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Middle Class Melt Down: Unconventional Ice Sculptures

Submitted by Deborah: Marshall Reese and Nora Ligorano did this melting ice sculpture called “Middle Class” for the Republic Convention. On to Democratic Convention next.

Middle Class Ice Sculptures

Melt down at the Republican and Democratic Conventions

Tampa: Lykes Gaslight Park, Sun., Aug. 26, 2012 / Unveiling 11:30 AM

Tampa Event from 11:30 AM-9 PM / Optimum time 11:30 AM-2:30 PM

Charlotte: Marshall Park, Tues., Sept. 4, 2012 / Unveiling 1 PM

Charlotte Event from 1-6 PM / Optimum time 1-3 PM

Large ice sculptures of the words Middle Class will melt away on the first day of the Republican and Democratic Conventions, in nearby public parks in Tampa and Charlotte. The work is by artists Nora Ligorano and Marshall Reese. The sculptures they will install weigh over 2,000 pounds and measure 15 feet wide. Individual letters are 4 feet tall.

The artists call these sculptures “temporary monuments.” After unveiling them, Ligorano and Reese let them melt away and film their disappearance, which can take anywhere from 6 to 24 hours. The dates for the conventions, “do not bode well,” Reese says, “for the sculptures” survival.” “They may disappear,” Ligorano adds, “even faster than usual. It”s a tossup whether, that”s due to economic or climatic conditions.” Continue reading “Middle Class Melt Down: Unconventional Ice Sculptures”

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Pussy Riot Update [English & Russian]

Why three members of Pussy Riot were arrested

Here’s the video of their protest in the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour of the Russian Orthodox Church in Moscow:

More on the subject:

  • Meeting Pussy Riot, an interview with Pussy Riot days before their arrest by Henry Langston, Vice.com, February 2012
  • Pussy Riot from Wikipedia
  • The Wrong Reasons to Back Pussy Riot, an Op-Ed by Vadim Nikitin, New York Times, August 20, 2012
  • Pussy Riot Rocked My Family Dinner Table, commentary by Lara Vapnyar, Wall Street Journal, August 20, 2012
  • Kasparov grilled over Pussy Riot protest bite, AFP, The Australian, August 21, 2012
  • Russian clerics forgive Pussy Riot for Putin rant, by Mansur Mirovalev, AP, August 18, 2012
  • Pussy Riot против Попов!(передача Большая разница), YouTube, published by serg54999999
  • Femen Movement. Woman Power, more female Russian activists sought by Russian police
  • Free Pussy Riot website – for further updates

    • image: <a href="Meeting Pussy Riot” target=”_blank”>Vice.com

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    Muppets Revenge

    At 11:00 a.m., April 23, 2012, artist Joey Skaggs will lead a band of outraged costumed muppets down to the Goldman Sachs offices at 200 West Street in NYC. Skaggs will be peddling his Mobile Homeless Homes prototype — a low cost alternative living space for the millions of upside-down, underwater or foreclosed homeowners who have lost their houses due to the banking crisis that caused the real estate collapse.

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

    Outraged Homeless Muppets to Converge on Goldman Sachs

    “Homelessness is a great American tragedy. Our financial system and government have let us down and we, together, must take a stand to change the way the system works. With over 11 million homes underwater and millions in foreclosure, people are frightened, distressed and angry,” says Joey Skaggs.

    Although not a cure, Mobile Homeless Homes (MHH) offers a temporary solution — low cost alternative living spaces for the millions of upside-down, underwater or foreclosed homeowners who have lost their houses due to the banking crisis that caused the real estate collapse. The MHH centerpiece is a camouflage, stealth, mobile home made from a series of connected plastic garbage cans, propelled by a tricycle, that will be undetectable by authorities. It blends into any urban environment. Continue reading “Muppets Revenge”

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    Occupy Détournement

    Occupy pop culture: A lesson in détournement
    by Natasha Lennard
    Salon.com
    March 8, 2012

    Borrowing from the French, occupiers turn figures from the cultural mainstream into symbols of dissent


    Credit: nycgeneralstrike

    TV-show writers, pop culture purveyors and peddlers of general stuff-we-don”t-need didn”t take long to latch onto the Occupy brand. The language of the 99 percent is popping up in sitcoms and terrible pop songs; the word “Occupy” now adorns a neon green Swatch. It”s probably beside the point to mention that revolutionaries in Egypt and Greece are fighting on without the help of branded watches; this is America, after all “” what did you expect?

    But Occupy supporters are taking from pop culture too. Not in the obvious sense of message amplification and popularization, but by helping themselves to items from the cultural mainstream and flipping them on their heads for propaganda purposes. To see what I mean, check out this video attributed to “nycgeneralstrike”:

    Continue reading “Occupy Détournement”

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