word out about health?

I feel like there's plenty of information out there -- we live in the information age. You have to ask yourself, "What's the missing ingredient?" I think there's an element of the internal motivation of the person that has to be addressed -- through the arts and through creative marketing and media -- to get people excited again. I still want to see a sitcom about a vegan family.

That'd be radical.



[Laughs] Yeah, but it's coming.

You've always been part activist and part artist. Do you think that all artists should be activists by definition?

I think all artists are activists. It's just a question of, "What are we activating?" Every song, every movie, everything that we create, reinforces an idea. It reinforces a world view.

To an extent you've placed yourself outside, or against, the big corporate labels.

I can understand why you say that. I try to position myself as to what I'm for, not what I'm against. I love hip hop. Hip hop is my lifestyle, it's my culture. But what I try to do is revolutionize it. Keep the aggression, keep the confidence, keep the innovation, the creativity, the slang, the expression, but add content that is positive.

Are you working on new music?

Yeah, I'm working on the follow-up to my album The Workout -- The Workout: Vol. 2. And I'm producing other things in the works.

I just read an article by David Byrne [of the Talking Heads]. He was talking about Spotify and the changing culture around online music.

Right on, yeah, I like David Byrne's book, How Music Works. That's a good read. I definitely have been more economically sustainable and successful by moving my career beyond the plantation of the big five record companies that we was tossed around in.

In the song "Be Healthy," I said "my goal in life is not to be rich or wealthy." I joke and say, "But my goal in business is." So for me, what I advocate to artists, what I advocated in my book The Art of MCing, is be your own boss. Be your own business. So that you don't have to go to a company that pretty much is designed to tell you what is standard -- which basically means you're sharecropping.


Can the rules to being a successful MC be applied in the kitchen?

I'm probably a much better MC than I am a chef... but I get down. I think an MC is open-minded and studies a lot -- so that you have something to say and have perspective that can be interesting or shed some light. And I think a chef has an open palate, and is interested in how all the elements of cooking create this art that we taste. And you have to have tough skin -- because everything you create musically ain't gonna hit and everything you make in the kitchen is not gonna be a gourmet masterpiece.

You mentioned that your wife introduced you to cooking--

Her philosophy on food has become mine. She's a creative artist. She's an inspiration. She's an educator of nutrition and she's open-minded, so she introduced me to cuisines I would never try.

Like what?

Broccoli. Brussels sprouts. Sushi rolls. All the greens -- we eat greens for breakfast and that's not a normal thing in the standard American diet but for our household that's the norm.

If you had to have one spice, what would you go with?

Can I have a tie? It would be smoked paprika and garam masala.

It's hard not to be inspired by your message. But based on the epidemic health problems our country has, do you ever feel doomed about it?

Absolutely I don't feel frustrated or demoralized or intimidated. I've seen so many positive results, it's impossible to not know we can whip this thing. My mom beat diabetes on a plant-based diet. These things are real. We always say in the hip hop community, "Real recognize real." And when we see that sipping syrup and poppin' Molly results in poor health and a loss of opportunity -- and we see somebody else drinking green juices and running and enjoying life to the fullest -- real gonna recognize real.

One of Dead Prez's best known albums is Revolutionary But Gangsta. How is that concept relevant to the holistic lifestyle?

I feel that advocating health is a revolutionary act. It's a form of activism. In fact, we need to bring being active back to activism -- and moving back to the movement. You know, literally. I'm much more centered and grounded spiritually than when I was carrying pistols in the streets. We don't forget where we come from but we also don't forget where we're going.

"Healthy is the new gangsta" is the tag line for RGB Fit Club, a health movement you've created. What do you mean by that?

Gangsta as a term is really just a way to describe something that is really fresh or strong or magnetic -- it's like another word for saying "that's dope" or "that's fly." For me, I wanted to put it in the context of health. What's more gangsta than health? What's more gangsta than feeling good?
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20 Jan 20:56

http://www.anambitiousprojectcollapsing.com/2014/01/blog-post_19.html

by aapc
Louis Cane - Les toiles découpées (cut paintings)

also / related - Supports/Surfaces Is Alive and Well @ Cherry & Martin

19 Jan 20:55

Aleksandra Waliszewska

by Aeron
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Aleksandra recently released a 2 volume book anthology of her artwork, the first book "Problem" can be purchased here, the second volume "Solution" can be purchased here.

See more of her art at her tumblrflickr, facebook and blog.
An in depth article on the artist can be read here.

At the bottom you will find the haunting Monster Brains artwork that Aleksandra was kind enough to create for me last year.



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19 Jan 20:52

Verdun

19 Jan 20:50

rrrick: Mel explaining to Jesus why he doesn’t like Jews.



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Mel explaining to Jesus why he doesn’t like Jews.

19 Jan 20:37

SIDE PROJECT | ROBOCOP MEETS SHOWGIRLS

by Benjamin Marra
Above is my contribution to a Paul Verhoeven-inspired art show in Europe.
19 Jan 17:02

David Rochkind's Photographs of Mexico's Drug War

by Editor@juxtapoz.com (Juxtapoz)
David Rochkind's Photographs of Mexico's Drug War
David Rochkind's "Heavy Hand, Sunken Spirit" project documents Mexico's seemingly never ending violent drug war. Speaking on the subject of documenting the violence, he says "when documenting this conflict it is important not to reduce what is happening to a series of nearly anonymous images of carnage that could be happening anywhere."
18 Jan 20:57

Why was marijuana outlawed to begin with?

by Maggie Koerth-Baker
"This marijuana causes white women to seek sexual relations with Negroes, entertainers and any others." — Harry Anslinger, the first commissioner of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics (an early predecessor of the DEA).
    






18 Jan 17:33

Artist Yue Wu Likes It On Instagram And Then He Draws It

by Jeff

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My friend artist Yue Wu has started a fun series of drawings on his Instagram (@wuyue5). Each day he draws the things that he likes on Instagram, and the drawings are tagged so you can click through to the original account and look for the photo.

See more below.

View the whole post: Artist Yue Wu Likes It On Instagram And Then He Draws It over on BOOOOOOOM!.

18 Jan 17:32

Matt Furie

by Jeff

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Drawings by artist Matt Furie. See more below.

View the whole post: Matt Furie over on BOOOOOOOM!.